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#Detroit #Shinola #FrontierGems (at Shinola)

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Floor 72, please. #cityscape #Heart #Detroit #FrontierGems (at General Motors World Headquarters)

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Hello, Detroit. #FrontierLife #FrontierGems (at The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit)

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Lunch over Scrabble

The Uncommons is Manhattan’s first board game cafe, and it just opened this week in Greenwich Village thanks to Kickstarter.

Instead of picking up lunch from the market cafe at your street corner, grab lunch with a colleague or friend over a game of scrabble, chess, or perhaps some trivial pursuit (there are hundreds of games to choose from). It never hurt anyone walking away from a computer for an hour to tease your brain a bit.

The Uncommons occupies the former Village Chess Shop, so there's gaming history to the space. They offer free wifi, a variety of food and drinks, a $1 credit card minimum, and plenty of chairs and tables for eating, studying, reading, gaming or meeting new people. 

Even better, they offer event space. Rent the private “Board Room” for corporate cocktail parties or luncheons.

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Bar Stache, Fort Lauderdale

We have learned that traveling to Miami on business is sometimes best done flying through Fort Lauderdale and renting a car (it's frequently a lot cheaper and sort of a therapeutic drive). Anyway, we're excited about a new speakeasy, "craft cocktail" spot that's recently opened in downtown Fort Lauderdale, for all of those times we're passing through to visit our colleague Whitney in Miami.

The speakeasy, called Bar Stache, is being referred to as the "1920s Drinking Den" and the spot where the "Taste Makers of Palm Beach, Miami and Ft. Lauderdale choose to play." Behind the mixology program is renowned Miami bartender John Lermayer, who has created a menu of Prohibition-era cocktails. Walking into Bar Stache, you'll find early 20th-Century decor, pookieheads and funk groovers sitting at the leather highback chairs, and some form of nightly entertainment act.

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Serve it Raw

When it comes to selecting a place to gather, there's something to be said for the pure, unadulterated atmosphere of a raw space.  Take a peek at 1111 Lincoln in South Beach for example.  It's likely the sexiest parking garage you'll ever encounter, offering the broad spectrum that lies between accenting the 'bones' of dramatic architecture and coercing the neutral environment to be what you want to make it.  Not quite ready for your own soiree?  Pay a visit to Juvia, an adjacent eatery to see how they've enhanced, rather than concealed, the space they occupy.

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Punctuation

London Gem.  The Hotel Ampersand. Boutique hotel.  French district of London.  Easy tube ride from LHR.  Fresh, light meeting spaces.  Especially for a dreary winter.  

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All about ME

The Danforth Inn gem.  9 exec retreat (staff stay at sister hotel Pomegranate).  Rent out the hotel.  Dining room for meetings.  Lounge and two reading rooms for breakouts.  Short walk to old port neighbourhood for dinner at vast range of foodie restaurants.  Late night pool and billiards in the basement to reach final strategy agreements.

Direct flights from: ATL, BWI, CLE, CLT, DCA, DTW, EWR, IAD, JFK, LGA, ORD, PHL.  12 min airport transfer.