Austin Tx informal?

Austin has an indoor smoking ban, so that kills that. I am thinking of a place though. In North Austin there is a coffee shop (not great coffee, but not a busy place either) with a meeting room in it. My martial arts studio used to use it for UFC fights. It's in the same shopping complex with a very nice pipe/cigar shop (also "gentleman's gifts"), a couple of restaurants, and an Alamo Drafthouse. It's also near Sherlock's. It might be a good place where we could meet, break up, and meet again. We could get together for a few demos, let folks go have a smoke or bite to eat (social time), meet back up for more activity, then folks could go do other stuff with their afternoon/evening.

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Originally Posted by foundlingofdollar

Austin has an indoor smoking ban, so that kills that. I am thinking of a place though. In North Austin there is a coffee shop (not great coffee, but not a busy place either) with a meeting room in it. My martial arts studio used to use it for UFC fights. It's in the same shopping complex with a very nice pipe/cigar shop (also "gentleman's gifts"), a couple of restaurants, and an Alamo Drafthouse. It's also near Sherlock's. It might be a good place where we could meet, break up, and meet again. We could get together for a few demos, let folks go have a smoke or bite to eat (social time), meet back up for more activity, then folks could go do other stuff with their afternoon/evening.

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I suspect once we get going, we won't stop. :D

foundlingofdollar,
If you are talking about Texpresso, I know Dave the owner pretty well, I worked in that shopping center for four years. That would be a great spot, they have really good coffee. They don't sell beer but we might be able to bring our own, I know they have hosted football games there that were BYOB. PM me if you would like me to contact Dave there at Texpresso. I guess we just need to settle on a date. It looks the only person who has responded that can't make the weekend of July 19/20 is spiffy chimp and it seems like there is more conflict with all of the other prospective dates. How is that date for everyone else? I'm reallt looking forward to meeting everyone and gaining some insight from some of you masters!

Yah, Texpresso is the place. It's been my all afternoon study place for a while. While it dosn't have everything that we would be looking for in a meeting place, it does have quick access to everything one could possibly want. There's pipe world if folks want to step out for a cigar, coffee and snacks in house, a few places for a full meal, etc. Let's try to get some more info as to date and time then if we can agree on the location, you can make contact for us!

The one down side is not much access to the sink. The men's room is a single-seater sort of deal. Would it work to have some large tubs of water, maybe even access to a large coffee dispenser of hot water?

I'm interested. Just let me know.

David

Hey guys,
Lets keep the discussion going, I still haven't seen any thoughts on July 19th or20th. How about it!

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Originally Posted by davisbonanza

Hey guys,
Lets keep the discussion going, I still haven't seen any thoughts on July 19th or20th. How about it!

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Works for me, anyone else have an opinion?

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Originally Posted by foundlingofdollar

Works for me, anyone else have an opinion?

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Works for me, either afternoon would be fine.

Aw man, wish I could go to this. :(

Can we say Sunday afternoon tentatively? That saves me from having to make a request off of work. I'm open to Saturday, so if Sunday doesn't work for someone, please just let us know and we can do Sat instead.

Dave, would you mind checking in with Texpresso for us? Just hours and availability of the room for Sat and Sun, and any costs/policies would be great. Additionally if they would be able to provide us perhaps with a few bus tubs and a carafe or two of hot water, that would probably be great. Hopefully we can firm up a date fairly soon.