I've changed the venue to The Goose in Russell Square, so we can check
out another pub instead of the Calthorpe Arms.
The Goose seems spacious, clean, and fairly priced. I don't know much
about beer, but they do have some. They also have food.
Hopefully I'll see some of you there.
Time:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:46:30AM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
I've changed the venue to The Goose in Russell Square, so we can check
out another pub instead of the Calthorpe Arms.
There is an excellent Chinese restaurant called the Hare and Tortoise
inside the shopping centre next to the pub
On Wed 23 Oct 2002, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is an excellent Chinese restaurant called the Hare and Tortoise
inside the shopping centre next to the pub (Find the Cinema in the middle
and look around) if you also want to eat. Good food and cheap.
Yes, the Hare and Tortoise is very
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:02:31PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
(So that we can experiment with finding alternative venues, as there are
reasons why some people think The Calthorpe Arms isn't perfect venue. It's
pretty good, but people can ways it might not be perfect)
The perfect venue is not
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:56:31AM +0100, Lusercop wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:02:31PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
(So that we can experiment with finding alternative venues, as there are
reasons why some people think The Calthorpe Arms isn't perfect venue. It's
pretty good, but
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:26:57AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I agree it's fine.
However, it is a moderately long walk from the nearest underground station.
(it's managed to pick a sweet spot (a bitter spot?) moderately equidistant
from three underground stations, so it's certainly an above
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:46:30AM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
Also, if you say it is in a slightly dodgy area, I am even less inclined
to try to come along...
I believe Greg can point you towards a charming little place in the
back of a mini-cab stand in Soho. It would be an, errr,
On Fri Oct 18 10:26:57 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
However, it is a moderately long walk from the nearest underground station.
(it's managed to pick a sweet spot (a bitter spot?) moderately equidistant
from three underground stations, so it's certainly an above average
distance)
It is
On 18/10/02 11:29 +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
It is approaching one of the less nice parts of central London, sufficient
for one london.pm member's wife to insist that he doesn't go there.
What's wrong with that area? Should I avoid it?
Are there other parts of central London that I
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:26:57AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
However, it is a moderately long walk from the nearest underground station.
(it's managed to pick a sweet spot (a bitter spot?) moderately equidistant
from three underground stations, so it's certainly an above average
distance)
On Fri 18 Oct, Nicholas Clark wrote:
and I admit that I don't find
it a particularly pleasant walk late at night down Gray's Inn Road.
(Unlike walking late at night along High Holborn, Kingsway, The Strand, or
any of the other wider, well lit and busier roads)
But if you are going towards
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:29:25AM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote:
On 18/10/02 10:46 +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
Also, if you say it is in a slightly dodgy area, I am even less inclined
to try to come along...
I have to take issue with this rubbish about it being a dodgy area (I
know you're
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:30:55AM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
OK, those are good features to add to my search criteria.
Ah. kake already had them on her search criteia as pub search minion.
Maybe the search criteria need to go on the website somewhere? Maybe they
are already there? ;-)
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote:
(snipped criteria)
I just had another thought - not only may these criteria be on the website,
they are bound to be in the mailinglist archives somewhere, and that *is*
linked from the website.
Another criteria is that there be no
On Fri Oct 18 11:43:29 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote:
No, as I just ranted. Bloomsbury is lovely. Right up around King's
Cross (the two or three streets immediately surrounding the station)
it does get dodgy. You will see very ill-looking hookers and people
dealing drugs openly.
OK. dodgy
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
Um. I can't think of any others round there,
There was an Irish pub across the street from the Goose...
The one in the hotel? Bleh. Having spent a month in that hotel, I
would reccomend against the pub. But I doubt I'll make a
On Thu 17 Oct 2002, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was going to suggest whatever the next alternative pub on Kake's
hitlist is.
Yorkshire Grey, corner of Theobald's Road and Gray's Inn Road. Good
beer, function room upstairs, food, convenience. Unfortunately
already booked up for
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