Was talking with someone about the Saturday night meal, and we are considering a new place.
Originally, Rim choose that place and we had the private room jammed packed with a ton of people. He couldn't come one year so I took over. I got the semi-private room and generally we would have the section to ourselves with our smaller group. It wasn't hard to add chairs and/or a table when we needed to, and it was a nice place but wasn't formal because we came in with jeans and polo's (and didn't require suits and ties). Plus, it was local to Rockville, it had a range of food from steaks to vegetarian to other stuff like seafood. They would have a special menu for us like extra large steaks or other things they might not prepare regularly. I'm old fashioned so I want my yearly good steak. But, the food was secondary to the breaking of bread with friends, associates, and families once a year.
My goal on staying with that place was to show loyalty so that it could garner a relationship with them, and be able to pay off down the road. Do we have a suggestion on a place that is similar?
Criterial:
1. takes reservations
2. private/semi-private area/room with space to grow
3. range of food that everybody could enjoy and not be a specific type of eatery
4. in Rockville/local (consider that places walking distance to the hotel are generally crowded on Saturday night)
