Monday, July 25, 2011

Congratulations, Tim & Tricia!

Today, Four Seasons Catering helped Tim & Tricia celebrate their union with a monumental 900-guest reception! We provided menu cards, table linens, chair covers, chargers, plates, silverware, glassware, napkins, drinks, and decor for the buffet tables. We also catered the event with a large variety of Korean and Asian dishes, including our brand new pork belly buns. Serving such a large event required six food stations and four buffet lines - and boy, with such a big crowd, we made sure those lines moved fast! The combination of elegant table settings with the couple's personal decorative touches, that showcased their names, colors, and photographs, transformed the humble church's gym and fellowship hall into a wedding wonderland.

Congratulations, Tim & Tricia! :)

The handsome groom and his beautiful bride!
A small snapshot of their huge venue!
Our linens, chargers, silverware, glassware, and menu cards complemented
the colors of the couple's floral centerpieces, table cards, and personalized "TT" cake pops!

Four Seasons' own decorative pieces: who said buffet
tables can't also be part art?
Serving up bacon-wrapped asparagus, chicken alfredo, cocktail shrimp, and more!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

There's no "I" in "team", but there's a "we" in "wedding"!

It's wedding season! Four Seasons Catering has been working hard this summer, catering and cooking up new ideas to make our clients' events extra special.

We know that, with the recent downturn of the economy, achieving your dream wedding seems less and less likely as costs get bigger and budgets get smaller. In order to help our clients stay wallet-friendly while still creating an affair that's both affordable and memorable, Four Seasons Catering is happy to announce our new wedding packages designed with your needs in mind! We are teaming up with the Kyoto Grand Hotel, DoubleTree Hotels, Sheraton Hotels, and Hilton Hotel, combining our catering services with the gorgeous venues of our Los Angeles hotel partners (see below) at a discounted rate. Fantastic views, flavorful food, and frugal to boot - what more could you ask for!

The hotel partners for our venue & catering packages are:
  • Kyoto Grand Hotel
    120 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles 90012
    (213) 629 - 1200
    kyotograndhotel.com
  • DoubleTree by Hilton
    13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk 90650
    (562) 863 - 5555
    --
    5757 Telegraph Road, City of Commerce 90040
    (323) 887 - 8100
    doubletree.hilton.com
  • Sheraton Hotel
    711 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 90017
    (213) 488 - 3500
    starwoodhotels.com/sheraton
    --
    12725 Center Court Drive, Cerritos 90703
    (562) 809 - 1500
    sheratoncerritos.com
  • Hilton Hotel
    100 West Glenoaks Boulevard, Glendale 91202
    (818) 956 - 5466
    hilton.com
Give us a call or come visit us for more information. These packages are also available for other events, such as corporate meetings, church events, birthday parties, etc. :)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Proudly introducing... our new Pork Belly Bun!

Four Seasons Catering is proud to introduce our new Pork Belly Bun - a fun fusion hors d'oeuvre that blends Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean tastes in a small, hand-held form.

Our yummy fusion pork belly bun!
These cute little eats are comprised of:
  • Chinese fluffy and steamed white buns (called "mantou"), typically found with peking duck
  • Vietnamese-style pickled carrots, radish, green onions, and cilantro, typically found in Vietnamese baguettes (called "bánh mì")
  • Korean-marinated pork belly, typically grilled with garlic (called "samgyeopsal 삼겹살")
  • and topped with our savory house sauce mixed with aioli
We'd be happy to serve these at your special event! What a delightful way to venture into the popular cuisines of East Asia!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July! 

After a string of posts reminiscing about some memorable events Four Seasons Catering has been a part of, we are looking forward to creating new memories and new friends, especially on tomorrow's holiday. One of our family's favorite appetizers is bacon-wrapped asparagus - enjoy them with your loved ones, and here's to making this next memory extraordinary!

Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus


Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 lbs asparagus spears, trimmed 4 - 5 inches long with tips
  • Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
  • One slice of center cut bacon or pancetta per spear (roughly 15)
  • Fresh ground black pepper
  • Fresh ground salt
Directions:
  • Wash and trim asparagus spears. Lightly coat spears in extra-virgin olive oil. Season the asparagus with fresh ground black pepper and salt. Wrap a slice of bacon or pancetta around each spear, leaving tip exposed.
  • Grill, uncovered, for 4 - 6 minutes on each side until bacon is crisp and asparagus is tender.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame at Dodger Stadium

February 17, 2010

Four Seasons Catering provided a lunch buffet for a fantastic event co-hosted by the International Special Events Society (ISES-LA) and the Association Bridal Consultants (ABC-GLA) at Dodger Stadium. The respective Los Angeles chapters, surrounded by the classic Dodger blue and white and remarkably large centerpieces of giant baseballs, bats, and famed Dodger players, enjoyed a sunny day at the vacant ballpark - eating, networking, and basking in the historical glory of the famed Blues.







I Now Pronounce You... Full of Love and Just Plain Full!

Continuous Events

Four Seasons Catering often joins in on joyous occasions, catering weddings ranging from 100 to 800 guests. Amongst the celebrations of love, we strive to make that special day even more special by providing the finishing touches: high-quality, delectable eats in either plated or buffet form, professional waitstaff, place settings (dinnerware, silverware, glassware, and linens), as well as serving decor. Every wedding is unique, and each event leaves its own lasting memory on the attendants - may they always remember how beautiful the bride was, how handsome the groom looked, how meaningful their vows were, how marvelous the venue seemed, and how delicious and gratifying the food tasted.

Following is a compilation of various wedding celebrations we have participated in:











Ain't No Party Like A Kabuki Party!

April 5, 2011

Four Seasons Catering teamed up with Kabuki Restaurants, Inc. as the latter kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration. Kabuki Japanese Restaurant is a full-service, casual restaurant chain known for both traditional and innovative Japanese cuisine as well as contemporary interior design. Kabuki's menu was created by Executive Corporate Chef Masa Kurihara and its sake drinks are invented by Master Sake Sommelier Yuji Matsumoto, who is currently the only certified master Samurai Sake Sommelier in North America. For their celebration, Four Seasons Catering furnished the event with its own waitstaff and decorated the tables with silver chargers, purple and white linens, dinnerware, silverware, and glassware:





Living and Eating in Los Angeles

May 29, 2009

Four Seasons Catering was part of the grand opening of the Solair Wilshire, a $160 million project by KOAR Wilshire Western, LLC and L.A. Metro featuring a 22-story, contemporary glass-walled building with 186 for-sale residential units and a 40,000 square foot retail plaza. Situated at the Metro's Wilshire/Western station, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Solair the "perfect example of [his] vision for creating a transit-oriented city that brings business and housing to Los Angeles." With prominent city figures, local news stations, and much more present, it made for a busy and memorable afternoon!



Mayor Villraigosa, ushering in the new development




Fun, Food, and Famous Faces at the Korean Film Festival in Los Angeles

March 7, 2010

Four Seasons had the pleasure of catering the 2010 Korean Film Festival at the Beverly Music Hall in Los Angeles (KOFFLA), which showcases Korean and Korean-American films and shorts, judged by a jury of Korean industry figures and other prominent figures in the Korean community. Some have deemed it the Korean Oscars. There was an incredible 400 - 500 in attendance that night, including a couple of celebrities!

Our team of waitstaff with passed hors d'oeuvre!

We met John Cho, known for his role as Harold in the Harold & Kumar series!
We also met the beautiful Kim Jung Eun, famous for the Korean drama "Lovers in Paris"!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mix Things Up With Bibimbap!

Bibimbap is as fun to say as it is to eat. What is bibimbap? Bibimbap is one of the most representative dishes of Korean cuisine. The word Bibimbap means "mixed rice" and traditionally consists of five colors as its ingredients. The dish is composed of all the nutritional components that are needed for a complete meal: meat, vegetables, dairy, and grain. The Bibimbap is Korea's simple and all-time favorite one-dish meal that is becoming increasingly popular in the Western world.

The fun in Four Seasons Bibimbap is mixing the nutritious ingredients that incorporate a variety of different vegetables: both sautéed and raw seasonal vegetables (julienned red cabbage, cucumber, yellow and red bell pepper, shitake mushroom, white cabbage) and soy marinated beef, over a bed of white rice, and then topped with freshly grated mozzarella cheese, white a side of sweet chili pepper paste. With our added touch, we have blended bold ingredients to accommodate the familiar palates of Americans: topping off with freshly grated mozzarella to perfectly balance the sweet and spicy flavors of our chili pepper paste. The addition of ketchup to our sauce blends with the mozzarella and familiarizes the taste buds to everyone's favorite, "pizza"! Our sweet chili pepper paste also includes an authentic Korean ingredient called "Gochu-jang" that benefits the liver, stimulates digestion, lowers blood pressure, and contains other beneficial enzymes. Our product also delivers nutritional components, such as calcium, protein, iron, and a decent amount of vitamins. (Nutrition fact label available upon request.)

The harmony of flavor and health has never tasted so good.

A delicious mix of red and yellow bell pepper, white and red cabbage, cucumber, shitake mushroom, and marinated beef over a bed of white rice, is topped off with as little...

...or as much mozzarella as you'd like!