Simon Trewin

The formal dinner party may be dead, but its exuberant younger cousin lives on in a thousand middle-class homes – informal, competitive, prone to tears and culinary disasters and a hotbed of gossip. It’s boosted by the phenomenal ratings of television’s Come Dine With Me and now you can join in too.

The Lady, courtesy of Jessica Ruston, is hosting its very own supper party each week in Come for Dinner, a serial that takes place in and around a pocket of streets in South London, and tells the stories of a group of friends and neighbours through their dinner parties and kitchen suppers.

Come for Dinner and meet a group of characters who you will grow to love – peer through the French windows of their kitchens, and eavesdrop over the pre-dinner drinks, sit down at their tables and gasp at the revelations that follow…

You can read the first episode online here