Fandango Catering's Holiday Menu

Cocktail parties, office parties and lunches, family and friends' gatherings, dinners, dessert buffets...We make it easy, delicious, and beautiful!

Our amazing chefs have created our Holiday 2011 menu with many wonderful hors d'oeuvres, tapas, dinner items, and desserts debuted this fall and which have proved very popular with our clients and their guests, including:

• Spanish Honey-Lemon Chicken Brochettes
• Local Greens and Red and Yellow Cherry Tomatoes with Fresh Herb Vinaigrette in Mini Puff Pastry Baskets
• Flight of Antipasto Brochettes
• Chicken in Strawberry-Feta Sauce
• Tiramisú Shots

Our 2011 Holiday Menu also includes many favorites from our regular menus.

And of course, a must on our holiday menu are our signature citrus Gran Marnier Castle and Cathedral Cakes, beautifully decorated with powdered sugar snow and chocolatines, which have become a tradition at many Houston holiday events and meals.

 We can also prepare ideas that are not on our Holiday Menu--our chefs are all culinary school-trained, so no problem!

See our Holiday 2011 Menu on our website home page:
www.fandango-catering.com

For more information, menu suggestions, or a price quote for your holiday event:

(713) 522-0077 or info@fandango-catering.com

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
www.fandango-catering.com

6 More Holiday Decorating Ideas

In our continuing series, "Holiday Entertaining," today we offer 6 more ideas for making your holiday gathering special. 

With these simple ideas, your guests will be wowed and you won't have spent more than a few minutes to give your holiday event or meal a special cool touch.

• Quick centerpiece or accent--Fill a large silver bowl (we love the ones at Pottery Barn) with loose greenery and top with a pile of silver, red, gold, or blue glass Christmas balls
• Put a gold or gold-accented runner on your table and arrange white pillar candles, set on gold or red candle stands, in the center of the runner
• Set small wrapped gifts or ornaments with ribbon bows at each place setting--and don't bother with centerpieces
• Write guests' names in gold ink on gift tags or leaves, then lay the tags or leaves at your place settings
• To make your place settings look more festive in less than a minute, buy Hershey's Kisses in red and green wrappers and put one on each folded napkin at your place settings.  And you can also put small decorative bowls or even goblets with these chocolates to add holiday color (and sweetness) to each guest table
• If you buy a dessert, make it more festive by putting a ring of fresh flower blooms around it or on its serving tray.  Or encircle beverage tubs, ice buckets, or displays of wine on your beverage station with fresh greenery

Enjoy!

Kristina

Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
www.fandango-catering.com

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Serveware that Makes Your Holiday Party Stand Out

If you're looking for ways to make your holiday party really shine this year, the trend in catering and events serveware continues to be using at least one standout serving or tabletop piece and a mix of types of serving pieces, as we have moved away from more plain or uninspired serving looks such as all flat silver or white (or all any one color) trays and plain vanilla flatware.  The latter can often look too hotel-ish or restaurant-ish.

The solution? One or a few really unique, standout serveware pieces, including trays or platters, glass or porcelain pedestals, even bar accessories and napkins.

We recently catered a dinner party at which the hosts had the most wonderful serveware, all different, which we mixed with our own serving pieces to serve the food and drinks.  For example, they had a beautiful dull gold rectangular tray with high edges, which we mixed with their sleek chrome round tray and our collection of glass pedestals.  On these pieces the hors d'oeuvres really popped! And the effect was definitely not a hodge podge; instead, it was beautiful and artful.

Along the same lines, their gold-on-white patterned cocktail napkins really added a special touch to their pre-dinner cocktail hour, much more so than plain white cocktail napkins would have done.

These personalized servingware touches can then be used at future gatherings, so it's money well spent.  And if you're on a budget you can often find wonderful serveware at good prices in import or world market-type shops.

Other serveware trends this holiday season that will make your party outstanding:

• Anything served in martini or small glasses
• Square or round tumblers or oversize martini glasses for mixed drinks
• Serveware with gold touches
• Glass or porcelain pedestals to serve hors d'oeuvres or sweets
• Unusual fruit garnishes on food trays (e.g., quince, passionfruit, Seckel pears, crab apples, unusual berries)
• Colored wine or champagne glasses

More ideas? Beautiful beverage servers, fleur-de-lis drinkware, and flatware from Horchow (we like the Optic Glass Beverage Server and the French Countryside, Monkey, Napoleon Bee, and Bramasole flatware), or any interesting-shaped beverage server, drinkware, or flatware to suit your taste and decor.  Even one such touch will make your holiday party shine!

Enjoy!

Kristina

Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
www.fandango-catering.com

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