Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-20 Thread Kevin Falcone 
Peter Corlett  wrote:
>On 18 Mar 2014, at 17:56, Kevin Falcone  wrote:
>>> An old favourite that I still like near where you'll be is The Star
>in
>>> Belgravia
>>> http://www.star-tavern-belgravia.co.uk/
>> 
>> Based on a multitude of suggestions I'll be at the Star this Thursday
>> (21/3) around 7pm.  I'm planning to meet at least one other perl
>> hacker there, if anyone's in the area and fancies a pint and some
>> conversation, let me know.
>
>I'm already here and have bagged a table at the back. The staff haven't
>heard of London Perlmongers. Apparently we didn't make a large enough
>impression the last time round :)
>
>I'm quite enjoying this pint of Diamond Geezer.

I'm on my way from the training venue near Paddington but hopefully it won't 
take to long for my bus.

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-20 Thread Peter Corlett 
On 18 Mar 2014, at 17:56, Kevin Falcone  wrote:
>> An old favourite that I still like near where you'll be is The Star in
>> Belgravia
>> http://www.star-tavern-belgravia.co.uk/
> 
> Based on a multitude of suggestions I'll be at the Star this Thursday
> (21/3) around 7pm.  I'm planning to meet at least one other perl
> hacker there, if anyone's in the area and fancies a pint and some
> conversation, let me know.

I'm already here and have bagged a table at the back. The staff haven't heard 
of London Perlmongers. Apparently we didn't make a large enough impression the 
last time round :)

I'm quite enjoying this pint of Diamond Geezer.

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-18 Thread Kevin Falcone 
> An old favourite that I still like near where you'll be is The Star in
> Belgravia
> http://www.star-tavern-belgravia.co.uk/

Based on a multitude of suggestions I'll be at the Star this Thursday
(21/3) around 7pm.  I'm planning to meet at least one other perl
hacker there, if anyone's in the area and fancies a pint and some
conversation, let me know.

-kevin

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Kevin Falcone 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:55:37PM +, Sue Spence wrote:
> There is lovely beer to be had all over London, so it'll be fine. If you
> would like, we could arrange an Emergency Social during your visit.  If so,
> feel free to suggest an evening that you will be free and I think one of us
> will make it happen.

I had some rough plans to try and meet the gentleman who does the RT
and perl packaging for Debian (Dominic Hargreaves) on March 20th in
London while he was passing through.  If other folks were interested
in also having a beverage that evening I'd be thrilled to meet up.

> An old favourite that I still like near where you'll be is The Star in
> Belgravia
> http://www.star-tavern-belgravia.co.uk/

I've either been here or heard about it from London.pm'ers.

-kevin

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Corlett 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:59:28PM +, Fred Youhanaie wrote:
[...]
> I was about to suggest tagging the pubs on randomness.org, but someone has
> already done it :-)
> http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Category_London.PM_Favourite_Pubs

I've also gone and back-filled this with a few of our favourites from 2013.

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Fred Youhanaie 



On 04/03/14 15:39, Leo Lapworth wrote:

I think I deleted that years ago I'm afraid.

http://london.randomness.org.uk/

and

http://www.beerintheevening.com/

Are good places to look.

Leo


I was about to suggest tagging the pubs on randomness.org, but someone has 
already done it :-)

http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Category_London.PM_Favourite_Pubs

Cheers
f.

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Sue Spence 
On 4 March 2014 16:24, Kevin Falcone  wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:38:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote:
> > Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
> > incredibly happy to make recommendations.
>
> For those who are willing to offer personalized recommendations, I
> appreciate it :)  I'm also going to go through the web archived links.
>
> We're holding training in W2 3NR and I'm sleeping in  W1J 7BX
> so, two corners of Hyde Park basically.  I recognize that I may be
> traveling a bit for a decent pint in those neighborhoods.
>
>
There is lovely beer to be had all over London, so it'll be fine. If you
would like, we could arrange an Emergency Social during your visit.  If so,
feel free to suggest an evening that you will be free and I think one of us
will make it happen.

An old favourite that I still like near where you'll be is The Star in
Belgravia
http://www.star-tavern-belgravia.co.uk/

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Kevin Falcone 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:39:07PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> http://www.beerintheevening.com/

Thank you, beerintheevening.com is being fantastically useful and is
one of the sites I was remembering but failing to find.

-kevin

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew Beverley 
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 11:24 -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> For those who are willing to offer personalized recommendations, I
> appreciate it :)  I'm also going to go through the web archived links.
> 
> We're holding training in W2 3NR

Only been there once, but I recall the Sawyers Arms is quite good:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/155488603

>  and I'm sleeping in  W1J 7BX

The Star Tavern http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/27718642

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Bob Walker 

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Kevin Falcone wrote:


On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:38:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote:

Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
incredibly happy to make recommendations.


For those who are willing to offer personalized recommendations, I
appreciate it :)  I'm also going to go through the web archived links.

We're holding training in W2 3NR and I'm sleeping in  W1J 7BX
so, two corners of Hyde Park basically.  I recognize that I may be
traveling a bit for a decent pint in those neighborhoods.



http://london.randomness.org.uk/scripts/pubsearch.cgi?locale=&postal_district=&tube_distance=1000&tube=Lancaster+Gate+Station&realale=1&food=1&gbg=1&Search=Search

may help you. all 3 pubs in that result are worth going to.



-kevin



--
bob walker
everything should be purple and bendy
http://randomness.org.uk

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Roger Bell_West 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:24:31AM -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
>We're holding training in W2 3NR and I'm sleeping in  W1J 7BX
>so, two corners of Hyde Park basically.  I recognize that I may be
>traveling a bit for a decent pint in those neighborhoods.

Plenty of good beer if you go a little way east.
http://beerdiary.firedrake.org/beermap/shaston_arms.html and nearby...

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Kevin Falcone 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:38:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote:
> Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
> incredibly happy to make recommendations.

For those who are willing to offer personalized recommendations, I
appreciate it :)  I'm also going to go through the web archived links.

We're holding training in W2 3NR and I'm sleeping in  W1J 7BX
so, two corners of Hyde Park basically.  I recognize that I may be
traveling a bit for a decent pint in those neighborhoods.

-kevin

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Leo Lapworth 
I think I deleted that years ago I'm afraid.

http://london.randomness.org.uk/

and

http://www.beerintheevening.com/

Are good places to look.

Leo



On 4 March 2014 15:21, Kevin Falcone  wrote:

> I'm going to be in town running RT training alter this month, and I
> remember there being a list of 'pubs london.pm uses for events' that
> was helpful in finding good places to have a drink.
>
> I've completely failed to find it on london.pm.org this time around.
> Am I just being blind or I have I misremembered the resource?
>
> Thanks
>
> -kevin
>

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Sue Spence 
Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
incredibly happy to make recommendations.

I believe the list to which you refer went away some time ago during
website refurbishment. The pubs we use does tend to change a bit over time,
and there are new places which have appeared (or changed in quality) since
that list was current.



On 4 March 2014 15:21, Kevin Falcone  wrote:

> I'm going to be in town running RT training alter this month, and I
> remember there being a list of 'pubs london.pm uses for events' that
> was helpful in finding good places to have a drink.
>
> I've completely failed to find it on london.pm.org this time around.
> Am I just being blind or I have I misremembered the resource?
>
> Thanks
>
> -kevin
>

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Corlett 
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:21:16AM -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> I'm going to be in town running RT training alter this month, and I remember
> there being a list of 'pubs london.pm uses for events' that was helpful in
> finding good places to have a drink.

Me too, although it was but a dim recollection and I'd never gotten round to
actually looking for it until you reminded me.

> I've completely failed to find it on london.pm.org this time around. Am I
> just being blind or I have I misremembered the resource?

It appears to have been deleted when the site was given a revamp in
2009/10-ish. The most recent cached copy appears to be this one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090729074128/http://london.pm.org/meetings/

That's probably my cue to submit patches to the web site to add the list of
meetings and also bring it up to date.