Office Parties

Savory Bites

• Orange cashews
• Mixed spiced nuts
• Candied pecans
• Marinated olives – seasoned with oranges & herbs
• Cheese crisps
• Olive tuilles – thin, fresh-baked crackers topped with olive slices
• Sun dried tomato palmiers - puff pastry crackers with tomato & cheese filling

Dips & spreads 
All served with your choice of either bread (French baguettes or pita triangles), gourmet crackers or crudités assortment. 

• Warm leek & goat cheese
• Roasted eggplant & white bean
• Warm dried beef & gorgonzola
• Warm artichoke & cheese
• Bombay onion & sour cream – caramelized onions, Indian spices, garlic & cilantro
• Roasted red pepper pesto
• Aioli – Spanish garlic mayonnaise
• Cannelini hummus with caramelized onions and optional grilled Italian sausage slices
• Brie en croute – wheel of brie baked in a puff pastry crust with savory tomato jam served with sliced baguettes.

Room Temperature bites 

• Cucumber & smoked salmon rolls - Cream-cheese & green-onion filled cucumber wrapped with cold-smoked salmon
• Cucumber rounds with kalamata olive tapenade
• Persian stuffed grape leaves – with ground beef & rice, flavored with dill & lemon
• Melon with ham - honeydew melon wrapped in Prosciutto
• Spanish tortilla with eggs, onions, potato, tomato, chorizo & garlic
• Sun dried tomato squares with fontina cheese & Prosciutto (can be served warm as well)
• Belgian endive with smoked salmon & goat cheese mousse
• Bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with gorgonzola (can be served warm as well)
• Gougeres (puffs) with smoked salmon & goat cheese mousse
• Mini bell peppers stuffed with grilled Ahi tuna salad
• Lump crabmeat in phyllo shells with sauce Monica (Bourbon & port sauce)
• Curried shrimp in phyllo shells
• Beef tenderloin tarts (can be served warm as well) – with caramelized onions, mushrooms &   savory tomato jam
  

Warm Savories

• Stuffed mushrooms - with your choice of lamb or ham, peppers, onion & spices, topped with grated Asiago cheese
• Mini Dutch meatballs with red wine jus & crusty French bread (can be room temp as well)
• Albondigas - Our interpretation of the Spanish meatball, in a house-made tomato sauce
• Beef & lamb sausage rolls
• Pigs in blanket – our updated version, with your choice of regular or hot Italian sausage
• Clams Casino
• Mini crab cakes with house-made tartar sauce
• Grilled salmon sliders with sauce Monica on toasted baguette slices
• Traditional rumaki – marinated chicken livers & water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
• Seared scallop rumaki – marinated scallops & water chestnuts wrapped in Prosciutto
• Grilled prime tenderloin skewers - seasoned in our own Dutch meat spices
• Grilled lamb skewers -  with Middle-eastern seasoning with garlic yogurt mayonnaise
• Tropical chicken skewers – Pineapple marinated chicken breast, wrapped in pancetta
• Phyllo triangles – crisp treats with your choice of fillings
  • Mixed greens & ham – cooked Southern style, with a taste of vinegar & garlic
  • Mixed greens – vegetarian version of the above
  • Salmon & brie
  • Spinach, gorgonzola & artichoke
  • Samosa – curried peas & potatoes
• Puff pastry squares – flaky & buttery crust surrounding your choice of fillings
  • Goat cheese & roasted red pepper
  • Brie & savory tomato jam
  • Smoked pulled pork
  • Caramelized onion & apple chutney
  • Smoked paprika shrimp

Quiches & Savory Tarts
In our house-made buttery crust – appropriate for either warm or room temperature service

• Florentine – with spinach & cheese
• Maple Lorraine – with maple-glazed bacon & cheese
• Alaskan – Salmon, goat cheese & dill
• Mushroom  heaven - Button, portobello, oyster, shitake & porcini mushrooms with scallions & parsley
• Smokehouse – Smoked turkey, pancetta & smoked Gouda
• Shoreline – Lump crabmeat, corn, shallots & mixed herbs
• Nor’easter - Lobster, potatoes, mushrooms, shallots & cheddar
• Asparagus & Ricotta phyllo tart – phyllo top & bottom crust instead of the traditional pastry

When your gathering is more than a cocktail hour but not quite a meal, platters and open-faced sandwiches are just what you need:  more satisfying than small snacks but not considered a full meal. 

Platters

Chef-assisted carving will be provided where appropriate.

• Mediterranean vegetable antipasto - A colorful platter loaded with roasted eggplant, marinated mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes & marinated artichokes
• Spanish-style seafood salad with grilled tuna, shrimp, calamari, sea bass with olives & peppers in a saffron vinaigrette
• Beef Wellington - made according to the original French recipe: whole prime tenderloin grilled medium rare wrapped in a puff pastry crust lined with liver pâté. 
• Side of hot-smoked salmon – fully cooked, similar to oven roasted, smoked in our own Dutch fish spices
• Steamship ham – smoked & oven-roasted fresh ham, served with our house-made mustard-mayonnaise.
• Grilled duck breast with blood orange balsamic glaze
• Prime tenderloin – served with grilled peppers & horseradish crème. Choose your option for preparation & presentation:
  • Seasoned , grilled on site over charcoal, kept warm and sliced to order
  • Seasoned, grilled, cooled & sliced, served room temperature
• Jumbo boiled shrimp - we really mean JUMBO – you get 16-20 shrimp per pound; and our shrimp has no chemical preservatives added during harvest, so you only taste real shrimp flavor.  Served with cocktail sauce, even though we think they won’t need it.  Your choice of seasonings that we cook them in:
  • Rich seafood stock
  • Lemon, garlic & herb
  • Indian masala
  • Old Bay

Open-faced sandwiches
Served on fresh-baked artisan breads

• Mojo chicken - marinated chicken breast, charcoal grilled, served with sautéed peppers & onions
• Georgian pulled pork - slow smoked pork, hand pulled & served with our own sauce
• Smoked turkey - topped with fresh greens, cheese & mustard-dill dressing
• Curried chicken salad - cubed chicken in a curry dressing with walnuts & grapes.
• Grilled tuna salad - grilled tuna steak diced & blended with our own herbed yogurt mayonnaise
• Hot-smoked salmon - with asparagus in a lemon-dill dressing
• Egg salad with smoked salmon – we use traditional cold-smoked salmon in this one
• Roasted vegetable - fresh roasted eggplant, peppers, zucchini or asparagus & portobello mushroom dressed with a lemon-basil mayonnaise
• Brie, apple & caramelized onion - creamy brie, tart apples sliced thin & sweet onions
• Roast beef (prime tenderloin) with horseradish cream
   

Desserts

No party is complete without a little something sweet.  We have created an assortment of traditional and unusual desserts and treats for you to offer your guests.  

• Chocolate-cream filled profiteroles
• New York style cheesecake lollipops – dipped in chopped nuts or chocolate
• Pecan pie minis
• Belgian dark chocolate cups filled with your choice of mousse filling
  • Roasted pineapple
  • Cherry liqueur
  • Chocolate mint
  • Cinnamon white chocolate almond
• Truffles
  • Kentucky chocolate – Bourbon, pecans & Dutch cocoa
  • Tropical screwdriver – Vodka, orange juice & coconut
  • Traditional chocolate – Valrhona bittersweet chocolate rolled in Dutch cocoa
  • Milk chocolate with Earl Grey ganache
  • White chocolate with sesame & cardamom
• French macarons – colorful almond meringue cookies with tasty filling, your choice of flavors
  • Espresso black currant
  • Pistachio lemon
  • Coconut chocolate
  • Strawberry vanilla creme

Cookies & Sweet Nibbles