The best conversations happen around food.

When we founded WellFed Community, we believed food could be more than something we distribute or teach about. Food is meaningful. It is how we care for one another, how we share love, how we pass down culture, and one of the simplest ways we know to bring people together. Our work has always been about embracing that culture and inviting more people into it. The WellFed Salon is an extension of that belief. Traditionally, a salon is an intimate gathering that brings people together to exchange ideas through thoughtful conversation.

Building on gatherings we’ve hosted before, the Salon takes on a new, more intimate form: WellFed Community Co-Founder Dhalia Bumbaca is opening her home to just 25 guests for an evening centered around food, connection, and intentional conversation. This theme for this WellFed Salon is inspired by La Bella Vita — the beautiful life.

Over Italian-inspired bites and drinks, we’ll explore questions like:

What does a beautiful life look like to you?
What do you make time for when life gets busy, and what gets lost?
What role does meaningful work play in a life well lived?

And while your $50 ticket brings you into the Salon, we hope this is the beginning of something more.

The WellFed Salon is an invitation to become part of the community that sustains WellFed Community, a group of people who believe in what we are building and choose to stand behind it. Your support helps us continue bringing food, education, and connection into communities throughout Tampa, while building a food system rooted in the same values we’ll gather around that evening.

A WellFed Salon: La Bella Vita

An Evening of Food & Conversation