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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1080808" data-attributes="member: 99">Okay, I'm back from Cinelli's.  I didn't eat there but I checked the place out and here's what I have to report:As far as layout goes, the place is close to perfect.  Plenty of seating, especially outside, both under a canopy and out on the sidewalk.  The food looks mouthwateringly good.  It is definately the sort of place I would take my wife if I was feeling affectionate (or if I wanted HER to feel affectionate <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).However, it is not the sort of place that I think would be best for our Friday night gathering.  First off, it's damn expensive.  Their dinner menu had nothing on it less than $14 short of a house salad or bowl of soup.  It also doesn't strike me as the sort of place where folks will feel comfortable hanging out over a couple of cold drinks and maybe an appetizer or two for a few hours.  It seems more like the kind of place they would want you to get in, get fed, go home and free up the table.As we are only a couple days away from the event, the need for some sort of quick decision on this is clear.  So I propose we do one of the following:Get together at the shopping center at the corner of Six Forks Road and Lassiter Mill Road.  This place has a Starbucks Coffee if that's your thing.  There's a burger joint there called Pharoahs (open till 9) that makes good burgers, fries, hot dogs and a mean chicken salad sandwich.  Panera's bakery is also around the corner.  There's something for almost everyone.  The only potential drawbacks are that all the seating is outdoors so if it is bloody awful hot or we get a terrible thunderstorm, it might not be the best place to be, and there is no alcohol to be had there (I don't regard this as that big a deal but felt it worth mentioning).ORThe Applebees at Six Forks and Wake Forest Road.  This is pretty much a known quantity so I won't belabor the point.  There is a broad range of food that is good in that well known Applebeesesque sort of way, for a decent range of prices.  There is beer and other adult beverages if that's your thing.  And of course that most wonderous of foods:  Chicken Fried Steak.ORWe could also abort back to Cinelli's in Cary. (as per Henry's suggestion)  The big advantage there is that they serve pizza (the Raleigh location only has it at lunch) and, from the look of things, the price per person would be much lower that way.What say ye?I'll make a final call on this by Thursday night so folks can check the thread Friday morning and know for sure where we're meeting up.</blockquote>

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