6 New Venues in San Francisco for Fall 2020 Meetings and Events

Cambria Hotels opened its third property in California this summer in Sonoma County's Rohnert Park. The 135-room Cambria Hotel Sonoma Wine Country offers an outdoor heated pool and an outdoor patio with fire pits, along with an on-site restaurant, Sam & Mary's. The hotel's meeting space can accommodate both board meetings and small gatherings like banquets and receptions. The Rendezvous conference/event room seats 44 for conferences, 153 for banquets, and 204 for theater-style events.

Floral wallpaper and 3D flowers cover the walls and ceiling at the new Son & Garden in San Francisco from restaurant group Farmhouse Kitchen Thai. The very feminine breakfast and lunch spot seats 93 guests and serves colorful matcha mocha pancakes, omelets, salads, and Harney & Sons tea in its equally vibrant dining room. (Son & Garden opened in February for one week before temporarily closing due to pandemic restrictions.)

Workplace provider Industrious and boutique hotel brand Proper Hospitality teamed up for a partnership announced in September converting hotel suites into workspaces for remote working getaways. San Francisco is among the cities where Industrious at Proper Hotels is debuting at San Francisco Proper Hotel in Mid Market. Suites can accommodate up to three workstations. The workstations fit in with famed interior designer Kelly Wearstler's extravagantly patterned rooms. All Industrious at Proper Hotels suites are available to book by the day, week, or month, with a discount for weekly and monthly rates.

In Silicon Valley, Santa Clara Marriott completed a multimillion-dollar renovation that spanned the hotel's public spaces, guest rooms, and meeting spaces. Wrapping up in February, interior design firm HBA San Francisco reimagined the 766-room hotel with a muted color palette, modern furniture, and geometric patterns. Santa Clara Marriott's 26 event rooms offer more than 29,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space. The 11,837-square-foot California Ballroom boasts a private entrance and accommodates 1,200 for receptions or 1,000 for banquets. Other event spaces include the 4,551-square-foot Grand Ballroom, which accommodates 600 for receptions or 400 for banquets. For indoor-outdoor events, there's the Sedona Room with floor-to-ceiling windows and an adjacent patio; the 3,000-square-foot room can accommodate 300 for receptions or 200 for banquets.

A new French restaurant opened in August in San Francisco's Pacific Heights from the team behind acclaimed bakery B. Patisserie. Routier serves dishes like lobster grand aioli or braised lamb shoulder, with chocolate mousse and financiers for dessert. The space is dressed up with details like patterned tile, warm wood, and brass. There's 65 seats in the main dining room. A semiprivate space upstairs spans 300 square feet and could seat approximately 15 diners or accommodate standing receptions of as many as 25 guests.

Montage Healdsburg will debut in late fall in Sonoma's wine country, nestled in 258 acres of beautiful rolling vineyards and heritage oak-tree groves. Guests will stay in 130 bungalow-style guestrooms, including 34 suites—among them, a three-bedroom and three-and-a-half bathroom Guest House equipped with a kitchen and pantry, separate living room, and a courtyard with a fire feature and an outdoor hot tub. Montage Healdsburg offers more than 6,300 square feet of flexible indoor meeting space, including the 3,520-square-foot Grand Ballroom that is divisible into Grand East and Grand West. The entire Grand Ballroom can accommodate 400 guests for receptions or 280 for seated dinners in rounds of 10. The 2,750-square-foot Gallery Ballroom is divisible into three spaces, with room for 280 guests for receptions in the entire space or 200 seated dinners in rounds of 10. The Montage Healdsburg's six outdoor event spaces includes the 8,400-square foot Grand Lawn, which accommodates 800 for receptions or 150 for seated dinners, the 1,500-square-foot Vineyard Lawn, which accommodates 150 for receptions, and the 2,250-square-foot Oak Lawn & Oak Terrace, which accommodates 225 for receptions. Destinations within the hotel include the 11,500-square-foot Spa Montage Healdsburg with 11 treatment rooms and restaurant Hazel Hill, where French influences meet local California ingredients. Within Hazel Hill, find private dining rooms like glass-encased semiprivate space The Oak Room, which seats 14, and private dining room Madrone, which seats 10 and includes a private terrace overlooking the heritage oak trees.