In May last year activists from a Bishkek activist group called Labrys and several other LGBT advocacy organisations were gathering at a restaurant for the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia when they were attacked by a mob.
Diner's Journal is gathering a list of Hurricane Sandy relief events and specials offered by restaurants, food trucks and other members of the food-service community.
It looked more like a political gathering than a restaurant opening.
In the seventies, Amis presided over the "Friday lunch," a weekly gathering at a restaurant in Bloomsbury.
It doesn't have to be a giant bash - you could hold an after-work gathering at a restaurant, or invite people over for pizza to celebrate.
Social gatherings in a restaurant atmosphere with or without themes, upwards to 450 people.
But you rarely see the easy inter-generational mingling that characterises life in other European cities. Social gathering places, restaurants, bars, entire streets, operate an age apartheid via the volume of music, the acoustics or the drinking policies they encourage.
Their surveys may be one of the earliest forms of UGC (user-generated content)—gathering restaurant recommendations from friends, computing and distributing ratings before the Internet as we know it today even existed.
But as Google+ stagnated, the company moved away from further Zagat integrations, and instead focused on gathering its own restaurant data from crowdsourced reviews via its Local Guides program, and more recently, a wider group of Maps users.
He was shown a large, six-drawer cabinet full of documents and photographs of my father in public places in Egypt, sometimes with my mother, my brother, and me, at weddings, social gatherings, sitting in a restaurant, crossing a street.
