Forget Dinner Parties. Say Adieu to Cocktail Parties. Dînatoire Parties Are All the Rage.

Forget Dinner Parties. Say Adieu to Cocktail Parties. Dînatoire Parties Are All the Rage.

If you don’t dare to eat it, nobody will even notice. Does your cocktail party lack heft and grandeur? Enter the dînatoire, an entertaining trend that’s sweeping New York By Harrison Vail “There’s a seductive ambiguity to the apéro dinatoire,” says party planner Bronson van Wyck, whose clients have included Madonna, Beyoncé, and Hillary Clinton. “It’s a cocktail party. It’s a dinner. It’s foreplay. The French have always excelled at the art of s…