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Social Events
Welcome Reception:
"A Taste of San Francisco"
Wednesday, February 11
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Network with your colleagues and enjoy "A Taste of San Francisco" featuring foods that define the city.
Reception/Dinner:
"Fusion Food"
Thursday, February 12
6:00-11:00 p.m.
Experience an evening of dinner and dancing featuring fusion food and music by Pride and Joy. San Francisco, with its diverse cultural history, is the obvious home for fusion food that is defined by combining the flavors, ingredients and cooking techniques of two different cuisines to create a new hybrid food experience. Experience new tastes - where the East meets West.
Yoshi's Jazz Club
Friday, February 13
7:00-11:00 p.m.
Cost per person: $55
7:00 p.m. Bus Departure to Yoshi's from Westin St. Francis
10:00 p.m. Return to the Westin St. Francis
If you are looking for a night of live jazz before returning home, reserve a place at Yoshi's. Tickets to hear John Scofield, Larry Goldings and Jack Djohnette perform a tribute to the former Miles Davis drummer, Tony Williams. Yoshi's is a Japanese restaurant and club located in Oakland's famous Jack London Square, a waterfront development of restaurants and shops that line a boardwalk running alongside the marina. Sign up early. Reservations are limited and will be filled on a first-come first-serve basis.
Wine Tour
Saturday, February 14
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cost per person: $130
9:00 a.m. Bus Departure to Napa Valley
10:30 a.m. Domaine Carneros private tour and taste
12 noon Dean & DeLuca for shopping and lunch on own
1:30 p.m. St. Supery private tour and taste
2:30 p.m. Markham Vineyards private tour and taste
3:30 p.m. Depart for San Francisco
5:00 p.m. Return to the Westin St. Francis
Stay after the meeting for Valentine's Day weekend and see the sights or plan a romantic getaway in the Bay Area and enjoy a day of wine tasting in nearby Napa Valley. The drive north takes you across the Golden Gate Bridge and into miles of vineyards growing some of the best California wines. You will begin your tasting tour at the 138-acre estate of Domaine Carneros where you will learn how sparkling wines and pinot noir are produced. Then you are on your own to shop the gourmet shops of Dean & DeLucca and have lunch in the café. In the afternoon you will visit two other vineyards: St. Supery, where you will taste wines in the restored 1880 Queen Anne Victorian house, and then the recently expanded and renovated Markham Vineyards. Sign up early. Reservations are limited and will be filled on a first-come first-serve basis.
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