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Eater SF: “This San Francisco Supper Club Is on the Cusp of Its Big TV Moment”
A request for a low-key birthday dinner should be simple enough to pull off amongst friends. But if your friends are Lara Ortiz-Luis and Garrett Schlichte, it could also turn into an event. Ortiz-Luis and Schlichte are the minds behind Virgo Supperclub, an occasional dinner party-style event the duo throws for friends and strangers.
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Garrett Schlichte and Lara Ortiz-Luis run Virgo Supperclub, a dinner party pop-up. Schlichte says they like to curate an experience for their attendees, and there’s freedom in running a supper club versus a permanent restaurant. “I think for us, we really lean into the spirit of trying to do things that are fun or weird or a little different or that maybe you couldn’t necessarily get away with if you had to do you a la carte at a normal restaurant,” Schlichte says. “I think ‘supper club’ is just interesting and exciting.”
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Slutty jook from Virgo Supperclub
There’s a simple, paper bowl of jook in the Bay Area that contains — in just one cafeteria-style scoop — a mosaic of textures and rich, heart-warming flavors. Lara Ortiz-Luis and Garrett Schlichte run the perky Virgo Supperclub, in all its backyard dinner party splendor, and their $14 slutty jook matches the brash name with outrageously addictive flavor.