LEONA
TXA TXA CLUB
MAY 21, 2026 | PARKER KARLOV | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Part dinner + part provocation, Course / Course played on the dual meaning of the word itself: the progression of a meal, and the direction of movement. As the evening unfolded, guests encountered subtle perceptual shifts across five courses and five senses as taste, scent, texture, and expectation took turns leading the way.
Those who paid the most exquisite attention were rewarded, curiosity eclipsing caution as LEONA came to life through TXA TXA’s brilliantly creative culinary lens. Objects became performers, provocateurs and co-conspirators, provoking diners to reconsider seemingly familiar rituals and to approach the table with heightened curiosity + devotion.
CURIOSITY
caution
imagine thirty guests gathered at a single table; dinner and its instruments cast as actors upon an (otherwise) ordinary stage...toothbrushes + lipsticks set alongside knives + forks, not single guest the wiser as to which to implement next...
indulgence
+
RESTRAINT
imagine the familiar rendered entirely un- through a procession of courses designed to blur the line between ritual + performance, indulgence + restraint held in delicious tension through each object + its operation; each bite + its manner of consumption...
𓁹
imagine the stranger across from you now an accomplice: a fellow traveler navigating senses that can no longer be trusted; the usual social currencies replaced by attention + shared experience...
attention
= CURRENCY
gratitude + acknowledgements
lIZ, DANIEL, TXA TXA TEAM: FOR DREAMING WITH ME LIMITLESSLY AND FOR BRINGING THIS DELECTABLE VISION TO LIFE
FOR YOUR STUNNINGLY VERSATILE VENUE AND FOR BEING SUCH A DELIGHT TO WORK WITH
for capturing the evening IN ITS ENTIRETY (UNLESS where OTHERWISE NOTED)
BALBINA DEBOER
FOR WORKING WITH ME TIRELESSLY TO DRESS THE TABLE SO BEAUTIFULLY
[ + FOR SO PATIENTLY SUPERVISING ME ON THE LADDER ]
+
you
For your trust, your enthusiasm, and for paying such exquisite attention.
