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Specialty gourmet lemonade company Gourmonade has expanded its offerings beyond $8 pours at its Valencia Street shop. For events, the company has developed a tailored “Mocktail Experience” (starting at $400), complete with a “mocktender” who will create fresh, citrus-based beverages for guests. Using shrubs, garnishes, and flavors to spruce up traditional, fresh-squeezed lemonade, the non-alcoholic beverage business serves up flavors like the Peppermint Palmer. Gourmonade’s Mocktail Experience is available in the Bay Area and for citywide corporate events, community affairs, weddings, and picnics. If patrons prefer spiked sips, Gourmonade can curate spirits-based cocktails as well.
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The Bently Reserve, a LEED-certified special event and meeting venue located downtown, now offers nine Smart Conference Rooms. The progressive, tech-savvy spaces boast Savant automation systems that allow for smooth management of the rooms’ features, including enabled video conferencing, high-definition Apple TVs with wireless Airplay capabilities (for both computer and phone connection), and HDMI cables for computer projection. Additionally, event planners can take advantage of the Bently Reserve’s virtual-reality planning tools and 3-D diagramming, allowing planners to experience the event before it happens. The venue also offers a mix of traditional conference rooms and standing desk rentals. Conference room rental rates begin at $490 for a half day and $820 for a full day, depending on the room selection.
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A fresh take on the traditional chocolate truffle, San Francisco-based TinyB offers Brazilian brigadeiros as a unique sweet treat. The smooth and creamy confections are preservative- and gluten-free, and are available in flavors like passion fruit, pineapple, cayenne pepper, and Brazilian coffee. Cleanly packaged in a robin’s egg blue box, the sweets range in price from $12 (for four) to $135 (for a three-box tower of 75). Additionally, the premium chocolates are available with branding options for corporate gift giving. The minimum order is 25 gifts, with a two-week lead time, plus additional set-up rates for a branded box sleeve ($175) and a hang tag ($125).
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