Multiparty interactions are crucial situations to study how children can participate in collaborative talk and broaden their experience of various interactional genres. Family dinners are particularly relevant to analyze how children and adults occupy various participatory roles and how parents implicitly transmit complex interactional competences. We present a study of dinner talk in eight upper-middle-class Parisian families. We propose qualitative analyses that include the eight dinners, and the systematic coding of specific interactional features in a sub-corpus of four dinners according to three features: who participates as speaker, addressee or non-addressed identifiable listener for each utterance; who children and adults refer to; whether talk is about the here and now of the dinner or not. Results from our coding are complemented with detailed analyses of chosen extracts so as to provide a fuller picture of the identified features of dinner talk.