A 2023 survey found that 61% of Americans expected to feel lonely or sad during the holidays. Timeleft is an app that matches users with strangers for dinner via a personality algorithm. When David ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On Wednesday evening, I walked into an Asian fusion restaurant in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, unsure of who’d be joining me at the dinner table.

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent Wednesday evening after work, I nervously got ready for my first-ever blind dinner date—not with a potential partner, but with five other potential friends. All I knew I knew in advance ...

The hard truth is, planning a big group dinner can be far from easy. You have to consider things like dietary restrictions, coordinating schedules, and the number of buses your friend’s significant ...