Avalon Rising will be playing at ~8:30. Kristoph and Margaret will be there, and probably Mark on bass. www.Avalonrising.com I'll try to reserve us a table upstairs, which usually works better on music nights. This Event: Wed 3/16 King's Head Pub, Campbell, with music Coming Events: Wed 3/16 King's Head Pub, Campbell, with music Wed 3/23 Frankie, Johnny, & Luigi's, Mountain View Wed 3/30 Roya Afghan, Sunnyvale Web page for KW schedules, restaurant reviews, etc: http://www.kabuki-west.org/ Time: 7:45pm Place: Kings Head Pub 201 Orchard City Drive Campbell CA 95008 http://www.thekingshead.com/ Description The King's Head offers an array of British food. Portions are large. They have burgers as well as more traditional fare like shepherd's pie, bangers, fish and chips (the whole fish, my favorite) and the like. Their veggie fritters are quite yummy, mushrooms, onions and some other stuff; Vegetarians can also check out their mushy peas, get a veg burger, or order side veggies on a plate. Their baked potatoes are *huge*. The soup's fine - I don't eat salads here, so I can't comment to those. The Ginger Beer here is excellent. As can be expected of British food, spicing is mild if it exists at all. You can easily spend less than $8 if you like appetizers, their soup is about $3. Entrees average around 7 to 10 dollars - some more fanciful items are around $16 or so - but if you insist you could spend as much as $40 for an incredible Beef Wellington big enough for two people. Well, *they* say it's for two people. Three people probably wouldn't have a problem polishing it off, either. They are also open daytime and have a nice patio. At times they have live music of celtic or highlands style, usually on the weekends, Annwn has played here before. [Review by Heather] Kabuki-west has been to the King's Head a couple of times, usually with small groups. I've also been there with other groups, and the food's quite good, plus there's Guinness on tap. Thursday nights are Celtic music night, so there may be people showing up in kilts carrying dangerous-looking pipes and jamming. [--Bill--] Directions Map on their contact page, http://www.thekingshead.com/contacti.htm Short Downtown Historic Campbell basically has three main streets: Campbell is a two way street down the center, the street to the north goes one-way bayward/west, and the street to the south - Orchard City Drive - goes one-way anti-bayward/east. This area is an old style walking-mall, with small shops and many food places. (I have to get a map for x-street stuff, or go over there) If you're walking the main street cut south when you see Molly McGuire's, you won't be too far away. The pub is directly across from the water tower, and shares a parking lot with Guiseppe's, an Italian restaurant. There is plenty of street parking as well, no meters here, and another (tiny) lot by the cards shop on the north side of Campbell itself just before the railroad tracks. From the Bascom direction, you'll have to cross the railroad tracks, and I recommend staying to the center because there's usually less parking over by City Hall, and you're going the wrong way to get on Orchard City Drive. Public Transit The VTA 26 goes right past there. You can meet it at the Lockheed Martin, Borregas, Crossman, or Fair Oaks light rail stations, and it heads down Fair Oaks and Wolfe; you could probably walk to it from the Sunnyvale train station if you like walking. If you ride the 26 in from Eastridge, exit at Campbell City Hall and then walk south. If you ride it in from Sunnyvale etc, it's on the right street when it gets there. Just tell the driver you're going to Downtown Historic Campbell, and prepare to exit at the Water Tower (which has some oldstyle office buildings); you should do all right. Long The Downtown Historic area is bayward of Bascom and anti-bayward of San Tomas Expressway. You can use the 880/17 Hwy exit at Hamilton and cut over to either one, turn right, then head downtown when they get to Campbell (about two lights). Folks who feel more comfortable with the 85 can exit onto either: * Exit De Anza, head south about a block, turn left onto Prospect. * Exit Saratoga, turn left to head north a few long blocks, turn right onto Prospect. Prospect becomes Campbell as it passes the shopping centers of Westgate Mall and El Paseo De Saratoga... provided you are staying in the right hand lanes. If you are in the fast lanes you will end up on Hamilton instead, so pay attention. Once you have passed the malls it becomes mixed residential and commercial for awhile. As you pass San Tomas Expressway you should get back to the right, although this is less critical -- it will get you onto Orchard City Drive though, and that's handy for spotting the pub. The center lane will force you onto Campbell, more because traffic is not usually friendly about letting folks over, tham from the street itself. Lawrence Expressway also meets Prospect at the Saratoga intersection. 280 drivers can exit Saratoga and come down Prospect/Campbell, or Bascom and head only a short distance bayward. For all others I recommend you use your favorite method to get to one of these junctures. It may be useful to know that Lawrence Expressway is called Quito Road from the Los Gatos direction. [Directions by Heather]