Research Lunch Club in Seattle
Seattle blends a powerhouse university with some of the biggest research teams in tech and a world-class biomedical scene. Research Lunch Club matches you into a small group of Seattle researchers for lunch, once a month. No all-hands, 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 Seattle group
Our Seattle members include researchers from the University of Washington, teams at Microsoft, Amazon and Google, and institutes like the Allen Institute and Fred Hutch. UX and HCI researchers, ML scientists, biologists, neuroscientists — Seattle's table sits right where academia and industry meet.
Researchers from across Seattle
A sense of where Seattle members spend their days — the universities, institutes and companies they come from.
Where Seattle members meet
Seattle groups meet around the hubs: the U District for UW, South Lake Union for the Allen Institute, Amazon and the biotechs, Downtown and Belltown for the tech teams, and the Eastside (Redmond, Bellevue) for the Microsoft crowd. Your group picks a lunch spot wherever's easiest — coffee is, of course, never far.
Third-wave coffee, Seattle-style
Lunch has a way of running into coffee. A few independent, third-wave spots Seattle researchers gravitate to — chains need not apply.
Elm Coffee Roasters
Pioneer Square
Victrola Coffee Roasters
Capitol Hill
Milstead & Co.
Fremont
🍝 Three researchers, one table
How Research Lunch Club works in Seattle
You get matched
Every month we pair you with two other researchers in Seattle — 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 Seattle 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 Seattle 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
Seattle researcher FAQ
Usually the U District, South Lake Union, Downtown or over on the Eastside — close to where members work. You sort the day and the spot in the member app.
Other Seattle-area researchers across fields and seniority — UW academics alongside UX, HCI and ML researchers at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, the Allen Institute and Fred Hutch. We mix disciplines on purpose.
Each month we group members into threes by city, mixing disciplines and career stages and avoiding repeat pairings. A fresh group every month you're a member.
Definitely — Seattle skews industry, and many members are UX, HCI and applied researchers at tech firms and labs. If you do research, you belong here.
About the price of a coffee a quarter — £5, cancel anytime. Lunch is on you at the table; your first one is on us.
More on meeting other researchers
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The cost of a coffee a quarter. Cancel anytime. Your first lunch is on us.