Arizona weddings and other special events are made easier on you the host when bringing three important vendors together into one contract, one point of contact.
Arizona Event Catering specializes in weddings with an emphasis in Italian, French and Spanish cuisine, greatly experienced services such as banquet servers, cocktail servers and bartenders which are borrowed from our sister company Portable Pubs, LLC.
Arizona Event Catering proudly owns and operates Portable Pubs, LLC (http://www.portablepubsaz.com) a bartending service for private and public events. Working hundreds of weddings each year since it's inception, Portable Pubs has built a reputation for providing real bartenders from valley bars and clubs while giving the bar a real bar feeling all around.
Bundling your dinner catering with a bar package from Portable Pubs not only takes a lot off your wedding "to do" list, but saves you money as well. Discounts on packaging your catering with a full bar package are available to all types of events. Don't need a full bar package but still need catering? With 100 guests or more, your bartender will come free with portable bar, napkins, straws, fruit, tools and portable bar.
Arizona Event Catering does provide a limited array of rentals for parties. However, we have a personal history extending 16 years with owner/partner Michael Black of Affordable Party Rentals in Tempe, Arizona. Mike and partner Bob are brothers and have been in this business for a long time. For our hosts, we provide the rental quotes, the order handling, the contracts and payment collections. The price you would pay if you contacted Affordable Party Rentals yourself, is the price you will pay with us.
It most definitely can be a difficult and time consuming process to plan and execute a great wedding or party. Now it's become quite a bit easier by having one meeting for 3 vendors. A quote can be accomplished in 30 minutes from contact, a tasting withing 5 days in which your entire event can be organized including dinner, bar and rentals.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Arizona Event Catering welcomes it's newest addition to the team, chef Benjamin Romine. Benjamin brings a whole new level of skill sets to our line up not only in his passion for the culinary arts, but in his degree in culinary arts, experience in a gourmet French kitchen and executive position in an up scale Italian cuisine as well. Oh, did we forget to mention his experience as a sous chef for an up scale Mexican cuisine?
About the owner:
Owner/operator and executive chef Christopher has been blessed with over twenty years of restaurant and catering experience. Beginning with his families Italian restaurants as a prep worker and dishwasher he worked his way into serving, bartending and management. During his four years at ASU he ventured into corporate restaurants and bars serving, bartending and managing with the purpose of a structured environment. Eventually working with bartending services and caterers he found a love for the event business. This well rounded experience coupled with his families successful recipes in the Italian cuisine has helped Arizona Event Catering obtain a reputation for serving great Italian cuisine at hundreds of weddings, birthday parties, public events and more.
Why a new chef?
While Chef Chris brings experience in the wedding and catering business which feels more like a professional and organized restaurant operation brought to your special event, Chef Ben brings a whole new level of culinary skill sets, quality control and regional flavors to our menu we wouldn't have without him. Not to mention the fact that he's an all around great guy and pleasure to work with.
"Ben was the catalyst in turning something good, into something great. I thought I could pull some stuff off and wow some people and have done so on many occasions....but he wows me constantly. I could not be happier with working with Ben in so many ways." -Christopher Fisher
Chef Ben has been working with us for about six months now and we could not be more excited for the up coming season to see just what else he has in store for our guests. It's exciting to say the least!
About the owner:
Owner/operator and executive chef Christopher has been blessed with over twenty years of restaurant and catering experience. Beginning with his families Italian restaurants as a prep worker and dishwasher he worked his way into serving, bartending and management. During his four years at ASU he ventured into corporate restaurants and bars serving, bartending and managing with the purpose of a structured environment. Eventually working with bartending services and caterers he found a love for the event business. This well rounded experience coupled with his families successful recipes in the Italian cuisine has helped Arizona Event Catering obtain a reputation for serving great Italian cuisine at hundreds of weddings, birthday parties, public events and more.
Why a new chef?
While Chef Chris brings experience in the wedding and catering business which feels more like a professional and organized restaurant operation brought to your special event, Chef Ben brings a whole new level of culinary skill sets, quality control and regional flavors to our menu we wouldn't have without him. Not to mention the fact that he's an all around great guy and pleasure to work with.
"Ben was the catalyst in turning something good, into something great. I thought I could pull some stuff off and wow some people and have done so on many occasions....but he wows me constantly. I could not be happier with working with Ben in so many ways." -Christopher Fisher
Chef Ben has been working with us for about six months now and we could not be more excited for the up coming season to see just what else he has in store for our guests. It's exciting to say the least!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Corporate Party Catering
As wedding season approaches and the catering companies are filled to the gills with weddings, it's common place for event planners to find difficulty in searching for a catering company available to work events such as award ceremonies, benefits and more. Weekday meetings are easy, most caterers will retain weekday availability during wedding season, but weekends are generally booked for most of us. Consider in stead, a week day event when the purpose is business or community oriented.
Is it plausible to schedule your benefit event or awards ceremony on a weekday, rather than on the weekend? We would like to think so and it just may offer you some benefits you may not realize till now. Most facilities which are rent-able, generally are less expensive to rent during the weekdays and on Sundays. We are all on a budget here especially considering the weakened economy, so this is one strong beneficial case in point.
Secondly, most catering companies will offer better pricing during the week. This is a simple case of supply and demand. We still have basic price points to keep us financially afloat, but rest assured you will find your total bill to be less than that of a weekend event. Once again, a credit to the budget for you event planners.
Last but not least, if you are planning an event in which the budgets success is dependent upon the number of guests and based on ticket sales, we believe that it's target attendees may have a better availability potential during the week, rather than on the weekends where the general public look to find family gatherings, weekend excursions, shopping adventures or simple in house rest after a long week.
In general, it's going to be much easier to find a caterer, or any vendor for that matter, who is available for your event during the week. Couple that with lower associated costs and you can't loose. We have a few solutions up our sleeve that may be of interest to you event planners and are more than happy to talk about it any any time.
Is it plausible to schedule your benefit event or awards ceremony on a weekday, rather than on the weekend? We would like to think so and it just may offer you some benefits you may not realize till now. Most facilities which are rent-able, generally are less expensive to rent during the weekdays and on Sundays. We are all on a budget here especially considering the weakened economy, so this is one strong beneficial case in point.
Secondly, most catering companies will offer better pricing during the week. This is a simple case of supply and demand. We still have basic price points to keep us financially afloat, but rest assured you will find your total bill to be less than that of a weekend event. Once again, a credit to the budget for you event planners.
Last but not least, if you are planning an event in which the budgets success is dependent upon the number of guests and based on ticket sales, we believe that it's target attendees may have a better availability potential during the week, rather than on the weekends where the general public look to find family gatherings, weekend excursions, shopping adventures or simple in house rest after a long week.
In general, it's going to be much easier to find a caterer, or any vendor for that matter, who is available for your event during the week. Couple that with lower associated costs and you can't loose. We have a few solutions up our sleeve that may be of interest to you event planners and are more than happy to talk about it any any time.
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