SF Bay Area Get-Together, Anyone?
 

Hey there folks!

In the past couple of months I have moved to the San Francisco Bay area (Berkeley). I'm now wondering how many TFP-ers are here, and if anyone wants to meet up. Any ideas for activities? I was thinking pizza and board games, but surely others have ideas, too.

Let the discussion begin! (assuming I'm not the only one on this side of the planet)

Home!!!

How I wish I were there.

If you guys get something going, let me know, and I'll see if I can arrange to be out there. I'd love to meet you guys, and see my family again. =)

I know Willravel is out there, even though he's not mapped.

I'm going to be running through there next week...

Great America, Santa Cruz, Gilroy Garlic festival...

those are the plans.

I'm also in Berkeley and I'm all for it. I'm not a big fan of most board games tbh but don't let me hold you down. ;) Some places I've enjoyed:

Berkeley/East Bay
Bear's Lair. Good food, great beer, I'm so pleased to have this place on the UC Berkeley campus. And I almost went an entire year living here without setting foot inside. All ages.
Jupiter. Actually, I've never been inside but it looks and sounds pretty cool. Its 21+ after a certain time I believe 9pm. Not sure if age is an issue for us. If you want to go and you're under 21 let us know so we can find some place all ages. They apparently brew their own beer, some of which is also served at Bear's Lair.
Ok, I guess I don't really know east bay outside of Berkeley.

San Francisco
Zeitgeist. Really awesome and well-known beer bar with a huge outdoor beer garden 21+ and they grill up some burgers too.
Toronado. Another awesome and well-known beer bar 21+ with an equally awesome sausage shop next door. Probably wouldn't be good for a crowd bigger than 5 which iirc is what we had at the last one. In fact, Zeitgeist is probably better anyway just for the atmosphere; it can be a little stuffy at Toronado.
21st Amendment Brewery. In SOMA near AT&T Park, not the best location because if there's not a Giants game going on, it's pretty dead, and if there is a Giants game going on, there's no parking within 20 blocks, but they have tasty pizzas and decent beers. All ages.

South Bay/Silicon Valley
Ummm... the place for the last meetup was pretty good?? :p I don't venture down here much except for the occasional electronic dance music event.

Hard to say what's a good date. Next week before Thursday might work, but we might not get anyone to show up on the relatively short notice. I will probably be out of town for 5-7 days in August, but not sure which. After that it's school and anything is probably good for a while.

Cool - it's great to know there's another one on the TFP that's here in Berkeley.
I'm 23, so the 21+ scene is just fine.

I've heard of the Bear's Lair. It was pretty popular during the world cup.

I'm in summer school, so life is pretty hectic. Weekday evenings work best for me, since I'm working most weekend evenings at a certain coffee shop on Oxford & Center.

If we want to do something that requires planning, I was thinking sometime in August - perhaps the week of the 22nd. I have no car, so I'll need to either carpool or take BART into San Francisco if we find more people and meet up there.

With Cynthetic coming to the area next week, maybe we could have a mini-get together one of these evenings. I'd be up for an evening away from studying.

I don't know much about what our plans are. We are going to Great America on Thurs or Friday. Saturday and Sunday or going to be more in the Gilroy/Santa Cruz area. I'm trying to make it up now....it's been really some time since I've been in that area. I did go to SF and Sac a couple years ago, but the lower pennisula... not in 20 years I think

GG, you are going to my alma mater and I would love to see Cal again and "the City." Wish I could be there. :(

I'm really busy this week finding a new place and moving among other things. Might be able to fit something in one night if Cyn will be in the area, but overall sometime in August would be better. Is anyone else planning to attend and if so what's good for you?

Mid-August sounds good for me.

August 25th at Jupiter? Really any day will work equally well for me, but if weekdays are better for you we might be able to get more people out on a Friday.

I work that evening, unfortunately. What about the 26th?

I'll be up in Sebastopol on the 26th, but I could probably do something on the 25th or 27th (if it is in the evening).

I'm glad I didn't discover this thread too late. A meeting sounds terrific.

I used to live on northside as an undergrad and remained in Berkeley for another 5 years. Now I'm living down in Monterey but I come up the coast often. (Yeah I burn fossil fuels and I love to drive ... but how else am I going to see my best friend's 2 week old son way up in Hercules?)

BTW. In terms of pizza it doesn't get any better than Zachary's on Solano Ave - try their stuffed special sometime. I'm not sure if it's the best place to hang out 'cause it's a little more like a restaurant than some other places.

I haven't ventured back to my alma mater in years. What sort of boardgames were you thinking, genuinegirly? If anyone has any special dietary issues you ought to bring them forth. (e.g. veganism, gluten intolerance, peanut allergies, red meat only, can't eat foods beginning with the letter "Q", etc.)

My weekends are pretty open. I work in the day.

25th and 27th are also fine for me.

Zachary's does have good pizza but for the purposes of a meetup I think it's better to go to a place that isn't insane like Zachary's on College or out of reasonable BART/walking range like Zachary's on Solano.

UPDATE: Nobody can make it so it's cancelled; I probably won't be there.
Well, if you will, I'll tentatively set the time and date for Sunday August 27th at 5 PM. If this doesn't work for you please do post and tell us what does. I want to see as many people here as possible! :thumbsup:

Not entirely sure about the location. It looks like Jupiter's menu is pretty small with a focus on pizza and beer. That's fine with me but if people are looking for more of a restaurant or something else entirely we could do that too. I'll probably go there to check it out this week.

UPDATE: Nobody can make it so it's cancelled; I probably won't be there.
I went to Jupiter today and it seems like a fine place for a meetup. (Is anyone still paying attention? Who is planning on coming to this?) It is located at
2181 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
[Google Map]

You can take BART to [Downtown] Berkeley station. It's right there on the east side of Shattuck when you exit the station; you can't miss it.

From 80/580, exit University Ave, go east for 2 miles, make a right on Shattuck, and it's 2 blocks from there.

Thanks n0nsensical!
I'm going to reschedule something...
definitely planning on coming!

Hmmmm... board games... let's see..
Risk or Cranium are the two that I have handy.

Mmm... Jupiter. How I miss that place, and I've only even been there once.

I work Sundays so it looks like I am going to either miss this one or show up late. I guess it depends on how much FngKestrel wants to go.

No, no. you're the whole reason I said the 27th. What time can you make it or what day do you not work??

yes, Coppertop, we should find a time that works for everyone!

egad.

Sunday evening doesn't work for me - I work in Salinas Monday morning ... There'll be other times, Oh well.

UPDATE: Nobody can make it so it's cancelled; I probably won't be there.
Well, I'm still going to Jupiter Sunday even if no one else is. :p It's hard to plan this stuff when people don't post when they CAN go, only that they can't at specific times, and then it's a week delay to check another time. I will probably get a table outside; just go straight back when you enter and I'll make some stupid TFP sign or something. I guess just be late if you can, ha, so Coppertop/Fng won't miss everyone (if they are coming at all). If you get lost or you need to find us in Jupiter you can always give me a call.

I'm only 18, so I probably won't be joining you guys. :|

I called Jupiter and they said it's only 21+ after 8:00. I also PMed everyone on the board I could find who hasn't posted and who has left some evidence of living around here. ;)

bummer. I'm now scheduled to work Sunday evening, too. I figured we were going to plan for another time. Oh well.
See you around!

All right, it's dead, Jim. Six feet under, kicked the bucket, pushing up daisies. Don't go to Jupiter Sunday unless you just really wanted to go there.

Well, it's dead this time around. Maybe we still have some hope of getting together. Anyone busy on Sep. 4? That's Labor Day. And a Monday.

Sorry guys, I only check TFP on Sundays, hence my week delay between, well, everything. For future reference, I work Sunday-Thursday, 8-5. Saturdays work best for me. Unfortunately after hitting the gym yesterday afternoon, I slept 13 hours last night. Yikes! So I wouldn't have gone last night either.

edit - I suppose I should have said that although Saturdays are best for me, this particular one wasn't. Sorry.

I'm not busy but judging from the response, if we want to have more than very few people, I think it would be a good idea to schedule it for a Saturday pretty far in advance and let people know more than a few days before. We could always do something small on monday and something larger later, but there's a bit of a dilemma which is that if I don't PM people for Monday, it will probably just be you and me, but on the other hand I don't want to PM spam too much and get people tired of the whole idea or end up with two meetings with a few people at each rather than one large one. So, in light of this, what do you think about it?

i've given up.

Saturday October 7th, does this work for people?

Perhaps beating a dead horse, but I'll give it a shot. I just moved to Rockridge, on the Oakland/Berkeley border, and I need to meet me some new people. Who's up for it?

I've heard some good things about Albatross. It's apparently a fun bar with billiards and darts, etc., but you're also able to bring your own board games. Not sure if that's everyone's cup of team, but I wouldn't mind.

Probably too short notice for the 7th (tomorrow)... but maybe soon?

Yeah sure I'm always up for something. In fact I'm in Rockridge a lot going to places on College (like Cactus Taqueria sometime this weekend). Nobody replied about the 7th and I'm going to be pretty busy anyway (unless you want to meetup at 1015 folsom :p), so if people still wanted to plan something for all Bay Area people a time in advance would be good. I was just waiting for, like, one other person to say if the 7th, or any date, would be a good one and then I could PM other people to let them know.

if you guys get something going, please let me know

Are we still beating a dead horse?

I just saw this thread. I am in the SF area. Although I haven't yet visited Zeigeist and Tornado, those 2 places are definitely highly recommended by my friends here.

all right guys, I don't know how I ended up in charge, but I'm dead serious this time. it's happening saturday, november 11th. post what time is good and where you want to go or i'll pick something for you!

FYI- The annual Campbell Pub Crawl is on Saturday the 18th. Might be worth considering as a TFP meetup of sorts. Plus, it serves the dual purpose of being a celebration of FngKestrel's birthday. Here are some pics from last year's event, when he turned 30.

I cannot do the 11th, so enjoy if you guys do it then.

i'd be game for either/both. i don't think i've got plans either of those days..

would it be bad form to PM other people that have posted in this thread, in case they don't check it regularly?

word on the street is that pigglet will be out in SanFran part of next week - Sunday night through Thursday morning. I've already taken note of the bars and whatnot up top in thread - if y'all get together during that time I may be able to make a run at it (although I'm technically out there on business, etc). If not, we'll see what your beer and pizza is worth.