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You're Invited!! Come to our next complimentary Food & Wine Tasting
Last Sunday of Every Month, except November and December.
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The Strolling Dinner
This is our most popular event! With a live chef station, hors d'oeuvre displays and elegant coffee and petit four displays, your guests can stop by for a nibble or stay for dinner. These are perfect for after work business gathering or for a weekend open house. (Look below)
$32.00 pp plus delivery or staff
Lunch and Dinner Buffets
We can set up a traditional Holiday feast or create a fresh California Style seafood buffet or maybe even an Alta California Fajita bar with roasted red pepper tamales. (See below)
$25.00 pp plus delivery or staff
Served Holiday Dinners
We offer an elegant, semi-formal to formal dinner for your guests. We always include our fine ivory gold banded china, flatware and sparkling stemware. (Take a peek below)
$40.00 pp plus staff
Lunch At The Office
We bring freshly grilled and sliced turkey, pork loin and sirloin?.basmati and wild rice salad with roasted nuts and cranberries, winter Waldorf salad, grilled seasonal vegetables soft rolls and Caesar salad. Platters of assorted cookies accompany each delivery.
$19.00 pp plus delivery
If you don't see exactly what you had in mind on our pre-printed menus, we will work with you to design the party of your choice.
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Strolling Dinner/Mixer/Open House Menu
Includes the following four stations...
- 1. Antipasto display includes:
- Fresh Seasonal Fruits
- Assorted Domestic and Imported Cheeses with chutneys
- Chilled display of fresh and marinated vegetables such as jicama, red bells, broccoli, lightly steamed green beans..served with a light roasted red pepper aioli
- Olives, crackers and fresh deco
- 2. Buffet to include:
- Norwegian Style Smoked Salmon with Capers and lemon aioli
- Grilled and sliced sirloin with creamy horseradish
- Roasted and sliced turkey breast with cranberry chutney
- Mustards, chutneys and more
- Soft Parker house rolls
- Cranberry sparkler
- 3. Holiday Griddle: Staffed Chef's station?made to order..good fun!
- Risotto cakes with lemon pesto
- Crab cakes with lemon aioli
- Butternut medallions with ginger cranberry salsa
- Polenta tower with Mediterranean tapenade
- 4. Dessert display:
- Elegant petit four
- Assorted cookies
- Hot apple cider or gourmet coffee
$32.00 plus staff
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Lunch and Dinner Buffets (20 guest minimum)
All menus include cranberry sparkler, assorted freshly baked cookies, beautifully decorated buffet and quality disposable tableware
1. Holidays with Grandma! Traditional winter feast with a fresh California twist...
- (Please pick two entrees here): Grilled fresh turkey breast with cranberry chutney OR June Cleaver's pineapple baked ham OR beef sirloin with cabernet mushrooms OR pork loin with red onion marmalade
- Herbed and roasted new potatoes
- Grilled winter vegetables
- Crispy steamed green bean salad with tarragon and almonds
- Baby greens salad with colorful garnishes
- Rolls and butter
2. Holidays with Nana Carnazzo! A ?Spaghetti Hill? favorite meal?
- Artichoke chicken?seared and braised with artichokes, wine and fresh herbs OR Chef Tom Vitale's incredible eggplant asiago Grilled salmon with Mediterranean tapenade
- Lemon pesto orzo pasta
- Grilled winter vegetables
- Crispy steamed salad with roasted red bells, broccoli and green beans
- Caesar salad
- Rolls and butter
3. Holidays with Tia Rodriguez! This is a ?California Traditional? version of a Mexican holiday dinner?..
- Pork or chicken tamales
- Chicken in mole OR Grilled cilantro flank steak
- Gently spiced pinto beans
- Roasted corn and tomato salad Yucatan rice
- Salsas, cheeses, sour cream, shredded lettuce
- Fresh corn and flour tortillas
$25.00 pp plus staff or delivery
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Served Holiday Dinners (20 guest minimum)
Antipasto display available while your guests arrive. . .
- Fresh Seasonal Fruits Assorted Domestic and Imported Cheeses
- Fresh and marinated colorful vegetables with lemon aioli
- Norwegian Style Smoked Salmon with Capers and lemon aioli
- Olives and crackers
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At the Table. . .
- Pick one Specialty Soup:
- Forest Mushroom Bisque Butternut bisque (Dana's Favorite)
- Sorrel Bisque with crème fraiche and chives
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Our Favorite Salad!...
- Winter salad of baby greens, sherry plumped cranberries, candied walnuts, gorgonzola and raspberry vinaigrette
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Pick your Holiday Entrées (10 orders of each minimum)...
- Greenfield quail stuffed with wild rice and figs
- Gingered halibut in orange and ginger over pilaf
- Herb rubbed prime rib with cabernet mushrooms and herb roasted new potatoes
- Asian spiced pork loin with mango salsa atop lemon minted rice
- Castroville chicken?artichokes, wine, tomatoes with a three grain pilaf of bulgur, basmati and wild rice
- All entrees served with a mélange of colorful seasonal vegetables
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Pick a celebration dessert..
- Tom's luscious bread pudding with Jack Daniels sauce
- French Apple tart with vanilla cream and cinnamon
- Layers of light and dark chocolate mousse on a delicate sponge cake with raspberry coulis
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Gourmet dark roast caf and decaf coffee
$40.00 pp plus staff