Last week, we were invited to the launch party of Railtown Catering, a sister company of Railtown Cafe. The catering division taps into a niche market — luxury catering.
Railtown Catering Launch event at Vancouver Urban Winery
Given its target audience and staying true to its offering, there was no shortage of luxurious canapes and bites at the launch event at Vancouver Urban Winery. Frankly I had my doubts before I got there; I’ve been to a few big launch parties and often restaurants would fail on at least one component, such as food quality or quantity, staffing, service, and space planning. Not in this case. Everything was so well prepared: a wide variety of dishes, nice presentation, delicious food, quick refills, friendly staff — if this were meant to demonstrate how they’d perform when catering an event, I would not hesitate to book them for my next fancy party (lol!).
The canapes were well executed with great flavours; I saw an army of cooks and chefs working very hard in the back! My favourite would be the Fresh Oysters (thanks to the Asian-inspired dressing), Green Asparagus Flan, Beet Cured Hamachi, Sauteed Forest Mushrooms, and Beer Battered Halibut. I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
In addition to tasty bites, there was also live entertainment from Cabaret Torlage:
Here are a couple of chefs behind the operation of Railtown Catering.
Each guest went home with a luxurious goodie bag!
Overall, I was very impressed by this event. Yes, it won’t be cheap to hire them (and confirmed by the menu that we received in our package), but if you have the money to host a fancy party, I would recommend checking them out.
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