About TFLC
TFLC stands for the Toronto Food Luck Club. It’s a story of humble beginnings when Founder, Rishma Govani was living in Washington D.C. on a Journalism internship at CNN. Her friends from Toronto came to visit her one weekend and a friend of a friend took them to a charming family-run BURMESE restaurant. They had a delightful experience and were enamored with the simplicity and ambience of the restaurant along with the quality of the home cooked meal. The idea of forming a dinner club sprung from that modest occasion and the group vowed to start eating out at authentic, mom and pop kind of restaurants in Toronto.
When Rishma, The CFO (Chief Food Officer), moved back to Toronto she enlisted a small group of friends and off they started out on this gastronomical journey around the world. Their first meeting took place in June 2000 at a Malaysian Restaurant called Matahari Grill.
Today, TFLC boasts 200 members and is in its’ eleventh successful year of operation. The dinner group is made up of an interesting and diverse group of people of all ages, backgrounds and professions. This adventurous dinner club meets once a month, an average of 15-20 members show up per dinner, and so far the club has traveled to 80+ restaurants and regions of the world. Its’ claim to fame is that it never repeats a type of cuisine twice (there have been occasions when this has happened but only due to circumstance). TFLC has traveled to far and wide magical lands like Laos, Tibet, Nicaragua, Belgium, Afghanistan, Algeria, Nepal and Goa.
The group’s slogan is CREATING GLOBAL AWARENESS THROUGH THE LOVE OF FOOD and it has high hopes of contributing to global peace by actively learning more about the worlds pluralistic cultures. TFLC is committed to thinking globally by acting and eating locally.
TFLC is always guaranteed to be a barrel of fun where you experience the unknown, meet new people and throw away some pre-conceived notions about a group of people you know little about by trying their food and experiencing their culture firsthand.
