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[PLEASE RSVP] 2012 PAX East D&D Fancy Dinner!
Organichu
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dinner is at the marliave, 10 bosworth street, 8pm on friday, april 6th. price is $47 for a prix fixe menu. please rsvp.
Boy, that's a lot of letters.
April 6-8 is PAX and we're planning on throwing together another quasi-fancy dinner in Boston. Generally it's largely populated by D&D [chat]ters but anyone else who can hold their liquor and be interesting for a few hours is more than welcome!
Previously we've gone with Friday night and I see no reason to break the tradition. So,
1) Restaurant ideas?
2) RSVP you butts.
As is the tradition, this is a fancy dinner. It won't be white tablecloth, but all the same we would love if everyone dresses as classy as they can manage. I understand that not everyone has scads of formal clothing. I also get that some of you are already stretched thin with how much luggage you're bringing. That's ok. Optimally I'd hope for the standard to be suits and dresses... but if you can't do that, you're still welcome. Just please try do what you can to keep up the atmosphere that so many of us have been looking forward to all year. Please don't wear denim or a tshirt or whatever.
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Boy, that's a lot of letters.
April 6-8 is PAX and we're planning on throwing together another quasi-fancy dinner in Boston. Generally it's largely populated by D&D [chat]ters but anyone else who can hold their liquor and be interesting for a few hours is more than welcome!
Previously we've gone with Friday night and I see no reason to break the tradition. So,
1) Restaurant ideas?
2) RSVP you butts.
Dress Code
As is the tradition, this is a fancy dinner. It won't be white tablecloth, but all the same we would love if everyone dresses as classy as they can manage. I understand that not everyone has scads of formal clothing. I also get that some of you are already stretched thin with how much luggage you're bringing. That's ok. Optimally I'd hope for the standard to be suits and dresses... but if you can't do that, you're still welcome. Just please try do what you can to keep up the atmosphere that so many of us have been looking forward to all year. Please don't wear denim or a tshirt or whatever.
Organichu
So It Goes
visiblehowl
msmya
LoserForHireX
TomeWyrm
PantsB + 1
The Artist formerly known as Justin Sane + 3
Irond Will + 1
Eddy
Premier Kakos
Tarranon
OnTheLastCastle
Kikka + 1
PIH + 1
smrtnik
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The pluses are that we're familiar with the place, the service was great, the food was fantastic, and there are two full bars.
The potential cons are pretty much:
a) the menu's a little bit closed off. I just called and confirmed that for a party our size, we have to accept a condensed menu. They'd work with me and I'd happily try to accomodate most tastes, but it can work out to no more than four of any course (leaving the vegetarians or 'non-fancy-food' people with sometimes only one option). As I said, the food is delicious... but it's a consideration.
b) it's a bit expensive for some of our crowd. Last year a meal was, I think, $36? That covered every course, but still- it's not a $7 burger and Pepsi, as are many of the hurriedly-eaten-over-your-warhammer-figurines-you-disgusting-neckbeards meals people grab over the weekend. So, for a lot of people the shock of a $3x meal and then a $30 bar tab can be real lame for one night. I definitely think it's a high quality experience- and I believe that opinion was almost universal last year. But it may be that we have to downscale the price range a bit this year, since some folks were hurting last time. That is largely up to y'all.
So what do you guys think?
marliave: $43/head
eastern standard: starting at $45/head
trade: $65/head
q: no go
I'm down like....clowns?
I'm stoked like....folks......
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'in there like swimwear'
I would like to point out, Mr. Organ E. Chu, Esq., that no self-respecting neckbeard would eat over his or her Warhammer figurines.
This time I will try not to be late by dropping my suit pants in the parking lot of the convention center.
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False! I use my Warhammer figurines as a placemat to distract the food and prevent it from seeking out my Warmachine figurines.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
I said self-respecting neckbeard!
ffffffffffffffff walked right into that one
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
yes you should
i'm in
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I'm not sitting down in the same place other people have sat, let me tell you what
Barring any sudden deaths or near deaths or riots, I'm in.
+1 hot mama
then erase all five of their names and be like organichu + 5
because i have sexual magnetism, you see
does that mean everyone is basically ok with low to mid $30? (this of course doesn't include drinks)
if so, do people want to do marliave again?
or would people prefer something a little more foreign? chinatown is walking distance from the convention and the downtown hotels.
weigh in por favor so i can do more focused research
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you fancy huh
but if I do, I'll definitly do a dinner.
You have to fight through some bad days, to earn the best days of your life.
the marliave was pretty alright
if it'd be most convenient for everyone i'm all for doing it again. at the same time, most of us are only in boston like once every never, so i wouldn't mind entertaining other tasty alternatives if they're viable
so i've been speaking with a coordinator at the marliave
it seems like their prices have gone up (or there was a discount last year because of restaurant week)
there is necessarily a condensed menu for a party of our size and the price would be $42 per person, which is $8 more than last year
given that information i assume this will shove enough people out to kick this restaurant out of contention
so... any boston area people who have other recommendations, chop chop!
There is that steak house, although that's probably in the wrong direction price/class-wise. There's always the north end, too.
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having some trouble hmmm
i guess i'll ask now: are people potentially ok with it costing more like low-mid $4x/head?
or, in the opposite direction i guess: would people be receptive to the idea of feeling goofy overdressing in a less spendy place? or shifting the dress code down?