DFWBlogs Cocktail Event

I went to the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event earlier this evening, held this month at the Uptown Bar and Grill. I really had a good time. There’s just something pleasant about good conversation among people sharing a commonality (in this case, blogging). And, in many ways, the Uptown Bar and Grill turned out to be the anti-bar (a good thing).

  • No loud blaring music
  • No cigarette smoke in my eyes
  • An actual parking lot outside, not just vigilante street parking

And, the food was reasonably priced as well — I ordered a burger for about $6. But, this was no ordinary burger — Uptown Bar and Grill’s burgers have apparently been voted as Best Burger in the March 2002 issue of D Magazine. And, it was very tasty. Definitely one of the top 5 burgers that I’ve had.

Up until that point, Uptown Bar and Grill seemed to be a great find, but it wasn’t completely perfect. For my Sam Adams that I ordered to go with my burger, I was charged $4.25 as an Import Beer. What? Did Boston secede from the Union while I wasn’t looking? Bah.

But, other than that, I give high marks to Uptown Bar and Grill. And, I look forward to the next DFWBlogs get-together.

6 thoughts on “DFWBlogs Cocktail Event

  1. Oh for the love of pete, Alex! Are you that separated from Unix/ Linux and so into your HTML that you can’t see a good opportunity to make a UNIX joke? The CTRL H joke!

    The line about street parking should have read:
    An actual parking lot outside, not just vigilante ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H street parking.

    It’s great! Another example:
    Alex, I just wanted to say that you’re a boring^H^H^H^H^Hrilliant specimen of a human being. (That one was a little more subtle).

    I’m sure anyone reading this site knows Unix well enough to get the joke, but if you don’t: in certain situations with Unix, when you press the backspace key it reads it as CRTL H or ^H and if you want to move the cursor to the left while deleting a character you have to press DEL.

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