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Top tips for your London meeting

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Good morning! August is over and everyone’s coming back from their summer holidays ready for the new busy business season. The offices are filling up again and managers are organising new meetings to train and inform their team, work with partners or speak with clients.

Last week we spoke about the best venues for an event or dinner in London, trying to give you a suggestion for every need. This time we thought we’d drop a few hints to shape an efficient and organised meeting. So without further ado…

Here are the top tips for a good meeting:

  1. Communicate timing to all members: Date – place – time – don’t rely on someone to spread the word for you.
  2. Ask every person involved if he/she has any particular topics to add, aside from the main agenda.
  3. Involve a person as an assistant to help you in the organisation of the meeting (to prepare material, presentation, issues and to take minutes).
  4. A choice of snacks, hot drinks or biscuits will bode well for getting your team members’ attention.
  5. Send everybody the minutes immediately after the meeting.

You don’t have a meeting room in london? And you need one? London Presence can help you on this front too: you can have a large comfortable meeting room in the centre of London for as long as you need it. And above all you can have a cheap meeting room close to the City and easy to find by bus and tube. Click the ‘meeting room’ tab to find out more.

The 5 best restaurants for your perfect business event!

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Are you organising a dinner in London? Is it a business dinner?! Are you going to invite partners, clients or colleagues? In any case you need to find the most appropriate location. And the first things you need to decide (before the restaurant itself) are how many people you will invite and for what time of the day.

So here you are 5 tips for your perfect business meeting:

If you want to win over a small group of people (or a beautiful woman) the best place is The Sketch. Apart from the jaguar on the wall you can’t see anything from outside… it looks like a normal tea room but if you go with it you get to the hall you’ll find yourself akin to Alice in Wonderland. Strange pictures and sculptures and it has three different areas for different occasions. The ambience is as unique as the food and drinks! But if those are not enough: take a trip to the toilet, you’ll understand when you get there…

If you’re going for a big event you should check out the Skylon Restaurant. You can’t miss it, it’s inside the Royal Festival Hall, on the second floor of the Southbank Centre and it has an unparalleled view of the riverside. Here you can have three different kinds of meetings: a quiet lunch in a good brasserie, a smart dinner in a nice restaurant or a larger event in which you and your guests are the main stars.

If you are looking for a good lunch or dinner, in which the food will speak more than words, check out The Ivy. This restaurant offers a rich menu perfect for every taste and every season: good food for good people. Now The Ivy is a member of a larger group that includes Urban Caprice, the J Sheekey, the BamBoo and Scott’s.

If you want to surprise your guests, you should try the Hakkasan, it’s a dimly lit but smart Chinese restaurant hidden away just two minutes from Tottenham Court Road. It’s one of only two Michelin-starred Chinese restaurants in London and it offers gorgeous selection of dishes and tastey wines served with charm in a low-lit atmosphere.

If you are organising a fun and busy night the right place for you is the garden of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It may be a museum but it hides a lovely garden where you can host your guests, offering a canape dinner, live music and other surprises.

Would you like more suggestions? Would you like to be updated on offers and restaurants?! Use Top Table website and you won’t be disappointed. Let us know how you get on.

A drink at the Royal Exchange never fails to impress

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In the last few years new market strategies had to be rebuilt on new systems, people are always more in front of their screens, working by theirself. But the passion of the men for the beauty is still the same. Electronic system are innovated every day, and we are always running behind the changing. So we need sometimes a slow break. Men (and women) love beautiful places, delightful drinks, tasty food and good company, also in our fast Century, we shouldn’t forget the importance of meeting people and attending events.

If you are looking for the perfect place to invite your business partners or to organize an event? Here you are one of the most famous and posh place of London to take a drink: the magnificent Royal Exchange Grand Cafe’ and Bar. It’s just a suggestion, an idea to make a great impression to your guests, hosting them in a luxury courtyard with a sophisticated bar in the middle. Invite them at the Royal Exchange and tell them the story of this place and you will get them!

The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, its history started in the coffee houses of 17th century London and the first old building, the Royal Exchange, was set up in 1565 by Thomas Gresham, a rich merchant. There, for more than 200 years, stock brokers and jobbers have bought and sold shares, making the financial institution an important piece of history. In 1667, the Great Fire destroyed the building, that was rebuilt by the architect, Edward Jerman, City Surveyor, who looked after the building resembled the old as much as possible. Since 1844 a new building has been opened to host the national Stock Exchange, but the old one has kept on to be a historical monument to the financial importance of the City. In 1991, the building was refurbished a first time, then, in 2001 it was once again remodeled to become the Grand Café of now.