Dinner with strangers sounds like the setup to a social experiment or the start of a true crime podcast. However, in more than 200 cities around the world, it is a weekly ritual for connection-seeking adults.

It’s not a dating app nor a networking event. It’s dinner with strangers, and it might be the best part of your week. Photo credit: Depositphotos.

Every Wednesday night, in American cities from coast to coast, six strangers gather for dinner. They don’t know each other’s names until they sit down. The restaurant? A mystery until the night before. There are no bios to scroll or photos to swipe; just a table, a meal and six people open to making new acquaintances.

As a newly minted empty nester , I suddenly have a lot more free time after two decades of solo parenting. When I stumb

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