A year, told at the table
One partner hotel, twelve months, a culture that keeps returning — here is how a year of cuisines, languages and customs might unfold.
New-year table
Levantine · Arabic
A hosted opening dinner that sets the culture for the year ahead. Guests learn the greetings, toasts and table words they will use again at every sitting.
Iftar with an Emirati voice
Gulf · Arabic
Sunset tables led by a host and a guest speaker on the customs of the month — the vocabulary of hospitality, from the welcome to the last cup of coffee.
The long Spanish lunch
Spanish · Castilian
Slow tables in the sun, where a host teaches the phrases that belong to each dish, and the long linger afterwards has its own word.
A new culture arrives
Thai, Japanese or Italian
A fresh host, menu and alphabet of flavours, so returning guests start a new language where the last one left off.
Weekday tables for travellers · Slow weekends for families · A monthly dinner for your most valued guests
Each table builds on the one before: phrases learned at dinner become the working vocabulary of the next, and language cards travel home with every guest.
So every return holds something new.