The Course of Life
JOIN THE TEST KITCHEN CLUB: THE COURSE OF LIFE
Some meals stay with you.
Not because of what they were; but because of where you were, who you were with, or who you were becoming.
This month’s Test Kitchen Club is built around that idea.
The Course of Life invites you to bring a dish that says something about you - and to sit down with people doing the same.
In the kitchen is Lalita, whose cooking draws from Vietnamese, Chinese, Mon and Thai influences shaped by memory, migration, and family.
Before the event, we shared Popoli with her. The rest unfolds from there.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A drink in hand. A table of strangers.
You’ll swap recipes that carry something - a place, a person, a moment - before tasting dishes Lalita has been developing, rooted in her own story.
It’s less about courses, more about connection.
Sunday 3rd May | 12–2pm
Yes Please! Studios, Hackney
Tickets from £45
Popoli community: £36 with code POPOLI20
This is a tasting session, not a full meal. Come open, leave with something new.
WHY WE'RE PART OF THIS
Some of our earliest memories of food aren’t in restaurants.
They’re outside. Long tables pulled together during harvest. Oil-stained hands, bread passed back and forth, olive oil poured without measuring. Someone always reaching across you for something.
Last October, during harvest, we found ourselves back in that rhythm again. At our grandparents’ house. Evenings stretching longer than expected, olive oil catching the last of the light, plates building up slowly, then disappearing just as quickly.
Popoli comes from that way of eating. Not as a finishing touch, but as something that’s already there - in the middle of the table, moving between people.
That’s why this partnership with Come Together made sense to us. It feels familiar.
Good people. Good ingredients. One room.