If you know the area, help draw up a list of nearby restaurants. Here's a start:

• A link to the [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=14901+Dallas+Parkway+addison,+tx&spn=0.021963,0.040525&hl=en GMaps page] for the conference center, to serve as a convenient starting point for GMaps directions to places below.

• A quick query of [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=restaurant*&sll=32.951893,-96.823449&spn=0.060416,0.059768&sspn=0.127192,0.125828&num=10&start=0&hl=en restaurants nearby], for the truly lazy

• [http://www.addisontexas.net/where_to_eat/restaurants/BJs.asp BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse] ([http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=0.005491,0.010131&saddr=14901+Dallas+Pky,+Dallas,+TX+75254&daddr=4901+Belt+Line+Rd,+Dallas,+TX+75254%C2%A0(B+J's+Restaurant+%26+Brewhouse)&hl=en Directions], Distance 1 mile) has Pizza and Americana, decent beer (free samples), and a killer baked deep-dish cookie called a "pizzookie" or somesuch for desert.

From JeffRush's email:

The Addison hotel is in the center of an entertainment district. On the corner of the hotel is a comedy club and at least four nice sports bars, for discussing Python over a beer.

The main avenue along there is covered in restaurants:

• Landry's seafood
• Clay Pit indian
• Chili's
• Snuffer's burgers, etc.

For super late night there is:

• Vernon's, my favorite bar/grill that serves food until 2am 7-days a week, and
• a 24-hour Denny's
• The restaurant at the hotel closes at 10pm.

For close-in sightseeing, there is small airport within half a mile of the hotel, with Cavanaugh's aerial museum. Lunching at several small places around the airport, with the planes coming toward you and taking off just over the restaurant is neat too. One BBQ place had a control-tower radio playing over the speakers in their dining area.

• The town of Addison maintains [http://www.addisontexas.net/where_to_eat/ a list of local restaurants].

I've heard that Belt Line in Addison between 35 and the Tollway has the highest concentration of restaurants in the USA. Shouldn't be a problem.

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