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Interactive Food Stations
 
 

Have fun! Mix and mingle between stations or within stations. Add stations together to create an interesting buffet. For another twist, choose 1 – 2 stations and add them to your Hors D'oeuvres reception menu. To enhance your event, add theme, décor and props.
You may add a gold food station to any package for $8.95 per person.

Gold Food Stations

Hot Rock Satay Station
Assorted chicken, beef and pork satays, cooked before you on a slate pallet served with a choice of tzatziki, hot & sour sauce, spicy Thai peanut sauce, and teriyaki sauce along with baskets of grilled pita breads.

Quesadilla Station
A truly fun filled station. Your guests will choose from a selection of ingredients to create their own personal quesadilla. Traditional, spinach and sun dried tomato soft tortilla shells filled with grilled chicken, a trio of cheeses, mushrooms, peppers and sweet red onions. Grilled to order and then accompanied by sweet and spicy salsa, guacamole and sour cream.

Taco Station
Freshly grilled soft tacos with a choice of fillings with a twist: oven roasted pulled beef & cilantro, jerk beef, cilantro chicken, zesty ginger & sesame chicken, sautéed vegetable ratatouille, and tacquitos (rolled tacos, grilled to order). Accompanied by diced onions, cheddar cheese, sweet and spicy salsa, guacamole and sour cream.

The Potato Station
The Baked or The Fried:
You can choose to have your potatoes baked and ready or scooped and combined with your favorite ingredients, sautéed and placed back in its shell, or have your grated potatoes combined with your choice of ingredients and pan fried to your taste. Accompaniments include crispy bacon, sautéed onions and leeks, mushrooms, roasted peppers and garlic, three cheeses and sour cream.

Antipasto Station
An aromatic, colourful compilation of Roma tomatoes with marinated baby mozzarella, grilled zucchini rolls stuffed with asiago cheese, prosciutto and asparagus, marinated olives and mushrooms, grilled beets, artichoke

Salad Station
Traditional Caesar Salad:
crisp hearts of romaine, herbed oven baked croutons and our very own creamy garlic dressing. Leafless Greek Salad: Roma tomatoes, English cucumbers, feta cheese, Calamata olives, green peppers and oregano vinaigrette. Penne Pesto Salad: with grilled vegetables. Green Bean Vinaigrette: with mushrooms, peppers and roasted garlic dressing. Roasted Potatoes: with roasted eggplant, peppers, sweet onion, garlic and olive oil and parsley tossed in oregano, feta cheese dressing.

Soup Station
Please choose 3 soup selections for either the hot or cold soup station.

The Hot Soups

The Cold Soups

Cream soups will be displayed in silver samovars.
Heartier soups will be displayed and served from terrines.

Curried Carrot with cashews and coriander
Hearty Minestrone
Seafood or Chicken Gumbo
Shrimp Bisque
Cream of Mushroom and Chive
Apple Pepper Squash

French Onion with homemade croutons
Scallop Chowder
Cauliflower and Roasted Corn

Displayed and served from terrines chilled over ice.
These soups are a wonderful dessert or luncheon addition.

Plum and Berry
Chilled Potato and Leek with artichokes and lemon zest
Gazpacho
Sour Cherry
Vichyssoise

Bread and Cheese Station
An assortment of freshly baked breads, Focaccia and Jalapeno corn muffins, regular and herbed butter, and roasted garlic.
A selection of Canadian and imported cheeses garnished with fresh fruit.

Pasta Station
Fresh pasta cooked before you, served with a choice of a sun-dried tomato basil sauce, roasted garlic and cilantro cream sauce or pesto cream sauce, tossed together with a choice of julienne vegetables and Parmesan cheese.

Crepes Stations Two Ways

Savory Crepes
Prepared to your liking with a choice of grilled eggplant and peppers smothered in a wild mushroom sauce or grilled lemon basil pesto almond chicken with broccoli flowerets in a roasted garlic and pepper sauce.

Sweet Dessert Crepes
Served with a selection of grilled pineapples, sautéed bananas and Ontario peaches.
The crepes will be drizzled with a choice of Grand Marnier or caramel sauces and topped with a fresh whipped cream.

Chocolate Fondue as an Interactive Food Station
A sinfully decadent chocolate sauce for dipping shortbread cookies, chiffon cake, graham crackers, phyllo straws, strawberries, banana, oranges, pineapple, apricots, kiwi fruit and mini marshmallows (just for fun).

 

Platinum Food Stations

You may upgrade your gold food station to a platinum station for $3.00 per person.
If you would like to add a platinum station to any package, add $11.95 per person.

Carving Stations
Carved herb crusted tenderloin of beef served with caramelized onion relish, assorted mustards, and mushroom ragout and Carved maple glazed pork tenderloin served with sautéed pears.
Accompanied by baskets of baguettes.

Traditional Carving Station
Whole cornbread, fruit and pecan stuffed turkey served with traditional cranberry chutney.
Can be served cold or hot. Served with a selection of fresh breads.

Old Floridian Steam Pot
A wonderful seaport display of steaming kettles filled with seafood. Shrimp, sea scallops, tender clams, mussels, and fresh catch simmered in a tomato stock with onions, garlic, celery, red and green peppers, served with dipping breads.

Salmon and Shrimp Station
An arrangement of smoked salmon with caper butter and red onion relish, grilled salmon with cilantro cream on baguette toasts, shrimp poached in ginger beer served with red pepper dip, and blackened shrimp served with a mango chutney. Served with pumpernickel and rustic breads.

Savory French Pastry
This station is truly elegant and would make a wonderful afternoon tea or reception. Savory croquembouche filled with rosemary cured ham mousse and drizzled with balsamic caramel, lemon thyme éclairs with lobster and corn salad, asiago cheese crisps with chevre and roasted red peppers, puff pastry cornets with toasted walnut, stilton and red flame grapes, crepes suzette of grilled breast of chicken with Grand Marnier and hot pepper Seville orange marmalade, Herb de Provence Napoleons of field asparagus and smoked chicken salad, grilled vegetable terrine with herbed toast points, chive Madeleines with cognac and smoked oyster pate, green olive and yellow pepper palmiers


 
   
 
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