LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Big Table potluck dinner took over parts of Iroquois Park Sunday afternoon.

If you're the type that likes to linger after you eat and talk to people, this it the event for you.

Every year, the organizers hope they're going to get enough people to break the world record of 3,200 people for a sit down potluck dinner.

"Well, the idea is to get people from all different parts of the city together to sit down and share a meal and understand each other a little more," executive director Cathy Berkey said. "There's a lot of ways that we don't understand each other."

They didn't achieve that this year but for the people who did come, they're going to get something they didn't expect.

"I think it is a success anytime we see people sitting down in conversation, any time we see people that are meeting each other when they haven't met each other before or it's a success, any time we have a group of people from one side of the city that are sitting down and having a meal with a group from the other side of the city that would never normally intersect," Berkey said.

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People came together for the Big Table potluck at Iroquois Park on Sept. 15, 2024. (WDRB photo)

"It is the most beautiful event ever," Kahdiga said. "That brings everybody here and everyone together."

There was also a tea service in the middle of the park as the tea was Moroccan and seemed to have more than enough caffeine.

The four women sitting around the tea service didn't know each other until they sat down.

"This is my first year at Big Table and my fourth year in Louisville and my friend's first year," Kahdiga said.

The table are set for eight people, the organizers ask people to sit with people that they might not ordinarily have dinner with. WDRB found Peter and Lesley Peterson setting up their table. He's a professional chef and made lamb.

"So what we have is a grilled, rosemary and garlic lamb porterhouse," Lesley Peterson said. "We got a Thai chili sauce that's preserved lemon and yogurt, basically. And we've got just regular cornbread with a raspberry Filipino jam that we made.

Sitting at this table puts the luck into potluck. The Petersons come here to meet people, they just moved back to Louisville after caring for parents in California - and now made some new friends in the process.

"I first read about it when I moved here a couple of years ago and I thought it was a great way to meet people," Lesley Peterson said. "Actually, there's a group of us who gets together twice a year since I've done it three years ago."

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