2024 DINNER & A MOVIE SERIES

Following the successful proof of concept events The Godfather dinner in 2022 and The Gleaners and I dinner in 2023, Rialto Cinemas and Sonoma County Chef extraordinaire Michele Anna Jordan are thrilled to announce the 2024 Dinner and a Movie Series. Join us on a cinematic and culinary adventure as Rialto Cinemas owner Ky Boyd and Michele Anna Jordan combine their programming and culinary expertise to take diners on five unique cinematic celebrations in 2024.

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of THE GODFATHER, PART II and we are celebrating on June 9th with a dinner centered around delicious porchetta.  Enjoy the greatest sequel ever made, winner of 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, accompanied by a classic Italian meal.  We’ll have caprese salad on skewers, risi e bisi, a classic Italian soup of rice and English peas followed by porchetta  – stuffed and rolled pork belly, roasted until the outside is crisp and interior is tender and juicy (or roasted cauliflower) with warm Italian potato salad, a refreshing radicchio salad alongside and for dessert, cannoli with shells provided by Dominic’s Sweets.

Journey with us to Paris on August 18th with Ky’s favorite movie, Jean-Jaques Beineix’s DIVA from 1981.  Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through this stylish and intricate thriller.  Dinner will feature the best baguettes with delicious handmade butter and that classic French meal Grand Aioli: summer vegetables, farm eggs, salt cod & aioli.  The dessert will be a peach galette with peach leaf ice cream.  What better way to dine on a summer night?

On October 13th, we celebrate one of Michele’s favorite films ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968), starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, and Ruth Gordon.  A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.  What’s for dinner?  Savory velvet mousse with nightingale epis, late summer tomato soup, Turkish pilaf with lamb, chickpeas, spearmint, rosemary, and cilantro served with pepperonata, a roasted sweet pepper salad.  For dessert – can’t you guess?  Plus, since it is Halloween, we’ll have a costume contest with this one! 

Seating for each dinner is limited to 40 people. No meal substitutions.