Boston Hotels: Best catering? Likelihood of (paid) tasting at site visit?
Looking for industry professionals (ideally) or anyone who’s attended events at the following: FS (og/public garden), Encore Boston Harbor, Raffles, The Newbury.
Hesitant bc I’ve heard not the most stellar things about my top venue, Fairmont Copley Plaza. Not bad!! Overall solid but mediocre, I was just alarmed when the plating for a tasting I saw looked meh when that is THE opportunity to showcase presentation and taste.
Overall predicament: Because my preference at copley plaza doesn’t look like a hotel, any other option would require 5x the amount of carpeting/draping/lighting/staging/decor etc. Which is fine, but those the pictures are iconic and irreplaceable within Boston.
Planners…. How common or rather crazy would it be to request a tasting (obvi paid/not comped) at the site visit?