Career pivoters
A Friday · Supper
New YorkSecond acts, West Village.
A private dining room · West Village
First tables forming in London
Your next favorite person is already seated.
Every table has a reason — a passion, a chapter of life, a way of seeing things. We find the people it's for, book a restaurant worth crossing town for, and pull up a chair for you. The rest is conversation.
Free to join. Having your name down early counts.
How ClubTable works
You turn up. We do the rest.
We get to know you
A few minutes, and more like a conversation than a form: what you're into, where life has you right now, and what you'd like more of.
Tables discover you
Common ground you'd never have gone looking for — the person who read the same book the same year, the two of you between careers — and a small table forms around it. Four to eight, never a crowd.
You pull up a chair
Take the seat at the table that sounds like you. A small ClubTable seat fee holds it; the restaurant looks after the meal, and your share settles quietly to your card afterward. Nothing to work out at the table.
A world forms around you
Every table leaves you with people you'd never otherwise have met, and a world to follow — poetry lunches, second-act suppers, new arrivals to the city. The next table is already forming, new faces around it. A wider circle, in the real world.
The restaurants we choose
A restaurant that holds a table well.
We sit at every table before we book it. Not the grandest address in town — the one where a few people who've just met can hear each other, and where the cooking gives them something to talk about.
- LightBright enough to see the plate and the face across from you. Never a spotlight.
- SpaceA small table that keeps its own conversation, rather than sharing it with the two beside it.
- The kitchenCooking with a point of view — something worth asking the chef about on the way out.
- The welcomeA team who know a ClubTable is arriving, and what it's for.
Where we're opening
London first.New York, fast-following.Then the cities already asking.
Invitations go out city by city, in small cohorts. Tell us where you live and we'll write the moment your first table is set.
Join the waiting listHow a table goes
A Tuesday lunch in Soho with three other empty nesters.
Half past twelve, a chef's table at the back. Three people whose children have just left home, one who's about to start again in a new city, and someone who wrote a book about exactly that. Nobody has met.
By the second course they're trading the names of good bakeries and bad builders. The restaurant clears the plates; no bill arrives at the table. On the way out, someone asks whether they could do this again next month.
That's the table. The rest is yours.
Who's behind the table
A small studio, London and remote.
Founder & CEO
Richard Mallett
Building ClubTable from London. A mathematician by training who spent years certain the best tables were the ones nobody could find — and finally decided to do something about it.
Chairman
Marc O'Brien
Former CEO of Visa UK & Ireland, where he helped bring contactless to the country — including the tap you use on the Tube. An early backer of Revolut, he joined because a good table is one of life's great connectors, and it's never been done properly at scale.
The team
Engineers, designers, hospitality people
People who'd rather make one table truly special than a hundred forgettable ones. We'll introduce ourselves properly as there get to be more of us.
Someone brilliant is waiting to meet you.
The first tables are small, and invitations go out city by city, in small cohorts. Put your name down.
Free to join. Having your name down early counts.