Recently, Hamra's restaurant Mezyan held a live music event called "Power to the People" where tunes from Arab revolutions entertained restaurant goers.
The promise of a meal in a trendy restaurant can also lure power guests who might otherwise decline, so that restaurant entertaining can be a means of social climbing.
Apart from the novelty of the private rooms, entertaining in a restaurant has another attraction: there's no opportunity for guests to size up the hosts by address, decor or the contents of the medicine cabinet.
They entertain in restaurants.
Most Chinese businessmen prefer to entertain in restaurants or karaoke parlours.
Even when she wore those other hats and became a Big Hollywood Screenwriter, for food lovers, she was always one of us, endlessly entertained by restaurants, cooking, cookbooks, the whole crazy salad of foodie life.
Gale Hayman, a cosmetics entrepreneur, who is married to William A. Haseltine, the founder of Human Genome Sciences, a pharmaceuticals company, gives dinner parties at their home in Washington, but always entertains in restaurants in New York, the couple's second home.
Mr Davis, a former chairman of Westminster's planning committee, which ruled on applications for developments in the heart of London, was entertained at restaurants including the Ritz, the Ivy and the Goring Hotel and had a trip to a property conference in Cannes.
Scores of doctors were wined and dined by sales representatives at the country's most expensive restaurants, entertaining them at Sydney's Taronga Zoo and the Melbourne Aquarium.
Whereas the museum's former Breuer building on Madison Avenue had little flexibility for social functions (for its final gala there last November, the museum cleared out two gallery floors for cocktails and dinner), the new location offers a wealth of entertaining options, including a restaurant and cafe, four terraces and multiuse spaces that can be transformed to host events.
