Friday, September 25th, 2009
New York City is among the most important center for trade and commerce in the world. Being the world’s major cities for politics, international finance, culture and entertainment, it welcomes large number of people from all over the world. New York has a lot to offer to the visitors in terms of culture, entertainment, food and lodging. It is an important destination for organizing conferences, parties, social events and other functions. There are many private hotels and restaurants that offer the event space in order to organize these meetings and gatherings. There are various options for people for selecting an appropriate location to host their parties and conferences. It has every type of restaurants one could possibly imagine. The restaurants also vary in range such that everybody would be able to find a place that would be suitable to him and his budget.
There are also some beautiful restaurants in New York City that provide private space for hosting parties. These restaurants have special event space to allow their client organize private parties. These private rooms are especially designed for private events and the décor consists of comfortable chairs and cushions. The staff service is excellent and the menu bar is amazing. They offer some of the best cuisines in the United States.
Some of the most famous restaurants that offer private rooms for events include: Tao, Stk, and Buddha Bar
Tao: Tao’s waterfalls, lush velvet & silks, and century old stones and woods, transport the guests to the Pacific Rim from the City of Sin. Over the corners of Tao are placed a wide collection of statues of Buddha. The nightclub is decorated with red chandeliers and consists of a Monk Bar which has a wall decorated with around three hundred hand carved candles and monks. The 400 seat lounge menu incorporates dishes made from the cooking components from Japan, China and Thailand. The private space for events has been beautifully decorated according to the general theme of the restaurant. The service offered along with the atmosphere, makes the party a smash hit among the guests.
STK New York: STK combines the energetic beat of a city center lounge with the heart of a greenmarket eatery, thereby redefining the New York’s steakhouse experience. The menu emphasizes on fresh ingredients and local manufacturer, offering Americans traditional to alternative steakhouse fare. STK has brought new life to Meatpacking District, one of Manhattan’s most lively areas. The main dinning room has the seating for 200 people whereas the upper level features private party suites with comparatively lesser seating capacity. These private rooms provide the ideal setting for personal private parties and some special corporate events.
Buddha Bar: Buddha Bar is just the ideal restaurant to organize private parties. The interior consists of bamboo elements, wood plank floor covering, huge chandeliers and low seating. The menu consists of seasonal food incorporated the bold Asian flavors and the French essences. The soul of Buddha Bar is the stunning jet black Buddha resting peacefully underneath a cross shaped skylight.
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Happy Hour is over at midnight and your place is the suggested location for your group to continue the evening of fun and to “straighten up” before hitting the road all the way home.
This could be a sticky situation if you aren’t prepared. So, here are 7 easy tips to successfully hosting an impromptu after party.
1. Put A Pot On- Serve coffee. Keep it simple, you don’t have to compete with Starbucks. Just brew up some java and it at the very least leaves your apartment with a wonderful aroma. It’ll help the sleepies wake up a little too.
2. Play Music At A Volume Grandmother Would Appreciate- And not the deaf one either. Be respectful of your neighbors to keep the party going. You could pop on the Ipod, stereo, or use your favorite music channel provided by your dish or cable company, but keep low. Suddenly you’re an Instant DJ. Plus, those music channels offer some really neat trivia about the artist that it’s currently playing.
3. Serve water to everyone- Maybe they don’t go for the coffee, but after a night out everyone could use some water. Even try to rouse the guy who didn’t quite make it through the night. If you don’t have bottled water, make a picture of ice cold water, add lemons, limes, oranges or even cucumbers (although not necessarily together) to give it some pizzazz. You must keep hydrated.
4. Appetizer’s are in high demand- Order appetizers before you leave your happy hour spot. Or, hop over to Ihop for breakfast food. Don’t want to stop? Scramble some eggs with a little toast, have chips and salsa, or cut up a medley of fresh fruit, cheese, and crackers. The true entertainer should always have mixed nuts or pretzels on hand.
5. Go Light On the Sauce- When preparing late night cocktails, go heavy on the mixers. Remember: your apartment isn’t a fully stocked bar and everyone’s been drinking since 6 p.m.
6. Play thinking games- Have games already on hand? Perfect. If not, make up some trivia games like name 5 movies with Julia Roberts or who holds the NFL record for the most Touchdowns. The point is to make sure your guest are mentally in top form before they say they’re going to head home—driving.
7. Don’t invite extra people- Only VIP’s make it to the after-party. Don’t allow others who call your after-hour buddies to drop in. Too many people can ruin a late night get together and things can get out of hand. VIP’s only!
The key to the perfect after-party is supplying your guests with a safe, fun place to relax or pull it together before heading home to drunk dial—which you can’t really help them with.
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Want to have some cheap fun in your apartment without causing too much destruction and havoc? Have a picture party!
And by party, I don’t mean inviting tons and tons of people. I’d advise, for your sake and for your neighbors’ sake, limit your guest list to 5-8 people. Also, be sure that the ones whom you invite are creative and good with cameras. At the end of this event, you want to come away with hundreds of really great photos from a variety of different eyes that will immortalize your apartment and help you retain those often awesome, yet fleeting memories.
And if you take some really awesome pictures that feature your sweet looking apartment…be sure to share them with your apartment manager! Maybe they could use them to show how great and fun their apartments can be…Just a thought.
There are two ways of having this event.
1) Got Digital? - Have each of your guests bring their own digital camera and the cables or card readers they’ll need to transfer any pics to your computer. Schedule some board games or other fun activities as well as place a number of fun, cool looking objects around the apartment. Of course, you will want to have a few snacks and refreshments available. (Remember adult beverages should be for adults only and handled responsibly)
You’ll want to have a timer that goes off at a set time every couple of minutes or so, which will be time for every guest to take a picture. Doesn’t really matter of what as long as it’s a cool pic!
Then after a couple of hours, transfer all of the pictures over to your computer, have a slide show, and a ton of great laughs!
Disposable Disco- This one is more for those who are less concerned with perfect pictures and more concerned with the element of surprise. Supply each of your guests with a disposable camera as soon as they walk through your door. Follow the same activity and time guidelines as above, but every 10 minutes have everyone put all the cameras into a bag, shake them up, and then pull out another camera. This really mixes it up!
You could then take a group trip to your nearest one hour photo lab and see if they’d be able to actually print all the pics within an hour. If so, kill some time shopping or grabbing a drink while the pictures are being developed. After you pick them up, take them all back to the apartment and spread them out all over the floor.
You’ll come away with a bunch of great pics and possibly some great new decorating ideas with all the excellent photos.
Quick tip: If you keep your apartment well lit, make sure that you don’t use the flash. Flashes have a tendency of really white washing out pictures and if you can get around using one because your room is really bright…do it!
Either way you decide to do it, if you end up hosting one of these picture taking events, post your pictures on an account at Flickr and post a link to your pics in a comment on this blog. I’d love to share them in our blogs!
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