Had to plan my company’s summer party last year and traditional catering quotes were insane. $85 per person for mediocre chicken and wilted salad? No thanks. Started looking at food trucks instead and it was the best decision I made. Food trucks show up, cook everything fresh, and don’t need you to provide anything except a place to park. No renting plates, no hiring servers, no stressing about kitchen access. They handle everything and the…
Event planning used to stress me out because of the food situation. You call catering companies and they all sound the same – chicken parmesan, beef something, maybe salmon if you’re lucky. Then they quote you some ridiculous price and act like they’re doing you a favor. I stumbled into food truck catering by accident when my regular caterer flaked out last minute. Desperation led me to call a BBQ truck I’d seen around town,…
Oh god, they asked you to plan the company event, didn’t they? And now you’re sitting there wondering how the hell you went from being good at spreadsheets to suddenly being responsible for feeding 200 people without poisoning anyone or blowing the entire quarterly budget. Welcome to the club – we’ve all been there, and it’s exactly as terrifying as it seems. But here’s the thing – you’re not actually supposed to become an event…
My daughter’s wedding was supposed to have elegant plated dinners with white-gloved servers. That was the plan until we got the catering quotes. After I picked myself up off the floor, she said something that changed everything: “What if we just got food trucks?” My wife nearly fainted. Food trucks? At a wedding? But six months later, watching 150 guests line up for gourmet grilled cheese and craft tacos while a jazz trio played, I…
Catering sucks. Let’s just be honest about that. You order food for an event, it shows up late and cold, half the stuff is wrong, and you spend your entire party apologizing to people about the food instead of actually enjoying yourself. I’ve been through this enough times to know that traditional catering is basically a gamble you’re probably going to lose. Then someone told me about mobile catering, and I thought it was just…
The morning light is just breaking over the horizon as I pull up to Peterson Family Farms. It’s barely 6 AM, but Ellie Peterson has already been up for hours, harvesting the vibrant purple and white Japanese eggplants that will feature in today’s special at our downtown food truck. “These beauties were just babies a few weeks ago,” she tells me, her weathered hands gently placing them in my crate. “The heat spell we had…
The day we catered both a Fortune 500 company’s annual awards gala and a neighborhood block party represented everything I love about what we do. Our team split into two—half creating elegant passed hors d’oeuvres on silver trays amid crystal and candlelight, half serving vibrant street tacos from our converted vintage truck as children played and neighbors caught up. Same day, same company, worlds apart in presentation—yet in both venues, our food created connections, sparked…
Last Tuesday night, I found myself perched at a counter in the Lower East Side, watching a chef who trained at a three-Michelin-star French restaurant delicately layer Persian tahdig with Hudson Valley foie gras. The woman next to me—a stranger until we both gasped at the same culinary magic trick—leaned over and whispered, “This is so New York it hurts.” We laughed, but she wasn’t wrong. Manhattan’s culinary identity has always been defined by a…
Twenty floors above Manhattan, I’m watching a CFO close a multi-million dollar deal over a plate of perfectly seared scallops. The client—initially hesitant—is now animated, discussing expansion plans while savoring each bite. This isn’t coincidence. As a culinary director who’s orchestrated everything from Wall Street breakfast meetings to Fashion Week afterparties, I’ve seen firsthand how the right food transforms business interactions in this relentlessly demanding city. A Delicious And Inviting Culinary Experience When Boardrooms Become…