This week’s Startup Engine dinner was at Chico Bandito, a lively little Mexican restaurant and regular spot for TableCrowd dinners.

The menu tells me that it’s the best chilli in London, and I believe everything I read, so it must be. We had 10 diners, some familiar faces and some new. It’s nice to see people coming back for more and factoring the Startup Engine dinners into their regular networking plans.

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It was great to meet Doug Haines of the London School of Attraction. His company offers coaching courses to men and women looking to improve their love lives. They also provide a wealth of online resources on the very same topic. We’ve invited Doug to host a dinner and to spill a few beans on his experiences and learnings. We’ll let you know if this goes ahead. 

On the topic of beans (kind of), Sabina joined us from The Beanery, a cosy coffee shop in Brixton. She is looking to expand her business and meet others in the food and drink indus 

Axel Sunnehall joined us and told us about his second project, KandiBase, an application where you can access all the job opportunities that are promoted across Twitter in one place. It seems like a really exciting project – as one of Twitter’s newest biggest fans (I know, I know, I’m really slow on the uptake), I’m looking forward to seeing this progress.

It was great to meet Piotr Zajac who founded Untitled Kingdom and has a team of whizz iOs and android developers producing great apps to make the world happy. He may well be getting a call from me when we start work on the TableCrowd App!

Louis joined us for his TableCrowd debut. His day job is analytics and data, but he had other plans brewing for startup which he was keeping very close to his chest. If it hadn’t been for dry-January, I think I could have convinced him to let the cat out of the bag. Intrigued! Louis didn’t give me the info I wanted, but he did give me food envy by ordering the fajitas.

Chico Bandito, I’ll see your Mexican face again in February, when I shall have waved dry-January goodbye and shall be ordering a very large mojito. –

Kate / @katejacksonk

Why not join an upcoming Startup Engine dinner? Next week’s dinner has sold out already, but we have spaces for our dinner on the 29^th January where we have a special guest speaker, who will be giving you a pre-dinner taster session (45 mins) on public speaking and presenting skills. Got an important pitch in the pipeline? All the information is here: Upcoming Startup Engine Dinners