[SCA-BMDL] possibly OT - List of potential sites?

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
I think Gretchen's correct about St. Nicholas (that's the site of the 
Greek Food Festival every year, BTW).  Boy have I lusted after that 
space for some really huge event like a Coronation or 12th Night, but 
I'm pretty sure that even if we could work out something with their 
caterers -- and mostly in the past when professional caterers are told 
what SCA feasts entail and what we charge for them they think we're 
nuts -- I suspect that the cost of the hall itself would be 
prohibitive.  Although I wonder now whether some places that we 
couldn't use in the past because of similar issues (i.e., must go 
through their caterer) could be assuaged by Alastar and me walking in 
with our County Food Handlers'  certificate, like with the place where 
the War College was held a couple of years ago.
As for the other sites that were on the list, St. Andrew's was used a 
few years ago (nine or ten) for some Cour d'Or event (Harvest 
Festival?), and I remember the hall being extremely small.  Don't 
remember about the kitchen itself.
Years ago, when a bunch of people were looking for a Crown Tourney 
sites (it wound up being at Brady's Run Park up in Beaver County) I 
called a whole lot of places and looked at a number.  There was a place 
somewhere up on the North Side that sat 450 but had not much parking 
and no place to do fighting.  Freydis Thorunnsdatter and I went to see 
it and she was just lusting over the kitchen, until the priest who was 
showing it to us said "Oh, but you can't use the kitchen -- the little 
old ladies in the congregation do catering out of that kitchen!"  Mind 
you, I had said in the original phone conversation that we were looking 
for a site where we *could* use the kitchen....  We said thank you and 
goodbye really quickly.  Sigh.  (If it's the place I'm thinking of, it 
no longer even has parking -- they put senior citizen housing on what 
used to be the lot.)
On Thursday, November 29, 2007, at 03:14  PM, Gretchen Beck wrote:

>
>
> --On Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:10 PM -0800 Karen Kasper
> <arianna_wyn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Dithridge St. in Oakland)
>> Has a large hall and a smaller hall (probably kitchen space as well)
>> 412-682-3866 (ask for Janine)
>
> This is a lovely hall, but I'm pretty sure the kitchen is 
> non-negotiable.
> Last I checked they had an exclusive use caterers contract. This may 
> have
> changed, but that was the case as of about 5 years ago.
>
> toodles, margaret
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Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy at nauticom.net