Čupiterija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Čupiterija - Hijo de Puta, 100% original. A must see when in Ljubljana old time. Surprises' in store for visitors. Service was phenomenal, tables wiggly.

Danijel Vovčko - Sales Rep for mid market customers at IBM Slovenia, based in Ljubljana, about to move to Radomlje, worked for Modri Val family business, MojeDelo.com, Steinbach's Intex pools and was significant contributor that we have supercomputer #2 at Arctur now. Serious biker, off road and street, likes to do sports in silence and solitude, is reading and likes Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike. A lot more sports and easy cruising travel - one day. Fly-fishing reveals a lot about person's personality - as noted by Božo Dimnik in Playboy.

Erik Hočevar - Sales Rep at IBM Slovenia, based in Ljubljana, about to move to Krtina, worked for Siol, NLB and In.Life, plays tenis, a lot, his girlfriend used to be semi-pro player, used to play accordion, still does guitar and drums, mostly with White Rose rock band, about to read Vsa življenja Igorja Bavčarja and would like to one day graduate also at SAE. Fine tuned.

Very interesting and imaginative sink in men's room.

Little Italy, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Little Italy - looks great from the street, from afar and by the name. Very cold inside, not only due to bad weather and lack of heating. They don't make you feel warm. The soup does, luckily. And interesting conversation makes you forget the coldness of the place.

Igor Pauletič - CEO of FrodX, Enteprise 2.0 consulting and research company (Frod is poetic for wise, experienced, old, mature), based in Kranj, founded CIS, sold to Mikrocop (known for Arhiviraj.si) where he served as board member, before launching FrodX, playing golf in Gorenjska liga with 25 HCP, many times with Matej Lavric, Nokia N97 was his last Nokia, now he's on Samsung's Android, one day he will do a lot more fly fishing as you can really know one through this "sport". Many French names in Bluekiwi.

Oranžerija, Mengeš, Slovenija

Oranžerija - a very nice and popular place in Mengeš, close to elementary school. Symbolic for the gathering that night - B class of 1990 of that school. They are proud of their garden.

Andrej Škrlep - raised and rooted in Mengeš, wood-craft professional, managing his company Silvatica - father already left the company to his son, but still lingers on the website :), supplying mostly pharmacies with a-la-cart furnishing, 1 year old daughter and spends unconventionally lot of time with her, parallel reader, among other books Alenka Rebula, used to play tarock (tarot) a lot, did not go far with piano lessons, but still plays pipe organ, got his skipper license from Bojan Franko, who set to sail around the world, but stopped in America - so Columbish - and loves sailing with him since. One day he will just sail and sail. And sail.

Polona Razpotnik (u.t.b.k.a. Zalokar) -lives in Moste, manages a small bar adjacent to a supermarket called Pikapolonca, after her mother moved to Sarajevo to pursue business interests, did a little bit of casting business, but prefers and loves the housewife and mother part of her life, 3 daughters, plays basketball, walks dalmatian and mountains, loves and is very good at cooking for friends, recently read Mende Nazer true story Slave, will soon make a deep dive into history books and thinks Vale Novak couple have the "bestest" recipes in the world. One day she will combine intensive travelling with leaving and cooking in a mountain hut.

Tatjana Cvrtila Ložar -Lives in Trzin, teaches English in Kamnik high school, has 2 years old twins, likes to travel a lot, also with the twins, latest trip was to Fuerteventura, is brilliant in baking cakes and sweets, also publishes recipes on kulinarika.net, recently read Muca Copatarica, is supporting children through Worldvision and will one day full devote herself to support underprivileged. Tatjanavision.

Civil weddings as opposed to animal weddings.

Mongolian BBQ, Budapest, Hungary

Mongolian BBQ - widely known, real McCoy self service BBQ, pricey, yet worth it. Wanna get stuffed, come here. Occasionally with dolls playing on iPad. Recommended. The place. The iPad. The dolls.

Brad Buff - WW Sales Leader for WebSphere Application Infrastructure, grew up in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is now based close to RTP in North Carolina, was with IBM since graduation, worked in many departments, last 12 years in Software Sales, back in 1990 he was managing the team trying to put Cisco software on IBM hardware and had one of first IBM PCs in RTP. 4 kids, coached and refereed soccer games, has UNC basketball season tickets, loves to watch old movies on TCM and the likes, read Lord of The Rings 20 years before it came as a movie, is now reading Let The Great World Spin, abundant wealth would let him fix kids lives, give more back to Lutheran Church and maybe run for also school board. Many beneficiaries.

The 3 secrets of Mongolian BBQ in Budapest.

The secrets revealed. Bare naked. Up for grabs. Again and again.

You don't want to get your tie stained here, you want to get it cut. Why half measures? :)

Mongolia BBQ Kranjčeva, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Mongolia BBQ. Two locations in Ljubljana and most probably spreading further. With a reason. Come and see. Recommended.

Boštjan Pilej - Key Account Manager turned Social Media Community Manager at Pro Plus, key force behind Osvajalec.si, fostering Twittering an FB-ing in his media house, diligent Facebook infringement notice sender, reading Economy of Sex and The Search, forward looking iMac and iPad protagonist.

Igor Adamič - Web Content Manager at Pro Plus for their plethora of sites: http://moskisvet.com/, http://cekin.si/, http://zadovoljna.si/, http://golfportal.info/ and others. People get the content they ask for. And deserve. Same goes for government. Ministry of nude. Reading Pravni Vodnik po Internetu. One needs to know the safe side.

iPad - right sized for restaurants. Content is king. Traffic is queen.

Snow-white and the Fish Dwarfs. Chinglish. Chlovenian.

Rustica, Prague, Czech Republic

Rustica - Italian Ristorante near Hlavni Nadrazi. Spinch "radiators" were very good. Really, really good. Recommthumbs up.

Anna Borovska - Telco Solutions Manager for IBM in CEE, grew up in Kosice - where the only known marathon was happening in Czechoslovakia times, needs to visit restaurant Mediterran to check the wines, used to work for APP, company bought by Ness, then KPN Consult and Telefonica CZ before joining IBM. Is a wine connoisseur, is reading Nobel Prize Laureate Sigrid Undset's Saga stories. One day she will travel a lot and help people in need.

Vodafone tie policy. You don't were it. As a visitor you leave it on a tie-hanger at the reception. Cute.

Zavarovalnica Triglav - Verovškova, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Zavarovalnica Triglav corporate offices at Verovškova. With a canteen. Sometimes closed off for event attendees only.

Andrijana Zrinji - Compliance officer at biggest insurance company in the country, born in Belgrade, raised in Radeče, switching with Ljubljana mandates adaptation, was inspector at DURS, worked for Ilirika BPH and is now also making sure that SEOnet reflects reality. Used to be Yoga instructor, is founding member of Toastmasters Slovenia, parallel reading Bogdan Novak's Lipa zelenela je and Why Women Should Rule The World. One day she will travel a whole lot more, do fantastic photos and combine helping children in need and wellness business.

FT interview with Akbank chairwoman Suzan Sabanci Dincer. Interesting.

Ljubljanski Dvor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ljubljanski Dvor - pizzeria with long tradition and perfect location. Last time inside, this time outside.

Jan Bajerski - WebSphere Connectivity portfolio Community of Practice Leader for IBM in CEE. Warsaw native, Gajdzica was his peasant ancestor with big library and ex-libris, WUT graduate, worked for IBM GBS on PeopleSoft integration project for TP, Ultramarathon runner, Puszcza Kampinoska among them, he also did 100km Kierat in mountains in 22 hours, has 3 kids and will one day do tour around Mount Blanc while spending more time with his kids.

100. Biggest selection?

Mother taking the young. Child labour?

Durumce, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey

Durumce kebap place, also featured on Foursquare, social geo-tagging service. Good kebap. Good company.

Konstantin Yurov a.k.a. Kostja Matroski - WebSphere Tech Sales and Services Manager for IBM CEE. Grew up near Zhukovsky Air Base and started his career as Plant 402 civil aviation translater, maybe he also worked for Roga i Kopita, is currently in the middle of second volume of Anna Karenina, reading it on Asus PDA and spends a lot of time cutting grass. One day he will have a Ride on Mower for his even bigger grassland. Green on.

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BarCode, Istiklal, Istanbul, Turkey

BarCode, right next to very popular and hugely crowded Istiklal Avenue near Taksim. Not too common combination of beer and shisha place.

Marijan Jurinjak - WebSphere sales for IBM Croatia, Czech origin (Jirinek), lives in Karlovac, grew up in Duga Resa, worked for Etna, before joining Big Blue, likes combination of cigarettes and shisha, reads Alen Bovic's Metastaze, just moved to his new house, very much enjoyed vacation in Komiža, used to be a DJ and will one day restore old cars. From BPM to BPM :)

I have a very long and cold one. Dondurma.

Rio Momo, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rio Momo - New and improved legendary Rio (ex fast food) on Slovenska. Under Portal imperium (Momo Group). Recommended. The whole group.

Boštjan Pečan - Systems Sales at IBM Slovenia, Ljubljana native, successful track at Repro, Repro MS, Avtera and Birotehna before jumping on Blue wagon. Enjoying his brand new Clarity Beyond Reality, two kids 12&17, Iztok's brother in-law, early Facebook adopter - all the way back in 2005, Guča (50 years anniversary) attendee - as an event in a series of yearly momačko sporting events - any similarity with The Hangover purely accidental. Recently re-read Alan Ford and regularly devours National Geographic.

From online to real world and back online. Oily system.

And that's why it works.

Juicebox, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Juicebox - no pills in this box, yet full of vitamins. We want more. Recommended. By doctors, too.

Simona Škafar - advertising agency worker from a proud working class family, grew up just outside Ljubljana under Debni vrh and is not tied to the capital, worked for Premiera and Mediana, really likes to perform surveys, also likes TV Slovenia and is following their production regularly on web, likes ironing and her dog (Smile ambassador), too. Was part of PGD Sostro, very avid mountaineer - biggest contributor to Slovenia350, does not run yet and prefers Hesse's Steppenwolf over Gibran's Prophet. One day she will be active in tourism and organic catering. Organicbox-to-be.

David Morales Marascales did a good vibe!

Mirje, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Mirje - students appreciate Italian cusine. Spotted by locals. Recommended.

Jasmina Golob - product manager in hardware maintenance department at IBM in CEE region, Slovenska Bistrica native with strong Štajerska (Lower Styria) detection and bonding instinct - 10 years in Ljubljana did not erase it, after finishing FDV she decided for IBM over EU intern-ship in Brussels, almost finished EF M.Sc. and just finishing Cotrugli MBA where she was scholarship finalist. Part of AmCham Young Professionals, reading Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, founder of a book club Bralne Vile, loves to dance and did folklore dance a while ago. Given new opportunity with ample funding, she would devote her energy to making couples last longer, doling out the right relationship nurturing recipes. Noble, if not impossible, venture. It should last. Longer.

Summer shade. Street noise. One plus, one minus.

Sarajevo '84, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sarajevo '84 - another good čevapčići place in Ljubljana. Down under. Carries the name of 1984 Winter Olympic games. Recommended.

Oliver Tutić - Shift manager at Sandoz/Lek pharmaceutical plant in Mengeš. Daruvar origin, lives in Podgorje, about to finish FKKT in Maribor, loved to play football when younger, biker, 2 small kids and would still stay in pharmaceutical given open chances. My elementary school buddy 20 years ago.

Čevabdžinica = place where they make Tschewaptschitschi.

Salon, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Salon on Trubarjeva - a very cool-ish place that has changed it's skin several times throughout the years of operating. This time black is the new black. A must drop by.

Aleš Rosina - freelance programmer, Ljubljana native, great-grandpa composer Emerik Beran, about to graduate from FRI, Microsoft Student Partner, Shelastyle blog composer, TEDxLjubljana team member, avid traveller - was recently on group USA/Silicon Valley Tour, recently read Hitchiker's Guide and occasionally does sailing. One day he will unplug all IT ideas in his head and bring them to reality, have a sailing boat and likes Gary Vaynerchuck. Many do.

Not many bar toilets have electronic push-button lids. Salon does. Sharp!