I should be around on the 29th & I recently moved closer to IAD (although I miss being 5 minutes from DCA!). I'll post on the first page.

In honor of your move into the 'burbs -- we should have one in the Fairfax area ... any ideas? I'm not sure who else is metro dependent, but I'm sure we can work out a ride for anyone that is coming via public transportation.

Second the vote for fairfax myself - IAD ride for anyone no issues :)

Been meaning to go to the swanky looking Coastal Flats/Plains (or whatever it is called) at Fairfax Corner.

Moving back to the burbs... :(

I plan on finding a new place in March or April based on work....currently the drive from Fairfax to Bethesda everyday and back is terrible. I spend about 2.5 hours a day in a car! At least when I lived in Ballston, I was going against the flow of traffic!

I'm not familiar with Fairfax Corner or the restaurant, Pranu - where is Fairfax Corner? I know Tysons & Seven Corners, but not Fairfax Corner! I think there's a Fairfax Circle area (off of 50/29 intersection) and there's a Fairfax Square off of 236 near Fair City Mall, but in the 24 years I've lived in northern VA, I've never heard of Fairfax Corner!

Grevey's? Not far from Dunn/Loring Metro..... And they are an idine restaurant/bar.

OUCH!

Good thing I only travel 2.5 miles :D

Its been a new development. Pretty nice. Just across 66 from Fair Oaks Mall. Right behind fairfax goverment center on Monument Drive. Quite a few nice restaturants, movie theatres, more chíc shops. :D

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Actually, it's where I work ... a change of scenery is always nice (sorry, Pranu) and I haven't been to Greveys in awhile so my vote is for Greveys. It offers a quick on/off for 66 and 495, so location is good for most everyone.

As for where fairfax corner is, it's between Fair Oaks Mall and the Government Center. As you drive 66 to between the mall and Fair Lakes, if you look to the side across from the mall, you'll see the shopping area, movie theatre and office building. You need to loop around using Monument (off West Ox which is off 50) to get here.

If anyone wants to do a happy hour at Rio Grande or Coastal Flats another time, let me know.

I had totally forgotten about these, and when I went to upload my pictures from new year's eve, I found them still on my CF card. Anyway, here are photos from December's dinner.

Grevey's sounds good to me (never heard of it, never been there, but if GoingAway likes it, it must be good!) - any particular date? I'm thinking for the February Happy Hour. I'll be traveling the weekend of 2/4 & Presidents Day weekend (8-segment MR with 2 RJ's!) - but the rest of the month is good for me!

Grevey's is alright. The food is kinda so so.

Its a big Redskins and Hokies hang out. Was there yesterday for the Sugar bowl - was good fun to support the Auburn tigers as they thrashed the hokies! Was lucky to not be kicked out of the place.

Feb is too far out to plan right now for me at least - but sure count me in tentatively for now.



Thanks Mark ... for making me look so drunk in 2 of the 3 pictures that you got of me! :p

Didn't you also take the group picture at Brickskeller with your camera?

Hang on a sec ... Never said I liked it, I agree with pranu about the food but the location (50/Gallows at 495 near 66) is excellent so figure it balances out. How about one of those chain restaurants across the street instead? I don't get over there very often so don't know what is possible.

Pranu - sounds like you've been over there recently, any suggestions?

I love the Sweet Watern Tavern right across from it.

• The brews are GREAT. Although they only have 5 of them on tap during any given time period.
• The food menu is quite limited - but everything is good. I normally order the Chicken breast on angel hair pasta with sundried tomatoes everytime I go to one their locations (which is quite often). hmmm... am hungry.. when are we doing this?
• Haven't really tried the desserts so can't say much.
• They don't take reservations - but they do take call aheads. So on the day of us meeting if we do have a count I can do the call ahead. But they also do not seat you untill all of your party are present :( :mad:

Other than that I think that complex also has a Pizzeria Uno, Panda Express :) and some other place - which I have never really paid attention to.



Also trying to think of any other locations this side of the country that might be interesting.


PS - The Sweet Water Tavern is also there in Centreville :) and is run by the same chain that owns Coastal Flats.

My vote is for Sweet Water at 50/Gallows - that works for me (and tastes better than Greveys) ... sorry about the loss of iDine points for this one

Looks like I might be going back on the road for work so I'm not sure if I'll be in town but based on other travel, the week of February 7th looks best. If we can pick a Monday or Friday, I'll have a better chance of making it.

I love Sweetwater!

I'll have plenty of time for idine points at Grevey's during the playoffs.... :D

I'm hoping to join you for a happy hour after several missed attempts.

A ladyfriend and I are passing via IAD to Puerto Rico on the evening of Jan 21 for an overnight, and back again arriving 8.30pm Friday evening Jan 28.

If anyone happens to be around IAD area for lunch on Sat Jan 29, please let's know as we do not fly back home via LAX until 4.28pm that afternoon. :D



Yoo Hoo. ^ ^

Thanks Sam ... well we now have the nucleus for an IAD area lunch on Saturday January 29th. Anyone else likely to be about then?? Be great to catch up for a few of the familiar DC faces once again. :p

A semi-official and totally un-endorsed sub-group meeting of the Monthly DC Happy Hours Inc.

I wonder if that well known cattle rancher Mileage Addict can be enticed off his 5,000 acre spread to come down into the big smoke for the occasion? :D

Yee ha from the "Endless Miles" Ranch! Right now, January 29th looks good. Count me in. Uh, Glen....who is this "ladyfriend" of yours? Someone new?

Mileage Addict - perfect. :-:

Maybe you can do some lassoo demos and offer some calf tying and hay baling tips for us in between rounds of beer? ;)

Where was that place near IAD we went to once that had those terrific little sample rounds of beers, does anyone recall? All on a spinning type of deal. They were great.

Lynn is the new lady in my life, and we met a number of FT'ers a month or so back in SFO at a dinner when travelling thru the USA. We then spent a week driving around the tiny rural backblocks of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Georgia. Then we visited Seattle-via-Chexfan-tour and Canada.

I caught up with another ex-DC regular Jason - "IdealFlyer" at a lunch we had in NYC with doc, Analise, Monitor, HobokenFlyer, and others a few weeks back. He is settling in well it seems. ^

Sweetwater Tavern.

Agree with GoingAway about Fairfax Corner. Coastal Flats is good like the other Great American Restaurants (Sweetwater et. al.) and the outdoor bar is quite nice when it isn't winter.

How long do the happy hours usually last? Have dinner plans I can't break, but could try and schedule around the happy hour or meet up later, I've been trying to get to these since I moved here from SAN, but seem to be very good at getting waylaid by school/work...

Looking forward to meeting you... sometime...

:p

On average ... starts around 7pm and breaks up around 9 or 9:30 pm. Depends on where the place is located and what folks have planned for that evening or the next morning, and whether anyone is visiting, etc.

Hope to meet you one of these days ...

Sweetwater Tavern's fine by me - I've been to the one on 50/Gallow's Road before & it's decent food & good beer. I'll update the first page.

Hmmm.. lasso, calf tying and beer - Count me in! :D

So would this be like a second January Happy Hour - for those of us who cant make it for the first one?

Where are you guys looking to meet?

If you are looking for suggestions close to the airport how about someplace in Reston/Herndon just off the Airport Access/Toll Road?
American Tap Room, Ned Divines or any other joint at Reston Town Center?

Also in Sterling (and now Ashburn) there is the Buffalo Wing Factory if people are interested in really pigging out :)

it's winter??????

:D :D

I love this kind of winter!

Pff, won't be able to make it after all - forgot I had a previous commitment...

That's more or less it - .. a second and very 'un-official' January DC get together lunch Saturday January 29th for anyone not able to make the "official" one at Stellas next week. Or ... for those who like drinking and talking flying and travel, to make BOTH. :D

I've been to more DC get-togethers than many FT'ers living around there, and always look forward to meeting the really great bunch of folks who get along. We have 12,000 miles to fly in for this, and sadly, booked the flight after the Jan 12 date was set. :(

Reston does sound best option, as I will book the Sheraton Reston for the night Jan 28. As I'll get a late check-out as SPG Gold, we can grab a quick shower before sitting on planes that afternoon after the lunch for 20+ hours to SYD. So eating close to Sheraton would be perfect, so we can bum a ride back to Hotel from some kind soul after lunch.

About 12.30pm sounds about right on timing. Any thoughts on a FT suitable venue folks? :D

Yeah, yeah...kind soul...whatever. You know I'll give you a ride to IAD. I always do. :cool:

IMHO Clyde's or Rio Grande at Reston Town Center would be good for the OzLunch...

Rio Grande sounds good to me! Doing a quick Google search, it seems to get good reviews as well...

http://digitalcity.com/washington/di....adp?vid=64276

Will - - was Clyde's at Reston Town Center the place we went to a year or so back, where the unannounced guest was kokonutz? And bhatnasx showered us all with black leather Marriott bag tags?

Wherever that dinner was held, I think we even drew Otto Graham out of FT anonymity to join us too?

If so that was a pretty good place IIRC. ^


Merci Beaucoup. :D :p

I do recall getting hotel rides from the Lindners, gleff, gnagnet, DHacker, G2 and the zipper and others too in the past couple years, so I on reflection pass thru IAD much more than I should. ;)

If the OZ-man's in town, I'll crawl out from under my rock. Actually, its usually harder to get me back under my rock than out from under it. :)

hmmmmmmm..... Rio Grande! I'd drive to Reston just to eat there! I love the place. Although, the one in Bethesda is my favorite. But if I say I'm coming, I won't show up :)

Mostly will depend on my schedule, so call me a maybe as usual. And, yes OZ, you have certainly been to more DC events than I have for sure ;)

Ha! But at least I exist.

C'mon tazi - no-one has ever seen you and kokonutz in the same room at the one time, to this day. And those that say they have, have been bribed with booze to fib about it. ;)

Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen you in the same room as El Boocho?????? :p

Tazi,

I've attended over a dozen local FT events and *still* have not met you...

I can come on Wednesday and talk about my 2 day, 5 roundtrip mileage run that I did on Friday & Saturday for 25K preferred miles & 36K total miles. (There's a 20K extra preferred miles promotion right now if you take 5 roundtrips.) My trip report from this adventure can be found at post #116 of this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=381342

Koko and I were in the same room in NOLA! He was wearing big purple balls around his neck and there are pictures .... somewhere .... to prove it! :P

I do believe El Boocho came to the dinner I had at the 94th Aero
Squadron ... not sure... was awhile ago.

MA and I have yet to meet.


I am scheduled to work that Saturday. I will see if I can switch and work night shift instead.

I do exist and you have pictures yourself to prove it!!!

:-: :-: Congratulations! :-: :-:

Congratulations are in order for one of the DC happy hour attendees!

Gator Gal & her boyfriend eloped in Puerto Rico over the holidays! :)

In 'The National Enquirer' perhaps? ;)

Never knew he was a contortionist? :D

Well, I've kept promising, and I always wind up on a trip. This time, I had a trip scheduled, and didn't sign up...and now that trip's cancelled! So... I have a late afternoon meeting in Crystal City, which should put me in good shape for stopping by Stellas. Gonna give it a try, at least!

I have to ask.... how do I find the flyertalk crew??

Yo, Oz, these balls are just for you!!!!!!!! :p

Sadly I'll be on the wrong coast tomorrow and wrong continent on the 29th... :(

Look for the table with the most drinks on it! :D