[Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour"

Stephen Quinney stephen at jadevine.org.uk
Fri Nov 1 04:55:06 PDT 2013


It occurs to me now that Kays bar probably doesn't do food...


Stephen


On 1 November 2013 11:40, Murray <perl at minty.org> wrote:

> It was proposed (& 2nd etc) at last night's heretics to explore
> alternatives to
> the Cumberland for a venue for the *regular* monthly meet.
>
> On the grounds that the Cumberland hasn't gotten better since being taken
> over.
>
> And we fancied a change.
>
> Bert's bar appears to have a pub quiz on Thursdays (too noisey for chat).
>  So
> we moved across to Teuchters (no pub food -- only restaraunt food
> downstairs).
>
> The suggestion is that rather than try to pick a pub, we'll instead embark
> on a
> ~6 month "tour", trying a different location each month, before selecting a
> winner to call home.
>
> Call it "Test Driven (meetup location) Development" if you will ;)
>
> Suggestions welcome for future places to try welcome ...
>
> For Thur November 28th (Thanksgiving!) the general consensus was to try
>
>     Kay's bar
>     Jamaica St, EH3 6HF.
>     0131 225 1858
>     https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street
>
> Note that's also the thursday before the London Perl Workshop
>
>     http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/
>
> fwiw ... for venues ... my understanding of the holy grail, in no
> particular
> order:
>
>     - real ale
>     - no background music / loud TVs / pub quiz
>     - serves decent food, not too fancy/pricey
>     - tables book-able
>     - reasonably central
>     - has wifi
>     - friendly staff
>
> However, I've little hope we'll get one place that does all those
> perfectly for
> all people.
>
> Yours,
> Edinburgh Perl Cat Herder
>
> ps. it was also suggested we might try a meeting in Glasgow and/or St
> Andrew's
> ... just to give the whole tour thing a bit more rigour.  Thoughts?
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