And the last bastian falls. Where do we go now for a weekend get-together ?

In the last post about WTPT (and maybe other earlier posts too), I had mentioned about the Friday night get-togethers that me and a group of automobile-crazy friends have, over food, drinks etc. Gotta mention one peculiar thing about this crowd - we all met over the internet.
Yes, all of us Chennai-ites, but it took the internet for us to meet and become friends. And
the medium that helped us was www.team-bhp.com, inarguably the best automobile forum
in Indian webspace.

While I am an infrequent visitor to these weekend meets due to my travelling to Kerala on almost all weekends (I need to catch the 8PM train to Kerala on Fridays), the rest of the
gang have been religiously meeting almost all Fridays.

Except for a few weekends when we got together at the home of 2 of the married members(when their family was away ie.), the rest of the weekend meets were always at the home of
one of the bachelor guys in the group. He has a nice cosy pad on R.K.Salai (salai being Tamil
for road) . This guy is a nice, friendly chap, with extra-ordinary knowledge in automobiles
and pursues both racing and off-roading with equal interest. Usually people are attracted
to only one of these - I love racing, but don't really find it fun to take a Jeep and navigate a
rocky river bed (he does the annual Palar challenge and also won this year) or to go through knee-deep slush.

Anyway, we have had quite some nice weekend meets at his place, with some nice music
playing on the car-stereo setup he has in the drawing room. Till recently, we used to use
the drawing room, because one of the rooms was full of automobile stuff - a seat from one
car, an LPG tank from another, set of racing wheels, etc etc. But after he disposed off all
of it, that room became our venue.

However, like anything else, all good things have to come to an end. And so was it with this arrangement too, because our guy got married last week and no woman is going to be ok
with a bunch of guys having a party in her home. We are on the lookout for alternatives,
but yet to zero in on one, which meets our needs - has to be inexpensive, should allow us to talk/argue/shout and should be ok for a sub-10 crowd.

One option that looks like a fit would be the bar of the Hotel President, again on R.K.Salai.
Would surely be much more expensive than our "R.K.Salai bar" as we used to call his pad. :-)
Thanks for the nice time at your place, man. It was great while it lasted.