Three are more restaurants in Palo Alto/Mountain View than you can imagine. I had a very good time trying different ones out (sometimes with people from work).
lol
Ask HN: What do geeks in Palo Alto do on weekend nights?
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#22Reading these posts it seems to me that there is a huge opportunity for an entertainment-oriented entrepreneur in Palo Alto. For Heavens sake, someone open up a bar for these guys and don't charge a cover for women!
Assuming you do charge a cover for men, this is a really good way to get sued.
See Angelucci v. Century Supper Club, 158 P.3d 718 (CA 2007) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_night#California
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#23Work out. Network if there's the right events. Fairly regularly play games of one sort or another (poker night, RPGs, and lately a reasonable amount of Starcraft 2). Watch really dumb movies and have a couple drinks. I like to take a day off a week and just do creative things; lately that's been composing, remixing, and nanowrimo sorts of nonsense.
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#24Here's a different perspective to show the grass isn't greener on the other-side:
I've lived in San Francisco for 4.5yrs and sometimes I feel lost for interesting places to hang out in the evenings here in The City.
I'm not really interested in the pretentious hipster scene bars of Mission, I don't like the LA-wannabe scene of Marina and most of SoMa's clubs cater for East Bay bridge and tunnel crowd (before you think I'm being snobby I find the East Bay crowd unfriendly to city living folks, and all of the violet situations I've witnessed in clubs/bars have been from East Bay types. We're not talking Berkeley types but the more 'heavier' Oakland/Freemont/Hayward scene).
And everything closes at 2am (although granted, that's a CA-wide policy).
I guess I say all of the above with the disclosure that I'm a native of London, a 24/7 city with more bars and clubs than you could visit in a year.
Re: Ask HN: What do geeks in Palo Alto do on weekend nights?
#25Here's a different perspective to show the grass isn't greener on the other-side: I've lived in San Francisco for 4.5yrs and sometimes I feel lost for interesting places to hang out in the evenings here in The City. I'm not really interested in the pretentious hipster scene bars of Mission, I don't like the LA-wannabe scene of Marina and most of SoMa's clubs cater for East Bay bridge and tunnel crowd (before you thin…
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#26Nothing. That's why I left. Some folks like the SF nightlife scene but I wasn't a big fan of that either. Too many hipsters. Plus it's impossible at nights because of the lack of transport back to the south bay.
Okay, so where are you now and what do you do on weekend nights?
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#27Here's a different perspective to show the grass isn't greener on the other-side: I've lived in San Francisco for 4.5yrs and sometimes I feel lost for interesting places to hang out in the evenings here in The City. I'm not really interested in the pretentious hipster scene bars of Mission, I don't like the LA-wannabe scene of Marina and most of SoMa's clubs cater for East Bay bridge and tunnel crowd (before you thin…
If you need NYC/London/LA/Moscow/Mexico City/etc -style megacity sense of scale and/or civilized drinking hours to stay sane then you'll never be happy in SF. But if you can deal with its boutique dimensions (and the cold), then the problem may simply be that you're hanging out in the wrong neighborhoods.
The "real" SF resides pretty much in the Tenderloin - Nob Bill - Chinatown - City Lights triangle these days, I find. There are also pockets of civilization out in the "lost" neighborhoods: Cafe Du Mond; the Rite Spot; Amnesia on Valencia; and (yes) the Utah Bar, as well as a few others too cool to name here.
But the main thing is that wherever you go, there you, umm, are. Ultimately you have to decide to be happy with your surroundings -- or decide to change them.
I think in SF/Oakland/Alameda it's pretty easy to concentrate on the positives. The South Bay and the Peninsula are pretty much lost causes, though.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's it like going out in Palo Alto?
It depends on what you mean by going out. There isn't a lot of stuff, and sparse offerings of typical "nightlife" type destinations (clubbing, live music), but there are a decent number of bars if you're into sitting around drinking beer and chatting. Rose & Crown has a good craft-beer selection. Also, a bunch of random stuff happens at Stanford now and then, if you're into things like http://slork.stanford.edu/
2nded on the rose and crown.
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#29I see geeks at Rudy's Pub in downtown Palo Alto every time I'm there.
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#30palo alto doesnt even have a good movie theater. you gotta drive to mountain view.
mountain view has the movie theater, which is basically next to google. mountain view also castro street, with the red rock cafe, lots of good little restaurants, and some night life.