14 of London’s Most Unique Supper Clubs

The London supper club is a form of culinary symbiosis– a place where both chefs and diners have the opportunity to trial something new. Far from a fleeting trend, these intimate evenings have cemented themselves as a defining part of the capital’s dining culture. Chefs are using the spaces as a playground to try out new menus, build their culinary style, and sharpen their concepts.

While diners get to meet new people, find a community of like-minded diners, and learn more about new cuisines. Yet with more collaborations, pop-ups, venues, and hosts than you can shake a kitchen utensil at, you might be struggling to know where to begin your search for a ticket. 

As the scene evolves, the evenings on offer become more varied. Hosts create events grounded in everything from the highly inventive, the uber-personal, to the absurdly immersive. Mam Sham injects theatre and spectacle into their meals, blurring the line between dinner and entertainment, while elsewhere, clubs like The Little Sauce and 2sDay Supper Club foster community and advance an important social agenda.

Khao Suppers and The Hackney Host show that dining is an artistic event as well as a delicious one, while Rahel Stephanie and Sohini Banerjee use their events to educate the diner on their unique culinary heritage, one tasty bite at a time. 

Need some inspiration? Look no further.

2sday Supper Club

Various locations

What started as a local dinner following a conversation while taking the bins out between two neighbours has evolved into one of London’s most sought-after ventures. Hannah and Sofia started building a female-first space every Tuesday evening in their homes, initially inviting neighbours round and asking them to bring a one-pot dish to share. As friends told friends, their community widened, not just beyond their street but to whole new boroughs. Now, they’ve hosted events in a range of spaces across the city, such as Ellie’s and Shoreditch’s Bread and Butter Lounge.

2sday uses its dinners to not only bring people together but also run panel discussions, promote female-forward business initiatives, and raise money for charity, all while letting attendees sample food from up-and-coming female chefs. If you’re looking to feel uplifted or be reminded just how brilliant women are, both individually and as a collective, then this is the supper club for you.

Follow for next events: @2sdaysupperclub

Savottām Supper Club

Various

Some people have a hot girl summer; others have a brat girl summer, but Sachin Mistry is having a Savottām Supper Club summer. Here you can expect things to heat up in a curiously precise way. Sachin is a chef with over 7 years’ experience in fast-paced kitchens across the UK and US, most recently as Head Chef at Nela. Now, he’s starting to bring a fine-dining six-course tasting supper club experience showcasing the best of Gujarati food and British produce with a rotating surprise menu. Combining high-end cuisine and his own heritage, he blends his bespoke menu with his signature branding and thoughtful drinks pairings from GQ’s Sommelier of the Year, and now judge, Henna Zinzuwadia.

@savottamlondon

Eat with Sp00ns

Various locations

Rahel Stephanie started cooking for her followers and bringing authentic Indonesian and Asian food to the UK in the form of her Eat with Sp00ns Supper Club. It grew in popularity and has had many sell-outs. Essentially, her events are the culinary equivalent of the Met Gala. She’s quickly become one of London’s coolest chefs, paving the way for unique and original ways of cooking, all while educating people along the way.

She’s a testament to how a supper club can launch a huge career and has since introduced guest dishes or run residencies at hot spots like Ancestral Wines, Zula Burger, and Quality Wines. At one of her events, you can expect not only to feel like you’ve got the hottest ticket in town, but to eat great food founded in her heritage. Expect to learn the real meaning of the word ‘satay’ (hint: it’s not the peanut sauce) and other embark on other delightful flavour trips surrounded by some of the coolest kids in town. 

Follow for upcoming events: @eatwithSp00ns

Honey & Co

Various

Honey & Co.

If Middle Eastern flavours are your bag, or you fancy trialling your first afternoon tea club concept, then put Honey & Co’s upcoming events on your radar. Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich run Honey & Co, a London restaurant where vibrant Middle Eastern flavours sing on the plate. Their event series celebrates generous meals, good conversation, and a heartfelt love of food. Previous events have combined Middle Eastern and Mediterranean influences with guest chefs like Georgina Hayden, and sometimes they use this informal dining to bring dishes from their own cookbooks to life. This summer, they have plans to partner with the British Library for a decadent yet delicate afternoon tea series.  

Follow for upcoming events: @honeyandco

Smoke and Lime

Camberwell

Sohini Banerjee has been running Smoke and Lime for over 8 years with her husband Rijul. Born from the one-bedroom flat they shared in North London, and now taking place in Camberwell, it celebrates keeping cooking traditions of Bengali matriarchs alive at a communal table, while also focusing on low-waste creations. The pair make for the perfect hosts, not only ensuring the table is welcoming, but also educational.

A meal here will not only have you wondering why you’ve been sleeping on green pork and tahini mustard your entire life, but will also have your eyes opened to a brief history of the influence of Kolkata cuisine. The pair share personal anecdotes from their travels around the world and Sohini expertly curates the mood based on the guests attending. Thanks to her experience working in professional kitchens like Bubala, as well as her own intuition, the food is always something to write home about. In attending, you might end up as a willing guinea pig for a new creation of hers. And you’ll be incredibly grateful you were. 

@smokeandlime

Mam Sham

Various locations

Mam Sham

If you’re a festival fan then you’ll be sad that this year is a fallow one for Glastonbury. However, don’t fret; there’s a suitable replacement this summer. Mam Sham. If casual, low-key dinners aren’t what you’re after in your next supper club, look no further. This absurd and interactive affair run by childhood friends Maria Georgiou and Rhiannon Butler, has taken London, and many brands by storm. The pair have hosted these part-entertainment, part-feasts for between 20 and 200 diners, and each of their 3 courses is centred around sets from 3 comedy acts, so it’s not only delicious but relentless, riotous and a real party.

You might notice some comedy ‘product placement’ as well as the delicious food on your plate. And yet, amid the chaos, something is grounding too: every penny of profit goes to charity, supporting organisations like Choose Love and CALM. They have collaborated with many chefs, including such as Black Axe Mangal, Mambow, Melissa Thompson x Melek Erdel, and comedians such as Michelle De Swarte, Jamali Maddix, Li Jin Hao, and Britney. Buckle up: this one is a hoot.

Follow for upcoming events: @mam_sham

Shanghai Supper

Various

When Lillian Luk isn’t appearing as a guest of MasterChef UK, she’s cooking dishes similar to those her late grandmother used to make. At Shanghai Suppers, she showcases typical dianxin (small eats) as well as other plates you might find on the streets of Shanghai. Her intention, whatever the venue is for the evening to feel like a dinner party at a friend’s house, so she welcomes you turning up solo or as a small group. Expect a relaxed atmosphere and be prepared to lend a hand to pass the food around the table, since all courses are served family-style. Strike up a new conversation with someone as you pass them the Sheng Jian Bao platter, then debate whether you prefer the vegan duck, the boiling oil prawns, or the sweet and vinegary spareribs. The answer is a tough one, it’s all incredibly delicious. 

Follow for upcoming events: @shanghaisupper

Suppers by

Various locations

Suppers by, run by Rosie Kellett and Virginia Malavasi, is a seasonal supper club hosted in East London. Both Virginia and Rosie have deservedly large foodie followings and absolutely know how to bring people around a table. Together, they host a 32-seater dinner four times a year centred around the change of the seasons. You can expect dishes leveraging the very best of a recent British harvest, transformed into delicious Italian-influenced classics. It’s an evening combining Rosie’s British and Virginia’s Italian heritage. Evenings also feature a splash of flair from a talented artist who helps reflect the menu's concept each time. It’s a low-key, welcoming, warehouse-chic affair.

@suppersby

Otaku

North Finchley

If you’re someone who likes Michelin-starred food and regularly befriends the bride and groom’s parents at a wedding, then Otaku is the evening for you. Otaku, a Japanese word meaning ‘obsession to a craft’, delivers exactly that in what Chef Max Posener serves on his 18-course menu. Posener has put careful consideration into his at-home menu off the back of working in Michelin kitchens like two-star Ynyshir. Turn up at his front door and quickly make friends with eleven other strangers (as well as his mum, who is watching television in the adjacent open-plan living room). Have your drinks poured by Straker’s sommelier Oliver Baggot as you lose count of which course you’re on.

Some dishes will be stuck in your memory before you leave, though. Like the world’s cutest crumpet with Hamachi and caviar, or his inventive noodle-less take on Pad Thai, completed with kaffir lime leaves grown in his garden. There’s a nod to his favourite strange childhood snacks of Dairy Milk and salt and vinegar crisps, and a passion fruit palate cleanser so good it could end up altering your taste buds for life.

Follow for upcoming events: @otakupopup

Biryani Supperclub Lunch

Darjeeling Express

Biryani Supperclub Lunch at Darjeeling Express

Asma Khan is a woman who needs no introduction. A star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table and the woman behind Soho’s Darjeeling Express, you’d think she might not have time to run a supper club, but you are wrong. She regularly hosts biryani lunches at her restaurant. Yes, it’s called a supper club, but it technically runs at lunchtime. With Asma’s plans to open a new location in June, there are still a few events left running before the move, but you can expect other events on the horizon around the launch of a new site, including a collaboration with Aminia Restaurant Kolkata, and chefs and family members will be coming over to make dishes with her team. 

Follow for upcoming events: @Darjeelingldn

The Little Sauce Supper Club

Various

There’s no doubt about it, Suzie Bakos is a cool girl. And by going to one of her events, you’ll feel cool too. After years as a fashion writer, Suzie launched The Little Sauce in 2018 as a platform for recipes, food reviews and travel stories, which soon grew into a series of food events centred on Iraqi cuisine. Baghdad-born, she regularly hosts events which celebrate her Chaldean and Syriac Orthodox heritage, as well as using the platform to bring together people and ideas, plug up-and-coming musicians, and run charity fundraisers. Menus vary depending on the type of event, but you can expect dishes like kubba hamoth (beef dumplings in a tangy tomato broth), or slow-braised lamb shoulder on saffron rice. There are vibrant salads, house-made ferments, and (of course) a little product placement in the form of her own hot sauce brand, The Little Sauce.

Follow for upcoming events: @Suziebakos

Seasonal Supper Club

Various

Emma Cantlay (@mainlybreakfast) and Lucy Rose Turnbull (@lucyrosette) know how to dress everything. Salads, vegetables, tables (and themselves). You might have seen this fruit-and-veg-first club popping on your Instagram feed. They have hand-sketched menus and beautiful calligraphy to go alongside stylish linens and wildflower vases. Enjoy colourful starters, comforting mains, and beautiful showstopper desserts like transcluent jellies filled with fruits of the season. A ticket here is a bit like an invite to the London wedding of that super cool artistic friend of yours: wine flows, conversation flows with it, and everyone is interesting. Better– nobody has to make a painful speech, and you absolutely don’t have to buy anyone a gift.  

Follow for upcoming events: @seasonalsupperclub

Khao Suppers

Various locations

What do vegetables, handed-down Indian family recipes, and still life all have in common? Khao Suppers. This club is a seasonal celebration of Indian cooking which centres around a given theme or dish, changing each time. Her most recent series is titled ‘don’t play with your food ' and saw ingredients in the centre of the table come to life both on the plates and canvas with guided art sessions, interspersed with tasty plates. Punam Vaja is a born-and-raised East Londoner who grew up with strong Gujarati influences and continues to evolve her events in new ways after running the club for five years. With a variety of venues and collaborations under her belt, no two evenings are the same. And whether you’re playing with her food or not, you’ll definitely want to eat it here. 

Follow for upcoming events: @khaosuppers

The Hackney Host

Various locations

Last but definitely not least, we’re going a little supper club meta. If all this reading about events has you thinking about hosting one, then why not attend a club hosted by someone who teaches you to do just that? The Hackney Host, aka Rachel Jones, has 5 years of supper clubbing (yes, we just made that a verb) under her belt. She regularly partners with chefs from different backgrounds, and recent events have seen British twists on Nordic cooking, influenced by her experiences of living in Stockholm.

She runs things out of a very cool converted schoolhouse in Hackney (hence her namesake) and believes hosting can be an art form as well as a way to bring people together. In the evenings, she also runs workshops on everything from tablescaping to butchery. One for anyone hoping to become the next club on this very list.

Follow for upcoming events: @thehackneyhost