2011 has a nice ring to it!

Happy New Year! Thank you to all of the Members and Guests who hosted events with us in 2010. December was a joyous month. The Club looked amazing decorated for the holidays and we enjoyed several events including our Grand Holiday Celebration and a divine luncheon with Paula West. Photos from these events can be found on our Facebook page.

The New Year brings many special occasions from birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, annual galas, corporate celebrations and business meetings.It is customary around this time of the year that many couples are engaged and begin looking for that special venue to celebrate their union. We bring back after two successful years, The City Club 2^nd Tuesday Wedding & Event Open houses.

The next open house will be Tuesday, February 8^th from 5-7pm. We invite you to visit us and enjoy complimentary Champagne and Hors d’oeuvres. Our special featured partner for this show is none other than our very own Member, Natasha Miller from Entire Productions who will be providing live musical entertainment. We invite you to join us and ask about our preferred wedding pricing for 2011.

This month the Sales & Catering team is working with two very special organizations who have opened up their events to our Membership and guests.

Information about both events are below:

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 6:30pm

Exiles, Emigrants and Entrepreneurs: Archaeology of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)

The island of Tasmania, long renowned for its unique geology, pristine landscapes, and delicious food and wine, is also home to five newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Join us at The City Club of San Francisco where Eleanor Conlin Casella will take us on a tour of Tasmania, including its archaeological sites and memorable landscapes, through an exploration of the history of the island and its founding as a penal colony. She will discuss the famous male convict sites incorporated within the recent World Heritage listing, and then turn towards some of the results of archaeological excavations she's directed at the Ross Female Factory - a Tasmanian prison site established for exiled British female felons and their dependent children. The sites she will discuss offer some of the best-kept records of convict history anywhere in the world. Followed by a reception featuring a Tasmanian wine and whiskey tasting.

Please contact jklahn@aia.bu.edu or 617.353.8709

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Please join us and over 150 Bay Area professional women for the Women's Business Luncheon: EXPERIENCE. EDUCATE. EMPOWER on January 27th, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm at The City Club of San Francisco. The guest speaker for the evening is Kathy Tierney, Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Sur la Table.

All proceeds benefit Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls high school in the Mission District of San Francisco. Tickets available online: http://icaluncheon.eventbrite.com/ or call Caroline Curran at 415 824 2052 ext40

We look forward to a prosperous and exciting New Year!

Best Wishes,

The City Club Team

The City Club recommends San Francisco!

Thinking about where to have your next event or Wedding?
I recommend San Francisco!

San Francisco has so much to offer within its mainland of seven square miles.
At your very fingertips you have sites, smells, and sounds of such a diversely populated city. From the restaurants, neighborhoods, historical sites, museums, and sporting arenas, the culture that San Francisco offers is truly one of a kind. Your guests can experience all of this by taking urban hikes, jumping on our Cable Car lines or by utilizing our public transportation system. It’s really easy to travel around, take it from me, I grew up in suburbia!

If you are out of town planning for an event in San Francisco I recommend checking out: http://www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/

If you are local to San Francisco and want to provide your guests valuable maps and information about San Francisco, head downstairs near the Powell BART station and you’ll see the Visitors Information Center at 900 Market Street. Here you can grab complimentary maps, visitor’s guides, restaurant coupons and Bay Area tour information, great for welcome bags.

Looking for large party restaurant ideas, check out San Francisco Private Dining Venues, http://www.sfpdv.com/. Here you can access the city’s finest restaurants with private dining space. You can search by group size and even view photos of each restaurant.

Need a place for your guests to say?

The City Club has partnered with the following hotels:
Galleria Park Hotel, contact Monica Bowman, (415) 835-6466
The Hotel Monaco & Serrano Hotel, contact Chad Schyvincht, (415) 292-0149
The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Prescott Hotel and Hotel Triton,
contact Sarika Patel, (415) 395-8569
Mandarin Oriental, contact Candace Balandra, (415) 276-9713

All of the above recommendations are easily accessible and very close to The City Club.

Once you get to The City Club your truly San Francisco experience promises to continue.
If you’re here reading this, you’ve found us, we are one of the city’s most historical and hidden gems.

Hope you are getting excited for your next San Francisco visit.
We look forward to seeing you here soon!

Michelle Kimmins, Director of Sales & Catering

Variety and the Spices of Life

One of the great benefits to being a Chef in a private club venue is the variety of menu offerings one can create during a single calendar day. The day can start off with a member’s favorite healthy breakfast such as our Organic Ground Turkey-Egg White Scramble or the very popular City Club Chilaquiles. And the City Club is not limited to a “Members Only” mindset; we have the unique privilege of offering cuisine for every kind of event imaginable. Our professional event planning staff will help you plan for Rehearsal Dinners, Corporate Meetings and Seminars, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs to name a few.
Morning event planners find the meeting and dining room decors a memorable back drop for an eye pleasing array of our Club-Baked Muffins, Bagels & Lox and Croissants to the plated Egg Frittatas with Sweet Italian Sausage.
To avoid the afternoon “slump” during an information packed meeting, we have helped coordinate creative, nutritious snacks to fit between the most rigorous of agendas. One of our experienced Catering Managers will help you with snack ideas that could include, but not limited to, health bars, nuts and whole fruits. We have planned the right combination of flavors and nutritional offerings to perk up the senses, but still be health and energy conscience.
The evening menus are some of my most favorite. We are prepared for the challenge to prepare provocative, satisfying Hors d’oeuvres for “Happy Hour “at the Member’s Bar. Variety is the goal with each week’s menu planning. House-made breadsticks, Lemongrass chicken Fingers, Ahi Tuna Tartare gives you a hint of what you may find to enjoy with your favorite beer or cocktail. Planning for a special Anniversary Party? Do you have a fundraiser in mind? Our goal is to offer you exceptional cuisine, not only for the palate, but also the eye. Coordinate with your event planner to arrange for a tasting and experience the artistic cuisine surrounded by the timeless beauty of the City Club.
Michael Muñoz, Executive Chef

Leave the Theme to Us

Who said party planning was hard? If you are planning a Birthday celebration, Wedding, or Corporate event, leave the theme to us. You might be thinking right now, what does that mean?

Well, literally take advantage of us. The City Club of San Francisco has one of the cities richest histories. Our beautiful Art Deco interior is amazing. From the greeting at the front doors, to the outside exterior, to the ceilings on the 10th and 11th floors, don’t forget the elevator doors which brought you up to those levels, the staircase you can walk by, the marble table you can display food on, the couches and chairs you can sit on, the marble carvings on the walls, the multiple fireplaces, the secret cabinets, and the art all around the venue, leave the theme to us!

Don’t hassle yourself with new ideas, theme your event around our space. We can provide you
with all of the creative elements you may need to pull of a one of a kind event. Let your creative juices flow and use what The City Club has to offer and let’s entertain your guests.



From your invitations, to the style of your desserts, to the colors of your linens, to the type of food served, the beverages your guests enjoy, and the glasses your guests drink from, the music selection you chose, and to the attire you request from your guests, it’s easy once you leave the theme to us.






We promise to help you make all of this happen as we truly are the experts. We love to see our clients take advantage of us and in return delight their guests.
















A few photos of our timeless interior are included compliments of photographer Kate Webber, who we highly recommend. Along with photos of a past bride and groom who took advantage of us and dressed the part, photographs compliments of Muse Studios.






Look forward to helping you plan your next special event.
Michelle Kimmins- Director of Sales & Catering

The CMO Club –November 6th & 7th, 2008

The City Club had the honor of hosting another group of diverse and intellectual guests late last week. The CMO Club headed by Peter Kranik, chose the City Club for their Peer to Peer Summit on November 6th and 7th.

The CMO Club focuses on exclusive peer to peer interactions of Chief Marketing Officers . They host dinners, online network and conferences to cultivate the “non-selling,” give and take form of information sharing.

It was a pleasure having the group with us at the City Club as well as working with Kaitlyn Mello of Garnish Events, a true professional with the discipline and focus on details that it takes to produce a truly flawless event.



The CMO Club started the morning on Thursday with a Networking Breakfast o followed by presentations and a panel discussion. Then they took advantage of the whole Club by breaking off into discussion groups in the Main Dining Room and Bechtel Room. The day continued with Lunch and wrapped up with a networking reception and a Celebration Dinner in the Café prepared by our Executive Chef Michael Munoz. The group returned on Friday, for more networking and idea sharing and ended early to give their guests an opportunity to enjoy the City.

Founder of the club, Pete Krainik noted, "we loved The City Club and it not only set the right tone for the sessions, the support from Club personal was excellent. Based on the postive feedback we will look to host another CMO Summit here".

Thank you for choosing us!

-Cassie Harris, Sales & Catering Manager