Blighty Social — Familiarity Without the Plane Ride
A cup of tea on a windowsill, garden through the rain — the kind of pause that reminds you of home.
A monthly dinner club · Vetted · British expats

Your lot, monthly,
and familiarity
without the plane ride.

Six years in.
You've stopped saying "bit of a faff."

It crept up quietly. The vowels softened. "Y'all" slipped in. You started defending Marmite to Americans who'd never tried it. Somewhere along the way, the people who'd get the joke without you having to explain it stopped being in the room.

Second Tuesday · every month · for good
More cities · through 2026–2027
No networking. No name tags. No dickheads.
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Tables of 5–8 · Two minutes to apply · By application

A note from the founder

I'm a Kiwi. I built Franzus Social recently — a dinner club for Aussies and Kiwis in the US.

Then the British applications started coming in. Sometimes apologetically. Often not. Same need. Different vocabulary.

Putting a Brit at our table would have been the wrong table. Close, but not it. So we built one. Blighty Social. A monthly dinner club for Brits in the US. No networking. No name tags. No dickheads. Just a small table of people who already get the shorthand, in a good restaurant, once a month, every month.

Andrew Kidd
Andrew Andrew Kidd · Founder · Kiwi · 7 yrs Brisbane · 6 yrs Dallas
The shorthand you stopped using

Words you used to say without thinking.

Dropped from your daily vocabulary. Still in the bones. Around the right table, they come back without you noticing.

  1. i.
    "Bit of a faff."
  2. ii.
    "Pop the kettle on."
  3. iii.
    "Can't be arsed."
  4. iv.
    "Round the corner."
    — never "a few blocks over".
  5. v.
    "Cheeky pint."
  6. vi.
    "Ta."
  7. vii.
    "Have a butcher's."
  8. viii.
    "Going to the shops."
    — plural. Always plural.
— So, what is this actually? —
What we are. What we're not.
The first city

New York. Tuesday 14 July 2026.

Then the second Tuesday of every month after that — for good. More cities through late 2026 and 2027.

First dinner

New York

New York

Tue 14 Jul 2026

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More cities announced as tables fill.

Candlelit restaurant interior, evening.
A new restaurant every month

We hunt down great places for you to try.

A different room every month, in your city. We do the looking, the calling, the booking. You walk in to somewhere good — somewhere you'd probably never have got around to trying — and a table that's already been set for you.

Places worth showing up for, never the obvious choice.
A room small enough to actually hear each other.
Booked, briefed, and ready for you.
Somewhere new every month, so the table always has somewhere fresh to walk into.
— New venue revealed to members each month.
Membership

By application.
Members welcome.

Tell us a bit about yourself, then secure your seat. Two minutes, start to finish.

Single seat
One application. One seat. Curated to a table where you'll know nobody — and probably leave knowing a few.
Couples option
For partners who want to attend together. Two applications, linked — always seated at the same table.
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At the end of the night, you pay for your own food and drinks — just like dining out with friends.

Second Tuesday · every month · NYC first

A table where nobody asks if you know Karen from Clapham. Or Glasgow.

Two minutes. We read every one. We turn some away.

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Ready to find your table?

Two minutes. By application. We read every answer.

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Your lot, monthly, and familiarity without the plane ride.