Dining And Dragons

High End Dining and Role Playing Experiences

Let your imagination feast as well as your taste buds. It's time to savor the adventure!

Welcome to Dining and Dragons! My name is Nick Heckbert, and I am very excited to bring two of my passions together and offer bespoke catered menus paired with role playing campaigns designed specifically with you in mind.

My campaigns are fun and intuitive, even if you are a complete beginner. No level of experience required - just a hunger for adventure! This is a great way to learn to play, to give your forever GM a chance to play, teach valuable communication and leadership skills, or just bring a group of people together for an evening of indulgence and laughter.

I am a firm believer that there are no limits to what can be created with food, and that meals can always be curated to one’s preferences and needs, and I’m always excited to invent if necessary to achieve that! Most of all I believe food is fun, and that sharing a meal should always be enjoyable. The feeling of hospitality when a meal is cooked just for you always makes me happy, whether I’m cooking or eating.

So get your party into the into the local tavern, and let me know what I can make for you while you’re there. It’s the perfect place to enjoy a culinary adventure, before the fantastical one starts. I can’t wait to find out what I can cook up for you!

First Step Food!

The first great passion that I put into crafting your event is my love of food and creating new and exciting food experiences. With many years experience in professional kitchens as well as with my business Bespoke Culinary Experiences, I have the tools and passion to create a menu to match your needs, and even tie it in to your specific game’s campaign.

I believe in flexibility as a game master and as a chef, so I offer a wide range of options for the feast portion of your event. Whether it be a beautiful buffet with a few delicious choices, a few courses for a hungry party with only the lunch hour to eat, or a multicourse fine dining tasting menu for those who took the noble background for their character and really want to experience that life, I can cook it up for you!

I also offer options to pair your menu with your campaign for a memorable and immersive experience! Join us at the table where food and fantasy collide.

On To Adventure In New Lands

My other great passion that I can share with you is story telling. I especially love telling stories through the medium of games. That’s why I want to make worlds that you are excited to play in, experience end enjoy. You can share a story with the other players in new ways unique to games.

There are so many vast worlds to explore as well. Whether you prefer the epic realms of fantasies, the looming skyscrapers and smoke of dystopian cyberpunk, the dusty deserts of a space opera sci fi, or the dangerous dirty streets of urban fantasy, I know a game system that can be used to create the perfect story in the perfect setting.

These experiences go beyond just a good time though. Working together with fellow players, figuring out a mystery or overcoming obstacles can teach us a lot. We learn about one another, ourselves, how to work together, and how to both lead and listen. And while the worlds exist in our shared imagination, the memories we make in them are very real.

You also get to create a new persona. Maybe it’s someone just like you, and you get to insert ourselves into a fantastical narrative. Maybe you want to be your ideal version of yourself, and be a superhero. Maybe you want to indulge in skullduggery that you wouldn’t do otherwise. That’s up to you to decide!

I am so excited to learn from you and create your perfect world, story, and help make the characters you want to play in them!

About to run my first Call of Cthulhu game, which means soon I'll be offering it as a game system in my arsenal as well. I know a bunch and am learning more. Book your bespoke event with a game and meal made just for you.
About to run my first Call of Cthulhu game, which means soon I'll be offering it as a game system in my arsenal as well. I know a bunch and am learning more. Book your bespoke event with a game and meal made just for you.
These are my 4 favorite systems right now. Love them all for different reasons. I can run all of these as part of a dining and dragons experience! Which would be your choice and why?
These are my 4 favorite systems right now. Love them all for different reasons. I can run all of these as part of a dining and dragons experience! Which would be your choice and why?
From the pilot run of the immersion role playing and dining experience with @changelinggaming. Such a fun night, and many more to come. This one is beetroot and pine nut foam, braised Kohl Rabi, chive caviar, Applewood smoke and a beetroot coral. Working on naming it, any suggestions? Thanks Emilie for the camera work!
Sample One Shots and Paired menus are up on my website. Check them out at https://www.dininganddragons.com/samples and tell me which you are most interested in. Custom campaigns always available, but these are some of my preset ideas that you can cho
Sample One Shots and Paired menus are up on my website. Check them out at https://www.dininganddragons.com/samples and tell me which you are most interested in. Custom campaigns always available, but these are some of my preset ideas that you can choose! First up is the Necromancer's Phylactery, a challenging dungeon crawl style game with a 6 course fine dining menu. Next is Family Feuding, an all ages appropriate fey themed story with family style meal to go along with it. Finally The Celestial Seed, perfect for new players and paired with some delicious pub style fair. Book now!
Eat mushrooms not myconids. Myconids are sentient d&d creature and have families. Mushrooms are delicious earth food, and do NOT have families to avenge them. Make the right choice. These lovelies came from @soraurenmarket
Eat mushrooms not myconids. Myconids are sentient d&d creature and have families. Mushrooms are delicious earth food, and do NOT have families to avenge them. Make the right choice. These lovelies came from @soraurenmarket
Almost finished with this project. Just need to make some furnishings for inside! What sort of project should I take on next? I'm thinking a wizard's tower or a devil's lair.
Almost finished with this project. Just need to make some furnishings for inside! What sort of project should I take on next? I'm thinking a wizard's tower or a devil's lair.
Creating a witches brew stew for a hag hunting game. It's a bourguignon style beef stew, topped with a parsley garlic sauce, made by blanching the garlic 15 times, then once more in creme and blended with fresh parsley. Tastes wonderful, but which dish is better for it?
The crafting journey continues! Finished the first level of a two story collapsed tower. Next project I do will have windows though! 🤣
The crafting journey continues! Finished the first level of a two story collapsed tower. Next project I do will have windows though! 🤣
And what else for the free fae, the party animals, the faeries of myth, but decadence. A rich chocolate cake, hot from the oven, bourbon cherry sauce and coffee cream, simple yet indulgent. A lovely way to end a meal, and free kin approved. What the
And what else for the free fae, the party animals, the faeries of myth, but decadence. A rich chocolate cake, hot from the oven, bourbon cherry sauce and coffee cream, simple yet indulgent. A lovely way to end a meal, and free kin approved. What theme should I do next?
Next up is a little palate cleanser courtesy of the winter court. Gin and mint granita. Be warned it's sharp and boozy, but what else would you expect from the queen of air and darkness? Bright, invigorating with sharp defined flavours. Perfect encap
Next up is a little palate cleanser courtesy of the winter court. Gin and mint granita. Be warned it's sharp and boozy, but what else would you expect from the queen of air and darkness? Bright, invigorating with sharp defined flavours. Perfect encapsulation of winter, and the perfect way to move between the rich main, and the richer dessert.
About to run my first Call of Cthulhu game, which means soon I'll be offering it as a game system in my arsenal as well. I know a bunch and am learning more. Book your bespoke event with a game and meal made just for you. These are my 4 favorite systems right now. Love them all for different reasons. I can run all of these as part of a dining and dragons experience! Which would be your choice and why?
From the pilot run of the immersion role playing and dining experience with @changelinggaming. Such a fun night, and many more to come. This one is beetroot and pine nut foam, braised Kohl Rabi, chive caviar, Applewood smoke and a beetroot coral.
Sample One Shots and Paired menus are up on my website. Check them out at https://www.dininganddragons.com/samples and tell me which you are most interested in. Custom campaigns always available, but these are some of my preset ideas that you can cho Eat mushrooms not myconids. Myconids are sentient d&d creature and have families. Mushrooms are delicious earth food, and do NOT have families to avenge them. Make the right choice. These lovelies came from @soraurenmarket Almost finished with this project. Just need to make some furnishings for inside! What sort of project should I take on next? I'm thinking a wizard's tower or a devil's lair.
Creating a witches brew stew for a hag hunting game. It's a bourguignon style beef stew, topped with a parsley garlic sauce, made by blanching the garlic 15 times, then once more in creme and blended with fresh parsley. Tastes wonderful, but which d
The crafting journey continues! Finished the first level of a two story collapsed tower. Next project I do will have windows though! 🤣 And what else for the free fae, the party animals, the faeries of myth, but decadence. A rich chocolate cake, hot from the oven, bourbon cherry sauce and coffee cream, simple yet indulgent. A lovely way to end a meal, and free kin approved. What the Next up is a little palate cleanser courtesy of the winter court. Gin and mint granita. Be warned it's sharp and boozy, but what else would you expect from the queen of air and darkness? Bright, invigorating with sharp defined flavours. Perfect encap

Let’s Get Started!

If you are excited as I am then head over to the contact page and send me a message, or just message me at booking@dininganddragons.com

You can let me know what kind of food service and game you want, and inquire about any additional services or add-ons and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can with more information, quotes and availabilities!