Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cristina Haraba reacts as she dines with strangers at Bacari in Los Angeles. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) When David Brown ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A sticker on a wall in Lisbon caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On Wednesday evening, I walked into an Asian fusion restaurant in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, unsure of who’d be joining me at the dinner table.

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to “fight big-city loneliness.” The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...