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Abigail Kirsch is a New York City catering service that is named after its founder. The company operates a number of New York Metro area venues, and it can also provide catering services at clients’ own venues. Predesigned sample menus for lunches, dinners, corporate meetings, and other events are available on the Abigail Kirsch website.
Above & Beyond Catering, located in Dumont, is a catering service that also operates in the New York City Metro. The catering team receives thorough Kosher certification from the Orthodox Union, and the staff chefs can prepare dishes suitable for vegetarians and vegans, as well as meat-eaters. Interested potential clients can browse Above & Beyond Catering’s website for detailed information about its bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, and wedding packages.
Amy Ruth's Harlem, founded in Harlem in 1998, is a chicken and waffles restaurant with catering service available for customers throughout the area. Carl S. Redding, the restaurant’s founder and owner, has populated the menu with soul food recipes that he learned from his grandmother, Amy Ruth. Catering clients can select from a range of food options, including breakfast buffets as well as lunch items such as fried chicken, catfish, ribs, and various side dishes and desserts.
Chama Mama is a catering company in New York City that offers Classic Georgian cuisine with a modern spin. Caterers serve the specialties, The Tone, khachapuri, and the qvevri to office parties and private and business events. They also make custom event menus, including ADJARULI KHACHAPURI, 4 slices of IMERULI KHACHAPURI, 6 slices of MEGRULI KHACHAPURI, and other brunch meals and desserts. Chama Mama also offers delivery services throughout the city.
Champignon Madison is a New York City restaurant and catering service whose menu includes hot and cold coffee drinks, baked goods, sandwiches, paninis, salads, soups, and a bevy of desserts. Interested potential clients can easily order catering service through Champignon Madison’s online system. Catering clients may either select from the company’s predesigned menus, or they can design their own.
Cocktail Caterers is a food and design catering company. The business is located in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood and serves the New York Metro area. Owners Kurt Kretzschmar and Michael Watts opened their company in 2007. Customers can choose from customized menus ranging from small plates, tasty bites, hot food stations and tablescape buffets for private or corporate affairs. Cocktail Caterers is certified by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and is a Small Business Association member.
Diane Gordon Catering is a woman-owned business that serves New York City and other nearby areas. It provides premium catering and event planning services to tech and real estate companies, law offices, educational institutions, and financial firms. Its team of chefs develops and prepares menus with a wide variety of international cuisine that includes French, Italian, American, and Spanish cocktails, entrees, and desserts. It promotes sustainable food production and service by sourcing its artisanal ingredients from local farmers' markets and using eco-friendly serving ware.
Dish Food & Events LLC, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, is a catering and event service helping clients from all over the area. Services range from full-service catering to drop-off delivery services. Additionally, Dish Food & Events LLC has a private event space in which clients may choose to hold their events.
Based in New York and offering full-service catering, Edenopolis builds custom menus for each of its clients. It also coordinates rentals and venues, and it assists with flowers and designing event concepts. The business's cuisine choices incorporate international elements but use locally sourced ingredients, including wild-caught seafood and free-range chicken. Edenopolis can serve weddings, dinner parties, and corporate gatherings, among other types of events. Owner and chef Richard Vanderplas personally walks clients through the planning and catering process.
Elegant Affairs is a full-service, off-premise caterer providing its services for corporate, social, and non-profit events in New York City, Long Island, and the Hamptons. The company is available for weddings, social soirees, and private celebrations, serving hors’ d'oeuvres, appetizers, innovative food stations, and entrees. Owner Andrea Correale has appeared in various media channels, including Fox, CBS, NBC, and MTV. She also contributes to Social Life Magazine and Hamptons magazine.
Feed Me More Inc. is a catering business that serves both private and business clients and regularly prepares food for events both large and small. Clients can create custom menus depending on their guests and the themes of their events, and selections can be curated to fit within budgets at different ranges. This caterer offers full-service catering for clients who want guests accommodated, but it can also drop-off food items if preferable to clients.
Mangia NYC is a catering company with over three decades of experience serving customers in the NYC area. With a strong focus on regional Italian cooking, the company offers services ideal for corporate events, conferences, and special occasions. In addition, it offers assistance during the event planning phase including bar staffing and rentals. Mangia NYC strives as much as possible to work ethically and to maintain close relationships with suppliers, adopting a farm-to-table philosophy and working with environmentally friendly products.
Metro Events is a New York City-based catering company that offers corporate catering and event planning services. It serves theme buffets, hors d'oeuvres, breakfast to lunch, and desserts for all types of events and settings. Clients can get in touch with one of the company's catering planners to discuss and collaborate on creating unique menu plans and set-ups tailored to the needs of their event. Metro Events keeps an impressive roster of clientele, which includes Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., L'oréal, CNN, MTV, and CBS.
Miss Elisabeth’s Catering is an NYC Metro catering service founded in 2003, with food options ranging from simple family-style meals to four-course gourmet dinners. The owner and Executive Chef, Elizabeth Weinberg, is a Barnard College graduate who later studied at the local French Culinary Institute. Ms. Weinberg buys fresh ingredients at the Union Square Greenmarket. Whenever possible, she and her cooking team use seasonal, organic food, sourced from local providers.
Neuman's Kitchen, based in New York for over 30 years, caters weddings, corporate gatherings, and other special events. The company’s President, Paul Neuman, is a Past President of the International Special Events Society’s New York Chapter as well as the Executives Association of New York City. For its high-quality food and customer service, Neuman’s Kitchen has received awards from Manhattan Bride, Martha Stewart Weddings, Leading Caterers of America, and Junebug Weddings.
RAPT Hospitality offers a variety of hospitality services to clients in the New York City metro area. This includes luxury catering, in which it gives customers access to a wide array of culinary dishes. RAPT Hospitality's chefs specialize in American cooking and culinary cocktail craft, using ingredients from local and urban farms throughout the surrounding area. It is available year-round and provides its services for weddings and other private events.
Red Table Catering, founded in 2002, is an NYC Metro catering service that has been based in Brooklyn since 2005. Owner and Head Chef Brooke Costello began cooking professionally as a teenager. Before creating Red Table Catering, he worked at the London-based Italian restaurant Bertorelli, Ruby’s BBQ in Austin, and Word of Mouth Catering, also in Austin. He later spent three years designing and preparing dishes in Santiago, Chile.
Salumeria Biellese is an Italian-style delicatessen and gourmet food shop located in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. In 1925, two Northern Italian men from Italy's Biella Province founded this shop that relies upon traditional food preparation skills and Old World recipes. A variety of sausages, salumi, pasta and sandwiches are all freshly prepared on site. Salumeria Biellese has been awarded the Slow Food NYC Snail of Approval and has been featured in publications such as Bon Appetit and Gastronomica.
Toum, which gets its name from the Lebanese word for “garlic,” is an NYC restaurant, caterer, and food truck. The menu includes shawarma, kebabs, falafels, hummus, and rice pilaf, as well as a garlic sauce, the restaurant’s signature food option. Vegan and vegetarian items are available. To provide catering to its New York Metro clients, Toum partners with the online services Fooda Catering, Cater2.me, and FoodtoEat.
Just like brick-and-mortar restaurants, catering companies need a liquor license to serve alcohol to patrons. If a caterer is serving alcoholic beverages, guests under the age of 21 are allowed on the premises, but they may not buy or consume alcohol.
If you're having a large event catered and expecting to spend a lot of money, having a tasting beforehand is often a good idea. Tastings are handled differently by catering companies; some may charge while others won't. In general, most caterers charge a fee, usually around the cost of a meal at a restaurant.
Caterers usually help their clients calculate food by offering a recommended portion size per guest. Taking this into consideration, all you need to do is multiply this portion by the number of expected guests to determine the total amount of food needed.
The amount of time in advance needed to schedule catering services depends on the number of people and type of event. For weddings with 50 people or more, six to 12 months in advance is recommended. For smaller gatherings, a month or two should suffice.
Some catering services include tips in the bill, so you don't have to worry about handling this aspect on the day of your event. If the tip is not included, a minimum of 15% of the total bill is recommended, while tipping 20% is not uncommon.
In addition to the food you order, catering services can include delivery, linens, silverware or plasticware, plates and cups, a small heat source to keep hot dishes warm, and staff. When planning your event, it's always a good idea to confirm which of these items are included and necessary.
