Using the "Meet up" system to enjoy restaurants and make friends

I would like to recommend a good system that's in place for helping people to meet up and enjoy their common interests together. You may use it to find a good restaurant to go to for the restaurant review you have to do in our seminar. The system is called "Meetup" and it involves using this website to create a group around a particular topic (e.g., eating at Indian restaurants in Tokyo) that people can join and later participate in events related to that topic that are organized by the members.

For example, last night I participated in a side event of the Tokyo Vegan Meet-up Group, which was a Cuban vegan buffet, held at a restaurant/ bar/ art space in Roppongi called the Pink Cow. It was really enjoyable and the buffet offered a good variety, quality, and quantity of food for a really reasonable price. I especially liked the Spanish rice and beans, various dips--from avocado to hummus and miso--and banana (or was it plantain?) morsels. There was also a nice variety of salads, including pumpkin, potato, green, and tofu salads. As it was a buffet, we could go back as many times as we liked to re-fill our plates. While eating, we could enjoy a slide show of photos taken by a Korean amateur photographer who made many trips to Cuba and seemed to love it there.

I hope you can make use of the Meet-up system when you're searching for restaurants to review. Click here to see a wide range of Tokyo meet-ups, many of which concern food in one way or another.

Use these restaurant review criteria when you and a classmate go out to work on the two restaurant reviews that were assigned to you. Along with your review, you will need to submit the criteria you used for judgement and show the ratings that you gave. Especially be sure to create a "Sequence of Service: Time, Event and Comment Log" (refer to page 4 in the PDF).