Milestone birthdays
A 50th in a community hall, a 90th at the golf club, an 18th in the backyard. Family-style platters suit a room full of relatives who haven't sat together in years.
Private parties
Birthdays, anniversaries, socials and dinner at home
The same kitchen and crew as our weddings, for gatherings of 20 guests and up. You pick the room and pour your own wine; we cook, serve and do the dishes.
What people book us for
Anniversaries
A plated dinner with the menu from the original wedding, recreated as near as we can, or a long table of canapés and a toast.
Socials
We cater the late lunch for socials on its own: rye, cold cuts, kielbasa, pickles and cheese, set out and kept full while the hall committee runs the bar and the door.
Dinners at home
We cook in our kitchen, finish in yours and serve at your own table. Your guests stay in the living room; the clatter stays with us.
Parties of 20 to 39 guests
The short list
Smaller parties choose one of these three menus. A shorter list means a small crew can cook every dish properly in a home kitchen or a hall. The minimum food order is $1,200 before staff and fees.
I
Family-style supper
$54 per guest
Bread board and pickles, beet and apple slaw, roast chicken or sirloin, perogies with fried onions, roasted roots, matrimonial squares.
II
Plated dinner
$62 per guest
Roasted squash soup, then braised short rib or mushroom and barley risotto, then Saskatoon berry tart with vanilla cream.
III
Cocktail evening
$40 per guest
Eight canapés per guest from four kinds, passed over two hours, and a grazing board of cheeses, cured meats and pickles.
Dinner at home
What we need from your house
A dinner at home takes a crew of three or four: a cook, a captain who also pours, and one or two servers. We need surprisingly little from you.
- A working oven and two burners for the last hour before dinner
- About two metres of clear counter and some fridge space
- Somewhere for our crew to come and go without walking through the party
- Your wine, beer and spirits, chilled or not; we'll take it from there
- Tables and chairs for everyone, or we'll point you to a rental company
We bring plates, cutlery, glassware, cloths and napkins, wash everything at our kitchen, and leave yours as we found it.
Planning something for next season?
Send us the occasion, a rough guest count and the date. Small parties often fit on Fridays and Sundays even in a busy month.