The Lofton Hotel Minneapolis, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
601 N. 1st Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Wednesday December 12th 2024
11am-1pm
Plated Lunch:
Our event will featuring a special plated lunch by The Lofton Hotel’s Executive Chef Francis Taylor O’Brien.
Parking:
Self parking garage on Hennepin or the Lofton Hotel can offer valet at $15 per vehicle.
Experience the Venue
The hotel venue is one where business and entertainment meet. With flexible event spaces, including a spectacular ballroom with 17-foot ceilings, meeting rooms, and private dining rooms. Their event specialists are ready to accommodate events of any size and occasion.
In-house Catering
Enjoy a special plated lunch at our December event. During lunch, your entertaining hosts Michelle Tverberg and Matthew Sherry will guide you along a friendly and low-pressure networking program.
About the Chef
A native of the Twin Cities, Executive Chef Francis Taylor O’Brien of The Lofton Hotel, is passionate about bringing creativity and artistry into the kitchen. He has sculpted his own unique style with a blend of regional crossovers and techniques, especially loving influences from Spanish, South American, and Mediterranean cuisines. Chef Taylor has trained under the best local Chefs since 1996 and has worked in notable local kitchens such as the W Hotel Foshay Tower’s Manny’s Steakhouse, Barbette, Butcher and the Boar, Ciatti’s, The Sample Room, Oxcart Alehouse, and Renaissance Hotel: The Depot’s Milwaukee Road. He has also partnered with The Gentleman Forager and ran a mobile kitchen featuring wild sourced foods. Chef Francis Taylor O’Brien aims to turn dinner table china into canvases of food art while providing a pleasant and unexpected meal to remember.
Share Holiday Joy
Bring NEW and unwrapped toys at our December 11th event, each toy will be donated to Toys for Tots and distributed to economically disadvantaged children in the greater Twin Cities area.
Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest
Join in the fun – Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest with prizes for winners.
Your hosts include Twin Cities wedding industry-veterans, each with their own business niche: Matthew Sherry, CEO of COMPLETE Weddings & Events Twin Cities; Michelle Tverberg, real estate agent with National Realty Guild; and Elizabeth Sherry, event logistics coordinator with Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Together they have a combined experience of over 50 years in the wedding event industry.
Twin Cities Wedding & Event Professionals (TCWEP) is a networking group of event-industry professionals that’s been going since 2009. TCWEP’s mission is to enrich the Twin Cities event industry through education, collaboration, and word-of-mouth referrals. This is all done by professional relationship building and advancements in industry knowledge by learning from each other.
Please note: When you enter a Twin Cities Wedding & Event Professionals (“TCWEP”) event or program, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur.
We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
Thank you Sponsors:
Buttercream
The Lofton Hotel Minneapolis, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
Festivities
Haute House Studio