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KURT MARYKUCA, CATERING MANAGER AND PARTNER, WOW CATERING PHOTO BY DARCY FINLEY
have a talented pool of chefs who love the opportunity to be creative, create new menus and recipes, and essentially play with food,” Marykuca says. Even in the slower seasons, the WOW Catering team finds ways to stay busy and flex their culinary creativity with pop-up farm-to-table concepts such as The Den inside a magnificent snow structure in St. Adolphe; The Patch at Prairie Berry, a dinner in a local strawberry patch; and the newly launched maple syrup dinner at La Cabane à Sucre in St. Pierre-Jolys. Whether you want to pick up, have the meal dropped off or prepared on-site, WOW Catering can make it work — from sandwiches and cookies for a school function to a gala or large-scale event at a site of your choosing or one of their venues. “Here at WOW, we have a saying: ‘Yes is the answer. What is the question?’ Our caterers will chase any idea to make it happen. A huge part of our business is 8- to 10-person intimate in-home dinners of three, four or five courses,” Marykuca says. “We like to work backwards; tell me your budget, and I’ll tell you what we could do for it. We’ll make it work, whereas other restaurants and hotels don’t have that capability.”
“We’ve got outstanding food, exceptional service, consistency and quality,” Marykuca says. “We want to bring the best products to our customers and guests, and I think we create memories. That’s one thing that we’re known for.” Each venue has a designated catering package with menu items to choose from, but the sales managers are open to requests and will accommodate if they can. No party is too small to be catered and no location is off-limits (within reason). Marykuca recalls preparing an intimate dinner for two as part of a surprise engagement and a multi-course candlelit dinner for six in a historic former bank vault. For off-site events, you can customize a menu based on a budget or even a theme, a popular choice for corporate events. “Our executive chef has the most influence in menu design, but we have a large culinary team, and we get together quite often and throw ideas around about trends and what’s hot and what’s not these days. We always keep our minds open. We definitely
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