BATTL

#BATTL is Bring A Tweep To Lunch

Officially launched in 2009, BATTL lunches have spawned friendships, business relationships, an appetites for new foods. St. Louis metro restaurants have hosted from downtown St. Charles to lunch in Soulard.

Bring a tweep to lunch started with one goal in mind: get locals networking. It’s lunch as social object**.

Attendees are not required to use or even know what Twitter is. Heck, they can be internet free as long as they like to eat. Lunches are informal. There are no speakers, no agendas, and no planned topics.

#BATTL 2011

All lunches will be scheduled to start at 11:30 on Friday. Dates and locations are listed below.

• May 27- Schalfly Bottleworks
• June 3 – Amis Pizza -ST. LOUIS (Rock Hill): 9824 Manchester
• June 10- Sybergs – on Dorsett
• June 17- Llywelyn’s Pub – St. Charles
• June 24- Sushi Ai
• July 1- Robust Wine Bar
• July 8- Mama Josephine’s
• July 15 – My birthday! Atomic Cowboy
• July 22- Ferguson Brewing
• July 29- Milagro Modern Mexican
• August 5- Shu Feng Restaurant
• August 12- Dewey’s Pizza – UCity
• August 19 – Tin Can Tavern and Grille on Locust
• Parking - 20 spaces on Locust ‘tween 19th and 20th, an additional 30 along 19th and 20th, and a lot @ 20th&Loc. Plenty of it!
• August 26 – TBD
• September 2nd – Final #BATTL for 2011 -> Lester’s in Clayton

Favorites from years past:

• Atomic Cowboy
• Sybergs
• Rib City
• Llywelyn’s Pub
• Dewey’s Pizza
• Highway 61 Roadhouse
• Triumph Grill

Slideshow anyone?

** What is a social object? I’ll share what Hugh McLeod aka @gapingvoid defines them as:

The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that “node” in the social network, is what we call the Social Object.