Launching The Free Press Supper Club
The Free Press is launching a new initiative called The Free Press Supper Club to facilitate in-person connections among its subscribers. Participants will be matched with fellow subscribers for dinner at local restaurants, with the goal of fostering meaningful conversations. The first events will take place on June 18 across 12 cities in three countries.
- ▪The Supper Club aims to connect Free Press subscribers through shared dining experiences.
- ▪Participants will fill out a questionnaire to be matched with others who share similar interests.
- ▪The cost to participate is $18, with dinner costs being paid individually by attendees.
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| Original publisher | The Free Press (Substack) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thefp.com/p/free-press-supper-club-launch |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:32 GMT |
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Launching The Free Press Supper Club(Illustration by The Free Press)Good food. Smart people. Real conversation.By The Free Press05.26.26 — The Free Press Community and Events--:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationWe’ve spent the last few years discovering something delightful: Free Press subscribers genuinely like each other.Not in a vague internet-comment-section kind of way, but in a stay-talking-for-hours-after-a-debate kind of way.So we decided to make it easier for Free Pressers to meet in real life.Today, we’re launching The Free Press Supper Club.Here’s how it works:You fill out a short questionnaire.Then our matching system places you at a restaurant with five to seven fellow Free Press subscribers we think you’ll genuinely hit it off with.
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