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Our chefs shape the evening before you even arrive.

Most private dining means picking from a list. A passed tray here, a chosen entrée there, decisions you're asked to make before you've even arrived.

The Dining Studio works differently. Here, the kitchen leads. Our chefs build the evening around the season, the occasion, and the people you're bringing together. You're welcome to guide it, but the most memorable evenings are the ones where the creative direction is left to them.

The room seats up to 70 guests for a seated dinner and accommodates up to 100 for cocktails.

It's the closest thing to having your own private restaurant for the night, one where the chef already knows what you should eat.

What the craft looks like

Example menus

These menus are a window into what an evening at the Dining Studio can become. The season shapes the menu. The occasion shapes the experience. Every dinner is built from scratch for the guests at that table.

Ways to use the Studio

This isn't a typical rental space. What you're booking is a chef-driven private dining experience, where the kitchen is part of the room, not hidden behind a door. Our team designs your menu around the season, your occasion and your guests. The kitchen opens. The evening unfolds.

It's private dining with the energy, polish, and creativity of a great restaurant, without other customers. Without distractions. Just the table, the food, and the people you've brought together.

The Dining Studio adapts to the occasion, not the other way around. A few of the ways guests have used the space:

Private dinners

Corporate dinners, board meetings, birthdays, anniversaries, rehearsal dinners. Whatever you're marking, the evening is designed entirely around your table: who's there, what they'll taste, and how you want the night to feel.

We also host celebrations of life, where the same care and steadiness are brought to a very different kind of gathering.

Celebration of life

These are the gatherings that ask the most of a host. We bring steadiness, warmth, and care to every detail, so you can focus on the people in the room.

The patio

When the season allows, the covered patio extends the evening outdoors. Open air, warm months, the kitchen still at the heart of it.

Cocktail and happy hour events

The Studio at its most social. A full bar program, passed bites from the kitchen, and a room that feels genuinely alive.

What our clients say

"Held a private retirement dinner at Create's Dining Studio and it was perfect. The space was just right and the food and service were, as always from Create, outstanding. And they are so easy to work with on the planning."

- Hildy B.

"The personalized approach that Philip and his team takes is bar none. The private setting is perfect. The food — I think my guests would have cracked the plates and licked them clean if they could have."

- Deb C.

Chef's Table Experiences

Join Us

The Dining Studio has always been at its best when the evening is built entirely around the food. We're bringing back intimate chef's table experiences—seasonal ticketed dinners where the menu drives the night and the kitchen is the conversation.

Be the first to know when the next table opens.

How to Book

The Dining Studio books through Joan, our events director. She'll walk you through the space, talk through your occasion, and help build an experience that fits.

Let's talk

You bring the occasion. We'll build the evening around it.