Corporate holiday party bar service across Hampton Roads
The company holiday party is the one night of the year your whole team is in the same room, and the bar is what they'll be talking about on Monday. Let's make it the good kind of talked about.
Licensed, insured, certified bartenders. Handcrafted cocktails made to order, a line that never builds, and a team looking after your people so you can enjoy your own party.
December Fridays and Saturdays book first. If your date is close, ask anyway. We hold capacity for corporate work.
- What your GC and CFO will ask
- Licensed and insured, COI naming your venue, with the limits they require
- ServSafe-certified, state-certified bartenders and mixologists
- Bartenders who look after guests discreetly, without ever making it a moment
- W-9, PO numbers and an invoice your AP department can process
- Spend controlled up front, hosted to a cap, or drink tickets
- A real non-alcoholic program, so nobody on your team is left out
Your only job is to enjoy your own party
The best compliment a company party gets is that nobody had to work it. When the bar is run by people who do this every weekend, the drinks are better, the line never builds. You get to actually talk to your team instead of hunting for more ice.
Our bartenders are hospitality people first. They read a room, keep the good energy going, and look after anyone who needs looking after. Quietly, the way a great bar does it. Tell us the shape you want the night to have and we'll run it: a signature cocktail, a soft last call, drink tickets if that suits you. You get a generous evening that takes care of itself.
The parties we run in December
Same team and the same standard whether it is four hundred people in a ballroom or eight around a table.
The company holiday party
Offsite at a hotel ballroom, a museum, a waterfront venue or a private room. Full bar, uniformed team, setup and breakdown handled. You arrive as a guest at your own party.
In the office
We build a bar in your lobby, boardroom or bullpen and take it away the same night. No venue hire, no travel for staff, and the whole thing is over by seven if you want it to be.
Client & customer appreciation
The one where the bar is the impression. Handcrafted cocktails made in front of your best accounts, with a drink named after the firm if you want it.
Executive & board dinners
Small, quiet and precise. One bartender or a mixologist working a private dining room, matched to the menu, with the discretion that room requires.
Owner & executive homes
A holiday open house at a principal's home, run properly. We protect the house, we manage the pour, and we leave the kitchen the way we found it.
Shift & multi-site parties
Shipyards, hospitals and port operations do not stop for December. We run the same party across shifts or across sites so night crews get the event day shift got.
Every other holiday on the calendar
December is our busiest month, not our only one. We work the whole calendar across Hampton Roads.
Christmas & Hanukkah
Warm, spiced and seasonal, plus our Hot Chocolate Experience and locally roasted coffee service for the part of the night that is not about alcohol.
New Year's Eve
Champagne walls, a flute in every hand before the count, and a team that has done a midnight toast enough times to make it land on time.
Halloween
Corporate Halloween parties and costume nights. Themed cocktails, a bar dressed for the occasion, and a crew that turns up in costume too.
Thanksgiving
Cozy fall cocktails and spiced sippers for a room that arrives all at once and stays put.
Fourth of July
Frozen bebidas, hand-pressed crushes and red-white-and-blue signatures, served fast so nobody waits in the heat.
Memorial Day & Labor Day
Beach houses, boat days and cookouts at both ends of the season. Frozen bebidas, hand-pressed crushes, and service that keeps up with a hot afternoon.
Who books us
The industries that carry this region, and the ones whose parties have to be right.
- Shipbuilding & defenseYard, program and contractor parties
- Hospitals & health systemsDepartment and shift celebrations
- Banks & financial servicesClient receptions and branch parties
- Law firmsPartner dinners and client entertaining
- Real estate & developmentBroker events and project openings
- Hospitality & restaurant groupsStaff parties after their own season
- Government & base contractorsCompliance-heavy, documentation ready
- Universities & collegesFaculty, donor and department events
- Auto & marine dealershipsCustomer nights and sales celebrations
- Construction & tradesCrew parties, often offsite and early
- Logistics & port operationsRound-the-clock, multi-shift
- Professional servicesConsulting, engineering, accounting
Named venues we already work
- The Cavalier
- Waterside District
- Marriott Virginia Beach Oceanfront
- The Founders Inn & Spa
- Virginia Beach Convention Center
- Chrysler Museum of Art
- Slover Library
- The Water Table
- Hotel ballrooms & conference floors
- Offices, warehouses & showroom floors
- Private homes & estates
December lands in ballrooms, museums and office floors. These are venues we serve across the region; if yours is not listed, ask. And if your venue runs its own food and beverage, that is not a dead end — we staff for venues too.
Where we work
All seven cities of Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News and Hampton) plus Williamsburg, Richmond, Virginia's Eastern Shore, the Outer Banks and all the way to Miami. Beyond that, travel is a line item, not a limit: if you can cover the travel, we will be there.
What executives and EAs ask us
How far ahead should we book a December party?
As early as you can. December Fridays and Saturdays are the first dates to go, and the good venues go before we do. That said, if your date is close, ask anyway. We hold capacity for corporate work and we would rather tell you yes than have you assume no.
How do you look after someone who's had a bit much?
The same way a good bar does: quietly, and usually with a glass of water and a bit of conversation rather than a confrontation. Our team paces service across the night and knows how to steer someone gently, with no announcement and nobody pulled out of a conversation to deal with it.
If you want a particular shape to the evening (a ticket limit, a last call an hour before the end, no shots) just tell us and we'll hold it. It is the kind of thing you should be able to hand off and forget about.
Can you invoice us? Do you have a W-9 and a COI?
Yes to all three. We are licensed and insured, we will send a Certificate of Insurance naming your venue with the limits they ask for, and we can provide a W-9 and carry your PO number on the invoice. Tell us what your procurement process needs when you book and we will have the paperwork in before it holds anything up.
How do we keep the bar from running away with the budget?
Two ways, and you can combine them. Host to a cap. We track the tab and switch to cash or close the bar when it hits your number. Or use drink tickets, which sets the ceiling before the doors open and is the easiest version to explain to finance. Either way you know your exposure in advance rather than finding out on the invoice.
Can we have a cocktail named after the company?
Yes, and it is the cheapest memorable thing on this list. We build it with you, name it after the firm, the founder or the year, and print the menu cards. On a client appreciation night it is the detail people photograph and the thing they repeat back to you.
What about employees who don't drink?
They get looked after properly, which matters more at a work party than anywhere else. Nobody should be the person standing there with a warm soda while their colleagues are handed something made for them. Every cocktail on our menu can be made as a mocktail, and we run full non-alcoholic stations: fresh shaken lemonades, infused waters, cold-pressed juices, our Hot Chocolate Experience and locally roasted coffee service. Same bar, same team, same care in the glass.
Can you cover multiple sites or multiple shifts?
Yes. We have the team depth to run the same party twice in a day for a night crew, or to cover several locations on the same evening. For multi-site work tell us the addresses and the windows and we will staff each one properly rather than moving one team around and hoping.
What are the fees we should budget for?
Openly, so nothing appears late: bar delivery is $125, or $200 for a second floor or stairs with no elevator. Trash removal is $250 and only if your venue requires us to haul it out. There is a $50 booking fee when you reserve the date. Events of 100 guests or more carry a service charge of $3–6 per guest. It goes to the crew working your event and takes the place of tipping, which also removes the awkward question of whether staff should tip at a company party. Travel beyond our core area is a line item we quote up front.
Tell us about your event.
Send us the date, the venue and the headcount. You'll get an itemized estimate, a custom cocktail menu and honest guidance — free, with nothing committed. Once you book, we send the shopping list: what to buy, what it should cost, and where to get it.
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