The Carlton considered too select and Escoffier not wanting to mix genres, the Cecil Hotel in London was chosen for the first Epicure’s Dinner.

It takes place on May 25, 1911, bringing together 300 people at the Cecil Hotel and more than 4 000 in the 37 restaurants scattered around the world but linked by telephone and telegraph that evening.

Then comes that of Jean Richepin:

”Long live the diners and dodineurs whom I wholeheartedly join in celebrating the true great art that our cuisine was and must remain, this unique rose watered by the wines of France. “

All the international press echoed this "world event".

It was on this occasion that Escoffier created, among others, the Fraises Sarah Bernhardt.

The second Epicurean Dinner was held on July 27, 1912 in more than 50 restaurants around the world, including the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, bringing together 5,400 people. Escoffier creates the ”Timbale Jean Richepin” for this occasion.

Every two months, these dinners followed one another, bringing together more and more guests.

There will be more than 140 restaurateurs around the world (London, Paris, New York, Pittsburgh, Bombay, Lahore etc.) when the last Epicure’s Dinner takes place on June 14, 1914.

The First World War brought them to an abrupt halt, as well as the Epicurean Notebooks.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Auguste Escoffier, the eponymous Foundation resuscitated, with the Disciples of Escoffier, the Epicure’s Dinners.

This menu was lighter compared to that served at the turn of the century. This was not a betrayal of his memory, but respect for what Escoffier had written in 1912, in the preface to the Book of Menus:

“A gradual change will inevitably be necessary in the human diet (…). This leads us to consider the reduction in the volume of meals as one of the inevitable necessities of the future and constitutes one more argument (…) in favor rather short menus. ”

On October 28, 1996, this Epicure's Dinner was served in over 150 cities around the world, from South Africa to Canada to Japan. Always in the Escoffier tradition, a very beautiful menu was printed, numbered and offered to each guest.

One of the most sumptuous of these Dinners took place at the Ritz, Place Vendôme, in Paris.

For the celebration of the 160th anniversary of his birth, the Disciples Escoffier reiterated, on October 28, 2006, the same homage and with the same success.

Each year, the Disciples of each Region of France and each Country of the world organize an Epicure's Dinner.