Your solution to wedding romance may take on a creative new twist—It’s a sign of the times. Gone are the days when your wedding celebration must follow tradition.
• Pull out all the stops with a micro wedding or minimony ceremony of commitment with your closest friends and loved ones in attendance
• Spring a pop-up wedding as a
surprise adventure for your guests at a fanciful, chic location
• Go big for your sequel wedding,
the wedding you’ve always dreamed of, with all your friends and relatives as
guests, after the pandemic is behind us
or
• Get the ball rolling with an
engagement party soiree to announce your betrothal and wedding plans
Even if you are keeping it safe at home and doing the backyard wedding thing, The Painted Table Catering Service is at your service. We’re following the signs of the times, too, with our updated regimen of meticulous food preparation coupled with a nod to the most current CDC guidelines.
You’ll find that our staff, and the staff at our preferred venues, takes your safety seriously, too. For wedding celebrations of every shape and size, we only recommend the best venues in the Central Valley!
The newest venues to join our family of recommended locations include Evanelle Vineyards, a short ten-minute drive northeast of Fresno that will transport you to historic Tuscany without the need to board a plane. Tie the knot in their countryside ceremony area, toast with cocktails on the patio, and then stroll through storybook antique barn doors into a modern reception space that accommodates as many of 450 guests. Evanelle Vineyards is open to host weddings in 2021. Book a tour now to see historic Italy in the Central Valley for yourself. Rely on our expert chefs to match the cuisine to fulfill your old world Italian fantasy.
Also, brand new and taking wedding reservations is The Hills at L&D Ranch, nestled in the picturesque rolling foothills on route to Yosemite in Madera County. Surrounded by manicured lawns and oaks, follow the tree-lined path that leads to the top of the hill, where an expansive view of the Sierras frames the altar. Any number of chairs can be added to suit your number of guests. Or choose to invite your guests to the amphitheater seating built right into the hillside alongside the patio. The modern, California-style reception edifice provides an indoor option. Think of The Hills at L&D Ranch as the perfect canvas for your wedding theme—Decorate to your heart’s content with the award-winning Painted Table total event design team by your side.
What do you envision for the creative celebrations of your nuptials?
View our recommendations of top-of-the-line Central Valley preferred wedding vendors:
• For your local wine country wedding, explore Cardella Winery in Mendota, and Birdstone Winery and Toca Madera Winery in Madera.
• Treat your guests to a shady, outdoor setting with an adjoining rustic reception space at Historic Seven Sycamores in Ivanhoe, Redwood Ranch in Three Rivers, or Paradise Springs and Panoche Creek River Ranch conveniently located in Fresno.
• Take advantage of the barn at River Center at San Joaquin River Parkway, or the Peerless Building, to embellish with color schemes and textures that match your wildest wedding dreams. Our catering team completes the picture, dressed to fit the style of your theme, creating a stunning visual presentation of your unique menu items, and arranging for musicians and entertainers to fit right in.
• Or think outside-of-the-box. Have you imagined getting married inside the Fresno Art Museum, where the finest works in Fresno form the backdrop to your special day? Or how about surrounded by the stone masonry and graceful courtyards at the historic Forestiere Underground Gardens?
The Painted Table Catering specialists work closely with each of our venue partners to ensure everything—the visual, musical, and of course, culinary details—are executed far beyond your expectations. Are you wondering where to start? Let our dream team help you choose the quintessential venue and menu to satisfy your unique tastes. We’re open and ready to serve you for wedding celebrations to fit the sign of the times. Contact us at 559-443-7199.
Top celebrities are doing it, and so is The Painted Table, as we continue to serve up the best catering in Fresno:
Even actress Mindy Kalling got on board the #MetMaskChallenge and created her own mask, using Jared Leto’s Gucci red carpet look.
Yes, you can be stylin’ while you cover that smile, too!
We’re spreading the word that the health of our distinctive guests and our elite staff is #1. We care about you, and we care about continuing to serve you the unique artistry of our splendid cuisine.
As Matthew McConaughey said in his 4th of July Instagram address, to make a collective change: “That’s how we get to next year’s birthday and birthdays beyond that. And we start partying again…” The Painted Table is on board. Are you?
We’re going the extra mile to cover our smiles, just for the time being. We’re washing our hands every 20 minutes for 20 seconds, we’re sanitizing and disinfecting frequently-touched surfaces, and we’re doing the 6+ feet of social distancing thing as we artfully bow and wave hands to greet you, instead of shaking your hand. All the while, we are donning smiles behind our masks. You can see it in our eyes!
We're supplying our valued vendors with PPE kits.
That's right. We want to be certain that everyone we partner & collaborate with remains safe.
Won’t you join us? Bring on your party glam, dress with elegant sophistication, or kick back in cool casual wear. But make sure you dress for this summer the season in the hottest fashion trend among the top celebrities, and among our award-winning event production and culinary dream team members: don a nondescript or fashion-forward mask. Go the extra mile and cover that smile, just for a while.
We can’t wait to see you! Our event production design team is looking forward to helping you plan the catering and all the extras for your upcoming shindig at 559-443-7199. Or send us an email request to get the ball rolling.
The Painted Table team is excited to reopen providing catering services for small events! Sumptuous culinary artistry and creative event design are yours again for small groups across the Central Valley communities of Clovis, Fresno, Visalia, Tulare, and beyond.
While preparing and serving the exquisite menu items you’ve come to know and love, we are committed to taking meticulous steps to ensure your good health by staying in step with up-to-date CDC guidelines. We have always adhered to safe food preparation and service guidelines, and we welcome the newest rules for the well-being of our dining guests and staff members, alike.
As your professional, go-to choice for award-winning event design and catering service, expect nothing less from the Painted Table when it comes to maximizing safety. Here’s how we go the extra mile to bring back the enjoyment of celebrating special times with special cuisine:
• Helpful signage serves as gentle reminders of the current tips to prevent the spread of disease, including thorough hand washing.
• Sanitizer stations are placed judiciously around all of our well-appointed properties.
• All team members must stay home if they exhibit any symptoms of illness, including the high fever and respiratory difficulties associated with the Covid-19 virus.
• When employees are in contact with ill or potentially ill individuals, we mandate that they stay home to prevent the spread of the disease and take care of their family and loved ones.
• Our team members are armed with helpful information posted throughout our kitchens, bathrooms, and workstations containing the following instructions:
1. Wash hands with warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds every 20 minutes
2. Use company-provided, 60%+ alcohol-based hand sanitizer
3. Avoid touching their noses, mouths, and faces
4. Sanitize and disinfect door handles, faucets, and other surfaces that are often touched by employees and guests
5. Refrain from shaking hands and opt for friendly hand waves and bows instead
You anticipate the tantalizing menu items served with optimum service to delight your guests at an unforgettable celebration. We continue this tradition while putting your mind at ease by following through with the recommended rules for comfortable and safe dining. Trust in our 13+ years of award-winning catering service experience to be treated with the ultimate care and consideration.
Chefs Rodney, Jeromie, and the entire event production team at The Painted Table look forward to transforming your intimate event plans into reality. We’re grateful to serve you and appreciate you supporting our local Central Valley business. We’re answering the phone at (559) 443-7199, and we’re here to respond to your email requests. Let our professional catering team fulfill your summer party inspirations.
Treat your family to an exquisite Easter dining experience! Choose from our savory Spicy Honey Ham Dinner or our Easter Brunch Feast. Please place your order by Thursday, April 9, at noon! Call us at (559) 443-7199.
We are excited to share our menu for The Painted Table's Meals To Go! We ask that you order by noon, 48-hours in advance. Meals are delivered ready to reheat! Our special pricing is effective through April 3, 2020.
Call us at (559) 443-7199 to learn more and place your order!
Fresh on the heels of receiving the 2019 Best Catering Services Award From the California Restaurant Association (Fresno Chapter), and catering to the VIPs for the Extreme Makeover Home Edition TV show, our intrepid chefs, Rodney and Jeromie, spirited off to gain more inspiration back to the Central Valley. They jetted to Las Vegas for this year’s Catersource Conference and Tradeshow, created for and by the world’s most elite event and catering services.
Our chefs attend Catersource every year to up our game and find novel ways to enhance your event. Imagine making a statement by combining the fresh farm-to-table tastes of the Central Valley in exotic ways. Imagine displaying these new delicacies in ways that excite and delight your guests. Catersource helps us to take your epicurean visions from the drawing board and make them materialize before your very eyes.
Catersource brings all the leading people in the catering services industry together, including our chefs, to discover a world of novel foods, cutting-edge techniques, and enchanting displays from each other. We take new revelations back home to the Central Valley to enhance the staging for our delectable culinary masterpieces. The Painted Table continues to strive to bring culinary art and display to our esteemed clients’ palates.
Let’s take you there to Catersource in Las Vegas, the world of the fantastic. Visualize the rare magic of Vegas in the rain, amid the dazzle of showbiz lights. Picture the kind of freeform art of the Burning Man festival, the exciting movement of Cirque du Soleil, and the classy, live cabaret-style of entertainment, and you’ve set the scene for this gourmet event. Now use your mind’s eye to imagine the top chefs and catering pros demonstrating cutting edge solutions to conjuring up the event of your dreams.
Now, we’re back in Fresno and ready to translate the hottest trends to suit your fancy.
Need examples? Visit our online gallery, and you’ll see that we’re not your run-of-the-mill catering operation, recycling the same menu for every event, and rehashing the same decorations and table displays over and over again. View the sumptuous array of morsels plated with artistry. Scroll down to check out our twist on past events, from the Chandler Airport Dinner and Blackbeard’s Pirate Party to the Circus Themed Dinner. Observe how we interweave the cuisine, the displays, the entertainment, and even the server’s outfits to match perfectly with the chosen theme.
Stay tuned and connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to be the first to hear about the fresh additions to our menu. But don’t stop there—Contact our creative event producers at (559) 443-7199 and invite us to apply our newest inspirations to your dream event.
Many clients have had questions regarding COVID-19, and events at The Painted Table properties. We wanted to reach out to provide you with some important health and safety information regarding these events.
When a record label wants the best musicians on their roster, they seek out GRAMMY® nominated and awarded artists from the Recording Academy. When only the best acting talent will do, producers and directors turn to members of the Screen Actors Guild to deliver the performances that could attract Oscar consideration. And when only the highest standards in catering and hospitality will do for your event, turn to the members of the Leading Caterers of America to produce a flawless experience. The Painted Table is the only catering business in the Central Valley to receive this distinction of excellence.
We are proud to join the ranks of this elite membership comprised of nearly sixty of the top caterers in the U.S. and Canada. To become a member, we passed a stringent peer-review process that evaluated our delivery of the entire event experience. Only companies deemed trendsetters in creativity, service, and best business practices in the catering industry are invited to join the prestigious LCA.
Members of the LCA are the rock stars of the catering industry, working cooperatively with top celebrity chefs worldwide, winning hundreds of industry awards, and frequently spotlighted in press coverage.
What does this mean to you? As members of the LCA, you can trust the brilliant staff of The Painted Table to work in tandem with you to create the event of your dreams. We master the flavor and visual palette to please you and your guests, going beyond the expected. We’re not just a catering business—We’re an event design company displaying food like works of art and interweaving the menu selections to fit your theme, style, and entertainment. We’re known for our legendary craft services that cater to groups that top 3000, and we’re also known for creating magic for small, intimate affairs. Open the door to an amazing, immersive event experience featuring creative, elevated cuisine.
Unbeatable service goes hand-in-hand with our delectable menu items. Beginning with a personal consultation with our professional in-house event producers and chefs, The Painted Table team masters every detail of your event. Witness your event materialize before your very eyes—Share your ideas with us, and we’ll flawlessly execute the blueprint for dazzling your colleagues, friends, and loved ones. We take care of every detail for you.
Of course, the food is a highlighted centerpiece. We specialize in fresh, one-of-a-kind farm-to-table ingredients. Our locally sourced delicacies never languish over boring chaffing dishes. From the moment our guests arrive, they leave the outside world behind to savor perfectly executed morsels of delight displayed like fine works of art according to your chosen theme. Take a tour through our extensive online gallery, and your mouth will water.
The Painted Table received induction into the LCA in 2018 on the heels of our 2015 Best Catering Award by the California Restaurant Association and our 2017 Best Signature Caterer for a Special Event Award (honoring our Underground Supper Club experiences) from the International Caterers Association (the CATIE Award). Learn more about the story of how the Painted Table’s roots grew to international recognition.
Our elevated cuisine inspires our peers and colleagues in the catering industry. Let it inspire you, too. Leave the catering and event planning to the award-winning team at The Painted Table. Contact us at (559) 443-7199 to get started.
The Painted Table chefs, Rod and Jeromie Hanson, travel the world to bring back new menu ideas to please your guest’s discerning palates. They take the exotic and blend it with a tapestry of locally sourced, seasonally fresh California Central Valley items to create one-of-a-kind recipes for your enchanted culinary journey.
Follow along with our chefs on their 2020 Culinary Experience! Tune in with them on their annual food travel trek as they capture and share videos that reveal the marvels of each region’s culinary highlights and local culture. Discover the catalysts that alight their imaginations to bring back home inspiration to their Central Valley culinary team.
This year, Chefs Rod and Jeromie are exploring the delectable wonders of Barcelona, Morocco, and Portugal. Your passport is ready. Join as an armchair traveler and follow their exotic adventures. Fun and delight await you in their epic food travels to:
Barcelona
With streets lined with spacious restaurant terraces and colorful cafés, this capital of the Catalan community serves up pintxos (little individual food bites) and tapas (small plates of food meant for sharing). Sampling these delights while wandering the streets makes it easy to eat all day!
Of course, you’re familiar with paella, the heavenly mixture of seafood, meat, or just veggies combined with rice and paprika. And you’re familiar with gazpacho, the chilled tomato soup. Fried or grilled calamari and squid are a local favorite, too. But are you familiar with patatas bravas, Spain’s answer to french fries? They are crispy potato wedges served with creamy aioli and spicy magical secret sauces. Discover pa amb tomàquet, which looks like small pizza slices, but you’d be mistaken. They are simple slices of bread massaged with olive oil and tomatoes and sprinkled with salt, then grilled or warmed. Bombas (fried meat and potato balls served with aioli sauces) and croquettas (oval-shaped cheese and chicken or iberico ham fritters), served with salted, blistered peppers, also form an integral part of the street food landscape.
Then there are the cheeses: the region is known for Manchego cheese, the salty, nutty, hard aged sheep’s milk originating from Spain’s La Mancha region. And the star of the mel i mató dessert is the mató cheese, the local Catalonia cheese with the consistency of unsalted ricotta, made with sheep or goat milk. In this dessert, the cheese is drizzled with honey and toasted walnuts.
Chefs Rob and Jeromie will be seeking out the sweet, as well as the savory. Barcelona is known as one of the best locations to devour bunyols, donuts with an added kick of anise liquor to flavor the batter. Then there’s crema catalana, which is not your typical French crème brûlée, because it’s flavored with the addition of cinnamon, citrus, and vanilla. Come along and make dessert discoveries with our intrepid chefs.
Behold these luscious delights as our chefs stroll the Plata de Catalunya, Barcelona’s answer to Time’s Square. View their finds at La Boqueria Market, the outdoor old town street market dating back to 1297, filled with over 200 stalls selling a bounty of farm-fresh produce, spices, seafood, and crafts. Meet the people and the culture of Barcelona when they check out the city’s exciting nightlife.
Morocco
A gastronomical feast awaits our chefs in Morocco, known for aromatic seasonings and intriguing dishes that stir the imagination. The diverse landscape of this North Africa country is the host of vibrant culinary traditions. The combination of influences from France, Arabia, and Adalusia Spain produce mouthwateringly unique flavors. Influenced by Berber, French, Arabic, and Jewish cultures, Moroccan cuisine produces a cornucopia of fantastic possibilities.
Morocco’s national dish, couscous, or seksu, is the well-known fine wheat pasta. But this isn’t served as a side dish, as it appears on many American tables. Traditional Moroccan couscous is rolled by hand and steamed over a stew of veggies and meat. Then, it is served over meat in the shape of a pyramid, with the vegetables pressed into the sides. A garnish of raisins and a side serving of buttermilk finish the dish in the Berber style.
B’stilla, the pinnacle of Fez or Fassi cuisine, is a pie constructed of layers of paper-thin pastry (warga) enveloping a savory mixture of chicken (traditionally pigeon), omelet, and fried almonds infused with orange water. It’s a feast for the eyes and the palate, flavored with saffron, cinnamon, and fresh coriander, and then dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon. The aroma, texture, and tastes found in each tasty bite of b-'tilla are otherworldly.
Tagine, a slow-cooked stew containing a myriad of beef, lamb, chicken and vegetable combinations, takes its name from the unique ceramic pot with a cone-shaped lid, which is also called a tagine. The ingredients are arranged in a conical fashion and left untouched until they become tender and are ready to be served. The dish is served in its cooking vessel, alongside khobz (crusty bread baked in wood-fired ovens) and scooped and eaten by hand. Chefs Rob and Jeromie are thrilled to bring these fresh, tasty visual and aromatic presentations back to delight their Central Valley clients and guests.
While Morocco is famous for their lamb, chicken, and beef tagines, and their tender meat kebabs, they are also known for their veggie dishes. Vegetarian-friendly tagines and couscous are plentiful. Meat-free versions of harira—an aromatic soup steeped with tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and lamb and topped with coriander and lemon juice—take vegetarianism to a whole new level. Baba ganoush (cooked eggplant mixed with tahini, garlic, cumin, olive oil, and black olives, hummus) and a rainbow of Moroccan mixed salads are a compliment for any table.
Morocco’s proximity to the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts make a huge array of seafood dishes available, including fish chermoula, a feast of fresh delights marinated in herbs and spices, grilled, and served with a dipping sauce. Did you know that sardines are a main staple, making up more than 62% of Morocco’s fish catch? Visitors also indulge in anchovies, mackerel, and prawn dishes.
Chefs Rob and Jeromie may top off a meal with mint tea, known as “Moroccan whiskey”. This heavily sweetened gunpowder tea is steeped with sprigs of spearmint and then poured from high above to create a frothy crown. Desserts go far beyond baklava. Tag along with our chefs as they sample the countless combinations of sweet morsels made with honey, dates, nuts and seeds, and sugar and spice. They’ll wander lush oases, fishing ports, cities, and countryside villages to seek out the best flavors to bring back home.
Portugal
The rib-sticking fusion of Portuguese flavors beckons Chefs Rob and Jeromie for a visit. The extreme diversity of tastes is astounding. In this country only the size of Indiana that sees some 300 days of sunshine per year, maritime and Mediterranean flavors Intermingle to dance upon the taste buds.
This food lover’s paradise boasts museums solely dedicated to olive oil, bread, cheese, cherries, wine, bear, and more. In fact, Portugal won the Guinness World Record for serving the largest bucket of snails on record (2,449 lb.). Yes, snails (caracóis) served up piping hot in a traditional herb broth, are a favorite delicacy.
Portuguese soups transform the meaning of comfort foods. Caldo verde, composed of potatoes, onions, kale, garlic, and olive oil, performs double duty as a dip for cornbread with a side of linquica (smoked pork sausage). This basic fare is the go-to dish for partiers to embrace after a night of reveling, and it’s a tradition to sip as a welcome to the New Year. Locals also turn to sopa da pedra (stone soup), the soup with the legend: A monk had nothing to eat, so he cleaned a stone and boiled it. As people passed him by, they felt sorry for him and threw assorted tidbits into the simmering broth, such as a bag of beans, a few potatoes, a hunk of meat. When the soup took shape into a meal, he invited the villagers to join him. Today, this sopa de pedra contains a wide assortment of ingredients, customized by the cook and shared among good friends.
Join our intrepid chefs from The Painted Table as they break bread with their newfound Portuguese friends over fresh wonders from tiny fishing villages, including peixe grelhado (grilled fish coated with coarse salt), sardinhas (grilled and served as a tasty snack atop bread aside a salad of grilled veggies), Amêijoas à bolhão pato (clams swimming in olive oil sauce), bacalhau (recipes that feature salted, dried cod fish), polvo (octopus served up any way, from grilled or roasted, in salads and rice, as an appetizer or the main entrée), to cataplana de marisco (a seafood that features a customized combination of fish and shellfish).
Stews reign supreme in Portugal—Tripas à moda do porto (tripe stew) and Cozido à Portuguesa (rustic meat stew) are staples. Carne de Porco Alentejana (pork and clams) is Portugal’s answer to surf and turf, where marinated meat is fried in batches and served smothered with clams and coriander.
What’s for dessert? Portugal’s pastel de nata (mini custard tarts) are all the rage around the globe—These little eggy delights made a splash as London street food and are appearing in New York City as a hot new food trend. Chefs Rod and Jeromie can’t wait to create their version for their Central Valley clients. Or maybe they’ll create a Central California version of ginja em copos chocolate (sour cherry liqueur in chocolate cups) for dessert.
The Adventure Starts Soon
Get ready to accompany The Painted Table chefs on a food travel journey of a lifetime. They’ll return with fresh inspiration for future secret suppers at the award winning Fresno Underground Supper Club. Watch how their adventures shape and influence their deliciously eclectic full service catering menus and luxurious event designs. Connect with our chefs on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to get up-to-the-minute news about the launch of their 2020 Culinary Experience travels. Contact us at (559) 443-7199 to learn about The Painted Table’s customized culinary experiences and find out how our design team transports your event to exotic new ports of call.
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