Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant hosts wedding banquets, business dinners, birthday parties and receptions for up to 450 guests in its main dining room, with two smaller rooms for 80 and 30. The restaurant sits on the waterfront in Emeryville, California, looking across San Francisco Bay toward the Bay Bridge.
Seminars and company events
The restaurant publishes a business event offer for company gatherings of all sizes, built around two set banquet menus, Business Party Set Menu A and Set Menu B, which the team sends as PDF documents. The format suits a company dinner after a day of meetings in the East Bay, a year-end celebration, a client banquet or a Lunar New Year party. The Marina VIP Room, with 30 places, works for a board dinner or a visiting delegation that needs a closed room, while the Upper Dining Hall takes a team of up to 80.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are a large part of the event business. The team handles ceremonies and receptions of different sizes and publishes a dedicated wedding banquet menu, with a separate birthday menu for family celebrations. Large wedding banquets use the main dining room on the lower level, which takes up to 450 guests. Smaller ceremonies or tea ceremonies and receptions fit the Upper Dining Hall, and the Marina VIP Room serves an intimate gathering of up to 30.
Rooms and capacities
The Main Dining Area on the lower level holds up to 450 guests and has wide views over the water, the largest space for receptions and banquets. The Upper Dining Hall takes up to 80 guests and looks over the marina. The Marina VIP Room is a private room for up to 30, facing the Emeryville Marina yacht club. The site does not give separate seated and standing figures, so the numbers above are the maximum per room.
Catering
The kitchen serves Chinese seafood and Cantonese cooking, with dim sum at both lunch and dinner. The chefs have more than 30 years of experience in Chinese seafood restaurants, and the restaurant says it buys fresh, seasonal ingredients at local farmers' markets. Beyond the event menus, the restaurant runs standard, specialty, cocktail bar and dim sum menus, and a seasonal banquet offer called the Imperial Feast. All catering is in-house.
History and setting
The restaurant sits on the Emeryville waterfront, a short strip of land between the East Bay shoreline and the marina. From the dining rooms, guests look across the bay toward San Francisco and the Bay Bridge, a setting that gives large banquets an open, light-filled room by day and city lights in the evening.
Getting there
Emeryville sits between Oakland and Berkeley, just off Interstate 80 at the eastern end of the Bay Bridge. The Emeryville Amtrak station is the nearest rail stop, and Oakland International Airport is the closest airport, with San Francisco International across the bay. Guests coming from San Francisco can drive across the Bay Bridge in a short trip outside rush hour.
