Fen/food randomness
Jan. 27th, 2010 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendNo offense to the fine people at Tramonto's, but this web site is no way to run a railroad - especially when a ton of hungry fen could descend on your restaurant and make you a ton (?) of money in a mere two-plus weeks when Capricon is held.
Speaking of Capricon, I still find this a bit comically Kafkaesque (if such a thing exists) in nature:
No Liquor in the Lobby. Please remember that you may not transport any container that obviously contains alcohol through the lobby of the hotel. Any box or container that obviously contains alcohol WILL BE CONFISCATED BY THE HOTEL. This is hotel policy. All liquor must be in a nondescript container.
Uh huh. The hotel gave us the right to hold parties and serve liquor on an upper floor, gave us permission to transport said liquor to that floor by extension and then decided that actually knowing what we were transporting it in is, in fact, apparently far worse than serving it in the first place. Okay. Glad we got that cleared up.
I can't find the @$#$%!!! link on Metromix that points to the Best Of reviews for restaurants and bars, but Piece won for best (microbrewed) beer and thin-crust pizza and I have a hard time arguing with either point. A pity their beer guide doesn't list their monstrous barleywine or smoked stout; they're probably brewed as seasonals, but they actually might be available again since I last went there in March 2009, sampled both and came away damn impressed.
I've noticed that Anime Central is close to bottoming out with their overflow hotels. The Residence Inn is the cheapest and it's still more expensive than a basic room at either Capricon, Duckon or last year's Windycon. What the...?
(Memo to Acen's web site overlords: fix the colors on the freaking font, already!)
Speaking of Capricon, I still find this a bit comically Kafkaesque (if such a thing exists) in nature:
No Liquor in the Lobby. Please remember that you may not transport any container that obviously contains alcohol through the lobby of the hotel. Any box or container that obviously contains alcohol WILL BE CONFISCATED BY THE HOTEL. This is hotel policy. All liquor must be in a nondescript container.
Uh huh. The hotel gave us the right to hold parties and serve liquor on an upper floor, gave us permission to transport said liquor to that floor by extension and then decided that actually knowing what we were transporting it in is, in fact, apparently far worse than serving it in the first place. Okay. Glad we got that cleared up.
I can't find the @$#$%!!! link on Metromix that points to the Best Of reviews for restaurants and bars, but Piece won for best (microbrewed) beer and thin-crust pizza and I have a hard time arguing with either point. A pity their beer guide doesn't list their monstrous barleywine or smoked stout; they're probably brewed as seasonals, but they actually might be available again since I last went there in March 2009, sampled both and came away damn impressed.
I've noticed that Anime Central is close to bottoming out with their overflow hotels. The Residence Inn is the cheapest and it's still more expensive than a basic room at either Capricon, Duckon or last year's Windycon. What the...?
(Memo to Acen's web site overlords: fix the colors on the freaking font, already!)
