GP Dinner #189 at Camp Earnest

WHAT: GP Dinner #189 at Camp Earnest

WHERE: Camp Earnest, 21553 Cedar Springs Road, Twain Harte, CA 95383

WHEN: 6:00 to 9:00pm on May 31st, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 189th dinner on May 31st at Camp Earnest in Twain Harte, California.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Good People Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other.

Since 2012 we have hosted over 850 dinners, overnights and retreats. We've produced events in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Miami, Austin, London, Singapore and deep in the Nevada desert.

Every event includes speakers on a wide range of topics and chef prepared meals.

In 2021 we established our own retreat venue in the mountains near Yosemite National Park, about 140 miles due east of San Francisco. and has hosted about 55 companies and organizations and counting. These groups are usually technology-driven and impact oriented, often touching on the arts or education, addressing climate change and ecological regeneration or with ambitions to create other kinds of deep systemic change.

Above: Moth board member Chenjerai Kumanyika opens our dinner in Tribeca.

OUR SPEAKER:

To be announced soon.

Above: Chef Nora Vitaliani and her slow braised bison brisket in the Camp Earnest kitchen.

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Nora Vitaliani is executive chef and owner of She has been cooking in California since 1999 and trained as a pastry chef at The California Culinary Academy. Her resume includes time at a variety of restaurants from Italian-Asian fusion to the best vegan restaurant in the US.

Nora brings this breadth of experience to creating menus of many styles and cuisines. She started Just Eat It! in 2012 and has been nourishing retreats from 20 -300 attendees with her style of California Comfort cuisine ever since.

To be announced soon.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Conversations at these dinners are off the record and risk-taking in our dialogues is strongly encouraged. Be respectful, learn from one another, explore new ideas and have some fun.

Cocktails start at 6:00 and our speaker kicks off at 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef.

Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit

www.campearnest.com

Above: A workshop in front of our lodge during The Neighborhood retreat at Camp Earnest.

Please contact us if you'd like to host a group at Camp Earnest in the coming year. Average group size is 30, with a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 75 guests.

Here are some photos of our recent guests, 45 folks from Conservation International who came for a Monday to Friday strategic planning retreat.

Host or Publisher Raman Frey