A journalist from Pensacola learned that restaurants are nightly theatre. Two decades later, her firm still makes its case with the same quiet instruments: curiosity, judgment and the right table at the right time.
A freelance job in Madrid gave her the pulse of live events. A collapsed employer gave her an opening. Sixteen years later, the company she began at home had become a nearly 100-person experiment in courage, reinvention and letting people draw their own route.