The Gourmet Society is a UK-based organisation that was created in 2003 and was initially developed in the Midlands. It is a dining promotions company whose members pay an annual subscription to receive discounts at participating restaurants.
Gourmet Society restaurants offer a range of discounts to members. Participating restaurants include Michelin starred restaurants Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Benares, The Room in the Elephant, and JSW, high street restaurants owned by Marco Pierre White, Atul Kochhar and Gary Rhodes, as well as restaurant chains like Pizza Hut, Loch Fyne and Cafe Rouge.
The Gourmet Society organised the North East Restaurant Awards in 2007.
The Gourmet Society has organised charitable campaigns which raise money for local schools
The Gourmet Society has been reviewed in various print and online media
Famous quotes containing the words gourmet and/or society:
“For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“... she was a woman. She had been taught from her earliest childhood to make use of this talent which God had endowed her, would be an outrage against society; so she lived for a few years, going through the routine of breakfasts and dinners, journeys and parties, that society demanded of her, and at last sank into her grave, after having been of little use to the world or herself.”
—Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898)