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Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet and Advance Episode Viewing Experience, Lex 18 Asheville
Lex 18 Supper Club
Asheville, NC
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Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet and Advance Episode Viewing Experience, Lex 18 Asheville
Fans of America's favorite BBC series Downton Abbey are being invited to six additional evenings of our previously sold-out intimate interactive vintage banquet dinner experience. Each banquet is followed by an advanced viewing of the next episode of Downton Abbey Season 5. During the month of February, we have scheduled eight private ticketed events limited to 18 exclusive guests each. We invite you to be our guest Tuesdays, Wednesdays and, or two Thursdays and for the following dates:


  • February 3, 2015
  • February 4, 2015
  • February 17, 2015
  • February 18, 2015
  • February 19, 2015
  • February 24, 2015
  • February 25, 2015
  • February 26, 2015


Lex 18's historic late1920's dining room is set in a resplendent post-Edwardian era style complete with all the finery from this popular historic era.   Centered under its gold ceiling, a 17-foot long banquet table is lavishly dressed in velvets with French Limoges china, arranged flowers in crystal, sterling candelabras, fine linens and vintage cut crystal water, wine and champagne glasses.   'Footmen' in tails and the head butler will serve guests a five-course wine and champagne dinner from the menus of Downton Abbey.  The extravagant banquet is made all the more fabulous by an interactive cast personifying Asheville's version of the Crawley family members, wild guests and their lively servants.


All Inclusive Vintage Dinner Banquet Experience Includes:

  • Classic Vintage Cocktail Hour
    Delight unlimited cocktails while socializing with members of the cast and guests.
    Enjoy a brief historical perspective about 1924 Asheville and England music, arts, culture and fashion occurring during Season 5

  • Five-Course Dinner (Menu changes each week, see example below)
    Three wines paired with dinner
    Champagne paired with dessert

  • Interactive experience with cast of characters fashioned after the Crawley family and Downton Abbey servants

  • Advance Showing of the next Downton Abbey Season 5 episode
    Coffee Service
    Selection of Sherry, Cognac or Port


TICKETS:

    ALL INCLUSIVE SEATS:
    Five-Course Dinner: $52
    Cocktails, Wine, Champagne, Liqueur: $25
    NC Sales Tax: $  6
    Total Ticket Price - $83


    EVENING DETAILS:
    At 6:30pm the evening begins with a vintage period cocktail hour. During the cocktail hour guests are treated to an enlivening 15-minute presentation covering music, arts, fashion and culture of the time in both Asheville and England.

    At 7:15pm the butler will announce dinner and guests are escorted to the dining room to find Downton Abbey styled footmen at the ready to serve an exquisite five-course meal resplendent with fine wines, and champagne. This dinner affair includes a magnificent candlelit room of beautiful china, fine silverware, crystal and the leisurely feast classic of a grand manor.

    During dinner, guests will interactively experience the characteristic wit and sarcasm of America's version of the Crawley family. Guest will witness and be drawn into petty jealousies, titillating conversations and scheming ambitions while overhearing secrets among the family and the servants - all deliciously set against the backdrop of the 1920's and 30's of Asheville.

    At 9:15pm champagne and dessert will be served along with coffee and tea service and a selection of digestive liqueur - sherry, port and cognac. The curtains then part for the advance viewing of the next episode to be broadcasted in Season 5 Downton Abbey Masterpiece on Lex 18's theatre screen.

    At 10:15pm the Masterpiece program concludes and guests are invited to stay for conversation and gossip.

    Space is limited to 18 guests for each of the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday events for this extraordinary food and libations experience and interactive fun set in the grand style of one of the most watched and loved Masterpiece programs in the world, Downton Abbey.

    Please reserve your tickets above. Each guest will receive event details and special information via email.  All tickets are non-refundable.

    DATES OF DINNER BANQUETS:
    • February 3, 2015
    • February 4, 2015
    • February 17, 2015
    • February 18, 2015
    • February 19, 2015
    • February 24, 2015
    • February 25, 2015
    • February 26, 2015
      EXAMPLE MENU
      (Menu to change for each dinner event. Visit Lex 18 website menu page for updates)

        6:30pm to 7:15pm / Cocktail Service Menu
      • Lady Sybil Pimm's Cup
      • Bittersweet Mr. Bates
      • Duchess Dowager Tonic

      • 7:30pm to  9:00pm / Dinner Service Menu
        First Course
      • Watercress Soup
      • Paired with Bellula Chardonnay, Languedoc France

      • Second Course
      • Lobster Rissoles with Mousseline Sauce
      • Paired with Le Paradou Viognier, Rhone Valley, France

      • Third Course
      • Beef Bourguignon with French Haricot Verte
      • Paired with a Domaine de Chateaumar Cotes du Rhone, Rhone Valley, France

      • Fourth Course
      • Fennel & Orange Salad with Toasted Walnuts, Golden Raisins and Endive, Orange Vinaigrette

      • Fifth Course
      • Floating Islands with Lemon Scented Custard Sauce & Raspberries
        Paired with Louis de Grenelle Cremant de Loire "Platine", Loire Valley, France

      • 9:10pm / Advance Viewing of the next Episode of Downton Abbey Season 5
        Digestif Service
      • American coffee and English tea
      • Sherry, Cognac or Port

Location

Lex 18 Supper Club
18 North Lexington Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
United States
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Categories

Arts > Fashion
Arts > Performance
Arts > Theatre
Film > Movies
Food > Beer, Wine, Spirits
Other > Holiday
Social > Adult
Social > Dating
Social > LGBT
Food

Minimum Age: 18
Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: Lex 18 Supper Club
On BPT Since: Nov 12, 2014
 
Lex 18
lex18avl.com/


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