Hiring a Toronto event catering company to handle your holiday party is a great idea; catering companies are professionals and experts who can help you put together a wonderful, stress-free menuthat caters to your guests, vision, dietary needs, and budget. They’ll also want to work closely with you to make sure they fulfill your vision. As you begin the process of making catering decisions, here are some event catering ideas for the holidays.
Creative Presentation
Creatively presented catering can help to instantly elevate the sophistication of your holiday party. If you have a more specific theme, try incorporating the theme into the creative presentationby using décor and your menu choices in the displays. Everything should not only look presentable but should demonstrate care and consideration. Toronto event catering companies are experts when it comes to creative presentation, and can work with you to design enticing and beautiful displays at your holiday party.
Food and Alcohol Pairings
Pairing alcohol with menu items, and indicating which drinks will go best with each item, is a classy and interactive move that can help attendees make more informed and satisfying alcohol choices. If you’re serving wine at your holiday party, certain wines complement certain menu items better than others. Ask your Toronto event catering company to help you pair the alcohol with food; they’ll know the best pairing options to serve guests.
Food Stations
Different food stations are a great way to inject fun into a holiday party. They give attendees the opportunity to make their way around the room, visiting each food station as they go, and in the process, also socializing and mingling with other guests. Having all the food in one area of the room can result in lines and high traffic; breaking things up into different food stations can alleviate this problem.
Interactive Food Experience
If you want to take your food stations up a notch, try interactive food experiences that require attendees to get involved. It’s a great way to involve your menu and entertainment in one area. For example, you can have live cooking stations where food is prepared in front of guests or a chocolate fountain where guests can dip their desserts. In honour of the holiday season, you could have a gingerbread man station where guests are encouraged to decorate their cookies! Interactive food stations give guests something to do and can be a lot of fun if organized well.
Unique Foods
A holiday party should be a complete experience, and unique foods that are intriguing and new to guests is a great way to make that experience more interesting. Going off the traditional menu can help make your holiday a departure from the expected holiday fare. However, it’s important to maintain balance; serving only unique and unusual foods can alienate guests who are looking for something familiar.Using your menu to bring the traditional guests together with your unique ones is an icebreaker and stimulates conversations between guest groups. Toronto event catering experts can help you introduce new items while still maintain balance on the menu.
Holiday Cocktails
As your party already has a theme, the holidays, you should feel free to embrace it completely! Incorporating holiday-specific drinks can be a great way to celebrate the season while also providing creative and fun options for guests. Drinks with festive names, and flavours like candy cane or ginger, are other great ways to up the ante at your holiday party. Don’t forget the festive glasses, garnish, and names for your drinks!
Requests from Guests
Finally, try and get a sense of what sort of food people look forward to at holiday events, and don’t be afraid to ask your guests if they have any requests, beyond the usual dietary restrictions. While you won’t be able to give everyone what they want,and it’s important that you don’t feel the need to incorporate everyone’s suggestions, it makes sense to get an idea of what people want to eat. Toronto event catering companies will be able to work with you to customize your menu for the guests you’ll be entertaining.
