Question: Not sure about Zaphod's here in Ottawa...

[dewline]

...as I've not yet visited. Is its' interior anything akin to these establishments?

I know that the House of Targ has a video/pinball-game focus as well as being the only place in town that has perogies as their Prime Food Staple...

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[steve-roby.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. I haven't been there in five or ten years now but used to be a regular there and the original Zaphod on Rideau.

When you walk in, there's some seating, the bar ahead on the left, the DJ/sound guy booth ahead on the right, the dance floor and stage at the back, no science fictiony decor. But I have enjoyed a fair few Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters (a pint glass full of orange juice, Blue Curacao to turn it green, and an ounce or three of I forget what kind of hard liquor -- I think Jack Daniels bourbon at one point, but I believe the recipe changed once or twice). Aside from the name of the drink, not much connection to anything fandomish. Not terribly publike; I was generally only there to see bands, though I spent an hour or two one Saturday afternoon with a friend hanging out and watching a James Bond movie on TV. And the night Voyager's Dark Frontier aired they had it on the TVs in the club, though you couldn't hear it.

"Not yet" visited?!?

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Good grief, man! I have ex lovers who weren't born the last time I was there! What else is on your local "I'll get around to it one of these days" list?

All that said, the last time I was there (1990? 1991?) there, I remember it as being little more than a dance club with a punk edge to it. Dim, lots of sharp angles and plenty of stainless-steel decorations.

Re: "Not yet" visited?!?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Ottawa-Gatineau's a big place, at least by the lights of a guy who grew up in the prairies and it's kept on growing in the decades since I moved in. So the list is going to be fairly large.

I can at least say that Parliament Hill is done, thanks in part to my father's insistence upon the family going there to witness Diefenbaker lying in state, open-casket, when we were passing through on a vacation road trip from Saskatchewan to PEI and back.