About us

Dinette was founded in 2015 by Mathieu Lachapelle and Hélène Mallette, both from publishing backgrounds. Driven by a love of print, they joined forces and rallied diverse talents in writing, photography and illustration to publish their first issue. In its first year, Dinette was distributed in major chain stores, as well as in a network of independent boutiques, cafés, local grocery stores and bookstores. The magazine soon appeared on newsstands abroad, becoming the most widely distributed independent Canadian magazine in Europe.

Winner of several prestigious awards, including two consecutive gold medals for Best Lifestyle Magazine in 2020 and 2021 at the National Magazine Awards, the publication is recognized for the quality of its content, its sense of design and its artistic quality. Combining editorial content, recipes and features that tie in with a carefully selected and renewed theme each issue, Dinette offers compelling narrative stories accompanied by ingeniously composed photography, all presented in a simple, pure and thoughtful signature aesthetic.

In addition to two publications a year, Dinette also shares pieces of its visual identity by offering calendars and landscape posters to its community.

In 2021, with 21 issues published and more than a hundred collaborators from all over the world, Dinette takes the experience one step further: as a culmination of all the stories told over the years, it presents a range of products handmade in collaboration with the creative minds that gravitate around its universe.