<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">IMO, I can not hear 60% of what is being said at 5 feet away, at Burgundy's even when it is 1/4 full. However, the food at Burgundy's is consistently well presented.<br><br>Voting for any venue with less background noise level, and a darkSkankyAle ;-)<br><br>I don't mind walking for 10mins After we are dismissed, since I sit on my ass.embly all day. and also, Volunteer to do recon at the 3 bars on Cumberland.<br>/jordan <br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/3/11, Mike Stok <i><mike@stok.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.ca><br>Subject: [tpm] Exploring alternative post-meeting venues<br>To: "Toronto Perl Mongers" <tpm@to.pm.org><br>Received: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 8:04 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">-----BEGIN PGP
SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>After January's meeting we decamped to Burgundys, and it was unusually full. What are other people's thoughts on trying other bars within walking distance of the Yonge / Bloor intersection for post-meeting venues?<br><br>What do other people consider walking distance?<br><br>A couple of places I know and quite like are:<br><br>* The Spotted Dick - 81 Bloor St E. 170 m from Yonge and Bloor (2 minutes walk according to google maps)<br>* The Artful Dodger - 12 Isabella St 350 m from Yonge and Bloor (4 minutes walk according to google maps)<br><br>Both these places have tolerable levels of noise in my experience, and both have wi-fi.<br><br>Anyone have any other ideas for around Yonge / Bloor? Anyone have opinions about what's desirable in a post-meeting venue?<br><br>Anyone have feelings one way or the other about trying another place after the February and / or March
meetings?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mike<br><br>- -- <br><br>Mike Stok <<a ymailto="mailto:mike@stok.ca" href="/mc/compose?to=mike@stok.ca">mike@stok.ca</a>><br><a href="http://www.stok.ca/%7Emike/" target="_blank">http://www.stok.ca/~mike/</a><br><br>The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.<br><br><br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin)<br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAk1Kp8gACgkQnsTBwAWZE9qLPACgvrYfiv6rkpw6WuZyHK8oob0y<br>pmUAoIL2YK60qs3glWbO1sIoH2rMlJbN<br>=LwXo<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>toronto-pm mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:toronto-pm@pm.org" href="/mc/compose?to=toronto-pm@pm.org">toronto-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/toronto-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/toronto-pm</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>