I can't do Thursday the 27th. How bad is the drive to College Park from downtown DC or NoVA on a weeknight? How Metro-accessible is the suggested restaurant?

tazi, I recognize we've not had a lot of MD events of late, but I think that's partly a function of the geographic distribution of our regulars. At the events with which I'm most familiar -- about equally split between events in DC and those in VA (I've not been to any in MD) -- a substantial majority of the attendees seem to be VA-based (though a number of us work in the District).