The Wednesday Table
The standing one. Six seats, a room in the market, and five people you haven't met. Come alone, that's the format.
Dates coming soonToronto supper club
Come on your own. Leave having actually talked to someone. Wednesdays, downtown Toronto.
Dinners are hosted on Luma. You pay for your own meal.
Upcoming
The standing one. Six seats, a room in the market, and five people you haven't met. Come alone, that's the format.
Dates coming soonTwice the size, same idea. Three tables running at once in one room, so you meet your six and then everyone else's.
Dates coming soonSame table, different side of town. Easier if you're east of Yonge and tired of everything happening on King West.
Dates coming soonWhat this is
7PM Social Club is a supper club for people who want to meet someone new without it being a whole production.
You book a seat, not a table. We put six people together who have one thing in common and not much else, pick a room downtown, and send you the details the day before. You show up at seven and talk to five people you'd never otherwise have met.
It started because making friends as an adult in this city is oddly hard, and every alternative is either a bar too loud to talk in or a networking event nobody wants to be at.
If any of this sounds familiar, you'll be fine here.
You moved for work or school and your social life is still mostly coworkers. A standing Wednesday fixes that faster than waiting for an invitation.
Friends moved, coupled up, had kids, or just got busy. Nobody did anything wrong — it happens to everyone around thirty and nobody warns you.
Not a networking event, not a bar where you can't hear anyone. Six people at one table for two hours, which is long enough to get past the small talk.
How it works
Find a Wednesday that works. Every dinner is 7PM, downtown.
Answer a few questions while you're there — that's how we build the table.
The day before, you get the restaurant, the nearest stop, and who to ask for.
Seriously. Everyone else did too, and that's what makes it work.
The table
Most things like this seat people who are alike. Six people who agree with each other, discovering they agree.
We do the opposite: one thing in common, everything else different. Every table is built around a single shared interest so there's always a way in, and around that we spread the room out — different work, different ages, and a real mix of people who talk and people who listen. Six of the same is the failure case, not the goal.
You'll never be sent further than you said you'd walk, the kitchen will know what you can eat, and you won't sit with the same person twice inside six months.
Questions
Yes, and so does everyone else. It's the one rule that matters. A pair at a table of six changes the whole dynamic — the other four end up talking to a unit instead of two people. If you want to bring a friend, book them onto a different night.
Five people chosen so that you have exactly one thing in common and differ on most of the rest. We tell you the shared interest in advance. We don't tell you who they are — you find that out when you sit down.
No. Tables are built for conversation, not chemistry, and we don't match on who you'd like to meet romantically. What people do after dessert is their business.
You pay for your own dinner. There's no membership and no cover. Venues are picked so a normal meal doesn't require a special occasion budget.
Every table gets one opening question sent out with the details — a real one, tied to the thing your table has in common. It's there so nobody has to fall back on asking what everyone does for work.
More on the community page.
Pick a night, answer a few questions, and turn up on your own. That's the whole thing.