[sf-perl] SanFrancisco-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 17

ken uhl kenuhl at berkeley.edu
Mon Apr 21 09:07:08 PDT 2008


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>    1. Re: Dinner meetings (yary)
>    2. Re: Dinner meetings (Joe Brenner)
>    3. Re: Dinner meetings (Chris Weyl)
>    4. Re: Dinner meetings (yary)
>    5. Re: Dinner meetings (Rich Morin)
>    6. Re: Dinner meetings (Joe Brenner)
>    7. Re: Dinner meetings (Joe Brenner)
>    8. Re: Dinner meetings (yary)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:13:13 -0700
> From: yary <not.com at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Dinner meetings
> To: "San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group" <sanfrancisco-pm at pm.org>
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
>   
>> Quinn Weaver wrote:
>>  > We're due for a dinner meeting this coming Tuesday. Can anyone suggest
>>  > a good venue? Ideally it should be BARTable, not too noisy, and able
>>  > to accomodate an uncertain number of people. ;) and it should have at
>>  > least some vegetarian food.
>>     
>
> Can you put some bounds on "uncertain number of people?" I'm partial
> to my neighborhood (Glen Park) though it's pretty darn tiny. This one
> could probably accomodate around a dozen folks and not be too
> strained:
>
> http://sfsurvey.com/rd.asp?r=1239 Super Star Yong De, Chinese & Japanese food
>
> I've eaten in there and it's OK.
>
> I really like eggettes for snacks, and they have wi-fi plus an area
> where a bunch of people could hang out. Noise is quite variable and
> overall I think it's not the place for us, but hey-
> http://www.yelp.com/biz/eggettes-san-francisco-2
>
> There are some more upscale places, but might be hard to get a big
> group in them, and some more downscale places, but they'd give folks a
> bad impression.
>
> Old Jerusulem is near the 24th St BART and is good middle eastern. I
> suppose falafel, taboulle etc ok for vegans.
> http://www.yelp.com/biz/old-jerusalem-restaurant-san-francisco
>
>   
>>  No such beast.  Believe me, I searched for dinner venues for the other
>>  SFPUG for several meetings, and there is no restaurant which is quiet,
>>  affordable, good, and near BART.  Quiet is the hardest part.
>>
>>  So, you can have a quiet, affordable restaurant with adequate food which
>>  is nowhere near Bart, or a quiet restaurant with good food near BART
>>  which is very expensive, or a quiet restaurant near BART with terrible
>>  food, or a good, BARTable restaurant which is very noisy.
>>
>>  --Josh Berkus
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:31:07 -0700
> From: Joe Brenner <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Dinner meetings
> To: San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group <sanfrancisco-pm at pm.org>
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> Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Quinn Weaver wrote:
>>     
>>> We're due for a dinner meeting this coming Tuesday. Can anyone suggest
>>> a good venue? Ideally it should be BARTable, not too noisy, and able
>>> to accomodate an uncertain number of people. ;) and it should have at
>>> least some vegetarian food.
>>>       
>> No such beast.  Believe me, I searched for dinner venues for the other
>> SFPUG for several meetings, and there is no restaurant which is quiet,
>> affordable, good, and near BART.  Quiet is the hardest part.
>>
>> So, you can have a quiet, affordable restaurant with adequate food which
>> is nowhere near Bart, or a quiet restaurant with good food near BART
>> which is very expensive, or a quiet restaurant near BART with terrible
>> food, or a good, BARTable restaurant which is very noisy.
>>     
>
> Well, you're right that this is a tough one, but I would suggest
> "Naan-N-Curry" at 336 O'Farrell Street, between Mason and Taylor.
>
>   http://maps.google.com/maps?q=336+OFarrell+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102,+USA
>
> (1) Bartable:
>
>   From Powell St. Station, you walk two blocks north, one and a
>   half blocks west.
>
> (2) Not too noisy:
>
>   The ceilings are acoustic office tiling that they've hung some
>   fabric over: this place can not do the echoy roar that the aging
>   yupsters are addicted to.  They play some music (often really
>   good music), but not too loud.
>
> (3) Uncertain numbers of people:
>
>   They've got a double-size dining room with large tables, and
>   though I don't believe they take reservations, I doubt a crowd
>   of a dozen or so would be hard to seat, and even if we got two
>   dozen I think we could deal.
>
> (4) some vegetarian food
>
>   Well, this is an Indian place.  I'm a fan of the spinach/potato
>   dish there ("Aloo Palak", I think).
>
> The food here is really good and it's certainly inexpensive (and the
> Chai is free).  It's a better place to go with at least one person to
> split with, so doing a large group should work fine.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:39:56 -0700
> From: "Chris Weyl" <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu>
> Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Dinner meetings
> To: "San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group" <sanfrancisco-pm at pm.org>
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
>   
>> Quinn Weaver wrote:
>>  > We're due for a dinner meeting this coming Tuesday. Can anyone suggest
>>  > a good venue? Ideally it should be BARTable, not too noisy, and able
>>  > to accomodate an uncertain number of people. ;) and it should have at
>>  > least some vegetarian food.
>>
>>  No such beast.  Believe me, I searched for dinner venues for the other
>>  SFPUG for several meetings, and there is no restaurant which is quiet,
>>  affordable, good, and near BART.  Quiet is the hardest part.
>>
>>  So, you can have a quiet, affordable restaurant with adequate food which
>>  is nowhere near Bart, or a quiet restaurant with good food near BART
>>  which is very expensive, or a quiet restaurant near BART with terrible
>>  food, or a good, BARTable restaurant which is very noisy.
>>     
>
> What about yum-yum house?  It's not huge, but extremely tasty and very
> flexible with the use of "fake meat".  At 17th/valencia, about 2
> blocks from the 16th St BART station...
>
>                                      -Chris
>
>   
HI,
Would I be way off base to suggest
ROCKRIDGE  Bart in Oakland.?

With in three blocks there are about seventy (70)
restaurants, one of which would surely fill the requirements......

I suggest:
Crepe de Vine  ( cheap, noisy, spacious )
Pasta Pomodoro ( cheap, quieter ,  spacious
Zacks Pizzeria ( cheap noisy crowded )
Barneys Hamburgers ( and Salads )   moderate, quiet, roomy  ( best choice )
Bettys Chinese   Tasty,  quiet, *
*Olivettos  - elegant. *

I could scout for more, but these are my regular haunts...

Ken Uhl,
UC Berkeley


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