Research Lunch Club in Boston
Boston and Cambridge pack an astonishing amount of research into a few square miles — and it's still easy to stay inside your own lab. Research Lunch Club matches you into a small group of Boston researchers for lunch, once a month. No seminar, no networking event — just three people who do the work, over a good meal, for the cost of a coffee a quarter.
📍 Real researchers, real lunch
Who's in the Boston group
Our Boston members include researchers from Harvard, MIT, BU and Tufts, teams at Google, Microsoft and Moderna, and institutes like the Broad and Dana-Farber. Computational biologists, cognitive scientists, UX researchers, bioengineers — the density here makes for a genuinely cross-disciplinary table.
Researchers from across Boston
A sense of where Boston members spend their days — the universities, institutes and companies they come from.
Where Boston members meet
Boston groups gravitate to the research corridors: Kendall Square and Cambridge for MIT, the Broad and the biotechs; Harvard Square up the red line; the Longwood Medical Area for the hospitals and Dana-Farber; and the Seaport for the newer labs. Your group picks a lunch spot near whoever's closest — Kendall alone has more lunch counters than you could work through in a year.
Third-wave coffee, Boston-style
Lunch has a way of running into coffee. A few independent, third-wave spots Boston researchers gravitate to — chains need not apply.
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Cambridge
George Howell Coffee
Downtown Crossing
Gracenote Coffee
the Leather District
🍝 Three researchers, one table
How Research Lunch Club works in Boston
You get matched
Every month we pair you with two other researchers in Boston — deliberately across disciplines and career stages, so the conversation goes somewhere new.
Your group picks a day & a spot
You sort the time and place together in the member app — a lunch that works for all three of you, somewhere easy in the city.
You meet for lunch
Show up, swap notes, and build the kind of relationship that outlasts a conference badge. Most Boston groups keep in touch long after.
Your first lunch is on us
Snap a photo at the table and tag us on LinkedIn or Instagram — we'll cover your first lunch. Our way of saying welcome.
Pricing & the 90-day guarantee
The cost of a coffee
£5 a quarter, and you can cancel anytime. The lunch itself you pay for at the table.
A fresh match monthly
Two new Boston researchers every month you're a member.
90-day guarantee
Not feeling the lunches in your first 90 days? We'll refund your membership.
First lunch on us
Tag us in a photo from your first lunch and we'll cover it.
☕ Lunch that ran into coffee
Boston researcher FAQ
Usually Kendall Square, Cambridge, Harvard Square, Longwood or the Seaport — close to where members work. Your group sorts the day and the spot in the member app.
Other Boston-area researchers across fields and seniority — Harvard, MIT, BU and Tufts academics alongside researchers at Google, Microsoft, Moderna and the Broad and Dana-Farber. We mix disciplines on purpose.
Each month we group members into threes by city, mixing disciplines and career stages and avoiding past pairings where we can. A fresh group every month you're a member.
Yes — Boston's biotech and tech scene means plenty of members are industry researchers, from UX to computational biology. If research is your work, you belong at the table.
About the price of a coffee a quarter — £5, cancel anytime. You pay for your own lunch at the table, and the first one's on us.
More on meeting other researchers
Join researchers in Boston
The cost of a coffee a quarter. Cancel anytime. Your first lunch is on us.