"cocktail event" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to an event or party where cocktails (mixed alcoholic drinks) are served. Example: "I'm excited to attend the company's annual cocktail event next week. I heard they will be serving a variety of unique cocktails and hors d'oeuvres."
Mr. Goodboy said he hoped his association's cocktail event would be a splash.
The cocktail event won't be the first time the Circle line has been used as a party venue.
In advance of this month's ninth annual Tales of the Cocktail event, here are five standout new establishments in the Crescent City, all opened post-Katrina.
In March, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz served Soylent-inis and Soylent Whites at a cocktail event at the South by Southwest conference in Austin.
Last year, when Christie's sold a fancy vivid blue diamond that it nicknamed the Bulgari Blue, it held a cocktail event in New York at the Bulgari store for 100 guests.
"If you think back to the Tom Cruise movie 'Cocktail,' that is what the industry was like when he started," said Alexandre Gabriel, the president and owner of Cognac Ferrand, whose Cognac house in France also makes artisanal spirits, one of which won best new product at last year's Tales of the Cocktail event.
Event tourism is a huge niche, be it sporting events like The Super Bowl and The Olympics, annual culinary and cocktail events, like Tales of the Cocktail and Aspen Food & Wine Festival, or Edinburgh's Fringe and Montreal's Jazz Fest for arts and theater savvy audiences.
Where else are parties, social BBQs and breakfast cocktail events, considered as important as the talks themselves?
Of all the interplanetary cocktail events in all the galaxy she had to walk into this one.
Ms. Jacoby figures that Mr. Rogers has entertained about 400 people a year for the museum for the last seven years, giving about 10 dinner parties and three cocktail events a year.
The Taylor collection is already on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Christie's will host a series of cocktail events and dinners for guests as it tours the globe before the sale.
