“Why would you willingly go to dinner with a bunch of strangers?” was the nearly audible subtext of the look my partner gave me when I told him I’d signed up for TimeLeft. Touted as “an innovative ...

On a Wednesday night around 7, Morgan Steffy arrived at El Rey in Philadelphia's Center City area, following directions from an app she had downloaded two months ago. The app directed the 30-year-old ...

A 2023 survey found that 61% of Americans expected to feel lonely or sad during the holidays. Timeleft is an app that matches users with strangers for dinner via a personality algorithm. When David ...

I moved to Austin in 2023, and while the city is known for its friendly and hospitable vibe, making friends as a remote-working adult isn’t always easy. One day, while scrolling on Instagram, I came ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cristina Haraba reacts as she dines with strangers at Bacari in Los Angeles. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) When David Brown ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On Wednesday evening, I walked into an Asian fusion restaurant in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, unsure of who’d be joining me at the dinner table.

Last night, at more than 1,600 restaurants in 325-plus cities around the globe, approximately 20,000 people gathered for dinner with complete strangers. It’s what the creator of Timeleft—a French app ...

I was sitting on my couch one Wednesday evening, scrolling through my phone while watching brain-rotting TV, when I got an advert for an app. At first, I thought it was a scam. “Have dinner with ...

Timeleft organizes dinners every Wednesday in 160 cities across 33 countries. The first Timeleft dinner in Minneapolis was held on June 12. More than 40 dinner groups have met here in recent weeks, ...