Gourmet Caterers Orange County

What an eventful week it was. Gourmet Caterers had the honor of catering for Quest Diagnostics of Orange County. On Tuesday in two venues, held outside-the weather co-operated, we served 1500 employees, Meat, chicken and vegetarian rice bowls. The first guests arrived at 6am, this was rather challenging, preparing fresh hot food at that time in the morning, and this continued the whole day until 8pm that night. On Wednesday we did the staff with a five year tenor, 200 staff members who chose a tropical theme, the room done out magnificently with all serene table settings, fountains and flowers and candles. They had beef, chicken and vegetarian wraps, served with Black bean and avocado salad, tropical couscous salad, green salad, also a tropical gazpacho soup, tropical dips and tropical chips, specialty cookies, fresh sliced fruit display and tropical punch. Day three was Thursday for the 10 year tenors, event, also 200 staff members, they had a Mediterranean theme, with the same decor as the day before. They had Saffron chicken with apricots, garlic marinated beef kebabs with cucumber yogurt sauce, grilled vegetables, couscous salad with artichokes, chick peas, black olives etc, baby spinach salad with jicama, bacon and Dijon vinaigrette. They had pita breads, and tropical punch. They had a gorgeous dessert selection with chocolate and plain baklava, mini fruit tartlets, mini cheese cakes, lemon bars and a selection of petite cookies. All in all it was a great week.

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Gourmet Caterers has a unique way of networking. Its in Orange County through Business Club of America . We belong to this exclusive one of a kind in each category business. We have belonged for a year now, and Gourmet Caterers contribution is to supply 9 Breakfasts a year, to 100 - 200 guests. They always have a great speaker, generally a well know sports person, and its held at the Marconi museum in Tustin. We usually supply some sort of sweet dessert at the guests table, a fruit parfait, or a danish pastry, or a fruit tartlet with berries on the side. We also do a great breakfast buffet, with an egg dish - quiche, or egg in phyllo cups, a meat dish - sausages, or bacon, and a side- a potato dish, pancake, cheese blintze soufle, or something like that. Its a great way for all the companies to mingle and enjoy our food. We also do a Thursday night mixer for the sponsoring company usually at a sports museum or at their company, this is an appetizer event and again the guest speaker is usually there, and about 40-80 guests, this is a great way to network, meet all your fellow members and promote and use each other to further your business.

So many decisions to make…Firstly the reason for having the party. A birthday, Anniversary, Bar mitzvah, wedding, or corporate holiday party. Venue is of the utmost importance. Depending on what you are having, whether its a sport museum, or home party, or just a large venue-Gourmet Caterers can assist you with lots of suggestions-we have catered in most venues in Orange County so we can certainly advise you on whats out there. Then you have to decide what time of day you want your party. In Winter an outside venue would need to be a morning to midday party, or you would need to bring in heaters, although this is fine, its not optiomal. In Summer, a nice beach Luaui or outsid e BBQ is great. Entertainment is something else to think about, a disco, band, a comedian or kids entertainment, we can assist you with all of these and more. Decor is very important, and again Gourmet Caterers with all their experience can help you, create that special vibe and look for your party, we have lots of vendors that work with us. We also work with wonderful vendors who can help with Lighting, video, photography, decor and entertainment. Of course to us the most important is the Menu. Choosing the right menu to fit the right setting and right kind of party. We offer a lot of different Nationality catering. Mexican, Indian, Mediterranean, Asian, french and any other cuisine that you want, we love doing nationality stations. Also when planning the menus, do we need an appetizer hour, to either pass appetizers or an appetizer station, with cold or hot foods so guests can help themselves. Depending on the amount of guests that are invited, we have many options of serving the foods. We can have a few stations around the room, examples are a salad station with a selection of 6 salads, a meditteranean station with Schwarma, fellafel pita and fillings, a pasta station with a selection of three pastas and fresh hot pizza, and an asian station with sushi, and a couple of stir frys being done in front of guests. Or you could have all in one or two lines, salad and breadrolls, two main entrees- rare roast beef served with mushroom sauce, a stuffed chicken breast, two vegetables - asparagus and spinach, and two starches - a risotto rice and potatoes in onion sauce. And a dessert buffet, with an assortment of little pastries and dessert french style. Or you could have every course served to the table. We at Gourmet Caterers offer a great variety and can help you every step of the way to select competent vendors, great food and make it so you can enjoy your party like a guest.