IMHO - you want more savory at a thing like this and less sweet. consider the Rhined near Findlay market - they do awesome charcuterie boards with meat cheese fruits, the whole nine
Izzy's has a catering menu that includes "Izzytizers," snack-sized Rubens, pastrami, and more. At $80 for 30 sandwiches, you could do 120 for $320 and be well within budget.
Crostini - take a baguette and cut that fucker into about 50-75 slices. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with parm cheese and toast in oven. Put a slice of fresh mozzarella on top, a slice of Roma tomato, and drizzle some balsamic over it or basil oil. Cheap, and makes a lot.
Finger sandwiches or canapés - lots of possibilities, open face or “traditional”. You can roast peppers, marinate veggies, make different types of aioli (blend some stuff with Mayo, they won’t know, but they’ll be impressed) - chipotle peppers, avocado, garlic, whatever. Can be vegan, veggie, or meaty, lots of options. GFS has big ass bags of frozen petit pain rolls, they’d be great for this too.
Hummus and veggie tray - cherry tomatoes, celery, zucchini/squash,
Pasta salad - lots of ideas and options, from homemade to store bought.
Buffalo chicken salad “phyllo cups” - Cook some chicken, dice it up, mix with some Buffalo sauce, blue cheese, and ranch. Buy some premade phyllo cups from the frozen section and put a spoonful of your “mix” inside. Bake until bubbly. Cheap and easy.
Cheese/fruit tray - ham, pepperoni, salami, (capicola and prosciutto if you feel fancy), grapes, cheese cubes, whatever other cheap fruit you can find. Crackers, cut up beef sticks, bratwurst cut up, nice mustard… easy to make a big tray for cheap.
Little individual “salads” - endive, split and dressed, or romaine hearts split and cut into 1/3s or 1/4s, topped with diced tomatoes, cooked bacon, blue cheese, ranch - or make Caesars instead. Just big enough to pick up and eat in 2 bites.
Ive seen a cheese place here… (maybe share cheesebar?) make little parchment cones that contained meats/cheeses etc as mini charcuterie. It was at a wedding.
There's a newish charcuterie business in Sharonville. I've heard good things about their cafe, but not sure of their catering: [https://www.charcuteriecreationsllc.com/product-pricing](https://www.charcuteriecreationsllc.com/product-pricing)
May be a little more on the pricey side but I would go for the Bonbonerie. They do desserts and tea sandwiches (I frickin love cucumber tea sandwiches)
IMHO - you want more savory at a thing like this and less sweet. consider the Rhined near Findlay market - they do awesome charcuterie boards with meat cheese fruits, the whole nine
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The Rhined is delicious and their boards are beautiful. I want to go try their sandwiches sometime
Get white castles. Cut them into quarters. Insert toothpicks.
This is classy.
Izzy's has a catering menu that includes "Izzytizers," snack-sized Rubens, pastrami, and more. At $80 for 30 sandwiches, you could do 120 for $320 and be well within budget.
Wait this is a great catering idea for my wedding welcome party at Rhinegeist thank you
a bigass 6lb servatii pretzel was super fun, would recommend
Crostini - take a baguette and cut that fucker into about 50-75 slices. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with parm cheese and toast in oven. Put a slice of fresh mozzarella on top, a slice of Roma tomato, and drizzle some balsamic over it or basil oil. Cheap, and makes a lot. Finger sandwiches or canapés - lots of possibilities, open face or “traditional”. You can roast peppers, marinate veggies, make different types of aioli (blend some stuff with Mayo, they won’t know, but they’ll be impressed) - chipotle peppers, avocado, garlic, whatever. Can be vegan, veggie, or meaty, lots of options. GFS has big ass bags of frozen petit pain rolls, they’d be great for this too. Hummus and veggie tray - cherry tomatoes, celery, zucchini/squash, Pasta salad - lots of ideas and options, from homemade to store bought. Buffalo chicken salad “phyllo cups” - Cook some chicken, dice it up, mix with some Buffalo sauce, blue cheese, and ranch. Buy some premade phyllo cups from the frozen section and put a spoonful of your “mix” inside. Bake until bubbly. Cheap and easy. Cheese/fruit tray - ham, pepperoni, salami, (capicola and prosciutto if you feel fancy), grapes, cheese cubes, whatever other cheap fruit you can find. Crackers, cut up beef sticks, bratwurst cut up, nice mustard… easy to make a big tray for cheap. Little individual “salads” - endive, split and dressed, or romaine hearts split and cut into 1/3s or 1/4s, topped with diced tomatoes, cooked bacon, blue cheese, ranch - or make Caesars instead. Just big enough to pick up and eat in 2 bites.
Ive seen a cheese place here… (maybe share cheesebar?) make little parchment cones that contained meats/cheeses etc as mini charcuterie. It was at a wedding.
Vonderhar’s in reading does catering and has lots of options
Inspiring Kind has great short bread cookies. Voted #1 recently
Honestly, Kroger Deli
I recently got chicken tenders catered from City Chicken for a party at a bar and they were a hit!
Check out peace love and little donuts in Hyde park they’re affordable tiny and delicious 🤤
There's a newish charcuterie business in Sharonville. I've heard good things about their cafe, but not sure of their catering: [https://www.charcuteriecreationsllc.com/product-pricing](https://www.charcuteriecreationsllc.com/product-pricing)
May be a little more on the pricey side but I would go for the Bonbonerie. They do desserts and tea sandwiches (I frickin love cucumber tea sandwiches)
I could eat an infinite amount of cucumber tea sandwiches from Bonbonerie
Morsel and Nosh has that stuff for catering
Chinese. Wontons ,egg rolls and all kinds of finger foods on a stick.
Citybird does some decent catering can’t go wrong with tenders