The First Table
The McCombs Culinary Collective is Houston's newest MBA dining community. We're setting our first table — and you're invited. One restaurant. One night. The start of something worth coming back for.
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The McCombs Culinary Collective is Houston's newest MBA dining community. We're setting our first table — and you're invited. One restaurant. One night. The start of something worth coming back for.
The Inaugural Dinner | <Placeholder Date>
Fill out the form below and we'll confirm your spot for the event in mid-June.
A McCombs Working Professionals MBA student organization. Est. January 2026. Chartered. Faculty-sponsored. Open to all cohorts.
It started the way most good ideas do at McCombs: over dinner at Austin Intensive, with the question "Can we hangout more?"
Four classmates and their community in Houston's Working Professionals MBA program decided the answer deserved more. They envisioned something bigger: a community built around the table, where every cohort and every concentration is welcome, and where the best networking feels like dinner with friends — because it is.
The McCombs Culinary Collective was chartered on January 5, 2026, with a mission to explore Houston's world-class food scene together. Pull up a chair and let's eat.
The McCombs Culinary Collective exists to bring Working Professionals MBA students together through Houston's incredible food scene. We build deeper relationships across cohorts and concentrations, develop cultural awareness through culinary experiences, and create the kind of informal networking that actually leads somewhere. Open to all. Built in public.
Founding Members
Founder
Food and community aficionado. Founded The Collective because the best ideas happen between bites.
Restaurant Scout
The Endorsed Canva and Chili Queen. Catch her at the rodeo cookoff working the expert tables.
Marketing
The man with the plan and the brew expert. Wine, coffee, or beer — Sean is the guy.
Operations
Houston foodie with a 1,000-cell bingo card of restaurants to visit. Working through it one dinner at a time.