An Evening in Venice Maritime Gala a delicious success!

The Maritime Gala was such a fun event to cater! The guests arrived in costumes and the decor was very, very Venician. The specialty cocktail was a Starry Starry Night, the guest list included Italian Dignitaries and the guest table centerpieces were beautiful! What was the most fun for me was how many times people came back to the buffet for seconds, usually on Galas they don't so that was a real compliment! The buffet was decorated with precious la Bottega dei Mascareri Venician masks with harbor fresh Seafood, Pasta Sugo di Pomidoro, deeply flavored Braised Chicken with Plum Tomatoes, Onions, Orange Zest, Kalamata Olives, Red, Yellow Bells and Madera.

Dessert was fun Italian Classic Cookies, Italian Roast Coffee and Miniature Mascarpone Italian Cream Cheese Berry Tartlets and cute little raspberry topped authentic Tiramisus.

Snippet & Ink

The fabulous & very stylish wedding blogger Kathryn Storke of Snippet & Ink has featured images from June & Paul's wedding in Santa Barbara catered by Pure Joy with rave reviews. http://snippetandink.blogspot.com/2010/03/real-wedding-june-paul.html

Groove Gala a Huge Success!!

Temple B'nai B'rith hosted their annual Gala Fund Raiser and it was a 70's pop theme with fun & yummy stations. Marcy, Elizabeth and Judi were truly on the ball with making this such fun while keeping these recessionary times in mind simultaneously and with great pizazz. The Fondue Station was "I Heard it Through the Grapevine", the Salad Station was "Strawberry Fields Forever" and had a great house made genuinely Pure Joy Blue Cheese Dressing on a Wedge Salad with local Spring Tomatoes, Chinese Take out boxes of our Chinese Island Salad and our famous Caesar Salad, the decor; a huge cascade of local strawberries. The "Temptation Station" was BBQ'ed on site Soul Food; we make our own BBQ Sauce & the Chicken was so tender & delicious, Homemade Mac & Cheese, fresh biscuits, picnic watermelon wedges, Old fashioned Cole Slaw and green beans. The Diner Station had fresh grilled sliders, salmon sliders, sweet potato fries and regular fries; both adorably displayed. Dessert was "Sugar Sugar" and the highlight there was topiaries of Ding Dongs, Ho ho's and Twinkies, warm milk & cookies and fun little cups of Skippy peanut butter and Hershey's chocolate. LBPS did an outstanding job on the lighting and the band was flawless! Fresh Orange Tangatinis and Gimlets made it just perfect!

Catering Staff (Happy Happy Pure Joy Bride!)

A very funny and unsuspected joy from our reception was the catering staff. The CUTE catering staff. It wasn't me who said or even noticed that they were attractive, it was my younger cousins and college friends. A few asked, "did you hand select the staff?" and "Of course she would have cute boys serving us". But I tell you, I really had no idea. I just chose Pure Joy based on their food! If the staff was cute, bonus!

Heeheee ;)

Another Pure Joy Bride!

We have some great shots from our OH! Bridal Tasting. Here are some of our appetizers; the one on the left is a tiny white plate with a fresh yellow bell pepper sauce on the bottom topped with our Glazed Salomon and garnished with Wasabi Caviar, next to that is our yummy Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese in a Demi Mug.












Our Cupcake Station was another big hit and these are a few of our flavors. The Stations were fabulous too and all in all we did about 60 menu items!

Every week we have a Pure Joy Management Pow Wow and we always start with reading our thank you notes from clients. They are so sweet and we get so attached to our brides in particular. Well, this week we got a thank you blog post I wanted to share because she was just so adorable... OmniBride Her pictures and review of our food & work that night are a good read.

Today is our first day back from the Catersource Catering Convention at the Paris in Las Vegas where we picked up about a million new ideas! We love the classes (there are over 100!) and seeing all the new foods and event trends. The trade show was also incredible with a lot of new decor & serving pieces as well as small wares, exciting new ingredients and systems and sources. This is the largest educational gathering of caterers in the world so you can imagine how much we all get out of it, and boy was I surprised to find out my picture was on the cover of the binder with the one & only Michael Roman! That was my 11th year attending Catersource and going there with my whole team is big fun.

Posted by Bitchy Bride on February 25th, 2010

Food is one of our favorite things! And this week we are featuring the wonderful, and eye-catching appetizers of Pure Joy Catering, in Santa Barbara, CA.

Pure Joy is one of the best known caterers in town. We’ve worked with them on plenty of weddings and special events, and their food and presentation never disappoint!

Pure Joy has offered to share with us some of their most popular appetizers that have catered at weddings!

Baked Artichoke Bottoms with Lemony Parmesan Filling
These are so delicious we hear about them years later, people still remember them! Perfect with wine and very elegant vegetarian option.

Cocktail Hamburgers
Perfect bite sized burgers with all the right trimmings. These baby burgers are grilled fresh on site, with hand made the buns and fresh cut cheddar & farmers market cherry tomatoes. Very adorable & delicious passed on tiny French fries.

Glazed Salmon with Wasabi Caviar on Ginger Yellow Bell Sauce
A perfect bite of flavors & a beautiful presentation.

Heres another cute one, Demitasse Mugs of Warm, Creamy Tomato Soup with Mini Grilled Cheese Sandwiches