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What Is
a Supra?

A Georgian feast.
Food, wine, and stories
shared through toasts.

A toastmaster, called the Tamada, introduces each theme and invites the guests to answer in their own words.

You can learn the shape of it here.
The rest happens at the table.

Come to the table
People standing on both sides of a long dinner table raise their glasses for a toast.

Food. Conversation. A toast.
Then room for another story.

A woman holding a glass speaks and gestures while guests seated around the dinner table watch her.

Examples of toast themes, not a fixed sequence. Themes change briefly, then rest. Activate this card to show another theme.

One theme.
Many stories.

The Tamada might offer a toast to friendship. You might answer with a story about an old friend, a few words of thanks, or a song.

For a moment, the whole table listens. Then the food and conversation carry on, until another theme brings everyone together again.

The themes vary with the people and the occasion. You don’t need a prepared speech. Come ready to eat, listen and enjoy the company.

Host. Guest. Tamada.

The HostGives the
welcome.

You bring the people together and give them your best: a place, a meal, a reason to gather.

The Tamada serves your table. You can receive your guests without having to lead every toast.

The GuestBrings a life
to the table.

Receive what your host has prepared. Listen to the people around you. When a theme brings someone or something to mind, you can offer a few words of your own.

Your attention is part of what you give.

The TamadaMakes room
for others.

The toastmaster reads the room, introduces themes and keeps the feast moving. The art is knowing when to speak, when to listen and when to let the table breathe.

The people and the occasion shape the toasts.

At our tables, you can participate without giving a speech or drinking alcohol.

Learn about becoming a Tamada
A painting of men raising glasses around a table set with food.
Historic Georgian Supra painting.

The table welcomed us in Georgia.

Six people sit outdoors around a low table covered in red cloth, with shared food beneath the trees.
Our field workers with their host family in Georgia.

From Georgia
to America.

First Things Foundation encountered Supra as guests in Georgia: homes opened, food and wine offered, and a stranger honored at the table.

We carry that hospitality into American life, along with the form that gives the feast its rhythm: a host’s welcome, a Tamada’s themes and the guests’ own stories.

The inheritance is Georgian. The people, the occasion and the stories belong to the table in front of us.

How the work came home

Come to
the
table.

There is only so much a page can tell you. The rest happens over dinner.

Have people you’d like to gather? Open a table of your own.

Already invited to a Supra? Follow your invitation for the details of your gathering.