Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

With 66 meeting rooms and a total of 93,211 square feet of event space, the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown certainly offers the volume and flexibility of desired meeting space. But what is getting planners in the door these days and transforming an inquiry into a booking has to do with an obscure re-purposed room on a hidden floor, in a hidden location which has been transformed into an innovation lab. 1201 Innovation Lab is a groundbreaking culinary showcase where the hotel hosts meeting planners on site inspections and provides innovative tastings and demonstrations of what they can do for a group. The centerpiece is a farmhouse table for planners to sit and watch as Chef Price and his team saute, smoke, and innovate their way to a sale. The kitchen also features a hydroponic garden system which hosts a kale, basil, and mushroom farm, a bar with a resident mixologist to develop cocktails specifically geared toward a groups demographic or theme, and a selection of what could onl...