News about venues for special events, including hotels, restaurants, catering halls, banquet halls, museums, cultural institutions and dedicated event spaces.
The 500-room Crowne Plaza hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo., opens this month. Twenty-eight meeting rooms are available; the Summit Ballroom offers views of iconic Pikes Peak. With 43,000 square feet of meeting space overall, the hotel also featur...
Boyne Mountain, located in Boyne Falls, Mich., offers a reconstructed lower level of its convention center as part of a $2.5 million renovation. A Swiss-Austrian theme is carried out with pine doors, antique ski equipment and hand-painted murals...
The new Four Seasons Hotel Alexandria at San Stefano in Alexandria, Egypt, offers 118 rooms and nine restaurants. Its San Stefano Ballroom holds up to 900 guests. More than 20,000 square feet of meeting space is available; audiovisual equipment i...
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta opened a new lounge, Pulse, on July 9. Two more new venues are Sear and High Velocity, a sports bar with 21 plasma TVs. Other aspects of the hotel's $138 million renovation include modernizing the Imperial ...
Located in Wills Point, Texas, Four Winds Steakhouse overlooks a 15-acre lake. The new restaurant's decor features wrought iron star trim and a cedar interior. Event spaces include a private upstairs room with room for 60 people and a 4,000-squar...
The Benson hotel in Portland, Ore., announces its Mayfair Ballroom will get a complete renovation, to be completed in September. Decor features will include alabaster chandeliers, new stage drapery, a new sound system and a new lighting package...
The Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills, Calif., has a new menu of small dishes at Bar 360 thanks to executive chef RaShon Smith. Menu items include lobster rolls, lamb lollipops and fried green tomatoes with fresh burrata. Items on the m...
The Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center in Atlanta will open a new, 4,000-square-foot ballroom in September. With 18-foot-high ceilings, a capacity of 300 people for a reception, and an entry made of smoked glass, the ballroom connects to the hotel...
Scheduled to open Aug. 15, the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, located in Dallas, will feature a restaurant helmed by renowned chef Dean Fearing. Fearing's restaurant will serve such Southwestern cuisine as chilled sweet corn vichyssoise and buffalo...
Sopra Upper Lounge, located in Toronto, is a new restaurant with space for up to 140 guests. The back room can accommodate 50 people; it offers a marble fireplace. The main space is lit with crystal chandeliers; other decor elements include an...
