A community for people who host dinners.
From a casual Tuesday with friends to a Saturday-night cook-off, Dine With Me gives hosts the tools and the people.
Hosting is a skill that's quietly going extinct. We're trying to bring it back. Dine With Me is built for the part of the population that still wants to throw a dinner — and we make every step (inviting, scheduling, planning, recovering recipes, splitting cost) feel light.
Schedule a Dinner solves the worst part of hosting: getting four busy adults to agree on a date. Friends paint when they're free in a 7-day grid; the app intersects everyone's availability and proposes the slots that work. Conflicts are detected at the database level so you can't accidentally double-book yourself.
Once the date is set, your cookbook and saved boards are right there for menu planning. Tap a recipe to add it to the dinner; the app pulls the ingredient list and lets you split the shopping. After the meal, capture what you cooked into your private cookbook so you can do it again next time.
If you want more than friends — host a public cook-off. Strangers register, you cook, you all rate each other, the prize pool gets paid out. People leave saying they had the most interesting dinner of the year. The platform handles the boring parts: payments, disputes, payouts.
What hosting looks like here
Schedule a Dinner
Paint when you're free, invite friends, the app finds a time. Conflict checks at the DB level.
Cookbook & boards
Save recipes you'd cook for guests into themed boards. Build menus from your own collection.
Public cook-offs
Host a competition open to your city — the platform handles registration, payment and ratings.
Communities
Run a recurring dinner inside a cuisine or neighbourhood community you belong to.
Hire a chef
Want to host without cooking? Book a private chef who comes to your kitchen.
Offers nearby
Vouchers from local food brands so the wine, the cheese and the bread come at a friendlier price.
Frequently asked
How do I host my first dinner?+
Sign up, add 2-3 friends, open Schedule a Dinner, paint when you're free this week or next, send invites. The app finds the slots that overlap with your guests' availability. After the meal you can capture the recipes you cooked into your private cookbook.
Can I host a paid event?+
Yes — create a public competition. Set the entry fee, the location, the cuisine and the rating categories. Participants register through the platform; payments flow into your wallet on payout day. The platform takes a small fee; the rest goes to the prize pool (or to a partner NGO).
What if a guest can't make it?+
They can decline or counter-propose another time from the invite. If you accept the counter-proposal with one tap the meal moves and everyone's re-notified. If a single person declines, the meal stays in pending state until you decide.
Is this only for big dinner parties?+
No. Most meals on the platform are 2-4 people — coffee, lunch or weeknight dinner. Big themed cook-offs are the headline act, but the hosting tools are designed for the much more common Tuesday-with-a-friend kind of meal.
Host your next dinner here
Skip the group-chat scheduling, the menu juggle, the headcount confusion. Hosting should feel light. Start your first dinner.
Schedule a dinner