Find Your People: A Dinner Party for Making New Friends | Montgomery County

Come alone. Meet new people. Leave with people you'd actually like to see again. A warm, curated dinner party designed for adult friendship.
About this Event

Find Your People: Make New Friends Over Dinner | Germantown, MD

Making friends as an adult should not be this hard.

You can have coworkers, family, neighbors, people you know from church, people you follow online—and still find yourself thinking:

“I need more people to actually do life with.”

Find Your People was created for that.

Join us for the inaugural Find Your People Dinner Party, a warm, thoughtfully curated social experience designed to help adults meet new people, have genuinely good conversations, and leave with connections that have somewhere to go next.

Come alone. Meet new people. Leave with people you'd actually like to see again.

This Is Not Networking. And It Isn't Speed Dating.

There are already plenty of places to exchange business cards, give elevator pitches, or look for a romantic match.

This isn't one of them.

Find Your People is friendship-first.

We're creating the kind of room where you can stop asking, “What do you do?” and start discovering:

• What are you into?
• What do you like doing on the weekends?
• What have you been wanting to try?
• What kind of invitation will you almost always say yes to?
• Who in this room might you actually enjoy knowing better?

You don't have to impress anyone.

You don't have to work the room.

And you definitely don't need to meet everybody.

If you leave having met one or two people you'd genuinely like to see again, the night worked.

Coming Alone? You're Exactly Who We Designed This For.

One of the hardest parts of trying to build a social life is showing up somewhere when you don't already know anyone.

We understand.

That's why the Find Your People Dinner Party is intentionally designed to make arriving alone feel normal—not awkward.

We'll help with the introductions.

We'll help get conversations started.

We'll create opportunities for you to meet different people throughout the evening.

You just have to come.

What to Expect

This will feel much more like being invited to a really good dinner party than attending a traditional mixer.

Throughout the evening, you'll experience:

• A warm, hosted welcome
• Thoughtfully designed conversation prompts
• Curated opportunities to meet different people
• Time for natural, unstructured conversation
• Great food and a relaxed restaurant atmosphere
• Simple ways to discover shared interests
• An introduction to People Plans™—small, member-created plans that make it easier to actually do things together
• The Second Invitation™—our simple challenge to turn “It was nice meeting you” into “Want to do something again?”

Because meeting someone is only the beginning.

Friendship needs another encounter.

The Goal Isn't Just to Meet People.

Most social events end when everyone goes home.

Find Your People is designed differently.

The Dinner Party is Encounter One.

Afterward, guests will have the opportunity to join our community group, discover who's available, join casual People Plans, create their own plans, and reconnect with people they met during the evening.

Maybe that becomes:

Brunch next Sunday.

A museum visit.

A walk and coffee.

Live music.

A comedy show.

A new restaurant.

A day trip.

Or just:

“Hey, I really enjoyed meeting you. Want to grab coffee?”

That's how acquaintance becomes familiarity.

Familiarity becomes connection.

And sometimes connection becomes:

“That's my friend.”

Who Should Come?

This experience is for adults who are open to meeting new people and building a richer social life.

You may have recently moved to the DMV.

You may be newly single.

Your longtime friends may live in different cities.

You may work remotely.

Your life may have changed.

You may have plenty of acquaintances but very few people you can text on a Saturday afternoon.

Or nothing may be “wrong” at all.

Maybe your life is good—and you simply want more good people in it.

That's enough.

Our Find Your People Culture

We're building more than an event. We're building a culture of people who know how to make room for one another.

Around here, we believe:

Come alone if you need to.

Be curious before trying to be impressive.

Look for the person who hasn't found their place in the room yet.

If you enjoyed meeting someone, tell them.

Don't just say, “We should hang out sometime.” Make the plan.

Make the Second Invitation.

And once you've found your people:

Help someone else find theirs.

Event Details

Monday, September 7, 2026
6:00 PM–9:00 PM

Dono African Restaurant
Germantown, Maryland

Admission: FREE

Guests are responsible for purchasing their own food and beverages from the restaurant.

Space is intentionally limited so that we can preserve the warm, curated nature of the experience.

One Small Ask

Come open.

Not performative.
Not perfect.
Not determined to meet everybody.

Just open to a conversation you weren't expecting.

Because the person you eventually call for brunch, concerts, road trips, coffee, celebrations, hard days, ordinary Tuesdays—or just because—

might currently be a stranger.

And one day, we hope you'll get to say:

“We met at Find Your People.”

Reserve Your Free Seat

Space is limited.

Come alone. Leave with a crew.

Find your people. Then help someone else find theirs.