09/11/2025
This is the world we’re trying to mend.
The modern city is full of people but starved of connection.
We move through cafés, gyms, and bars — brushing past hundreds of others — yet rarely meet our neighbours. We crave real connection, but the spaces we have create only junk social contact: polite, distracted, fleeting.
The Long Table is a small experiment in rebuilding depth and belonging.
Once a week, twenty neighbours gather for a candle-lit supper — one shared table, one simple meal, no phones. But there’s one quiet rule: you can only join if you live within walking distance — a few neighbouring streets, maybe five minutes away.
We’re creating micro-hamlets inside the city — tiny circles of people who actually know and care for one another.
The pilot begins here in Bristol. In time, we hope to seed a Long Table in every city in the UK — one table at a time.
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Artwork: Nighthawks (1942), Edward Hopper. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
