Hackerkitchen

Due to the Registerfly fiasco, hackerkitchen.org was offline for quite a while. But the cooking didn’t stop! The chef is working hard to experiment various new recipes. Stay tuned!.

Thanks to my fellow guests, for the past 2 months I had 9 hackerkitchen evenings with great companies!
I will be visiting US for a few weeks, and probably have a hacker kitchen mobile version at my friend’s place in Mountain View.

Hacker Kitchen will be back in London in November.

I figured I am too lazy to write up about hacker kitchen so I should JFDI and make it short.

Hacker Kitchen in London is available for booking from Aug 2006 to mid-Oct 2006. Before someone writes a fancy ajax scheduler, please send booking requests to booking [at] hackerkitchen.org.

What is it about?

I like cooking. Cooking for oneself is less fun than cooking for friends. So I decided to start the hacker kitchen for people to book once a week, typically Wednesday or Friday. It’s simple, you pay for the ingredients and we will have dinner. Note that this is not a restaurant, and the guests are eating with the chef.
You will be telling me your dietary requirements and preferences, along with the budget for ingredients, which is typically £25 - £35 for 4 people. You can also sponsor how much you feel it’s worth after the meal, but it’s not obligatory. (So I can buy nice plates!)

Who can book?

This is really arbitary limit just for fun. You can book for 2-4 guests if one of the following is true:

• you know me personally,
• you are within two degrees (ie FOAF) on my linkedin page,
• you have ever been to Taiwan,
• or you have ever contributed to any open-source project.

Note that the guest(s) you bring along does not need to comply the above.

What to expect?

We will probably have 6-8 courses for 3 or 4 guests with £30 - £45 in total. Here are some photos.
In the first Hacker Kitchen dinner, sponsored by Best Practical Solutions as part of the Devel::Cover hackathon, we had a six-course meal (two toro dishes didn’t survive for the camera), and the luxury ingredients costed about £55 for three guests.

Where?

Hacker Kitchen in London is handily located near Bayswater and Paddington station, so you can even fly in to London just for dinner!