We’ve got the date for the second Berkeley Blogger’s Dinner, it’s February 9 at 7PM at 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.
This location is closer to BART than the last, the station is just around the corner from the restaurant. For people coming from SF or the South Bay, perhaps it makes sense to drive to a BART station and take the train across the bay. It’s virtually impossible to make a 7PM dinner from the other side of the bay without leaving two or three hours for travel, if you come by car. The train takes 20 minutes to get from the Embarcadero to downtown Berkeley. It’s an incredible deal.
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Posted by Raines on January 30, 2006 at 7:21 am
Sounds like a plan, unless I get dragooned to LA or Seattle that week.
Whatever became of those little yellow sign-in cards at the first dinner? Would be nice to have a blogroll of attendees.
I’d be happy to host a future gathering at my cohousing community – we could have the space to ourselves and have it catered by an inexpensive gourmet chef friend of mine. Or even do cooking lessons as part of the deal, have a meal prepared by bloggers, who of course could blog about it.
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Posted by Sylvia Paull on January 30, 2006 at 8:15 am
I hope the renowned belly dancers show up at some point, but in the meantime, I’m going to recruit more women to this event.
Posted by Scott Mace on January 30, 2006 at 3:27 pm
My wife will be at EBMUG in Emeryville that night, so I’ll be with our child at home. Catch you next time!
Scott Mace
Posted by Andrew Keen on January 30, 2006 at 6:47 pm
sylvia just told me about this. looking forward to it. food is great.
Posted by Marc Canter on January 31, 2006 at 11:10 am
I’ll be in London – but I love yah anyway.
See yah tomorrow.
Posted by rashmi on January 31, 2006 at 11:33 am
Nepalese food sounds great. I have been meaning to make it to these Berkeley Blogger dinners (its a little bit of a drive from MOuntain View). But I think I can make it to this one.
Posted by jennifer morris on January 31, 2006 at 11:37 am
I am a women, I know some bolggers and I live in Berkeley. Maybe I will come.
Posted by Raines on January 31, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Followup: I’ll be in LA. Have fun!
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Posted by Gil Friend on February 1, 2006 at 12:41 am
Dang, out of town for this one too.
Posted by Tom Maddox on February 1, 2006 at 10:42 am
Love to come and am planning on it. Even though there may be belly dancers, who in my (limited) experience take up an enormous amount of bandwidth–all that *jangling*.
Posted by Andy Brown on February 1, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Count me in. I went to the last one and it was pretty cool. With the new venue this promises to be even better!
Posted by Robert Anderson on February 2, 2006 at 9:50 am
Count me in again — love to see how these dinners evolve.
Posted by nimad on February 2, 2006 at 9:57 am
I look forward to meeting you all.
Posted by Fubar on February 2, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Sounds like fun. Count me in.
Posted by Steve Hill on February 3, 2006 at 3:50 pm
I’ll be there.
Posted by 360dvd on February 5, 2006 at 12:28 am
Dave, wondering if you may extend your invite to a new blogger, but old school media developer.
Posted by scottr on February 6, 2006 at 10:28 am
If the bug that has been invading our family has not felled me I will be there…
Posted by donovan on February 6, 2006 at 12:17 pm
maybe i should drive down from redmond, wa? :=)
i had a great time at the last dinner. would love to attend this but i’m up north right now. well, gotta pick up some things from my storage unit down in the Bay area so maybe I’ll make a run for it. can’t guarantee i’ll make the trek but you never know.
you all are in my thoughtS(treams)
Posted by Derrick Schneider on February 6, 2006 at 12:53 pm
I’m a maybe, depending on how the release at work is going.
Posted by Steve Gillmor on February 6, 2006 at 1:02 pm
yep yep yep
Posted by Owen Byrne on February 6, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I’ll bite. Even though I don’t know anybody and nobody knows me!
Posted by Dave Ushijima on February 6, 2006 at 8:05 pm
If I can make it back from San Jose in time, I’ll be there.
Posted by Tom Conrad on February 6, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Looking forward to it.
Posted by Shannon Whitley on February 7, 2006 at 8:38 am
I’ll be there. Somebody send Donovan a plane ticket.
Posted by Raymond Yee on February 7, 2006 at 11:29 am
My wife Laura and I will be there. We might be able to bring along some friends too. Looking forward to it.
Posted by Derrick Schneider on February 7, 2006 at 11:37 am
I take it back. I’m a no. Hopefully I can make the next one.
Posted by Robert Anderson on February 7, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Just a warning: there is a Cal basketball game at 7:30. This will effect traffic / parking some. There was during the last dinner, too, but the dinner was further from the game.
Posted by Rafael Ebron on February 8, 2006 at 12:01 am
Count me in. I’ll bring cash this time and I’ll try and stick around for dessert.
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Posted by Jeff Cheney on February 8, 2006 at 8:59 pm
I’ll be there.
Posted by donovan on February 10, 2006 at 1:13 am
thanks for the dinner invite and good company. – donovan.
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Posted by Ramin on February 23, 2006 at 7:03 pm
There was talk at the Blogger’s dinner #2 that this could be a regular event. Any more thought on that (or did I miss something?)