Executives Will Pay Pounds 500 a Head to Go to Dinners Like This. So Why Hasn't London Got a Venue That Really Fits the Big-Bash Bill?
Evening Standard - London › March 25, 2004
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IT IS 3am and the Grosvenor House Hotel's Red Room bar is in full swing. Flush-faced men in penguin suits throw back Dom Perignon and brandy between ostentatious cigar puffs. Some boast of their successes in the evening's industry awards, attempting to impress the odd remaining female.
Others huddle together and talk business.See the full content of this document
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Executives Will Pay Pounds 500 a Head to Go to Dinners Like This. So Why Hasn't London Got a Venue That Really Fits the Big-Bash Bill?
Depending on the day of the week, The Grosvenor's Great Room, downstairs from the bar, can be hosting award ceremonies for a thousand construction industry executives, utilities managers, radio celebrities or top entrepreneurs.
Many have come in from the sticks for a huge treat - a posh hotel in the Big Smoke, dicky bows and ballgowns, a shopping splurge on Bond Street. Not to mention the e...See the full content of this document
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