Let’s have a blogger’s dinner in Berkeley on Thursday, January 26, 7PM.
We got the place, Taste of the Himalayas, 1700 Shattuck Ave.
It’s a big restaurant and probably can accomodate up to 20 to 25 people, we can have a loud conversation or two. I’ve eaten there many times, the food is good and not too expensive. Nepalese food is a lot like Indian. Lots of curries, sauces, some spicy stuff, rice.
Anyone can come, no RSVP required although it would be appreciated. Include a bit about yourself in a comment here.
Maybe we’ll make this a semi-regular thing?
Let’s have fun!
PS: It’s five easy blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
PPS: When you arrive say you’re with the “Blogger” party. 🙂
Scripting News Annex 
Posted by Sylvia Paull on January 18, 2006 at 8:31 am
How Nepal-Berkeley can you be? It’s about time we had a regular high tech dinner in the East Bay for all those budding entrepreneurs hiding in the hills and the uncovered creeks.
Posted by Susan Mernit on January 18, 2006 at 8:32 am
I’m starting a new job, so with that caveat, count me in.
Posted by Kathy on January 18, 2006 at 8:36 am
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Posted by Niall Kennedy on January 18, 2006 at 8:44 am
I plan to be there.
Posted by Jeff Clavier on January 18, 2006 at 8:58 am
I will try to re-arrange my schedule to make the dinner.
Posted by George Girton on January 18, 2006 at 9:02 am
Now that I have a nice photo of the Berkeley hills on my blog, and it seems I’m writing about Berkeley more and more often, I definitely have to be thinking about joining you all for dinner even though I’d have to fly up from Los Angeles to do so. If it were a Saturday I’d be there.
Posted by Robert Anderson on January 18, 2006 at 10:05 am
Count me in. I can be the rare .NET voice at these events.
Posted by Dan Gillmor on January 18, 2006 at 10:41 am
See you there…
Posted by Scott Rosenberg on January 18, 2006 at 11:00 am
I intend and expect to be there!
Posted by Joshua Hayworth on January 18, 2006 at 12:25 pm
2nd the .NET voice comment. I’ll be there.
Posted by Raines on January 18, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I love things in my neighborhood, especially at a place I haven’t been to in a while. See you there!
Raines
Posted by laughingsquid on January 18, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Sounds great. I’ll be there.
Posted by Scott Beale on January 18, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Sounds great. I’ll be there. (sorry about the double comment, WP had me logged in on the wrong blog).
Posted by Scott Mace on January 18, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Yes! It’s now on my calendar, naturally.
Posted by lchiles on January 18, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Dave, i was trying to add some Feedburner info to my html but can’t figure out how to edit to while i’m on wordpress.com blog. Please, any ideas?
I pasted some htm in the notes section of some of the links but no dice it doesn’t show up.
Thanks
Lawton
Posted by Noam Lovinsky on January 18, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Sounds fun. I’ll be there.
Posted by Zach Coelius on January 18, 2006 at 5:21 pm
I think I ought to be able to make it. We are working on a new system for blog advertising and the feedback is always useful.
Posted by Rafael Ebron on January 19, 2006 at 8:19 am
I’d love to crash since it is only 5 minutes away from my house.
Posted by Shel Holtz on January 19, 2006 at 8:24 am
I’m not too far and it sounds like fun. Count me in.
Posted by Lance Knobel on January 19, 2006 at 10:35 am
Look forward to it. Great idea.
Posted by Tracey Taylor on January 19, 2006 at 10:41 am
I would love to come. Thanks.
Posted by Halley Suitt on January 19, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Darn, I’ll miss it by one day. I’m heading to SF Jan 27 – Feb 1. Have fun! (It’s Chinese New Years on Jan 29).
Posted by Robyn Levin on January 20, 2006 at 10:22 am
Great idea.
I look forward to seeing you and meeting other bloggers.
Posted by Don Hopkins on January 20, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Great idea — that’s a wonderful restraunt. I’m working half a block up the street, and I’ll be starving by 7, so count me in!
Posted by Reg Cheramy on January 20, 2006 at 8:48 pm
I’m in Palo Alto (visiting from Canada) … I’ll be there assuming I can find an easy way to get there. Hint appreciated.
Posted by dorai on January 21, 2006 at 8:35 am
I will be there. Looking forward to it.
Posted by Enric on January 22, 2006 at 10:09 am
I’ll be present — looking forward to it.
Posted by Kevin Burton on January 22, 2006 at 2:57 pm
I’ll try to be there but I might have a conflict… Om already invited me to another dinner this night… ug
Kevin
Posted by Gil Friend on January 22, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I’ll be out of town (in Phoenix) but hope to make the next one!
Gil
Posted by Owen Barder on January 22, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Though I am a mere policy blogger, I’d like to come to learn from the experts and hear about what is coming next in this marvelous new world …
Owen
Posted by Jay Cross on January 22, 2006 at 11:19 pm
I will be there. Is Berkeley destined to become the epicenter of the Blogosphere?
Posted by steephill.tv bike travelogue on January 23, 2006 at 3:22 pm
It’s about a 1.5 mile bike ride to the restaurant so I can’t pass it up.
Steve Hill
Posted by Raines on January 25, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Jay, it already is. Hadn’t you noticed?
Posted by Steve Gillmor on January 25, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Now that I know you can just show up anyway, I’m in.
Posted by marccanter on January 26, 2006 at 6:52 am
What – where are the kids?
This soireee needs two bubbling little girls – like Mimi and Lucy.
But they’ll want edamamee and Udon noodles.
Dave Winer snaps his fingers and the entire blogoshere adheres. Me – I’m just back from the road and have plenty of AOL and London stories ot share.
BTW Dave – Ted Leonsis wanted me to give you a big fat kiss.
Posted by Shannon Clark on January 26, 2006 at 11:05 am
Well since I just yesterday officially moved to Berkeley I’ll definitely be there this evening as well.
Posted by Carl Mercier on January 26, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Count me in as a .NET/Rails voice!
I’m from Canada, visiting the Valley for a month. I am looking for partners for a startup, or for an opportunity in a great startup.
I have great skills both on the business and technical side. I have been running a software dev shop since 1998.
I’ll see you all tonight!
Posted by Edward Piou on January 26, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Never been to a bloggers’ dinner, sounds like it’s time to start…
Posted by Dan Gillmor on January 26, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Apologies, but I can’t make it after all. I’m just back from a trip and trying to finish something on a deadline before tomorrow morning.
Posted by Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Getting your dots in order on January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[…] So I say “good luck” to Dan. Hopeflly I’ll see him at the dinner tonight. […]
Posted by Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Getting your dots in order on January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[…] So I say “good luck” to Dan. Hopeflly I’ll see him at the dinner tonight. […]
Posted by Enric on January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I’m assuming the dinner is around 7 pm, right?
Posted by Nik Cubrilovic on January 26, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Nik and Geoff from Omnidrive and Gabe will be there.
Posted by Gabe on January 26, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Coming
Posted by Reg Cheramy on January 27, 2006 at 1:52 am
Thanks Dave for a fun event!
I posted links to those in attendance.
http://web2.0central.com/archives/163
Reg
http://www.zigtag.com/
Posted by Laughing Squid » Berkeley Bloggers Dinner Photos on January 27, 2006 at 11:45 am
[…] Dave Winer organized one of his infamous Blogger Dinners last night in Berkeley. Here are a few photos that I shot. I agree with Dave that it’s better to have these dinners be less formal and structured, in order to enable better “circulation”. Often at the sit-down type dinners, you are only able to talk to the people who are sitting near you. Photos from the Berkeley Bloggers Dinner […]
Posted by Dave’s Wordpress Blog » Berkeley Bloggers Dinner #2, Feb 9 on January 30, 2006 at 8:33 am
[…] The first dinner was great, but we can do even better. We’re shopping for a new venue, and may have it, the Afghan Oasis restaurant, in the Shattuck Hotel, 2086 Allston Way. The SF Chronicle describes it as “the cavernous dining room where diners can sample chef Naim Amir’s Afghan dishes.” The food is excellent, and the room is huge and was virtually empty when I last visited. Sylvia Paull, Marc Canter and myself are meeting there for lunch on Wednesday at noon to have a look and see if we can arrange a fixed-price buffet and a space for mingling, eating and schmoozing. […]
Posted by Fubar on February 2, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Crap. I missed it. And I live only ten minutes away from the place. I’ll try to make the #2 dinner.