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Surprise Your Mom with a Gourmet Dinner on Us!
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and Saint Germain wants to help make this year special. Nominate your mom by telling us why she is the best on our Facebook Fan page and be eligible to win a surprise catered dinner (up to $200) by Saint Germain for you and your Mom!
How to win:
- Nominate your Mom on our Facebook Fan page by sharing why she’s the best (in 140 characters or less).
- Share on Facebook and Twitter to collect likes and support for your entry.
- One lucky entry will win a gourmet catered dinner.
Respond in the comments below, tweet us at @SGCatering or post on our Facebook Fan Page!
Saint Germain Catering Offers Fresh Quality and the Best Customer Service
Saint Germain Catering is a full service catering and event planning Company located in Northern Virginia and services the entire Washington DC Metro area. Our around the clock staff is there to service you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Most of our staff have been with us for over 10 years and combined we have hundreds of years of experience behind us. Our office opens daily at 3 am to ensure that our food is prepared on time using the freshest ingredients and that it is out the door on time to you.
We combine personalized service and beautiful ambience with exquisitely prepared meals. We offer a variety of menu ideas and gourmet specialties for your event, from simple to elegant. Our main goal as a full-service catering company is to work with our clients to ensure that their events and catered meals run smoothly. You can count on us to make your event or your day-to-day catering needs a success.
We prepare our dishes from the freshest ingredients and assemble them as close to serving as possible to retain the flavors of each dish. We value your input … your personal taste … we will even make your favorite recipe. We feel the menu should be a reflection of you. We hope to serve you and help make your special celebration a most wonderful and memorable event. Our careful attention to every detail enables you to enjoy being a guest at your own celebration! From Corporate Breakfasts, Coffee Breaks, Luncheons, Holiday Parties and Meetings to Social Events, such as Weddings, Birthdays, and more… let us cater to your every need!
Fun Facts about us:
- Founded in 1998
- Women Owned and Operated
- Focuses on Corporate and Social Events
- Services MD, VA and DC
- Full service options including staffing, linens, china, rentals
- Monthly Catering Specials
Saint Germain Catering Offers Tips on How to Reduce Catering Costs
Need to come up with fresh, creative menus for your next office meeting or event? Need something nicer than pizza but still working on a limited budget? Saint Germain Catering offers attractive catered meals for business customers that need to work within a limited budget. Menus such coffee and pastries for a breakfast meeting; gourmet sandwiches, sales, desserts for a working lunch; and hot and cold appetizers for an early evening reception or happy hour.
Food accounts for just a slice of the total cost of an event. Other cost components include venue rental, set-up and decoration; food presentation; food and beverage service; and clean up after the event. You may need to handle these details yourself, make assignments to your employees.
A perfectly catered meal makes a simple meal an event. The food should inspire people, lift spirits in the office, and get people excited and talking about it. When you want to make a good impression on your customers, Saint Germain Catering can save the day.
How do businesses and companies affordcatering in tough economic times? One word….Flexibility.
Businesses are working with smaller budgets than they have been in the past. The flexibility that Saint Germain’s offers our clients by working with them during these times, will keepthem coming back. We can customize a menu that will fit within your budget.
Here are a few ideasthat people are requesting:
- Having the main part of the meal catered, while the employees/guest bring desserts to share
- Having employees set up the event, decorations, tables, chairs, table cloths and place settings. The caterer brings the food and displays it, and then employees help with serving.
- Ordering less food or cutting portions during office functions.
- Ordering less expensive food, not as much seafood and higher priced items
- Scheduling office meetings later in the morning/late afternoon and provide a variety of snack items
Celebrate Mardi Gras with Saint Germain Catering’s King Cake Recipe
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Our New Catering Menu is Live.. Look for new meals that please all of your senses
Our New Menu is Here ! Having been a catering company in the Metro DC area for over a decade and having served tens of thousands of meals, several aspects of menu planning are incorporated in all corporate and special event menus. These include texture, color, and sizes. Incorporating these characteristics takes any menu from ordinary meal to an artistic presentation. When designing our new menu, we kept all of these aspects in mind.
Because people eat with their eyes first…looks do matter! If the menu isn’t appealing to the eye, probably the person eating the foods opinion of the taste of that meal will be average, if that. Food presented in style (like a corporate caterer would prepare) is expected to taste good, so the person is more than likely assumes it will also taste good. So, here are some aspects to consider when planning your next meal:
Food Texture
When deciding what to serve, write down your proposed menu. Are all the things on the soft side – meaning only need a fork or spoon? Entrees like our Portabello Mushroom Lasagna and Our Best BBQ are kind of both in the same texture category in that with just a fork, the meal can be eaten. On the other hand, are all your items crispy or crunchy? A plate of fresh vegetables certainly has the crunch but that’s the only texture offered, so consider serving your crunchy, crispy items with a soup or our homemade chili to add another texture to the meal.
Food Color
This is very important when planning a meal or function. Again, your eyes will take everything in first, and then the eating begins. If all your menu items are green, for example, it’s not as appealing if you have green as just one of the colors on the plate. For example if you’re serving spaghetti, you wouldn’t want to serve a tomato mozzarella caprese salad. Consider a classic cesar salad and some great Italian bread to round out the eye appeal. You’ll have the red of spaghetti, the green (not to mention the texture of crispy lettuce) with the salad and a white/golden color (and yet another texture) of the bread.
All Kinds of Shapes
A well rounded presentation includes different sizes and shapes of foods. Serving peas with rice or corn is a good example of about the same size food, though a good color contrast, they will get “lost” on the plate if served with a bite-sized pieces of meat. It’s just all too small or bite sized to create a good presentation. Peas with angel hair pasta as a starch, corn with asparagus or baby carrots incorporate size (and color) differences and enhance your presentation.
Recommendations
If you are looking for some perfect, eye appealing meals that incorporate all of your senses be sure to try out our Cuban Skirt Steak with flavorful strips of skirt steak marinated in authentic Cuban seasonings and served with our house chimichurri sauce, black beans and rice. Bueno!
Recently Engaged? Let our team help make your day memorable
Recently Engaged?Let Saint Germain Catering Plan the Perfect Reception.
Each year in early spring, we receive a lot of calls from couples asking for catering quotations for upcoming bridal showers, rehearsal dinners and weddings. To help keep you from getting caught off guard by the questions we ask and here are some helpful hints to keep you from getting overwhelmed planning your event.
We often find that our potential clients have not thought through certain details or are uncertain about location, size or services needed. Of course, this is our job as the event planner and/or caterer to worry about these details and help make your event a success.
Nonetheless, we do need some important information to provide our potential clients with quotes that are scalable up or down depending on the variables. One of our main goals is to insure there are no surprises for any couple on their wedding day.
The questions we ask and your answers help us provide you a quote that would be scalable based on guest count ranges. Please review this short list and have this information available so that our time together can be productive.
1. Bride and Grooms Name and Address
2. Expected number of guests at your wedding/reception. We know this will change and you will have until the week before the wedding to finalize your guest count.
3. What time is the wedding? Certain times of day may require a higher portion of food.
4. Where is the ceremony relative to the reception?
5. Do you already have a venue selected? If not we are able to help you find the perfect place to hold your event.
6. If yes, does the venue provides tables and chairs or other equipment?
7. What type of entrées were you planning? Example: If you say you would like chicken for an entrée, then it will be less then if you ask for Sea Bass or Beef Tenderloin. Also do you prefer a plated meals verses a buffet.
8. On food preferences, is there anything we should know about religious observances or food allergies?
9. How did you find us? Referral, Google search, wedding website, etc, etc…
The one question that everyone wants to ask us when he or she first calls, “Is how much?” We would be remiss if we gave you a number without qualifying your needs.
Do not be afraid to tell us what your goal budget is. This helps us make recommendations on where you can save money. We will explain the options as we go and give you lots of creative ideas on how you can get your event within your budget range.
There are other questions we will ask and each will help us develop your proposal. The more information we can gather, the more targeted we can make your quote to fit your vision. When you call us, not only will we learn about your expectations, but you will learn more about this process and all the decisions you will be making. This is your day and our job is to understand first, create, and then execute. On behalf of all our team, we look forward to working with you.
