Boston Event Guide Stats:
- Over 9,750 active restaurant subscribers and 80,000 total subscribers
- Online Restaurant and Social calendars updated weekly
- Our restaurant emails have an average opening rate of 30%
- 43% of our subscribers earn over $70k per year
- 35% of our subscribers dine out more than 15 times per month
- 89% of our subscribers are 25-39 years old
Location:
We are looking for fine dining restaurants in the Greater Boston area.
Date/Time:
This is generally a monthly event that is hosted on a Tuesday between 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
Target Audience:
Young professionals from ages 25-39+ who appreciate fine foods, interesting wines, and enjoy sampling the newest cocktails -- and are looking to experience Greater Boston’s sophisticated dining scene.
What Boston Event Guide will provide:
- One Chef Profile posted on Boston Event Guide's Blog
- 50-150 young professionals at your doorstep to sample your offerings
- Marketing support through the Boston Event Guide web site, exclusive emails and newsletters where applicable
- Promotional support through press releases, calendar listings, and creative partnerships with young professional organizations and charities
- A $600 credit per 50 guests for you to use for future marketing events or promotion (1 exclusive email to our restaurant list is $600)
What the venue will provide:
- The space to accommodate 50-200 people for two hours with a Cash Bar
- Complimentary wine sampling (We can organize donated products…3 samples per guest)
- Complimentary hors d’oeuvres of your choice which best showcase your establishment
Tuesday Tasting Event Specifics
Wines that will be sampled:
We usually shoot for 3 types of wines and a 3-4oz pour of each.
We provide drink tickets to each person attending and they turn them in for the samples.
We try to stick to sample size so that at the tail end of the event guests will stick around and order wine, cocktails and food.
Food Sampling:
We will need to get the menu of the items so that we can properly market the event.
Each venue is different but a good sampling of items that would best highlight your venue would be great! (Definitely not dinner)
Usually venues have 4-5 different types of food items passed. For planning we recommend 2-3 pieces of each item per person.
The food must be staggered from 6 – 7:30pm and servers must be assigned to different areas of the room to allow for everyone to taste.
Venue Set up & Collateral Material:
We have found that this event works best as a standing social cocktail reception. For the best social cocktail environment we recommend removing as many physical seats at the event to allow the maximize amount of people and flow.
As this is an introduction we urge venues to have restaurant information, copies of menu, and any other information that we can distribute it at the registration table.
Some of the most successful tastings invited guests back with a gift certificate or incentive promotion.
