When it comes to catering for your event, you need to be careful about putting too much faith and trust in Pinterest and Instagram.

These platforms are great for getting ideas. 

Some of the images can be very inspiring when it comes to giving you direction for your food display and decor themes.

But there is always a catch! The fact is the people posting these photos are looking for views and shares… that’s their objective! They are not interested in the quality of your food.

You have to find the balance between art and function.

In fact, you can achieve a beautiful food display without compromising the quality of your food.

You need to trust your caterer’s advice!

One thing I will never do is present our food in a way that will sacrifice its quality and taste.

Example… that mini pancakes on a toothpick sitting on a nice platter picture might look really cute, but in practice who wants to eat cold pancakes?  

Of course, this is just one example. I come across so many pictures that look great, but make no sense at all.

I have twenty, plus years in this industry.   I have worked in some of the best restaurants in Boston and have managed 1000’s of events at hotels like: The Westin Waterfront, The Hyatt and The W.  I would never steer you wrong or give you advice that would compromise the quality of my food.

Best,

Melissa

For a while now, we’ve been doing Taco Bars.

We have done these in all sorts of budget levels.

But… our Taco Bar catering menu was sort of under wraps because we never published it.

With the New Year comes new fun, right?

So we added a Taco Bar option to our Catering Menu and Wedding Catering Menu.

But it’s not your typical “Taco Tuesday” line up.   Here’s a look at what’s included…

• Grilled Chicken
• Braised Shredded Pork
• Corn Tortillas
• Cabbage Cilantro Slaw
• Spicy Pico De Gallo
• Sour Cream
• Shredded Cheese
• Fresh Fried Tortilla Chips with House Made Salsa and Guacamole
• Grilled Street Corn with Cotija Cheese, Chile Powder and Lime
• Rice with Pinto Beans
  
  

Now is the time to get those last minute New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day orders finalized.

From Appetizers to our Hot Trays to our Yummy Desserts (like Tiramisu Cups), we’ve got everything to make your New Years Eve and New Years Day a Hit!

Get with us this week!

We had a lot of questions about our Thanksgiving offerings and hours.

While we’re not the place who wants to “cook your turkey and cater your Thanksgiving Dinner”  – we do have a bunch of great side dishes for you!

Check out the menu here:  Thanksgiving Catering Menu

And of course, anything from our other catering menus can be ordered for your Thanksgiving celebration.

We’ll be open regular hours on Wednesday and then until about 11AM on Thanksgiving Day.

It could be a business meeting you need catering for.

Maybe it’s a personal or family event?

Our Lunch Catering options are very popular.  From our Deli Platters to Gourmet Sandwiches, to Finger Sandwiches.

We always include homemade chips with all orders!

That’s why we’re so happy to add another great lunch option.

Our Lobster Rolls!

You get a quarter pound of our Lobster Salad on a delicious and fresh brioche roll! 

Check out our entire “Deli Catering Menu!” 

The Lobster is Here!

Finally… perfected (just kidding, it has always been perfect)!

But we just added to our Catering Menu at a great price!

Our Lobster Mac n Cheese…

Our full size catering tray of Lobster Mac will dish out 20 servings at $7.50 per. It’s loaded with 2 lbs of Lobster Meat! In addition, there are two “At Home Menu” versions that will dish out 5 and 10 servings!

You’ll have to try it!

Recently a client placed an order for a celebration of life, post-service lunch.

We always do our best to help when asked during these times.

A delivery event, that required no catering staff, the conversation went to our client “re-plating” some of the food from our nice disposable displays to their platters upon arrival.

Wanting to help as best as possible with the logistics, while saving them some work and also knowing not every item ordered made sense to “re-plate” we came up with the easy solution.

“If you can, just drop off some of your platters to us, we will put the food right on them, so you don’t have to.”

Easy.

When we deal with vendors, and other businesses we want solutions, feedback and ideas (within reason of course).

And we bring that same approach to our clients and customers. There are only solutions!

If you know someone who hasn’t tried Twelve 31, let them know about us. Encourage them to “Google Twelve 31 Events” and just read what others have to say.

Horderves and Appitzer Catering is very popular.  Some events lend themselves well to circulating the room and mingling. These events are perfect for both displayed and passed Horderves and Appitzers.

Figure on each guest eating at least five pieces. And depending on the type of event, you may need more. During business functions we provide catering for we notice folks we eat less.  Social events, we notice they eat a little more.

Our menu is sorted between displatyed, hot and cold horsderves.  

We can help you decide which combonation is best for your event.

Being in the Food Industry and in particular operating a Catering Service in New Hampshire, we can’t help but hear all the buzz about delivery and delivery apps.

It seems like everyone wants to be in food delivery and every fast food place (yuck!) wants you to be able to order their food on demand.

We get it, there is plenty of room and plenty of people with varying taste-buds, especially in bigger cities and that’s why some of these things thrive.

But Twelve 31 has been about “delivery” from the start.  Bringing our customers delicious, high-quality food that shows up hot and fresh all the time.  

Our food always travels with people we know.  Most of the time, our owners hand-delivery large and small catering orders.   

Our food (and coffee) stays hot because of the special boxes used to transport it.  

Now… we don’t have any fancy app that tells you how close your food is, but with rare exception (actually one time at a place where even the invited guests couldn’t find the house) it shows exactly when expected!

Imagine That…  Real Eggs?

Did you know most breakfast sandwiches, and even catered breakfasts, don’t use real eggs?

Whether it’s our Breakfast Buffet Catering or we’re delivering Breakfast Sandwiches… we only use Real Eggs! And they’re all hand-cracked!

Maybe… it’s business… maybe it’s a personal event, we have breakfast catering covered!

Check our Breakfast Catering Menu Here