Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Arizona Wedding Catering And Bartending Services

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. 

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!