Catering for a kids party -- lincoln park

hi! I need some help here, and was hoping you guys could come to my rescue!

my baby boy is turning one, and we are doing a party for him. It's at a children's party venue in lincoln park on a sunday afternoon. Not really lunch or dinner, but I think we need heavy snacks....if that makes sense.

any ideas/thoughts on where we could cater from? Kids would range from 1-3 yrs old...and there will be about 25 of them. Need to feed there parents too (~50ppl).

Budget is open, but just based on the event, I don't think we need anything too crazy fancy.

help??

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hi we have a catering company

sbrcatering.com if you call ask for sarah

my first thoughts would include

maybe do a zoo theme for the kids animals etc

food for kids

pbj uncrustables
mac and cheese
jello
kids cereal
snackes/candy
fruit

for the adults
id say talk to your wife or family get your thoughts and our team
can make reccomendations to you as we have a dialog with you

im thinking you want to be pretty casual so i would id be reccomending

aps
salads
sandwiches like chicken salad
wraps like turkey and cheese
dessert decorated cake and or cupcakes

at any reate we would be happy to talk with you about your sons upcoming birthday party

pcman wrote: Not really lunch or dinner, but I think we need heavy snacks....if that makes sense.

For my sons First Birthday I hired the Good Humor man to come with his truck and serve ice cream to everyone (we had 70 people) For $25 plus the cost of the ice cream it was the major hit of the day.

I called various places to arrange for this but was only ultimately succesful by going to the good humor man at forestway and tower road in Winnetka and arranging it in person. He has a phone but i lost his card, unfortunately.

We had a cake, costumed characters, a moon walk, pony, etc as well as a full spread of food. If I only had the good humor truck people would have been psyched. Its all anyone talked about.

pcman wrote:any ideas/thoughts on where we could cater from?

Pcman,

Monogramme Catering and Fig Catering come to mind, I am acquainted with both and the owners are members of LTHForum.

Chuck's Southern Comforts Cafe does a nice job of inexpensive BBQ centric catering, we have used Chuck's for our neighborhood block party the last 7-8 years.

Enjoy,
Gary

iblock9 wrote:

pcman wrote: Not really lunch or dinner, but I think we need heavy snacks....if that makes sense.

For my sons First Birthday I hired the Good Humor man to come with his truck and serve ice cream to everyone (we had 70 people) For $25 plus the cost of the ice cream it was the major hit of the day.

I called various places to arrange for this but was only ultimately succesful by going to the good humor man at forestway and tower road in Winnetka and arranging it in person. He has a phone but i lost his card, unfortunately.

We had a cake, costumed characters, a moon walk, pony, etc as well as a full spread of food. If I only had the good humor truck people would have been psyched. Its all anyone talked about.

[emphasis mine] We have a Good Humor truck at our annual 4th of July party. The guy we hire is a Dean's milk distributor by day who bought and completly restored one of the old fashion Good Humor trucks. Ours too is always the hit of the party. You can have it with an attendant or without.

Also, I would double think the PB&J...the children attending the party are a bit young to know if they have peanut allergies.

I just threw a birthday party for my 3 year old twins. We made the food ourselves, but it strikes me that with the 1-3 year old set, especially for "snacks", all you'll need is some fruit (think non-staining - apple slices sprizted with lemon to prevent browning, green grapes, raisins, maybe pineapple) and a giant carton of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. Add small water bottles and some real juice boxes and you are set. Parents will love the healthy choices.

For the adult snacks, I love Panozzo's. It is not exactly in Lincoln Park, and you'll have to go pick it up, but they will be happy to customize the order. You could get a tray of pasta or Caprese salad, and some sandwiches cut into small slices, and the parents would enjoy them, as well as the bigger kids.

Finally, for desert you probably already know of Sweet Mandy B's. The kids and parents always love their cakes and cupcakes.

Good luck!