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DATE | 2007-09-16 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Calendar for September 7-11th
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From owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Sun Sep 16 01:59:16 2007 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8G5xEXl014963 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:59:16 -0400 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l8G5xE9E014962 for hangout-outgoings; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:59:14 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to owner-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8G5w7ee014943; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:58:09 -0400 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l8G5w7YH014942; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:58:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:58:07 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: Rick Moen Cc: Ruben Safir , Richard Stallman , johnmark-at-johnmark.org, dmarti-at-zgp.org Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Calendar for September 7-11th Message-ID: <20070916055807.GA14902-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <47c05b360709061446o776c8575h983e46aee5bf6737-at-mail.gmail.com> <20070906220316.GA9274-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <20070907211734.GB18040-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <20070907212343.GD4541-at-linuxmafia.com> <20070907213146.GB18132-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <20070907214511.GF4541-at-linuxmafia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070907214511.GF4541-at-linuxmafia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 4858 Status: RO Content-Length: 3718 Lines: 89
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Ruben
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:45:11PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com): > > [Cafe Scientifique, Silicon Valley:] > > > Wow - that sounds very interesting and I was just emailing fetter about a > > what I believe is a Perl Mongers meeting also on the 11th. But that sounds > > really good. Where will that be? Maybe we can get dinner after that > > meeting as a group. Or if need be I can have dinnner with Richard > > seperately. I was hoping get all together but its not etched > > in stone. > > It's at SRI International, Menlo Park (the institute formerly called > Stanford Research Institute, and early site of the InterNIC during > ARPA days[1]). That's about five blocks' walk from the Menlo Park > CalTrain station. NOTE: Address and directions were in fact > _already provided_, via my previous hyperlink to http://www.cafescipa.org/ . > (Search for "Cafe Scientifique, Silicon Valley", if you can't remember > that.) > > Cafe Scientifique lectures are always popular, so getting there early is > advised. > > On the other (west) side of CalTrain is downtown Menlo Park, with quite > a number of good dinner places including one of my personal favourites, > Sultana Restaurant, serving Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine. > > Menlo Park being the suburbs, most restaurants close and roll up the > sidewalks around 9 pm. I think Sultana might be open a bit later. > Some other parts of suburbia stay open a bit later than 9, e.g., > downtown Mountain View along Castro Street, where some good places > are open to 11 pm or midnight. > > My notes about Sultana for a local dinner-gathering group follow: > > > > Perhaps you'd consider an utterly delightful alternative, that my family > recently tried and like, in downtown Menlo Park: > > Sultana Restaurant > Fine Turkish and Mediterranean Cuisine > 1149 El Camino Real near corner of Santa Cruz Avenue > Menlo Park > 650-322-4343 > > VISA, MC, maybe AmEx accepted. Open for lunch and dinner. I don't > know the hours for certain, but local tradition suggests 9 pm closing. > They have a good selection of wines and beers. Restaurant is run > by a local Turkish family. > > Dinner tends to run about $15-20, and that's with _huge_ portions. > The one time we were there (for dinner), it was lively but not at all > crowded, and they do have a number of tables large enough for groups > such as ours. > > Review here: > http://www.almanacnews.com/story_print.php?story_id=1638 > > We were curious about it because it had replaced a very old, traditional > and rather boring French restaurant, Le Pot au Feu. If it had been > merely OK, we'd have been happy, but our dinner was exceptional. > > [1] Replaced by IANA in 1972, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNIC
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