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Windows Catering is a full service caterer. From appetizer buffets to multi-course sit down dinners, family style, grazing, business luncheons, casual affairs, dessert parties, BBQ dinners, lobster boils, fish fries. Windows Catering can create a memorable affair for you and your guests, with the utmost care in quality, with the strongest emphasis on service and freshest of food quality. Please give Phil or Susan a call for your next catered event.

 

All dinners come with seasonal, organic vegetables, potatoes/rice/pasta. China service, linen service, bartender service, butler service available. To go platters available. Delivery service available.

Appetizers

 

  • Imported and domestic cheese trays with fresh fruits, crackers and French bread

  • Fresh fruit displays: watermelon fruit baskets, seasonal melon and exotic fruit kebobs

  • Charcuterie platters: sliced chilled pates, chilled sliced meat with mustards, cornichons, crackers, Frendh breads and garnishes

  • Smoked salmon trays with sweet onion, capers, lemon and balsamic glace

  • Jumbo shrimp coctail with appropriate garnishes

  • Jumbo sea scallops with garlic sauce and jardinière of vegetables

  • Jumbo BBQ shrimp simmered in garlic, cracked black pepper, beer and Creole spices

  • Blue lump crab cakes, a Windows classic: fresh blue lump crab tossed in a house made caper and lemon mayonnaises, rolled in French bread crumbs and sautéed crispy

  • Poached Portobello mushroom simmered in shallots, garlic and sherry

  • Brochettes of Amish breast of chicken satay

  • Brochettes of Tamari marinated beef tenderloin

  • Brochettes of yellow tuna with wasabi sauce

  • Brochettes of seasonal fresh vegetables

  • Finger sandwiches, assorted flavors, styles and presentations

 

 

Salads

 

  • Windows house salad: romaine lettuce tossed in champagne parmesan cheese vinaigrette

  • Fresh Leelanau TLC tomatoes, organic bib lettuce, fresh mozzarella cheese and toasted pine nuts

  • Organic baby spinach, BBQ pecans, dried cherries, julienne carrots, denrobium orchids with citrus vinaigrette

  • Grilled roasted vegetable salads with bibb lettuce and a roasted garlic maple syrup vinaigrette

  • Bibb lettuce wraps with jardinière of vegetables, toasted walnuts, dried cherries and a spiced cayenne buttermilk dressing

  • Wedge of iceberg lettuce with Roquefort dressing

  • Organic mixed greens, paneed chevre, toasted almonds, mandarin oranges in a blood orange vinaigrette

  • Organic arugula, warm hickory smoked bacon, gorgonzola cheese, dried cranberries, smoked tomatoes and ranch dressing

  • Fresh roasted peppers stuffed with boursin cheese, garnished with mixed greens and a racked pepper crostini

  • Chilled steamed artichoke, lemon dressing, ranch bread croutons

Seafood

 

  • Lobster boil, fresh whole Maine lobsters with corn on the cob, redskin potatoes, coleslaw and all the fixings

  • Jumbo shrimp and king crab boil, corn on the cob, redskin potatoes, coleslaw and all the fixings

  • Crab cake dinner, blue lump crab mixed with a caper, lemon and house made mayonnaise, served with a Creole menuiere

  • Windows BBQ shrimp simmered in garlic, cracked black pepper, Creole spices, lemon and beer

  • Whitefish/walleye sautéed pecan dine

  • Yellowfin tuna tamari, marinated and grilled with a whole grain mustard butter

  • Mahi Mahi ala Grieg, pan sautéed with blue lump crab, mushrooms and lemon

  • Jumbo sea scallops, pan seared with garlic and lemon sauce

  • Lobster vivant, whole Maine lobster stuffed with jumbo shrimp and blue lump crab stuffing

  • Seafood city, an assortment of fresh seasonal seafood prepared to perfection

 

 

Meats

 

  • Prime beef tenderloin grilled and roasted with a portabella port wine demi glace with roasted garlic

  • Prime sirloin roast with a Leelanau shiitake mushroom bordelaise

  • Pork loin confit, sweet onion gravy

  • Amish breast of chicken grilled with dried cherry compote

  • BBQ racks of lamb, minted BBQ sauce

  • Fire cracker port marinated in tamari, garlic, ginger, shallots, chili peppers, grilled and served with a spicy blend of jardinière of vegetables

  • BBQ beef briskets

  • Whole pig roasts

  • BBQ parties

  • Theme parties

 

 

Desserts

 

  • Chocolate selections (flavors from candy cards)

  • Pastries

  • Wedding cakes

  • Special occasion

  • Birthdays, anniversaries

  • Custom cake/pastry flavors, style and presentation

525 West Front St. | Traverse City, MI 49684
(Next to Grand Traverse Pie Company)

231.922.9401

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