Yes! I'm in DC tomorrow night and (barring major immigration policy news, which could happen) I'm up for dinner. Although I'm terrible on DC geography and restaurants.
I live in the area, would prefer tomorrow to Th., 80% likely to be able to make it Tue.
H Street corridor is nearby, has a bunch of options. ALso suitable stuff by the convention center, or right downtown though more crowded and noisy there usually.
H street: Maketto tasty, not crazy expensive, good, a little pretentious. Dangerously Delicious Pies right by there has ggood savory pies, tiny space not good for a big group, places for drinks all around. Near the convention ctr, Espita 1250 9th St NW, is really tasty, roomy enough for a loose group of uncertain size, also a few bars with suitable ambiance. Downtown either Oyamel or Zaytinya are good, would probably accomodate in their respective bar areas.
1. Near Union Station? Plenty of choices, on foot or by short bus trip or streetcar. Even if I can't make it, I'll make some recommendations.
2. I may be able to make it, especially if it's right around Union Station or on H Street. You say tomorrow or Thursday, but not Wednesday? I'm not sure either way about any of those three but Wednesday would be better.
3. A deposition in DC this week? Are you going to be on the news?
It's been a while since I've been active here but I'd like to join if that's not an impediment. I could do either Tuesday or Thursday evening. I don't really have an opinion on H Street options (that area has changed quite a bit since I lived nearby) but if venturing downtown then either Zaytinya or Oyamel is a solid choice.
I will not be on the news. I am circling on the very outskirts of an interesting case, but nothing I'm doing myself is remotely interesting.
I'll be in and out of being able to check the site so I am arbitrarily saying it's on for tomorrow, 7 pm or later, lw picks the restaurant, and widget should show up. Sorry Wednesday's out -- I have different plans set for then. Specific plans should be made in the thread or email me at eliizardb@hotmail.com .
She put a stray "i" in that email address. Maybe unintentionally.
No, I just type badly on my phone. But thank you kindly for catching it -- I'd never have looked back to notice.
Tuesday at 7 works for me! I'll show up wherever I'm told. Planning to wear a pair of very green pants, for those of you who haven't met me (or who are as bad as I am with faces).
Second meet-ups are weird like that. It can take me than one time to learn a face, especially if the second time I see somebody is months or years later, but I feel like I should recognize people if I've met them before.
For work tomorrow, I actually have to drive in the direction of this meet-up, but it turns out (upon Google-Mapping) that I'll still be 90 miles out.
Some H Street options.
Granville Moore: Belgian beer and oysters. Kind of loud. Queen Vic: British football bar/restaurant. Great dessert. Mostly British beers. Also loud. Qusbah: Indian/Asian fusion. Spicy stuff, OK beers, nice cocktails. Mostly outdoor seating, more quiet. Smith Commons: Nice beers, cocktails, the fancy place. To get to any of these from Union Station, walk through the bus garage to the streetcar, it's free. Lw's are fine too.
If it's anywhere on H Street, there's a 90 percent chance that I, Cassandane, and Atossa will be there. If not, probably not. Sorry to condition my attendance on that degree of convenience to me, I'll blame the 3-year-old, and other plans that same night.
She is a princess, after all.
Qusbah: Indian/Asian fusion
Wonder what Sharif thinks of it.
Also, if it doesn't wind up on H St., no hard feelings, I'm not the one coming in from out of state. Whatever works for LB and the rest of the group.
I'll have to see how the day goes, but will try to make it if I can.
I'll come, if someone will buy me a beer.
If you promise to get in a fight, I'll venmo you the price of a whole pitcher.
22: Are you saying I'm a belligerent drunk? How dare you? I might have to track you down and kick your ass.
Smith Commons has a lovely website, looks inviting, let's try that. 1245 H street. There's a "seasonal outdoor patio" on the third floor, I'd say we take our chances that we'll be OK for space rather than getting a table for a bunch. 30% chance of rain without accumulation right at 7. If anyone else prefers the certainty of reserving, go for it-- sounds like 6-8 people so far with a 90% likely kid.
Oh, I'm tall, rectangular glasses, my phone has a wooden case.
Sounds good. See you there. I'll be wearing a purple shirt and a mildly confused expression.
Sorry to miss this. I have another friend in town for business and arranged dinner already. Hope you have a good meet-up.
I'll be wearing green pants too. Let's see if anyone gets me and Witt confused.
Smith Commons it is. I'm in a green dress, shortish brownish gray hair, glasses.
TONIGHT IS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT, TONIGHT IS GONNA BE A GOOD GOOD NIGHT/
A little alarmed by 31, but am heading over. Will be a few minutes late, so please save a seat if you can. Not wearing green, but I think I've met a couple of you before so hopefully will find you without an extended period of wandering around awkwardly.
Oh good fucking lord, I've done the DC thing.
That address wasn't NW, was it. I'll tske a cab and be there in a bit.
35: you know, when I saw there was no quadrant specified in 24, I thought about saying something, but didn't want to BALB. Sorry.
There was a restaurant name, I could have googled.
I have even less excuse. I dawdled leaving work for no good reason and ended up taking a taxi rather than the Metro.
I guess there really was a serial killer.
41: Heh. If so, they let me, Cassandane, and Atossa leave in peace. Good gathering, sorry we couldn't stay later. Cassandane goes to an exercise class on Tuesday, and, of course, the 3-year-old had bedtime.
I was annoyingly seated so I didn't get to talk to Atossa hardly at all, but she was great -- adorable and very good at being in a gathering of adults.
But the high point of the evening for me was finding out that Potchkeh and are at sort of less than one degree of professional separation. His firm worked on a case suing NY State for a whole lot of money a few years back, and the section I was working then handled it. I wasn't directly on the case, mostly, but was stepping in at intervals to do some supervisory stuff when someone on the case was having a breakdown, which several of them were all the time. The main lawyer handling it, who Potchkeh remembers unfondly (as do I), has now left lawyering to try and make his singer-songwriter career work, partially due to the accumulated stress of that case specifically.
(NYS won, meaning that Potchkeh was at least happy that he'd made us absolutely miserable for a year or so.)
Very happy indeed. If we couldn't crush our opponent, some consolation to know that we at least crushed our opponent's lawyer's spirit.
Afterwards--out of a morbid curiosity to see if any of the pain we had caused him had expressed itself in his art, and I guess to do my little bit to support a career I unwittingly helped nudge him toward--I tried to find some music of his to buy. Unfortunately he shares a name with a fairly prominent musician, so he might as well be invisible to the internet.
43.1: Thanks. She's definitely friendly and outgoing. As I've mentioned I feel guilty parking her in front of the Kindle, but what else can I do with her in public at this age.
43.2: Was that potchkeh or widget? I know the guy sitting next to me was a lawyer. I thought it was widget. I thought potchkeh, between him and you, worked for a certain trade association (being vague to not VSOOBC, but also because we didn't talk directly, sitting where I was).
45 crossed with 44. I was obviously wrong about the names, then. Let's see what else I was wrong about.
I was wrong about the capacity of the American public for basic standards of decency and competence.
I was wrong about how many beers I could drink in the afternoon and still make it to the meetup.
45: I was sitting next to you, potchkeh was sitting next to me, and potchkeh was the one who had the shared war story with LB.
It was nice meeting everyone! Probably all for the best that neither BK nor the serial killer (so far as we know) could make it.
Oops, missed that already being clarified in 44. Sorry.
Potchkeh -- if you want to find him, search his name on Youtube with the addition of Hoa/gie, which is his performing name. At least, I haven't tried lately, but that worked a few years ago.
Behind every great artist is a sandwich made on elongated bread.
Read the fucking room, Amapiano, no one is meeting up for dinner in DC anytime soon.