Research Lunch Club in London
London has one of the densest research communities in the world — and it can still feel isolating. Research Lunch Club matches you into a small group of London researchers for lunch, once a month. No pitching, no awkward networking — just good conversation with people who get the work, for the cost of a coffee a quarter.
📍 Real researchers, real lunch
Who's in the London group
Our London members include researchers from UCL, Imperial, King's College London and LSE, alongside teams at Google DeepMind, Meta and Microsoft and institutes like the Alan Turing Institute and the Francis Crick. UX and market researchers, behavioural scientists, postdocs, research leads — the table is deliberately mixed.
Researchers from across London
A sense of where London members spend their days — the universities, institutes and companies they come from.
Where London members meet
London groups tend to meet where the research clusters: around Bloomsbury and King's Cross near UCL, the Turing and the Crick; South Kensington by Imperial; Holborn and the Strand for King's and LSE; and the King's Cross / Granary Square canalside for the DeepMind crowd. Your group picks a midday spot that splits the difference — a café, a food market, somewhere you can actually hear each other.
Third-wave coffee, London-style
Lunch has a way of running into coffee. A few independent, third-wave spots London researchers gravitate to — chains need not apply.
Prufrock Coffee
Clerkenwell
Kaffeine
Fitzrovia
Workshop Coffee
Marylebone
🍝 Three researchers, one table
How Research Lunch Club works in London
You get matched
Every month we pair you with two other researchers in London — 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 London 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 London 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
London researcher FAQ
Wherever works for your group. Most lunches land around Bloomsbury, King's Cross, South Kensington, Holborn or the South Bank — close to where members work. You pick the day and the spot together in the member app.
Other London-based researchers across fields and career stages — from PhD students and postdocs at UCL, Imperial, King's and LSE to UX and behavioural researchers at DeepMind, Meta and the Turing. We deliberately mix disciplines so the conversation goes somewhere new.
Each month we group London members into threes, mixing disciplines and seniority and avoiding past pairings where we can. You meet a fresh pair every month you're a member.
Yes. Plenty of London members are industry researchers — UX, market, research ops and applied science at tech firms and labs across the city. If you do research, you belong at the table.
The cost of a coffee a quarter — £5, and you can cancel anytime. The lunch itself you pay for at the table, and your first one is on us.
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The cost of a coffee a quarter. Cancel anytime. Your first lunch is on us.