The evening begins at 7 with a performance at the Sky Rink, with drinks at 8 and dinner at 8 30 at the Lighthouse.
Neither Art Coulter, the Rangers defenseman and captain, nor any of his teammates skated around the rink with the Cup, nobody drank Champagne from it and no one kissed it.
I weave in and out of rows of gabled houses and end up at the ice skating rink near the Rijksmuseum where I drink a thick hot chocolate and try some bits of a puffy pancake called a Poffertje to keep out the cold.
A provision in the Park Grill contract allows the restaurant to arrange a series of summer concerts on the Millennium Park ice-skating rink, drawing crowds that bolster food and drink sales.
The small rink (about 400-square-feet) has special drinks courtesy of house mixologist Charlotte Voissey including a particularly deadly vodka-tequila Hot Chocolate Martini.
Though no one had determined specific protocol yet, she said drinks would not be allowed in the rink.
Other destinations for warm drinks include the Kaffeeklatsch, at the ice rink at the Standard Hotel, 848 Washington Street (13th Street); the Treehouse Bar at David Burke Kitchen in the James Hotel, 23 Grand Street (Thompson Street), and Celsius at Bryant Park.
For NBC in recent years, that has consisted of unveiling the new lineup before a packed crowd in Radio City Music Hall, and a canapé-and-drinks party in and around the skating rink in Rockefeller Plaza.
Food and drinks will be served in booths around the rink.
Westfield, another large operator, has added dog runs and ice rinks, and, in Toledo, Ohio, the Wait Room, a lounge where customers can drink a beer and check their e-mail "while their significant other shops," said Katy Dickey, a Westfield spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
