Its kinda the antithesis of just keeping in touch with friends by stalking them on facebook in that you have to actually meet people, in person, shock! horror! strangers! or as I shall call them new friends.
The way it works is:
You sign up to the website and get invited to your first dinner...
You attend the first dinner and meet your host and 4 other people off the website, who hopefully you don't know
Then once you've wined and dined, you then arrange your own dinner party inviting your host from the first dinner and 4 new people
These 4 people then invite you to dinner and by the end of the cycle of dinners you've met 25 new people
So I went to my first dinner in January, hosted by the lovely Sophie and had a great time....
There was lots of jokes, especially around Come Diner with Me comparisons, lots of chat and lots of wine (and of course food).
Then I hosted my own dinner in February, which was lots of fun, but the amount of bottles we got through was a little scary!
The menu was homemade ciabatta with baked Camembert
Cassoulet
And my now famous pear tarte tartin
And just to make sure everyone knows, one of my guests was Andy Riley of Bunny Suicides fame - he kindly signed my book!
Can't wait for the return dinners, to see which new people I meet and what people get up to (you don't have to cook or even host at your own house - so a world of opportunities out there!)
The Camden Road Cook
