(Cross-posted to Recovering's email address)

"So far hardly any feedback on places & no restaurant recommendations."

Well, it's hard to be an informed voter when you don't live in San Jose--so you shouldn't feel too discouraged; this could be noble absention rather than apathy. (Or not. "What's true is already so ...")

Maybe we could go to, um--Chacho's? It's a Mexican place; four-tenths of a mile from the Summit and seven-tenths of a mile from the train station, casual dress, open until 2300, and that "Banquet: 50 - 100 People" listing suggests to me that they have a private room.

But I'm not familiar with the San Jose restaurant scene--I just mention Chacho's from a few minutes of web inquiry, and I don't know that it's not terrible, or whether there is a vastly superior alternative that my few minutes of google-fu failed to turn up, so you can hardly call this a suggestion.

Restaurant.com also gives us twenty-six other restaurants in the Summit's zip code.

Long live the Conspiracy!