A London-based company is bringing its dating model to the city, hoping to create some love connections here. As NY1's Lisa Voyticki reports, the focus is on connecting people in person - instead of through technology.

Sharin Toribio is a modern day matchmaker, making her way through a crowded bar to make connections.

She approaches one woman standing alone.

"Can I help you?" she asks.

"Yeah so there's this guy…," the woman replies.

It's a conversation repeated multiple times throughout the night.

Toribio is one of four "crowd mixologists," hired for private dating parties like this one at The Park, an upscale lounge on 10th Avenue in Chelsea.

She works for the company Social Concierge, which began in London five years ago, and is now shooting cupid's arrow across the pond to New York.

Singles fill out applications online, and event Manager Ben Goodman says about a quarter of them are invited to join.

"We're looking for people driven, passionate and that are well educated," Goodman said.

Every month, Social Concierge charges members $25 for the right to attend two events.

Many members we spoke to at this party at The Park said they felt so comfortable with the service, they came alone.

"I feel like strangers are just friends who haven't met yet," said member Marcelline Block.

"It's not like a random bar where you don't know who's single and such," said member David Yoslov.

"Me personally I'm just looking to talk to good people," said member Serge Joseph who traveled from Long Island.

Many here feel this way of meeting people is better than glancing at someone’s profile on a dating app for a few seconds and swiping left or right.

"It's more organic to just see someone from across the room," said member Nicole Halpern.

And that's exactly what happened between San Lo who recently moved here from Hong Kong, and Larissa Nowak, who recently moved here from an island near Brazil.

"Like a mutual eye contact, and then I said 'Hi!,'" said Lo.

Question: "And then what did you say?"

"Hi!" Nowak said.

Question: "And how long have you guys known each other for?"

"Uh, I would say like 19 minutes ago," Lo said.

Social Concierge says it now has 600 members in the city, but it wants to expand to 1,000 by the end of the year, and hold weekly events.

"Swiping is not fun and ultimately I want to talk to people, I want to meet people, I want to meet interesting people," said member Rebecca Frisch, who added she believes she found that here.

Social Concierge has more events planned for the summer, not only in Manhattan, but also in the Hamptons.