Mike is moving out to Seattle, AKA the new crossword Mecca! Come, join us. Resistance is futile.

Six famous(-ish) gathering places from TV shows. Having wasted (er, spent — sorry Mike!) hundreds of hours watching "Friends," I knew CENTRAL PERK right off the bat — fun, punny name. And as a die-hard "Star Trek" fan, TEN FORWARD came easily as well. MACLARENS, not so much. Thankfully, Mike did a nice job of making sure that most all the entries crossing themers were fair.
Some might argue that ZAPOTEC makes for a tough crossing, but first of all, how many possibilities does TEN F?RWARD have? (Okay fine, maybe TEN FARWARD is marginally plausible.) Second of all, boo on you if you haven't invested in all the greatness that was "Star Trek: the Next Generation."
I like the consistency, all places from TV shows. At first, this giant "Casablanca" fan was distressed to see RICKS omitted, but that would have introduced a "this one is not like the others." Ah, well.
AZKABAN, the "Harry Potter" prison! Fun for the fanboy in me to see that. Probably not so much fun for the non-fanboys to guess at if it was AZKABAN or ASKABAN, what with INEZ / INES being equally likely. I'm taking away five points from Crossffyndor for that.
Nice execution, considering the difficulty of incorporating six themers. Mike does well to stack CENTRAL PERK / MOES TAVERN and TEN FORWARD / THE PEACH PIT, allowing him to space out the rest of the themers. It does cause some difficulty in the top, with UNES and PERTER, as well as in the bottom, with our good crossword friend EERO and A POD, but those are relatively minor.
I also like Mike's big thinking, keeping the word count low (74) and giving us quite a bit of longer fill. SOME NERVE, SLAPDASH, and LAID AN EGG are so zippy. He did a good job of spacing these long entries out, too, which helps a constructor more smoothly fill a grid.
All in all, a fun idea. It would have been nice to get at least one more with a wordplay name like CENTRAL PERK rather than straightforward trivia — get on that, TV writers!