CROWN AND COLLAR SOCIETY
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About the Society
The Crown & Collar Society is a private social society built around an intentionally curated circle of fascinating, accomplished, and open-minded people who share an appetite for meaningful connection, elevated experiences, and life beyond convention.
We believe the right people make the experience. Rather than follow a fixed calendar, we create intimate dinners, cocktail soirées, tastings, adventures, and other gatherings when inspiration strikes. We thoughtfully bring together the company we believe will make each experience extraordinary.
At the heart of the Society is our guiding philosophy:
Vivamus, Voluptemur, Epulemur
Let us live. Let us explore pleasure. Let us feast.
More than a motto, it is an invitation to experience life with intention, curiosity, and unapologetic authenticity.
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Inside the Society
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Crown & Collar is intentionally intimate.
We cultivate a private circle of people we find fascinating: thoughtful, accomplished, adventurous, discreet, and open-minded individuals whose presence adds something to the room.
Admission to the Society means becoming part of the circle from which we thoughtfully curate our private gatherings. Each experience is considered independently, with invitations shaped around the occasion, the setting, and most importantly, the chemistry of the people around the table.
There is no fixed calendar and no promised number of invitations. Crown & Collar comes together when inspiration, opportunity, and the right company align.
Our circle grows through personal connection, trusted introductions, our occasional open gatherings, and applications from those who discover us from farther afield.
If this feels like a world in which you might belong, you are welcome to make yourself known to us.
The Experiences
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Chef's Tasting
An intimate table for curious palates and exceptional company.
Our Chef's Tastings bring a small group together around a thoughtfully composed culinary experience, where the menu is only part of what makes the evening memorable. Multi-course dining, inspired pairings, beautiful surroundings, and conversation unfold around a table intentionally kept intimate.
Like all Crown & Collar experiences, no two tastings need be alike. The chef, setting, menu, and company change, but the pleasure of discovering something extraordinary together remains.
An example of the experiences that have shaped Crown & Collar.
Where familiar faces and intriguing strangers collide.
Our Cocktail Soirées open the Crown & Collar world a little wider, bringing together an eclectic mix of familiar faces, new connections, and curious newcomers for an evening of exceptional cocktails, effortless conversation, and just enough intrigue.
Less structured than our intimate experiences and designed for mingling, the Soirée is where introductions happen, connections form, and one conversation can unexpectedly change the course of the evening.
Come beautifully dressed, bring your curiosity, and see who you meet.
Cocktail Soirée
Masterclass
Our Masterclasses turn curiosity into an occasion, bringing a small group together with experts, makers, and provocateurs who invite us deeper into a world worth exploring.
From wine and spirits to culinary craft, art, ritual, and the unexpected, each experience is designed around discovery rather than instruction alone.
We taste, touch, question, experiment, and indulge; because learning is considerably more interesting when all the senses are invited.
"For those who would rather experience something than simply know about it."
The Adventure
Some experiences are better without a blueprint.
Not everything Crown & Collar creates belongs around a table. Sometimes curiosity takes us somewhere entirely unexpected, into unfamiliar places, unusual experiences, hidden worlds, and the occasional adventure that sounded simply too intriguing to pass up.
There is no formula for where we might go next.
The pleasure is in discovering something worth experiencing and choosing just the right company to experience it with.
Sometimes that means six people around an unfamiliar table.
Sometimes it means stepping together into a world none of us has explored before. The destination matters.
The company matters more.
The Cocktail Soirée
Our occasional open door.
Most of Crown & Collar unfolds within a deliberately curated circle. The Cocktail Soirée is where we open the doors a little wider.
Designed for mingling rather than programming, our Soirées bring together familiar faces, friends of the Society, and intriguing newcomers for an evening of beautiful surroundings, exceptional cocktails, effortless conversation, and possibility.
There is no agenda and no prescribed outcome. Come beautifully dressed. Bring your curiosity. Introduce yourself to someone unexpected.
For those discovering Crown & Collar for the first time, the Soirée offers a glimpse inside our world and, perhaps, the beginning of something more interesting.
Upcoming Soirées
Fri, Nov 06Disclosed to Ticket HoldersJoin us for a casually elegant, public-facing evening held within closer reach of the greater DC metropolitan area, created for potential members, guests of our community, and anyone seeking a glimpse into the ethos that makes the Crown & Collar Society so distinctive.
Sat, Dec 19Disclosed to Ticket HoldersJoin us for a casually elegant, public-facing evening held within closer reach of the greater DC metropolitan area, created for potential members, guests of our community, and anyone seeking a glimpse into the ethos that makes the Crown & Collar Society so distinctive.