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 Oliveri

How To Have Type 2 Fun

The Stinking Rose in San Francisco, CA

Lauren — an avid nature adventurer and programmer residing in Brooklyn, New York — talks Type 2 Fun from difficult trips hiking through South America to cross country treks and the scourge of bed bugs plaguing fabrics over garlic infused Italian at the Stinking Rose in San Francisco.Read more

Vera Makianich

Heavy Metal Music And Traveling

Bangrak Market in Seattle, Washington

Tanner and Vera — a product manager and multidisciplinary artist — talk how to travel at a slower pace to become part of the community you’re visiting while navigating the logistics of long distance journeys while reminiscing about past heavy metal showsRead more

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

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

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

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Friends Everywhere

Lauren Oliveri is an avid nature adventurer and programmer residing in Brooklyn.
Vera Makianich is a product manager and multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle.
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.