events

Catering

Tell us about your event

Five answers are enough to start — your name, an email, the date, roughly how many people, and how you would like the food served. The rest only sharpens our reply, and none of it is binding.

  1. About you
  2. The event
  3. The service

Step 1 of 3

About you

the kitchen

The same kitchen

Pasta rolled by hand in the morning. Fish from the market. Slow-cooked meats, and plates built to let one good thing be the point. It is Italian cooking of a particular kind — regional, seasonal, unhurried — and it is the cooking we would be doing for you.

Nothing here is a package. The menu is where to see what a Tuesday looks like; what an event looks like is a conversation, and the form above is the start of it.

View the menu
Pappardelle with a long-cooked ragù, under grated cheese

How the food arrives

One question on the form shapes more of an evening than the menu does: how you picture the food reaching the table. These are the five it offers, and what each one actually means.

Buffet
Dishes set out together, and people serve themselves and go back for more. The easiest shape for a room where nobody is seated all evening.
Plated dinner
Courses brought out to each guest in turn, at the table. The most formal of the five, and the one that asks most of a room.
Family style
Large platters down the middle of the table, passed and shared. It keeps a long table talking in a way plated service tends not to.
Cocktail reception
Small things, passed or set out at stations, with people standing and moving between them. No seating plan to hold anybody in place.
Drop-off
The food arrives ready to eat and you take it from there — no serving, no setting up, nobody from the kitchen staying on.

Pick the nearest one. If another shape would suit your room or your numbers better, that is the first thing we will say when we come back to you.

How it works

  1. You write

    The form above. Two minutes if you know your date, less if you do not and say so.

  2. We come back to you

    With questions, most likely. A number, a room and a date decide more about an event than a menu does, and they are easier to settle in a sentence each than in a form.

  3. We put it in writing

    What the food is, what it costs, and what each of us has to do before the day. Nothing is settled until you are holding that.

Or speak to someone

If it is easier to talk it through, call 346.920.5430.

Osteria di Mercato
3642 University Blvd
Houston, TX 77005
In West University.