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Swinging Door's 'Duel' Piano Comedic Abuse After South Indian @ Annapoorna

Jul 10
Fri 7:00 PM
Location

106 E 25th Ave
San Mateo, CA 94403
650.522.9800

How to find us
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Estimated attendance
 20  people attended.
4.50 4.508

Who organized?
Kevin D

Swinging Door's 'Duel' Piano
Comedy & Good-Natured Abuse




The Swingin' Door (formerly the Prince of Wales Pub) has always been a serious dive and still keeps its low standing despite the addition of a renovated upstairs show area. Besides being a reader-voted favorite for burgers and night life, it has the only "audience-grabbing 'dueling pianos'” show anywhere around and whether or not you've experienced the good-natured musical abuse served in these shows--with willing audience participation--you'll want to see this one!

FOOD FIRST, THEN FUN! The show is upstairs at 9pm, but we'll start with killer, unique South Indian (vegetarian!) food @ ANAPOORNA two blocks away. Here's their PDF menu. We'll go to the Swingin' Door's upstairs bar by 8.30p.

BTW, if *I'm* eating vegetarian you know it's good, but if you think you'll have a carnivorous craving, you can have "dessert" at Swingin' Door's downstairs grill.



DIVE-O-METER:
Here's What I Think Makes This a Cool Dive Bar, Fun Cheap Joint or Good Hole-in-the-Wall, On a Scale of 1 (less) to 7 (more) for:


  • 5 = Divey-ness
  • 3 = Cheap-ocity
  • 5 = Hole-i-ness
  • Conclusion... Serious Dive/Hole-in-the-Wall, downstairs. Upstairs, not at all.


Parking & Getting There:

Here is a Yelp/Google map to:

106 E 25th Ave, San Mateo, CA

Parking is EASY here. Park on the street anywhere you can find it.

    Standard group admin stuff...PLEASE:
  • Bring cash to keep things simple. Lots o' joints don't take plastic.
  • Show up on time so we can fit large-ish groups into small/crowded places.
  • Don't want to be part of a whole-group check? Say so when we order!!!
See you there!!

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Stephan
    Posted Jul 14, 2009 8:07 PM
    What a blast at the piano bar! (missed dinner) - guys on the pianos were great entertainers and knew the words (and plenty of "creative" substitute verses) to all the songs we've come to know and love. Lot of fun, great singing, great mix of people.

Who attended?

  • 20 attendees
    •  awesome crowd and a real fun place.. 
    •  Holy crap, they had karaoke downstairs, too! 
    •  This was great! Everyone was friendly and it was a very musical crowd. I've never met such enthusiastic singers! 
    •  yet another fun Dive Bar MeetUp.... thanks Kevin! 
    •  I had so much fun, both at the fabulous dinner and then at Swinging Door. Great venues, better people! 
    •  Awesome food, great music, wonderful company! 
    • Cheryl (+3 guests)
    • Stephan (+1 guest)
    • user 9721615 (+1 guest)
    • MarkM (+1 guest)