Research Lunch Club in Los Angeles
Los Angeles spreads its research across a huge map — campuses, labs and studios separated by the famous traffic. Research Lunch Club matches you into a small group of LA researchers for lunch, once a month, with people close enough to actually meet. No mixer, no pitch — just three researchers, a good meal, for the cost of a coffee a quarter.
📍 Real researchers, real lunch
Who's in the Los Angeles group
Our LA members include researchers from UCLA, USC and Caltech, teams at Google and Snap, and institutes like NASA JPL and Cedars-Sinai. UX researchers, engineers, medical scientists, planetary scientists — LA's table reaches from Westwood to Pasadena.
Researchers from across Los Angeles
A sense of where Los Angeles members spend their days — the universities, institutes and companies they come from.
Where Los Angeles members meet
LA groups meet to beat the traffic, not fight it: Westwood for UCLA, Pasadena for Caltech and JPL, USC and Downtown, Santa Monica and Venice for the tech crowd, and West Hollywood / Beverly Grove near Cedars-Sinai. We keep matches geographically sane so your lunch is a short drive, not a saga.
Third-wave coffee, Los Angeles-style
Lunch has a way of running into coffee. A few independent, third-wave spots Los Angeles researchers gravitate to — chains need not apply.
Go Get Em Tiger
Larchmont
Maru Coffee
the Arts District
Jones Coffee Roasters
Pasadena
🍝 Three researchers, one table
How Research Lunch Club works in Los Angeles
You get matched
Every month we pair you with two other researchers in Los Angeles — 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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
Los Angeles researcher FAQ
Close to your group — often Westwood, Pasadena, Downtown, Santa Monica or near Cedars-Sinai. We match people who can realistically share a lunch, and your group picks the spot in the app.
Other LA-based researchers across fields and seniority — UCLA, USC and Caltech academics alongside UX researchers at Google and Snap and scientists at JPL and Cedars-Sinai. Deliberately cross-disciplinary.
Each month we sort members into threes by city and rough geography, mixing disciplines and career stages and avoiding repeat pairings. A new group every month.
Yes — many LA members are industry researchers, from UX and product research to engineering and applied science. If research is your work, you belong at the table.
About the price of a coffee a quarter — £5, cancel anytime. You cover your own lunch at the table, and the first one's on us.
More on meeting other researchers
Join researchers in Los Angeles
The cost of a coffee a quarter. Cancel anytime. Your first lunch is on us.