This is for everyone who is getting into Seattle on Thursday before PAX starts and doesn't have plans yet.
We found this awesome restaurant and figured that I would let you guys know about it if you don't have plans for the Thursday night before PAX yet. If you're not going to PAX, sorry I'm spamming you with this.
So, there is a restaurant in Seattle called FareStart. Normally it is open only for lunch, and the idea behind the restaurant is that it takes homeless people and provides them with job training at a relatively high end restaurant so that they can enter the working world. On Thursdays they do a guest chef night where a prominent chef from the restaurant community comes in and does a 3 course dinner. While that sounds sketchy, the food is supposed to be amazing. It's also within walking distance of most of the hotels we're all staying at (6 blocks from the Sheraton at least).
So far we have 2 tables with reservations for 6:15 on Thursday night. If you guys don't have any plans, you should totally come eat with us. It is tasty, socially conscious, and pretty damn cheap. The full 3 course meal is only $25 (not including booze), and 100% of the proceeds go to the program.
The menu for that night is here:
http://www.farestart.org/restaurant/guestchef/calendar/EarthandOcean_Menu.html
Reviews of the restuarant are here:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/farestart-seattle#hrid:wQlU96jWiBQNu0n8KNVMaA/query:restaurants
Unfortunately, you need to make your own reservation. They're changeable, so if you can get even one more person, just make the reservation and then add people later. Any tables larger than 4 people are already gone, so the max you can have at a table is 4. Do it quickly, because these Guest Chef Nights fill up pretty fast. Once we get there we can see if we can just all be seated next to each other. If not, I plan on flinging bread at Dexter from across the restaurant.
Make reservations here:
http://export.opentable.com/opentables.aspx?t=Rest&r=12331&f=&q=&m=2&p=2&d=8/28/2008+6%3A00%3A00+PM
Finally, the suggested attire is business casual. Nothing fancy.
LIST OF CONFIRMED DINERS:
The Best Table:
Aerox
Hito
Knives
Mid3vol
Double Date Table:
Dexter
Libby
Naia
Zero
Fun Sexy Time Table (Whites Only):
Necros
King3vbo
LostCrichton
MadNinja
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Table (ONE SPOT OPEN):
McSnow
The GHost (Yay he's back from Africa!!!!)
Chooly CHOOLY IS LAME. THERE IS ONE OPEN SPOT LEFT.
Mystery Friend
Nihon Is Going to Make Nintendoll Dress Up As Cammy Table:
NihonTiger
PowerGlove
Nintendoll
GuitarAtomik
Kung Fu Panda Dreamworks Extravaganza Table:
Ceark
Ceark's lovely co-worker
Everything's Bigger in Texas and maybe New Zealand? (Protip: It's because they're overcompensating for something) Table:
CountingConflict
Coonskin
Tactix
Macca
I'm running out of table names Table:
RiserGlen
FooLiz
Suff0cat
Asian Joe
Afterwards, the plan is to head out to a nice, cheap bar called The Redwood and get really drunk.
The Redwood
If you can't make it to dinner, you should definitely come out for drinks with us. It's going to be EPIC.
Start PAX off right. Come hang out with us.
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You didn't mention that Necros wants in, but has nobody to sit with yet!
Are we (as in Destructoid) still doing Furniss' house that night?
I'm with Coon, I thought Furniss' party was Thursday night
Dinner at FareStart is at 6:15. I'm sure that leaves time for Furniss afterward.
It is my understanding that the Furniss thing is not happening. We are going barhopping instead.
nm signed up
If Coon and some TX people want to get a table for that night then hit me up.
Thats the best idea for a restaurant ever.
I can't make it though :(
:D :D :D!!!! PAX!!
Looks like King and I are having a romantic dinner together, anyone want to make it a double date?
NO ONE MUST RUIN OUR ROMANTIC DINNER
Rockvillian will be there in spirit :).
Wait!! Does that mean you Rocky has to die?
I will be there. My flight gets in at like noon Pacific and I need to kill time.
Also, I need a table to sit with. Anyone?
I wish I could be there. Maybe Rockvillian and I can go out to dinner together and call you guys instead.
I'll be there Thursday, but not too sure how into this dinner I will be...I didnt understand half of the words on the menu! :P I'll be up for drinking afterwards though!
that sexy time table does sound good...
Thanks for letting me know that I'm going... I wasn't aware.
I am going, put me on the sexy table. And it isn't a date, it is a three-some. But I need help reserving.
Okay, so from people who emailed me, the Sexy Time Table is filled up with me, King, Madninja, and LostCrichton.
Everyone else, start a new table!
I signed us up, Lib. Hope you don't mind.
I want in, I'll sit with whoever is going to be at the new table.
I've booked a table for 4 but that may well be taken up already by myself, Chooly, The GHost & friend.
That's also if we can make it in time, our plane only lands at 4.40pm. o.O
power-glove and I are set, but we have room for two more, I believe.
I'd like to go to this. Anyone up for having me at their table. I'm a classy gent... I swear.
Well I'll be there then I guess... but that's too rich for my blood =X.
Damn, we're going to be taking over this place huh?
Ooh, that sounds like fun, but my plane doesn't get in until like 10:30. Hope you guys have a blast, though.
I wanna go.
That meal sounds super-beefy :)
@Nihon Tiger
Wanna throw me in that table?
My flight doesn't arrive until 8pm. I'm sure you'll still be there then, but I'd still need to get to my hotel and find the friends I'm staying with. Sorry. :(
However! I am looking for something to do on Sunday night! Specifically a place to stay, as my friends are leaving Sunday whereas I'm not leaving until early Tuesday. We could work something out maybe? ^_^
Also, I'm at the double date table?
Lame.
:P
Okay it's settled. I'll go to dinner with Panda and get He-brews, then I'll let him dispatch me somehow so I can come join you all in your memories as a spirit.
LOL @ Whites only table
@Nintendoll: Sure thing.
We still have room for one more, though, so if anyone else needs a spot, it's open.
Crap, 6:15 is already filled to the brim with tables of four, it seems, as is 6:30.
You can still get a table for two at 6:15 or 6:30, though. But you probably want to move on this quick.
You can also try for 6:00.
Aerox, quick question: does the time for this matter? If I shifted to 6:30 from my current 6:15 booking, would it totally separate us from the rest of you?
@Nihon
I doubt it. I would just go with whatever you can. When we get there we are going to try to see if we can get seated at tables next to each other, but it may not happen. 15 minutes shouldn't make a huge difference.
Thanks :)
Again, I would go, but my flight touches down at 9:15, which means I probably wont get off the plane til 9:30, which means I won't get out of the airport til at least 9:45...you can see where I'm going with this. I will be at the bars as soon as I can get there, however.
CountingConflict has expressed interest in being the 4th at our table. I approve of this.
Damn, I want to go. But I'm not getting there until Friday around noon.
I just reservered a table of 2
Hahah, I like that I'm now at the "Double Date Table."
I wanna go
Someone book a table with me at it
That's the day of my Jimi Hendrix tour, so after the long bus rides to and from his grave I will be tired
They tour Hendrix's grave? I used to live (literally) across the street from that.
before or after he was exhumed
I can't wait for the pictochat magic that will inevitably happen this night. :)
I wants a table, but I have nobody to sit with. Anyone willing to help? I have good table manners... sometimes.
Egg - I believe NihonTiger has a spot open at his table since CountingConflict moved to a different one. I would talk to him.
Actually Joe, it looks like you're at Riser's table.