Good food, thoughtfully prepared. Graciously served.
From a small Tuesday lunch drop–off to a hundred–guest wedding, we build menus and service around the way you actually want to host.
Three ways
we cater.
Every gathering has its own shape. Tell us yours, and we’ll meet you with the right team, the right menu, and the right level of service — nothing more, nothing less.
Delivery Catering
Boxed lunches, platters, and grazing for offices, meetings, and easy gatherings. Order in minutes, no service team required.
Event Catering
Full–service catering for weddings, milestones, and corporate gatherings. Menu design, staffing, rentals, and venue coordination handled end to end.
Personal Chef
A chef in your home, cooking a tasting menu built around your night. Anniversaries, small dinners, retreats — quiet, generous, unrushed.
across the region
We treat every guest like the only guest.
Our kitchen runs on a short list of principles: cook with what’s in season, source from the same farms and fishermen we’ve known for years, and serve the food at the moment it tastes best.
Service follows the same logic. Our team is small on purpose — the captain who walks your venue is the same one standing at the door when your guests arrive. Hospitality, the way we were taught it, is a craft of small attentions.
Lunch, meetings, easy gatherings.
Ready in 48 hours.
A focused delivery menu of boxed meals, family–style platters, and grazing tables — sent straight to your office or home with napkins, utensils, and clear setup notes.
The Boxed Lunch
A seasonal protein, grain salad, market vegetable, fruit, and a small sweet. Individually packed.
- · 12 person minimum
- · Vegetarian, vegan, GF options
- · Branded labeling available
Family–Style Platters
Three mains, two sides, fresh bread, and dessert. Served in reusable enamelware. Setup included.
- · 8–40 guests
- · Includes serving utensils
- · Optional drop–off setup
The Grazing Table
Imported cheeses, charcuterie, seasonal fruit, honeycomb, marinated vegetables, and artisan breads.
- · 15 person minimum
- · Linen & styling included
- · On–site assembly
Delivery available within 35 miles. Minimum order: $350.
Request Delivery QuoteWeddings, milestones, and the gatherings that take a year to plan.
Full–service catering with a single point of contact. We’ll design the menu, walk your venue, build the staffing plan, and stay until the last fork is cleared.
How an event comes together
- 01
Tell us about the event
A short conversation about your date, venue, guest count, and the kind of night you have in mind.
- 02
Build the menu
A tasting at our studio. We’ll cook, you’ll edit, and we’ll arrive at a menu that fits the season and the room.
- 03
Choose service & rentals
Plated, family–style, or stations. Glassware, linens, staffing ratios — selected for your venue and the way you want guests to move.
- 04
The night itself
Our team arrives early, sets the room, runs service, and breaks everything down. You host. We handle the rest.
Occasions we’re built for
Twelve to four hundred guests. Indoors, outdoors, raw venues, family homes. If it requires a kitchen and a crew, it’s in our wheelhouse.
We typically book six to nine months ahead for weddings. Smaller events, four to eight weeks.
Start Planning an Event
A chef in your kitchen, for the night.
For dinners of two to fourteen guests. A multi–course tasting menu, written for your night and cooked in front of you — or quietly, behind a door, while you host.
Anniversaries, proposals, small birthdays, holiday eves, and the kind of dinners that don’t need a stage. We shop, we cook, we serve, and we clean as we go. You’ll only know we were there by what’s on the plate.
The Quiet Dinner
Canapé, starter, main, dessert. Two to six guests. A focused, unhurried evening.
The Tasting
A seasonal tasting menu with paired notes. Six to ten guests. Optional wine pairings.
The Residency
A weekend or week of meals for retreats, family stays, or holiday houses. Inquire for pricing.
Cooking the
season we’re in.
A small selection from our autumn menu. Full menus — with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten–free notation — are sent over after your inquiry.
Smoked trout, crisp apple, dill crème
on rye crisps, with horseradish
Roasted squash, brown butter, sage
delicata, hazelnut, aged pecorino
Duck breast, cherry, charred shallot
heritage farro, jus, watercress
Vanilla panna cotta, caramel, raspberry
with a brown sugar tuile
From the hosts who hired us.
Across 220 Google & The Knot reviews
“Our captain knew every server’s name and every dietary restriction by heart. The food was beautiful, but it was that level of care we keep telling people about.”
“We’ve used Choice for our partner dinners for three years running. The menu changes every time, but the standard never does.”
“Chef Marcus cooked an anniversary dinner in our kitchen and made us feel like the only people he’d ever cooked for. We’ll be calling again.”
As featured in & trusted by
A few nights, photographed.
Plated courses, room setups, service moments, and the small details that make a long evening feel quietly held together.
Tell us about
your night.
Choose the path that fits. We respond to every inquiry within one business day, often the same morning.
Before you
write us.
Can’t find your question? Email hello@choiceevents.co and we’ll answer the same day.
How far in advance should we book? +
Weddings and large galas, six to nine months. Smaller events and corporate dinners, four to eight weeks. Personal chef bookings, two weeks is comfortable. Delivery orders, 48 hours.
Do you accommodate dietary restrictions? +
Always. Our menus include vegetarian, vegan, gluten–free, and nut–free options by default, and we build allergy–safe substitutions for any restriction your guests bring to the table.
Is a tasting included? +
For all event catering bookings of 50+ guests, a tasting for two is included at our studio. Smaller events can add one for a flat fee that’s credited back to the final invoice.
What areas do you serve? +
The greater Bay Area as a standard service zone. We routinely travel to Sonoma, Napa, Carmel, and Tahoe, and have catered events along the coast and out of state when the booking calls for it.
Can you coordinate rentals and staffing? +
Yes — china, glassware, linens, bar setups, and staffing ratios are all handled in–house. You’ll work with a single captain from your first call through the last bag out the door.
When you’re ready,
we’re ready.
Whether it’s a Wednesday lunch for the office or a wedding two years out — the inquiry takes a few minutes and we’ll write back the same day.