[Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour"
Stephen Quinney
stephen at jadevine.org.uk
Fri Nov 1 05:11:19 PDT 2013
Yep, just checked, it seems Kays bar only do food for lunches.
Stephen
On 1 November 2013 11:55, Stephen Quinney <stephen at jadevine.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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