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What are you going to do - walk up to an established group of friends and say “Hey, I’m X, what do you guys do?” London doesn’t work like that.

 

What I’d do is have lunch/dinner with a group of friends. You don’t stress about making reservations 1 week in advance, and you always know you can go/bring friends there and you will have fun.

I'm not thinking of networking with 40yr old PMs/MD, but people from 24-30yrs old who just want to meet other people. I don't consider that crazy. Have met a bunch of funny finance bros on cuckoo for example

 
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I'll kick off a couple of suggestions. Soho House is the predictable one, but I like their venues.

67 Pall Mall is focused on wine and holds specific tastings and such, so (if you enjoy wine), you'd have a good chance of meeting new people, a non-awkward topic of discussion to get to know them, and it's a nice venue.

Issue of course more broadly is that you'll need reference to become a member of either (or others, which might be tricky if you're new to the city.

 

It’s like 5k, plus an extra few hundred quid every time you acc go there…gonna set you back like 9-10k for the year if you go there once a month. Vaguely know a guy who’s a member but he comes from wealth… I wouldn’t spend that much even with good comp/carry. 10k a year can go a long way, even for someone on 300k.

 

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