Montelupo
A Sellwood-neighborhood Italian restaurant in Portland, mentioned **9 times** in the corpus across **2023-08-08 → 2024-06-07**, principally as [[Daniel Miller]]'s preferred date-night venue and [[Cullen Conway]]'s preferred outdoor-seating-and-pasta proposal.
Montelupo
A Sellwood-neighborhood Italian restaurant in Portland, mentioned 9 times in the corpus across 2023-08-08 → 2024-06-07, principally as Daniel Miller's preferred date-night venue and Cullen Conway's preferred outdoor-seating-and-pasta proposal.
Montelupo is a Portland Italian restaurant attested in 9 corpus messages across roughly ten months. It is one of a small number of Sellwood-area restaurants the chat has explicitly identified by neighborhood (see also Foxtrot).
First mention
The earliest in-corpus mention is by Max Lieberman on 2023-08-08, in his customary first-person-plural RSVP register:
"Mercedes and I are going to montelupo tonight if anybody wants to grab dinner" — Max Lieberman, 2023-08-08
The construction Mercedes and I is documented in Mercedes as the standard Max-RSVP form.
Sellwood disambiguation
Evan Bbbender establishes the venue's neighborhood on 2023-11-17 in a one-line disambiguation question:
"The montelupo in sellwood?" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-11-17
The implication — that there might be more than one — is the chat's only documented Montelupo-disambiguation question. The encyclopedia notes that the chat has not asked again.
"Outdoor seating and pasta Italiano"
Cullen Conway's most-quoted Montelupo proposal is from 2024-06-07, in which he files the chat's preferred summary of the venue's selling points:
"Montelupo?" "Montelupo has outdoor seating and pasta Italiano" — Cullen Conway, 2024-06-07
Daniel Miller confirms within the minute ("I'd do montelupo") and Cullen later reports he believed they had landed there ("I thought we landed on Montelupo but I'm up for other suggestions", 2024-06-07). The chat's record does not, in the corpus, register where the meal actually took place.
Holman's overflow
The chat's only documented Montelupo-failure is from 2023-09-17:
"We have an hour wait to montelupo so we're at holman's" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-09-17
This is the corpus's only documented case of Montelupo's wait time forcing a chat-internal venue substitution. Holman's — a Portland bar — is otherwise unattested in the corpus and is preserved here for the historical record.