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Screening Room Events Get Artsy and Hyper-Local

We have been posting about how boutique hotels in New York City are incorporating screening rooms into their properties for destination...

After-Hours: Tropic of Manhattan

You don’t have to plan a destination corporate meeting on an exotic island to provide a tropical experience for your attendees. It’s...

Corporate Dinners: The Standing Steakhouse

Have you ever gone to a steakhouse, loaded up on the menu, felt great, and then are useless for the rest of the night? That formula...

Team-Building: Who is the Iron Chef in Your Company?

We have found a unique cooking team-building idea that can ramp up an already fun event into an "Iron-Chef" competition among your...

Jean-Georges Goes Vegan for Healthy Meetings

It seems like the menus of super-chef Jean-Georges are everywhere these days, so it should probably come as no surprise he is entering...

Schooner the Hudson

Having done 10-boat flotillas for major conventions, we know a thing or two about finding ways for destination corporate meeting...

Saint John the Divine Becoming a Foodie Event Option

If you haven’t heard, Saint John the Divine in New York City is one of the largest and most spectacular cathedrals in the world. We have...

Corporate Retreats and Executive Dinners UNDER the Williamsburg Bridge

It seems like everyone wants a piece of Williamsburg, Brooklyn these days. But what about a venue for exclusive corporate events,...

Corporate Dinners: New Steakhouse That Looks Like a Speakeasy

We have found a unique West Village Manhattan venue steakhouse that your destination corporate meeting attendees would swear is a typical...

Broadway’s Biggest New Hit Based in the Smallest in Places

In the middle of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington emerged a story of about 6,000 international flyers who were diverted to a...

A Taste of Scotland Golf for NYC Corporate Meetings

Your destination corporate meeting attendees can experience a taste of Scottish golf only only 90 minutes from New York City, and that...

Michelin-Starred Chef Launches a Baking Team-Building Class

One of the world’s top bakers, and chef at Copenhagen’s Michelin-starred restaurant Noma, has launched a bread-baking team-building...

Pre-Meeting Sundays: City-Wide Ferry Service to Beaches and More

If your destination corporate meeting attendees are arriving early in New York City on a Sunday, they will have more water ferry options...

CORPORATE DINNERS: TRY THE OBAMA’S FAVORITE IN BROOKLYN

Forget the craziness about wiretapping. No one will ever accuse former President Obama of poor taste in dining. Turns out one of the...

AFTER-HOURS: THE SPEAKEASY BURGER

While some of Manhattan’s speakeasies have attached themselves to restaurants as after-hours craft cocktail options, we haven’t seen one...