Years ago, every hotel featured green-turtle soup; no banquet was complete without terrapin.
At the Clubhouse, a green-and-white banquet-reception hall where corporate groups gather during the Masters, the owner, Terry Wick, shrugged.
Green in a third-floor banquet room "evokes the freshness of a barley field in late spring".
Arrayed on the Ladies' Day banquet table were yellow-green avocado pear halves stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise, and platters of rare roast beef and cold chicken, and every so often a cut-glass bowl heaped with black caviar.
It includes two nights (Nov. 3 and 4) in a suite that overlooks Central Park, two finish line tickets, a banquet at Tavern on the Green, a private tour of Tiffany & Company — along with a $200 gift certificate and a welcome gift — and late checkout.
The New Yorker, March 21 , 1994P. 160 ARTIST'S SKETCHBOOK showing a scene from Taiwanese film, "The Wedding Banquet"; Vietnam's "The Scent of Green Papaya"; China's "Farewell My Concubine".
We were misled in thinking of modern diplomazy in out-moded terms of green-baized tables and banquets of state.
The man who was such an avid Jets fan that he often slipped a Jets jersey over his collar and clerical garb -- and was feted by a banquet room full of people dressed in green at his surprise 50th-birthday party in January -- was too lively, too much of an everyday fixture in this tranquil village on Long Island's South Shore, to be dead.
He envisioned his guests arriving on a crisp, cloudless day, sipping blackberry mimosas before tucking into a banquet of homemade soy salad sandwiches, organic greens, and for dessert, fresh-plucked berries drenched in cream.
Simon & Schuster canceled its annual holiday party, held for the last few years at Tavern on the Green and scheduled in 2008 for Guastavino's, a splashy banquet hall in Manhattan.
