Roses are red
Gender is performative
Let’s make Valentine’s Day
Less heteronormative
The inimitable Mikiki, returns to The Depanneur for their 6th annual Valentine’s Day Dinner. An immersive and interactive food experience unlike any other, teetering tipsily between drag cabaret, performance art, academic lecture, political protest, and dinner party. Served in full regalia and interspersed with songs, this collision of high-concept dining and low-brow humour is a Valentine's Day that is fearless, funny, and truly provocative.
Read more about Mikiki in this feature essay from The Depanneur Cookbook
Goodbye, Cruel World is a love letter and a wake. Coffee and chocolate—our daily crutches, our romance fuels, our bitter-sweet consolations—are among the crops most threatened by climate collapse. This dinner is a satirical farewell party for flavours we’ve treated as infinite, and a gentle act of mourning for what we stand to lose. On Valentine’s Day / Pink Triangle Day, it feels appropriate to gather around desire, decadence, and grief at the same table. If the world is ending, we might as well taste it properly.
This isn’t a lecture and it’s not a purity test. It’s an invitation. An attempt to lure, not scold—to seduce you into caring by reminding you how much you already do. Chocolate gets dirty, coffee gets sharp, sweetness flirts with bitterness, and nothing is neutral. The menu moves between comfort and discomfort, pleasure and unease, asking what it means to love something knowing it’s fragile—and knowing we’re implicated.
Mostly, this dinner is about doing this together. Climate despair thrives in isolation; action needs bodies, mouths, laughter, and shared tables. Goodbye, Cruel World is a little earnest, a little bawdy, and definitely communal: a gathering to toast what we adore, to acknowledge what’s at stake, and to remember that even in desperate times, connection—and a really good meal—can still be a place to begin.
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Cold Coffee - A delicious sparkling tonic from Guadalajara with espresso and raspberry
Ddeep Ddive - Black bean & cacao soup with coffee cracker
Ruby Fruit, Urban Jungle - CDMX style fruit salad with ruby chocolate
Not a Blood Pact - sikil pak (a Yucatecan pepita salsa with tomatillo & chiles), veggie chip & totopos
Body Shop - Jackfruit tamales with molé negro + temperance slaw
Embracing Bitter - Embodied chocolate tasting
Seoul Trained - Korean-inspired Mocha lemon meringue tart
Careful Whisper - Mocha foam mist
Tea Leaves Read - Cascara gummy to take home
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Mikiki has been feeding friends and lovers in many kitchens across the country and now would love to feed you. They have worked with food as an artist and catered many gallery openings along with their (former) day jobs in the social service sector talking about sex and drugs (and occasionally rock and roll). They now make art full time. @mkkultra
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Every weekend The Depanneur invites a guest chef to host a fun, family-style dinner party.
