KF.SocialEvery claim about another company below is quoted from its own live pages, with the date it was read. Where a company does not publish a price, this page says so rather than guessing at one.
1. Supper clubs: a host cooks, you buy a ticket
A supper club is somebody cooking for paying guests in a home, a railway arch or a hired room. You buy a ticket for one sitting, the menu is fixed, and the host decides the seating. The appeal is the food and the room. The thing to know before you book one while you are in London for work is that a supper club is an event, not a membership: there is no next week unless you go looking for the next one, and popular sittings can sell out weeks ahead, which is awkward if your schedule only firms up on the Monday.
Prices are set per sitting by each host and there is no market rate worth quoting. Read the individual listing.
2. Meetup dinners: you choose the event
Meetup is a directory of interest groups and events rather than a matching service. You browse, you pick, you turn up. Most listings cost nothing to attend and membership is free, though Meetup now also sells a member subscription, Meetup+, and its own help centre calls the free tier "the limited free plan" (help.meetup.com, read 4 September 2026). Behind Meetup+ sit the full attendee list, full member profiles, the "Who will be there" feature, unrestricted direct messaging and waitlist priority. Separately, organisers can set member dues for their own group, flagged by a "Request to join" button.
That attendee-list detail matters more here than it looks. If you are choosing how to spend a Wednesday evening in a city you do not know, "can I see who is going" is a fair question, and on the free plan the answer is no.
Size is the other variable. Browsing London listings on 4 September 2026, the attendee counts on the first screen ran 74, 100, 163, 187, 228, 234, 239, 263, 312 and 546. Meetup itself says group sizes range from large to small, and they plainly do, but a first-page London listing is often a room rather than a table.
3. Subscription matching apps: you pay monthly, they seat you
Timeleft runs in London and is the best known of these. It matches you into a small dinner described on its homepage as "five new faces over good food", which is six at the table, grouping people by age range, personality and language. It uses a subscription model in one, three or six month periods, and its help centre says the available options "may vary by region and are displayed during sign-up" (help.timeleft.com, read 2 September 2026). No price is published anywhere on its site or help centre. Food and drinks are paid at the venue. Subscriptions are generally non-refundable once a new billing period has started, and renew automatically unless cancelled.
Vairi is a London and New York app doing something different again: one-to-one introductions after an interview of about ten questions, with your name and photo hidden until both people agree to reveal them. It publishes its prices plainly, in pounds, which almost nobody in this category does (vairi.app/pricing, read 7 September 2026). It is not a dinner club, but if what you actually want is one person rather than a table, it is the honest thing to point at.
DayOfUs also lists London and runs algorithm-matched group dinners of four to six, free to join with a pay-per-event option or an optional subscription (dayofus.com, read 4 September 2026).
The trade-off with any subscription is the same: it is good value if you eat out with the service often, and poor value if you are in London for nine nights and want one dinner.
4. Pay-per-seat matched tables: one dinner, one price
This is what KF.Social does, and since the rest of this page holds other companies to published detail, here is ours in full.
Three nights a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, sitting at 19:00, in Soho, Shoreditch and Clapham. A table is laid for six. It is 15 pounds for the seat, published before you pay, and you pay for your own food and drinks at the restaurant. There is no subscription and no membership: you book the one Wednesday you are free. Booking gates on two things, being 18 or over and paying, and nothing else.
The timings are fixed and worth knowing before you book. Booking closes six hours before the sitting. The restaurant lands six hours before. Who you are sitting with lands an hour before, along with the group chat. We decide whether the table runs three hours before it starts, and the floor is four seats: under that it does not run, and everyone who booked is refunded in full.
Cancelling is a ladder rather than a rule. Cancel more than 72 hours out and the 15 pounds goes back to your card. Between 72 and 24 hours it comes back as KF Points, which are credit toward a future dinner at 1,000 points to the pound. Inside 24 hours it does not come back, because by then the table is built around you.
Matching is not random and not a queue. Anyone you have asked to avoid is never seated with you, and that is a hard rule. After that the table is built for shared interests, close age bands and a balanced room, with a heavy penalty against seating you with people you have already met or sending you to a restaurant you have already eaten at, because the point is new people.
Which one, if you are in London for work
Be honest about your calendar first. If your evenings are known weeks ahead, a supper club gets you the best meal. If you want range and want to spend nothing, Meetup is unbeatable on both and it is not close. If you live here and will use it most weeks, a subscription is the cheaper unit. If you are here for a fortnight, want one particular Wednesday solved, and do not want to start a membership you will cancel from an airport, a single paid seat is the shape that fits.
None of these is better in the abstract. They are answers to different questions.