The first Croydon Dinner Club
For the first dinner we went to The Khyber in Croydon's South End / Restaurant quarter.
On arrival we were greeted by very courteous staff who offered to take out jackets, coats and everything else. We were sat in one area of the restaurant (the far end in the picture) on one long table.
We were given a special 3 course menu to select from which was all pretty good. The standard of the food was very good and was commented on by everyone.
The turn out was great too, with a total of 16 people braving the cold to take part in the 1st event. We had a great mixture of people from all walks of life and all parts of Croydon. Some with a keen interest in the politics of Croydon, others with a warm fuzzy feeling in their hearts when they think of the place, others with a "pinch of salt" view of Croydon.
The food was great, the service was great as was the drink. Once we'd paid up we headed over to the Green Dragon pub for a few.
The first night went down really well and given that it was really grown out of thin air I was so overwhelmed with the turn out. I'd expected maybe 3 or 4 of my local friends or regular interactee's on Twitter, but it was so much more than that. People I'd never met before, people I'd seen talking in the Croydon Twitter-sphere, people not even on Twitter. It was great!
