Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cristina Haraba reacts as she dines with strangers at Bacari in Los Angeles. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) When David Brown ...

A sticker on a wall caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional networking she encountered at ...

The hustle and bustle of city life leaves little room for socializing with strict routines to survive the day-to-day. As we approach the new year, many are looking to shake things up, meet new people, ...

ST. LOUIS – From Singapore to Switzerland, St. Louis has joined a list of 120 other international and country-wide cities taking part in the dining and friend-finding app, Timeleft. Every Wednesday ...

Inside a Ballard Japanese restaurant last month, I had dinner with five complete strangers. I’d shown up alone, and nervously, but after a server guided me to our table, I was enthusiastically greeted ...

Every Wednesday, strangers across the country meet up over dinner and there’s a website and app that make it easy to find your spot at a table. ABC15’s Patricio Espinoza signed up for TimeLeft, a ...

AMSTERDAM – “I’m here for Timeleft?” I ask the first staff member I see at the Amsterdam restaurant. This is my second dinner, but I am still a bit shy to admit that I do not know who I am meeting. I ...

Last night, at more than 1,600 restaurants in 325-plus cities around the globe, approximately 20,000 people gathered for dinner with complete strangers. It’s what the creator of Timeleft—a French app ...

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to "fight big-city loneliness." The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...