Kimpton Glover Park Hotel announced Renee Rothschild’s appointment as a senior catering sales supervisor to the executive crew. Since starting in 2016, the four-big-name hotel positioned simply north of Georgetown has become a famous vacation spot for discerning enterprise and leisure vacationers and a renowned meeting and event venue. The 154-room boutique inn with over 3,000 rectangular toes of meeting and event areas has been named one of the South’s Best Hotels in 2018 through Southern Living mag. It is currently nominated for a Northstar Meetings Group 2019 Stella Award for Best Food and Beverage inside the Northeast.
In her new function as senior catering sales supervisor, Rothschild is responsible for overseeing enterprise and group meetings special occasions, including weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, birthdays, and commencement events, and all-occasion catering. She collaborates with the team at James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schlow’s neighborhood Italian restaurant, Casolare Ristorante & Bar, to create memorable event stories.
Rothschild brings almost twenty years of enjoyment to the function, from planning activities at the five-superstar Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu’s Historic North Shore in Hawaii and catering the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, to managing endless huge-scale events at conference centers and coordinating logistics, food, and beverage backstage at high-visibility gala’s, concerts and community gatherings all through the south. She spent a decade inside the Savannah, Georgia, location planning activities at Savannah College of Art and Design and Haig Point Country Club on Daufuskie Island. After relocating to Washington, D.C., Rothschild recently served as a catering sales manager at Balducci’s and the Georgetown University Hotel and Convention Center.
Rothschild’s impact on Glover Park Hotel’s catering packages can be seen through the precise array of menus now available to planners. With award-winning neighborhood Italian restaurant Casolare providing all food and beverages clean to order on-site, upgrading the catering menus to focus on Executive Chef Patrick Curran and Pastry Chef Alex Levin’s culinary prowess for assembly and event attendees became Rothschild’s priority.
Offerings at Glover Park Hotel now vary from a circle of relatives-style breakfasts entire with alternatives like shakshuka and pita, mini waffles, and particular options stimulated using New York’s Lower East Side Rome’s Jewish Quarter such as residence-made bagels and lox or latkes with sour cream and applesauce. Creative assembly breaks range from healthy smoothie shooters to a ramification of Casola’s famed pastries, together with their famous house-made cannoli. Dinner occasions can feature customizable risotto, pizza, and pasta stations and interactive chef-led demonstrations upon request.
To better serve guests with unique nonsecular occasions or dietary desires, Rothschild brought special occasion menus to the inn, consisting of a Kiddush menu with house-made pastries including rugelach and Linzer truffles, clean tabbouleh and couscous salads, and freshly baked challah bread in addition to their popular latkes and homemade bagels with all the traditional accouterments. Subtle changes to wedding menus have been designed for the entirety, from rehearsal dinners, banquets, and morning-after brunches to the addition of customizable platters to fuel-hungry bridal events as they prep for the huge event.
Catering from Casolare is to be had in all meeting and event areas throughout the lodge, including the 1,860 square foot Rock Creek Ballroom, named for close-by parkland donated by way of the resort’s namesake, Charles Carroll Glover. Located on the lodge’s primary ground, the ballroom functions with impartial earth tones and ample herbal light. It is the proper space for graduation celebrations, rehearsal dinners, celebratory brunches, and conference activities for up to over 200 visitors. Open seasonally, a 1,000 rectangular foot doors area and cocktail bar, The Deck at Casolare, is nestled just out of doors and is the appropriate spot for bachelor or bachelorette events, birthdays, and events of up to a hundred visitors. Additionally, non-public breakout spaces for companies of up to 12 attendees are to be had upon request.
With over 3,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor function space, award-prevailing Italian delicacies, and a handy location just north of Georgetown in Washington, D.C., Kimpton Glover Park Hotel is poised to make activities exceptional, memorable, and, most importantly, perfect in execution, thanks to the addition of Rothschild to the group.
