Meals

Refreshments can be catered to the meeting location - but they are not able to provide meals directly. (I've had a great experience both with catering Guatemalan food and Subway Sandwiches.) Each hotel/ dorm has breakfast (and all day) capability on site or across the street, and we are prepared to lay out fruit and roll baskets on site, at cost, for those who skip breakfast and regret it. An organic grocery co-op is 3 blocks down 4th Avenue, and a small market will be passed on their way from campus.

For lunches and dinners, however, delegates will prefer the myriad options on or near 4th Avenue, which lies just behind our convention site. Fourth Avenue is home of the spring and winter Fourth Avenue Street Fair. This half mile of street has shops and stores going back to the 60's, incl an organic food coop (The Food Conspiracy) and the oldest feminist bookstore in the United States (Antigone's.) The DQ goes back further, and Caruso's Italian Restaurant opened in 1938.

Mixed in with bead shops, thrift stores, nonprofits, and everything trendy and retro, are a rich variety of small bars, bistros, coffeehouses, cafes, pubs, casbahs, BBQs, lounges, internet cafes, burger joints, pizza patios, sandwich shops, diners, pits, and restaurants. The food choices range the continents, and include vegetarian and vegan.

Some names of eateries on 4th Avenue are: Epic Cafe, Magpie's Pizza, the Chocolate Iguana, Dairy Queen, Caruso's Italian Restaurant, Maya Quetzal, La Indita, OMalley's Tavern, The Shanty (bar), Delectables, Time Market & Deli, The Food Conspiracy, Plush, Pancho Villa's, Rod's BBQ, Casbah Tea House, Athens on 4th Avenue, Che's Lounge, and the nearby Pei Wei Asian Diner, Yokohama Rice Bowl, and Pita Pit.

It is along 4th Avenue that one is most likely to see Green Party bumper stickers, white boys with Rastafian haircuts, cowboy poets, aging lesbians, and tourists pretending they don't notice. We'll fit right in!

The local Green Party would like to host a dinner on Friday night at a nearby activist church (6 blocks away). We would like to invite delegates to stand with the Women in Black from 5pm to 5:45pm (in front of the church), then go inside, and hear about Humane Borders (the organization that places water in the desert for border crossers) while we eat. This event is seen as a fundraiser for the local Green Party, and a chance for you to learn first hand about border issues, here where the deaths are.