Try these eateries with lounge areas to extend a successful meeting beyond the meal.
1. Restaurant Provecho and lounge Remedy opened in December 2008 in the same building in the financial district. The 5,100-square-foot Mexican eatery seats 158 while the 2,900-square-foot lounge holds 150 and has an upstairs V.I.P. area. Both venues are available for full or partial buyout.
2. Code Restaurant & Lounge’s minimalist design is divided into three spaces: an entry holding hundreds of bottles of Cristal, a dining area with a glass-enclosed wine cellar, and a lounge and dance floor with an LED wall. Open since fall 2008, the 9,000-square-foot venue seats 188 or holds 297 for receptions. Smaller events for 50 can take over the champagne room, or groups of about 70 can book the dance floor.
3. Owner Asako Lisa Batten opened Japanese restaurant Hakobe in July. The eatery serves entrees such as almond shrimp with sea salt and lemon alongside specialty cocktails like the “Asako Special” (vodka, lychee sake, berry juice, banana juice, lemon, and muddled blueberries). Hakobe has a spacious area adjacent to the main dining room that can be sectioned off for private events. There is also patio seating out front.
4. On the site of the former Montmarte Café in Hollywood, Marbella opened in September. The giant Spanish-influenced nightclub and tapas restaurant offers a 4,000-square-foot patio with wrought-iron accents and interior decor evocative of Spain in the ’20s. The space holds 900 for buyouts.
