Breakfast Clubbing #50
W/C 7th April: BC is ON in PDX, Paris, Miami, Hamptons, Hudson, Wmsburg, CDMX, SF, Vienna, DC, DTBK, Manhattan, Sydney, Melbourne (Richmond) and SOMa (NJ)
Hi all.
Coming up on 23 years ago I moved to Sydney for a job. I stayed a year, traveling a little in Oz, but not as much as I’d have liked. I returned to NYC and have never gone back to Sydney again, which I regret to say.
So it was a thrill to hear that Elisha Akhtar had gone ahead and taken the reins on a BC chapter there - the third in Australia but the first from somebody who hadn’t attended in Brooklyn first (
and I worked together for years so he doesn’t count in that tally). It’ll be fun to see what Sydneysiders do with the institutional. It’ll star flat whites, I’d wager.I say it to say that this little community - now over 2000 subscribers each Monday) is constantly growing and evolving in ways I never anticipated, but that I am extremely into. European superchargers Amy Daroukakis and Charla Caponi are hitting the road spreading the gospel - Amy soon to Asia, Charla as a special guest in Paris this week - we’re doing another Breakfast Club Happy Hour in NYC on April 24th (more on that soon). And there’s lots more in the works.
So - Come hang! Better yet, bring a friend. Or if you’re not in NYC, start your own happy hour. Or your own Breakfast. Everyone’s invited to join - and everyone’s invited to host.
Especially you.
The Breakfast Club Esprit de Corps:
* Everyone’s invited - especially you.
* Feel free to share, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.
* No agenda, no required buy-in, no need to RSVP. And no pitches.
* Everyone pays their own way.
* Everyone is welcome to subscribe.
Join the Linkedin group here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14449223/Breakfast Club Editions Around the World (cities added regularly):
Weekly:
Portland, OR [Tuesday]
Mexico City [Wednesday]
Williamsburg Brooklyn [Wednesday]
Miami [Wednesday]
The Hamptons [Wednesday]
San Francisco [Wednesday]
Downtown Brooklyn [Thursdays]
Manhattan [Thursdays]
SOMa, NJ [Fridays] Bi-Weekly:
Washington, DC [Thursdays]
Melbourne [Fridays, alternating between Fitzroy and Richmond]
Amsterdam [Fridays, alternating between locations East and West)
Monthly:
Boulder [First Tuesdays]
Barcelona[First Wednesdays]
London[First Thursday]
Burlington, VT [Second Mondays]
LA (West) [Third Fridays]
Vienna
Paris
Milan
Lugano
Portland, Maine
Philadelphia
Boston
Panama City
Seattle
Denver
Brighton
Bassano del Grappa
Toronto
Atlanta
Berlin
IbizaBreakfast Club This Week:
PDX, Paris, Miami, Hamptons, Williamsburg, CDMX, SF, Vienna, DC, DTBK, Manhattan, Sydney, Melbourne (Richmond) and SOMa (NJ)
Tuesday, April 8th
Portland, OR
Co-hosted by Nina Sers
9a @ Proud Mary
Wednesday, April 9th
Paris
Co-Hosted by Lisa Ono and Karla Rodriguez C with special guest host Charla Caponi
9:00am @ Cult Cafe
Mexico City
Co-Hosted by Steve Bryant
8:30am @ TBC (DM Steve)
Miami
Co-Hosted by Jeff Carvalho and Jesse Kirshbaum
8:30a @ Novela Cafe Social
Hudson
Co-Hosted by Peter Spear and Mark DePace
8:30a @ Kitty’s
Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
Hosted by me and a gang of regulars
8:30a @ Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel
The Hamptons
Co-hosted by Mike Kilcoyne
8:30a @ Tutto Cafe
San Francisco
Co-Hosted by Eve Lewis and Chris M. Gillespie
8:30am @ Terreene in the 1 Hotel
Thursday, April 10th
Vienna
Hosted by Carla Moss and Laura M. Pana
9am @ Cafe Francais
Washington DC
Hosted by Michael Hastings-Black
8:30am @ The Line Hotel (1770 Euclid Street NW)
Downtown Brooklyn
Co-Hosted by Kat Popiel, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, and Lynn Juang
8:30am @ Ace Hotel Brooklyn (Lobby)
Manhattan
Co-Hosted by Heidi Hartwig
9am @ Eva’s Kitchen on Grand
Cincinnati
Co-Hosted by Theo Erasmus and Emmit Jones
8:30am @ Mom and Em Coffee
Friday, April 11th
Sydney
Co-Hosted by Elisha Akhtar
8:30a @ The Ace Hotel [SYD]
Melbourne (Richmond)
Co-Hosted by Steph Clarke
8:30a @ Pillar of Salt
New Jersey (SOMa)
Co-Hosted by James Friedman
9:15a @ Arties
Upcoming Breakfast Club Gatherings
4.14: Burlington, VT 4.15: Portland OR4.16: Miami, Hamptons, Williamsburg, CDMX, SF 4.17: Boston, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan, Vegas4.19: SOMa (New Jersey)4.23: Atlanta5.6: Boulder 5.7: Barcelona 5.15: Portland ME 
Breakfast Clubbing Last Week Happened In
Boulder, PDX, Barcelona, Miami, Hamptons, Williamsburg, CDMX, SF, Milan, London, Portland ME, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan, Cincy, Melbourne (Fitzroy) and SOMa (New Jersey)
Boulder 4.1.25 Report
Per Joy’s email: “Had a great BC last week, we are planning to keep it going monthly, on the first Tuesday of the month. So the next Boulder one we are planning for May 6th 8am”
Barcelona 2.4.25 Report
Per Nicole’s WhatsApp message: “In our cozy group of 5 in Barcelona today, we discussed if life is game/simulation, and books on gaming theory; if you believe you live one life, how do you live the most inside of it (do you learn how other people live theirs, do you say yes to everything); what's success, really; YouTube as a powerful (and hard) tool; OpenAI's new image creation; Spanish well-intended but loophole-ridden laws; and a upcoming music platform mixing from Spotify's former CIO. ♥️ One of my favourites so far.
Portland OR 4.1.25
Per Nina’s Post: 10 months of Breakfast Club PDX! We chatted about the design community of Portland, public speaking, freelance life, running a business life, new jobs/gigs and what I am going to do in Chicago this week. It was a good vibe.
Happy to see the faces new and the recurring Lizy Gershenzon Roland Gauthier Joseph Soutullo Marjorie Skinner Vivek Bellore Nicole Fitzhugh Julie Scherr Robinson Wood Shaela Kilmartin
Join us every week at 9am at Proud Mary
Everyone is welcome. No RSVP or agenda, just chats and coffee
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Hamptons 4.2.25 Report
Per Mike’s Post:
Lookin' like a band photo this time. Another great time.
We talked about:
- travels to Europe
- Delicious Italy delicacies
- time zones and stuff
- what's your favorite place to travel to?
- shooting on film (it's too expensive)
- trading wares
- cool photography
People: John / Jonathan, Adam Harris, Paula + Ruth. Heidi Wright, Darryl, Zach Bliss, Ryan Duff, Adam Donald, Phillip Lehans, Jake Sinacori
Williamsburg 4.2.25 Report
Per my post: In my zone we talked Spacemen 3, Massive Attack, getting into things after ‘their time,’ cricket sweaters, going Bertram Wooster mode, Brands&Culture, Substack lacking gatekeepers, minor genius, self help books disguised as zines, the Artists Way, being represented by Pace Gallery, stopping the scroll, things that are the worst that also rule, throwing AI all over Partiful, getting invited to your first ever seder, AI portraits on dating apps, dinner party dinner cards, the artist(?!) Rex Detiger, the Breakfast Club word cloud, that Gen X creativity is dead article in The New York Times, the ON_Discourse AI summit, newsletters that are 100 percent written by AI, creeping on the Breakfast Club ‘business model,’ the VICE Media diaspora, interviewing all over the place, bring you daughter to breakfast day, branded condos in Miami, cities designed for conspicuous consumption, intentionally buying assets that depreciating, locking in your student loan debt, turning 27, finding opportunity when it is, not where you expect to find it, products needing to be good, different and repeatable, the state of comedy today, the commercial challenges of ‘Nets, Mets and Jets’, no one ever getting fired for buying IBM, when can a New York Knicks, Inc. town become a Nets town, converting Bensonhurst, deep-deepfakes, a big hologram horse and lots more.
The crew this week was Ben Jenkins, Paul Greenberg, Andan Eddy, Zachary Mallard, James Outlaw, Peter Droste, Alexis Reiner, Ian Edgar, Julie Stein, Randy Paul, Elliot Aronow, Kalil Greenberg, Marissa Dubin, Nick Cogan, Leonardo Olafsson, Eric David Johnson aka DJ Bunny Ears, Shawnté Salabert, Ariel Abramov, Skyler Voss, Christopher M., Sundi Brewer-Griffin, Nick Bodor, Marc Weissman & Marlowe, Ishan Bhaumik, Eason Yang and me.
We do this every Wednesday starting 8:30a at Le Crocodile Restaurant at the Wythe Hotel. Everyone pays their own way. Everyone's invited, especially you.
Milan 3.4.25 Report:
Per Charla’s Post:
MEGA Art Fair and the fabulous Mattia Pozzoni, Marta Orsola Sironi, and Mauro Mattei - TEP—TEP hosted our Breakfast Club this week, aligning with our goal of offering new experiences to our BC’ers each month.
Like Breakfast Club, MEGA ART Fair provides an experience and a gathering place, offering a different way to engage with art. The artworks displayed were part of a curated exhibition, with galleries from Mexico to Zimbabwe showcasing artists' work.
My fav artwork was by Giuditta Branconi. Her vividness and expressiveness caught my attention. Additionally, I found using rags as her material particularly impressive, reflecting her humble upbringing. (Thanks to Mattia Pozzoni for sharing her background with me 😊).
This edition was spread out somewhat, but what I overheard or partook in was:
▪️ Art Art Art – location, location, location
▪️ Olympics – Cortina, winning and losing pitches/ bids
▪️ Energy healers
▪️ 6 degrees of separation
▪️ And the ongoing drama of Canada - politics – Trump 😩
Stay tuned for next month’s Breakfast Club: Wednesday, May 21st Golab
Reminder: Everyone is invited. Especially you.
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London 3.4.25 Report
Per Victoria’s Post: Such a joy to be start this sunny day walking through a bookshop and drinking coffee with great people at Breakfast Club.
Here’s to:
- Building community.
- Creating space for serendipity.
- Bringing people together across disciplines and sectors with no agenda.
- Sharing ideas, problems and visions.
- Making internet friends and going IRL.
- Staying curious at all times.
Every BC is different. Today was a little bit magic. 🪄 Thanks to: 🍣 Rob Estreitinho Damiano Vukotic Ramona Daniel Audrey H. Jessica Hislop Emily Blad Mara Dettmann Mitra Memarzia Giulia Castelli Phil Harvey
We do this in London the first Thursday of every month. Everyone is invited. Especially you.
Portland ME 4.3.25 Report
Per Michele’s Post: Biggest Breakfast Club Portland, Maine group we’ve ever had! w/co-host Lydia Wagner
Great seeing everyone and thanks for coming out in the rain/snow mix - Happy Spring? And thanks to our friends at Salt Yard for the great coffee, breakfast and perfect gathering space.
As usual, so many topics covered including Cooper Flagg, summer concert line ups, the sea salt caramel latte that did not disappoint, knitting, hitting all 50 states with kids, BC Spotify playlist development, bbq in Austin, TX, Americorps and more.
Amy Tessendorf Jared Cash Jessica Drescher Jim Hauptman Michael Krishnan Gillian Britt Alexander Bertoni Robin Deliso Woodcock Stefanie Millette, MBA Colleen Quint Becca Rosencrans (Rubin)
Next one: May 15th, 8am, Salt Yard.
Manhattan 4.3.25 Report:
Per Heidi’s Post: Better late than never! Last Thursday, five lefties grabbed a table, one scored an egg sandwich and
Breakfast Club did its thing!
This freelancer was sad to miss it (had a shoot), but the magic kept rolling.
We meet every Thursday at 9 AM LES for coffee, convo, and a little creative chaos.
All are welcome, especially you!
Next meetup: Thursday, April 10th Eva's Kitchen LES 359 Grand street
Handwritten attendance roll last week included: Eva McCloskey Elijah Torn Jonathan P. L. Spooner Ishan Bhaumik Jodi Rosenblum Jonathan Schenk Emily Moschet John Lee Michael Hastings-Black Matt Lenski & SDJ
Melbourne 4.4.25 Report
Per Celeste’s Post: Melbourne BC at The StandardX, Melbourne this morning, hosted by Josh Gardiner and myself. An excellent morning of conversation covering gentrification of cities post pandemic, pre and post pandemic worlds, cultural cringe, tall poppy syndrome, strategy and strategists on a tall poppy culture, Australian exceptional food culture and quality, New York slang, BC in Williamsburg and media chat, different cultures and the difference in meeting rooms, Melbourne and Sydney cultures and the world at large.
We do this monthly, with Richmond alternate fortnights hosted by Steph Clarke. Join us for a no agenda, no pitching, pay your own way, all are welcome morning coffee or breakfast, it's always great. Stay tuned for updates and subscribe to Breakfast Clubbing for Breakfast Clubs around the globe.
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This week we were Cat Drysdale Grace Gordon Chaz Mee Clare Acheson CPM Rachel Elliot-Jones Casey Henderson Josh Gardiner
SOMa Jersey 4.4.25 Report
Per James’s Post: We had a tight crew of regulars plus a couple new friends and even got a few drop-bys from regulars who were at Artie's for other get-togethers.
As ever, it's an hour or two of conversation amidst all the craziness of 2025.
We talked about lots of things, including:
When gentrification goes wrong and all you get is more nail salons, the drama of kids travel sports teams, being too old for serious athletic endeavors, can jews golf?, is Kevin James an everyman hunk?, finding religion in midlife, keeping kosher in the Deep South, that Gen X article in the Times, writing jokes for a living, how NYC newstands became museums of Maxim backissues before ceasing to sell magazines at all, the disappearance of movie theaters, what do college kids do for fun?, piracy funds seclusion, what to watch on tv, the absurd range of NYC stadium grub, and hating The Doors but loving Val Kilmer
We do this every Friday at 9:15 at Artie's in Maplewood
Everyone is invited. Especially you.
