This week Leona’s an “American style” restaurant opened at the Helmsley Hotel on 42nd st. This new multi-tiered restaurant serves contemporary American Cuisine. The space is available for private events and features a lounge space and full-bar. For more information regarding private events contact Kole Djurovic (212) 405-4224.
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By any measure, The James Beard House located on W 12th st. in Greenwich Village is truly a unique space for private events. The venue provides an “old-world” dining experience serving dishes from a variety of world-renowned chefs inside an intimate pre-war 4-story townhome.
Just about everything at The James Beard House is dynamic [...]
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Let’s face it– Twitter these days is quite confusing… Between the spammers and bots that have taken hold, it can be difficult to find the best folks to follow. I’ve compiled a list of useful twitter accounts for those in the event planning business. Enjoy!
@Venueczar
Follow Stephen Fried’s (Associate Publisher of GP) culinary adventures throughout NYC [...]
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On Thursday May 13th, Great Places hosted an event planner exclusive cocktail reception at Glass Bar, Hotel Indigo’s newly opened rooftop venue in Chelsea. The reception as an enormous success as 250 guests across the event industry were in attendance.
Hotel Indigo’s newly unveiled Glass Bar is truly an ideal rooftop space. Dubbed by Urban Daddy [...]
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Last Thursday May 13th at 9:30PM, the premiere of Beyond the Dish was held at Chelsea’s Black Door bar (127 W. 26th St.). Various entertainment and corporate bigwigs were in attendance including Chef Marc Spitzer from Bond St., Doug Friedman of the Breslin, and Howard Givner incoming ISES president, to name a few. This event [...]
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Howard Givner founder of Paint the Town Red, Inc. has penned a great piece on the power of an apology. While deflection of blame may be tempting, it often doesn’t “cut the mustard.”
The Power of Sorry
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Great Places’ very own Stephen Fried will be hosting Beyond the Dish on NYC Life (ch 25) every Thursday at 9:30PM. “Food lovin’, vespa cruisin’” host Stephen Fried will take viewers being the scenes exploring the very origins of various dishes. The show strives to expand the viewers culinary acumen by interviewing chefs at every [...]
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Spin New York
48 E 23rd St.
New York, NY 10010
212.982.8802
Venue Snapshot:
13,000 Sq Ft.
17 ping pong tables
Bar/Lounge area
Capacity 300
It’s official, the undisputed world champions of ping-pong are competing at Spin New York this summer. On June 23rd and 24th Jan Ove Waldner (3x world champ and Olympic gold medalist) and Mikael Applegren (4x world champ) will be [...]
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