Last week, Couture Cuisine’s Chef Arpi Magyar was a guest on the CBC Radio 1 program Fresh Air with Mary Ito.
Three experts were tapped to discuss film and food. Specifically, each guest was asked to name two favourite food-related movies, and design a menu to match each. Along with fellow guests Alison Fryer, manager of [...]
We are so excited to share some details from a completely unique wedding we catered in March.
Working alongside the tremendously talented Melissa Haggerty of Spectacular Spectacular, we took part in a one-of-a-kind wedding at a virgin event space: The Canon Theatre in Toronto.
While The Canon has seen its fair share of large-scale theatre productions (Phantom [...]
The conclusion of an evening wedding reception is obvious. The crowd thins, the bar closes, the final dance is announced. But what about a daytime reception? How will guests know when to say their goodbyes?
We have a few suggestions to end your fête fabulously, adding a flourish to your final goodbye, and clarifying the end [...]
Can you imagine a nicer way to begin your day than with delicious food & freshly brewed coffee?
Sunrise events are rarely considered for parties, but we’ve borrowed the idea from the boardroom and applied it to the social scene.
Business folks know that the pre-9am hours are ideal for those with jam-packed schedules. So long as [...]
The current rage in wedding themes is “Shabby Chic.” We love this earthy, relaxed approach to a backyard or farm wedding. The key is to toss any notions of matchy-match colour schemes out the window in favour of bright, playful colours, contrasting patterns, and jumbled, laid-back décor. Add a drawn-out dinner menu featuring local foods [...]
Planning a spring party?
Savour the season with a fresh, local menu. We’ve been daydreaming of farm-fresh asparagus, peas, and herbs since the first cherry blossom appeared. We imagine serving this menu along with local wines at a table adorned with white tulips, curly fiddleheads and delicate lilly of the valley…
to begin
roasted local asparagus, fennel, tomatoes, onion [...]
What are we eating for our Earth Day dinner? An all-green menu, naturally.
We plan to set the table with reusable hemp linens, natural beeswax candles, and spring tulips in curvy recycled glass vases. As guests arrive, we’ll pour an Ontario sparkling rosé, and nibble on antipasto presented on a reclaimed wood platter.
to begin…
house-cured duck proscuitto with [...]
Springtime symbolizes all kinds of new beginnings; as such, it’s a natural season for wedding & baby showers.
For a baby shower, we love to play upon the theme by offering “baby-sized” portions. When our own Managing Director selected a menu for her baby shower, she chose to welcome guests with smoked salmon on mini croissants [...]
We think it’s finally safe to say that winter is over: buds have appeared on lilac bushes, birds are chirping, and local produce is finally starting to reappear in the market. Before leaping head-first into spring & summer events, it’s time to review everything we loved about the winter weddings we created this year.
Flowers in [...]
We like brown paper packages tied up with string…but we love thoughtful touches at events, designed to make guests feel special, comfortable, and at ease.
The design team at Couture Cuisine recently discussed a few of our favourite things – not as designers, but as guests. It’s important to look at a party from the perspective [...]
