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Got invited by my friend Tanya to a cocktail party for Outward Bound, hosted by Google here in NYC. While what Outward Bound does is very interesting and a great cause (as well as a lot of fun) it took place at Google! The Google! So let’s check it out.

Here’s Tanya after a beer. At Google.

The party took place in the ginormous Google dining hall. They have expensive food, boy. Those shrimp? They’re no joke. Those other things are buffalo wings and they were awesome.

Here she is in the restaurant area, next to where the sweets would usually be. Google employs a full complement of chefs, at least ten on any day, given the number of different “food areas” they have.

This bear is outside the door to the dining hall. His placement leads me to believe “Don’t be evil” means “Please clean up after yourselves, nerds.”

When you work at Google, you get whatever you want for lunch. If it’s not being served at either of the two “main” restaurants, chances are you can cobble it together using a variety of components from the restaurants as well as the gen-pop sections of the dining hall.

But who’d want to, when you get celebrated chefs from around the world visiting at least once a month?

Seriously, each of them gets a hanging sign in the hallway - their name, when they came and what they made. Incredible.