icon@bytebar.com
http://www.matisse.net/files/bytebar.menu (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
A new restaurant has opened in San Francisco, on the corner of 9th Street and Folsom (where the Limbo and Billboard used to be).
This restaurant, the "ICON Byte Bar & Grill" is run by Joegh Bullock and Marcia Crosby, the main folks behind the Climate Theatre .
When Marcia & Joegh came to me with the idea for this restaurant in the Spring of 1994, they described wanting to have a place that had a strong techno/cyber feel to it and also *very comfortable* - a warm friendly place to eat really good food, not a spiked-chrome-the-future-hurts place.
And they wanted to have Full Internet Access in the restaurant.
Well, months later and many strange events have passed, but it is a done deal now and the place is open.
We have installed a dedicated Internet connection (low speed -14.4K, but hey it's a start :-) and a Macintosh running Mosaic etc. ("we" is Internet Literacy Consultants ) This is all at a table in the middle of the restaurant and is available to customers to use. At some point there may be a rental fee for the keyboard, (like you leave your drivers license at the bar and pay $6/hr or something) but at present it is part of the meal :-)
I'm asking netheads and other curious people to come by and play with it - and leave feedback. There will be a notebook at the table to write stuff down, and/or you can send me e-mail. (The restaurants' e-mail address is: icon@bytebar.com )
Sometimes the video gets routed to a video projector, so whatever you are doing will be on the wall, 5 feet wide.
I'm working on a VERY BASIC and VERY READABLE cheat-sheet that will be laminated and hung by the table, saying things like "Please be patient - if the little thing is spinning, don't click all over the place :-)".
We are building a home page that has pointers to cool stuff and we have a very interesting "hotlist" installed.
And the food is really really good.
This is a interesting new opportunity to bring network communications into everyday life, a little bit further.
So, y'all come by now.
ICON Byte Bar & Grill 299 9th Street (at Folsom) San Francisco CA 94103
E-mail:icon@bytebar.com
This is a Bar & Grill with American food from all over the world. The current menu:
BITS:
Mixed Green Salad 3.5
Soup of the Day 2.5
Basket O'Fries 2.0
Icon Fauxgotcha bread (baked daily) 1.5
BYTES:
Bowl of Clams in a Digital Broth
w/fennel, garlic and fresh herbs 5.5
Broccoli Salad w/Fresh Corn, Feta & Black Olives 3.75
tossed with balsamic vinegar
Soft Polenta w/Roasted Garlic & Sage 3.5
laced with pecorino cheese
Warm Spinach Salad w/Shredded Duck Comfit 4.75
tossed with a sherry vinaigrette
Chix Grilled on Stix 5.25
w/cucumber salad and a side of peanut sauce
Sherried Mushrooms w/Garlic & Herbs 3.5
Sirloin Spiral Jetty 4.75
rolled seasoned sirloin strips drizzled w/lemon
& extra virgin olive oil
MEGA BYTES
Grilled Vegetable Platter 8.25
accompanied by a triad of dipping sauces
Spicy Cyber Sausages 6.5
atop slow cooked aromatic beans
The Icon Byte Burger 6.0
served w/those fabulous fries!
cheddar cheese .50
Additional Entree Specials Daily
SWEET BYTES
Ice Cream from the Latest Scoop 3.0
Fresh Fruit Tart (of the Season) 3.5
Cash is preferred, MC & VISA accepted. Smoking is permitted at the Bar.
299 9th Street (at the corner of Folsom) San Francisco CA USA
(415) 861-BYTE
E-mail:
icon@bytebar.com
This document from http://www.matisse.net Matisse Enzer
Internet Literacy Consultants
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Editor/Curator WELLGopher
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Founder, BAIL (
Bay Area Internet Literacy
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