Bridal Shower - BYO or wine tasting?

[ashleylovespizza]

Hi there - just posted this in Manhattan, sorry for the repeat. I am planning a small coed wedding shower (20 people) this summer for my very cool/modern designer friend. She lives in Park Slope and I would love to find a place around BOCOCA or Park Slope. I'm trying to find a place that could host a wine tasting - either hosted by them, or by allowing us to bring a wine tasting kit - along with being able to serve some nice hors d'oevres or a luncheon. We are trying to keep costs down, to around $25 or $30 a head. An indoor, air conditioned private room or area would probably be the smart thing to do, as we're planning for mid July or August :)
Anyone know a place like that?
Thanks!

[roux42]

Maybe get in touch with some of the art galleries. They might let you use there space DUMBO has a few party room rentals that might work for you.

[jen kalb]

you might check with aliseo osteria on Vanderbilt - that is a cozy, cool italian wine bar-ish place with very good wines, mostly from the marche and meats and cheeses etc to match - see if they would do a deal or set something up with you. Frankies 457 in Carroll Gardens would be another possibility. dont call it BOCOCA tho, Please.

[ashleylovespizza]

ha, sorry. I moved from brooklyn to boston over a year ago and that gives me the right to be an ignorant a-hole tourist when it comes to terminology. i'm (halfway) kidding :)
what's the gentrified name they're trying to pass off onto red hook now?

[jen kalb]

Red Hook

[Tay]

jen..
Ok...I give up.. :-) What does BOCOCA stand for?

[jen kalb]

I think it stands for Boerum Hill - Cobble HIll - Carroll Gardens

created by the same real estate logic that gives us TRIBECA, NOHO, SOHO, DUMBO etc.

a lot of us like the names of our individual neighborhoods and dont want this one to propogate but not everyone feels the same.

[Tay]

Thanks, jen. I never would have figured out that one! I tend to think all of them are annoyingly affected and thought up by people with a little too much time on their hands. I mean who wants to live in a place called DUMBO, anyway? :-)

[malibu]

It's been floating around awhile and thank god it hasn't stuck! Horrible.

[cjd260]

That budget may be tricky in Park Slope if you include wine - Tempo is about double that for private parties. Try arranging something with Brook-vin, which doesn't open until 5pm each day and therefore may be able to do a private wine tasting during the daytime for less than other comparable restaurants/wine bars because they wouldn't be foreclosing any other business.