This Event:

        Wed     11/28  Hobee's, Sunnyvale

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Time:

	Please arrive at 7:30pm; we generally order around 7:45pm.
	Arrivals after 8pm may need to find their own table.

Place:

	Hobee's
	800 Ahwanee Ave. (at 101 and South Mathilda)
	Sunnyvale, CA 94086 
	(408) 524-3580 
	http://www.hobees.com/sunnyvale.html
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Description:

	Welcome to California, a land where you are only allowed to drink if
	you can prove that you can also drive.  A land with a liquor store on
	every other street corner in every urban area, by state law.  A land
	where strippers will ask you to sign a petition while you watch the
	floor show.  A land where avocado is a vegetable.  A land of no smoking
	restaurants which serve excruciatingly healthy cuisine.

	Hobee's is a small Northern California chain which is just about as 
	old as Proposition 13, an alignment I'm sure the restaurant's 
	founders would not appreciate.  While they serve less arugula than 
	perhaps the classic 'California' restaurant, they keep up with a 
	variety of aggressively healthy pasta dishes, omelettes, and
	country potatoes euphemistically referred to as 'hash browns.'

	All vernacular color aside, I've liked them pretty much since Eliot
	to me there for breakfast in 1988.  We've taken many a sunday brunch
	there, and they've dealt surprisingly gracefully with a gang of
	fifteen raucous nerds and musicians showing up in the middle of the
	brunch rush and expecting to be seated fairly immediately.  Their
	entrees run between seven and twelve dollars, generally, and often
	include soup and salad bar.

	[Review by RichardT]

	KW was last at Hobee's Sunnyvale on May 16, 2001.

Directions:

	Short: 

	Hobee's Sunnyvale is at Ahwanee and Mathilda, just a block
	toward El Camino from Mathilda & 101.  The building used to
	be a Bakers Square.

	Long: 

	Take your favorite route to 101 near Moffet, and from
	there to the Mathilda exit.  Note that this is the 
	"standalone" exit, ie you don't want to go onto 237,
	you want just plain Mathilda Ave.

	Exit at Mathilda, and head toward El Camino (away from
	the Bay).  Left at Ahwanee and into the parking lot of
	Hobee's.  If you reach Maude and came from 101, you've
	gone too far.

	Via 280, take 85 towards Sunnyvale/101, exit at the
	Sunnyvale El Camino exit, and proceed 5 or 6 lights
	forward to a left on Mathilda.  Continue on Mathilda
	for a number of lights, and over Evelyn and Central;
	when you see Maude, start looking to your right for
	Ahwanee and the Hobee's.

	Transit:

	You're probably screwed, but you knew that, this is the
	South Bay we're talking here.  There is probably a bus
	that departs the Sunnyvale CalTrain station and goes
	down Mathilda toward 101.  Alternatively, you could 
	exit CalTrain at Sunnyvale and walk through the Town
	Center Mall to find a bus stop on Mathilda itself, it's
	only a couple of blocks.

	[Directions by SRC]