Dinner With Friends

is a series of interviews in an intimate setting of food and drinks at our favorite spots from San Francisco, New York and parts in-between from misadventures to chicken tenders, this is part introspective — a celebration of friendship — and part journal of the amazing spots we’ve dined. Hosted by Tanner Godarzi and friends.

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Recent Dinners

Lauren Gaunt

How To Escape A Cult

Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco, CA

Tanner and Lauren Gaunt — a San Francisco based photographer and occupational therapist — talks about woofing in Southern California and narrowly avoiding introduction into a farming cult and the unobtainable beauty standards in modern digital photography.Read more

Cory Etzkorn

Travel And Nomadism

Trick Dog in San Francisco, CA

Tanner and Cory Etzkorn — a designer, software engineer and bath enthusiast living in Brooklyn — talk nostalgia over the days when air travel was less regulated and you could smoke on planes, differences between the West and East coasts and weird pandemic era nomadism over delicious tendies and cocktails.Read more

Joe Haskins

Dictators Can’t Kill Art

Bacetti in Los Angeles, CA

Tanner and Joe Haskins — a well traveled writer with a penchant for vinyl — talk conspiracy theorists, will AI take our jobs, hunting down the rarest of rare vinyl, music encoded into x-rays, insufferable concert attendees and opposing dictators with the power of art over pasta and pizza at a local Los Angeles restaurant notorious for being too hard to get a reservation. Read more

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Friends Everywhere

Joe Haskins is a writer from Los Angeles; a lover of vinyl, print, and bacchanalian insight.
Cory Etzkorn is a designer and software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY. He enjoys mood lighting, long baths, and a hard-earned shavasana after hot yoga.
Lauren Gaunt is a professional photographer and occupational therapist based in San Francisco.