Stéphane Piette joins berlindetoi to talk about Game Night Dating, the events he created with his girlfriend and which he describes as currently the best place to meet someone in Berlin.

The concept: gather around 40 single people, split them into tables of six, and get them playing simple, easy-to-learn board games, rotating tables every 20 minutes. No small talk pressure, no forced pickup lines, just the natural social lubricant of having fun together. At the end of the night, a classic matchmaking system (circle the names you’d like to see again) removes the awkwardness of asking for numbers directly.

Stéphane shares how he met his own girlfriend at a similar offline dating night, why he thinks in-person events cut through the exhaustion of app-based dating, and how Kiezdate fits into Berlin’s surprisingly vibrant offline dating scene alongside events like Overdated and Sore Thumbs. He also opens up about spin-off formats already tested (pottery nights, craft nights) and hints at more to come.