Hosting, minus the admin
Your people.
One table.
Every week.
The tool behind a supper club, a food club, or any small group that eats together. You pick the date and who sits down. It keeps the seats, the menu and the money straight, so the evening more or less runs itself.
Private clubs. Someone already there has to let you in.
Why groups like this fall apart
Never the cooking. Always the organising.
The same person ends up doing the dull half every month, until they stop offering. These are the three jobs we take off them.
Chasing a headcount
A thread with fourteen people in it is not a headcount.
Seats are claimed, not guessed. The host sees who is actually coming, and closes the list when the table is full.
Splitting the bill
Nobody wants to be the person asking friends for money.
A seat has a price before anyone sits down. It comes off a running balance, so nobody is ever asked for cash at a table.
Remembering everything
Who is allergic to what. Who offered to cook and got passed over.
It is written down where the evening is already being organised, so the group stops depending on one person's memory.
What the host actually gets
A calendar, a menu, and a running total.
That is the whole thing. No feed, no discovery, no strangers. Whoever is organising opens a date and everyone else finds out what is being cooked on Thursday and whether there is room for them.
Clubs run in Kochi, Leeds, Rome and Austin, each in the currency they actually pay in. Nothing here assumes a country or a cuisine.
Thu 3 Sep
Kerala fish night
Ravi is cooking
Fish moilee
Coconut, turmeric, curry leaf
Appam
Made to order
Sun 6 Sep
Sunday roast
Martha is cooking
Roast chicken
Thyme, lemon, too much butter
Yorkshire puddings
Non-negotiable
Fri 11 Sep
Amatriciana night
Elena is cooking
Bucatini all’amatriciana
Guanciale, pecorino, chilli
Puntarelle
Anchovy dressing
Sat 19 Sep
Brisket and slaw
Dwayne is cooking
Smoked brisket
Fourteen hours, no shortcuts
Buttermilk slaw
Sharp enough to cut through it
This week in Kochi
Your balance
₹250.00
This week in Leeds
Your balance
£11.00
This week in Rome
Your balance
€18.00
This week in Austin
Your balance
$28.00
How an evening comes together
From an empty date to people eating.
1Open a date
A date, what a seat costs, and how the evening works.
2Sort the food
Somebody offers to cook, or everyone brings a dish, or you book a table.
3Fill the seats
People ask to come. The host says who sits down.
4Settle up
A price a seat, the cost divided, or nothing at all.
5Say how it was
Anonymous to whoever cooked. Honest, therefore useful.
Not only dinner
For every private occasion.
A club is a group of people and a table. What you put on it is up to you.
- supper clubs
- a Sunday lunch
- book club
- birthdays
- game night
- a farewell
- Diwali
- a new baby
- Christmas
- a housewarming
- a potluck
- Friday, because it is Friday
No invitation yet?
Ask for a place at a table.
We are opening this slowly, a few tables at a time, so it stays the kind of thing you would actually want to eat at. Tell us whether you want to run a table or eat at one.