There’s nothing quite like the smell of warm food filling your kitchen when the family arrives for Christmas—even if you didn’t cook it yourself. If you’re in need of a professional touch for your Christmas party or family gathering, Baton Rouge caterers have the menus and the merriment to save your holiday.
Home-cooked holiday dinner
Last year, Don Bergeron Enterprises dished out 650 pounds of turkey, 500 pounds of cornbread dressing, 26 gallons of gumbo and 11 gallons of crawfish bisque to hungry holiday revelers. The Don Bergeron team considers each customer a part of the family, and they plan to feed them for the holidays just like one of their own.
While the company does offer full-service catering in your home or business for Christmas parties, our favorite option is its catering-to-go menu. Call ahead to place your holiday order, pick it up from Don Bergeron headquarters and bring it home to your own kitchen. The catering-to-go selections for the season include holiday standbys like roasted turkey and gumbo, Louisiana favorites like Natchitoches meat pies and bread pudding with bourbon pecan sauce, and innovative twists like mascarpone mashed potatoes and caramel and blueberry baked brie. chefdonb.com
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Gourmet cocktail party
Unique Cuisine spends most of the fall and winter feeding LSU’s football team, but this upscale catering company based out of the Lod Cook Alumni Center serves up some impressive holiday options. It’s sought after for weddings and special occasions all year, but its holiday season sees more return customers than any other time of year.
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Led by general manager and menu mastermind Ryan Diez, Unique Cuisine aims to present the standards of Louisiana dining with a fresh approach, and its holiday cocktail party menu has gourmet answers to all your guests’ favorites. Seafood lovers will enjoy jumbo lump crab and Boursin wontons, coconut shrimp and smoked salmon with lemon crème fraiche and caviar on chive blinis, while fans of game may choose the duck breast with cherry brandy gastrique. For meatless options, try the fresh asparagus, caramelized red onion and goat cheese tartlets and Unique Cuisine’s most popular holiday specialty: roasted rosemary pecans. uniquecuisine.com
Chic New Year’s Eve
From a small, humble kitchen near the Perkins Road overpass comes some of the most creative and visually striking dishes offered in the city. Gourmet Girls has built a reputation for locally sourced ingredients, refined flavor profiles and gorgeous presentations.
For an evening of Champagne, dancing and ringing in 2016 with friends, Gourmet Girls is the perfect fit. Its lobster mac and cheese is the best seller of the holiday season, bringing together penne pasta, a creamy and spicy alfredo sauce and succulent lobster meat for an upscale iteration of classic cold weather comfort food. But this catering company’s stunning desserts are the menu items that will truly dazzle your friends, with shimmer-dusted macarons, cakes adorned with edible gold leaf and cookies dressed up with hand-painted details. gourmetgirlsbr.com