Cocktail canapés

  • Regular cocktail menus (6-12 pieces per person): Averaging 25-50$ per person
  • Cocktail Dinatoire 55-90$:  An extravagant dinner in small bites, 7-10 courses, 15-30 pieces per person, chef's menu
  • We'll make you a personalized menu upon consultation, but see sample menus or carte below for an idea of what we do
  • Or make your own menu and go à la carte.. Select from 'A la carte' selections of different kinds of hors d’oeuvres below. Each selection is 20 pieces or 50 pieces (costing 25% less), ranging from 40-80$ per selection, (2-5$ per piece), Minimum order is 5 selections or 100 pieces. 
  • Service extra 

1.  Quick cocktail 5 à 7: a few bites with drinks

3 kinds of canapés, 2-3 of each,  6+ pieces per person:   30$ per person, 25$ for 20 people or more

2.  Extended cocktail hour: Or light dinner

5 kinds of canapés, 2-3 of each, 10+ pieces per person:   50$ per person, 40$ for 20 people or more

3.  Cocktail dinatoire I: An elegant dinner in small bites

7 kinds of canapés, 2-3 of each, 14+ pieces per person: 70$ per person, 55$ for 20 people or more

4.  Cocktail dinatoire II: The extravaganza, more than dinner

10 kinds of canapés, 2-3 of each, 25 canapés per person: 90$, 70$ for 20 people or more   

 

Canapé selections

Item (20 pieces) 40-80$, or  75-150$ for 50 pieces (-25%)

Sandwich type and bread based things:

  • Mini wild turkey buns with celery, tarragon and smoked paprika
  • Mini lobster shrimp or crab rolls, with lemon, red pepper and dill 
  • Crepe rolls :
    • smoked salmon, herbed goat cheese 
    • eggplant tapenade, ricotta, roast pepper
    • country ham, aioli and sea spinach
  • Quesadillas (vegetarian, chicken or smoked duck)
  • Proscuitto wrapped breadsticks with boletus mustard 
  • Focaccia with gourmet toppings
    • anchovy, olive, parm, basil, tomato confit
    • pancetta, caramelized onion, ricotta rosemary and porcini 
    • goat cheese, roast pepper, lemon and arugula
  • Bruschetta/Crostini with assorted toppings
    • classic tomato basil
    • wild mushroom and cheese
    • eggplant, chickpea and sweet pepper
    • goat cheese, herb and bacon
    • smoked fish, fresh cheese, fleur d'ail and horseradish
    • crinkleroot pesto, pickled egg and tomato
    • duck rillettes with cranberry and hazelnut
    • foie and liver mousse, onion relish
    • veal tongue in crinkleroot mustard vinaigrette
  • Venison tartare on wild garlic toast
  • Foie gras torchon with vanilla, black pepper and pear
  • Foie gras torchon with wild ginger and gelée

Skewers:  

  • chorizo, polenta and olive
  • feta, melon, tomato
  • tomato boconcini, pickled mushroom
  • haloumi sweet pepper and dill pickle 
  • date, bacon and cheese
  • foie gras pineapple  
  • chicken: curry, jerk, mediterranean, bbq or asian style
  • thai shrimp and mango
  • asian style tofu and vegetable
  • roast beef and vegetable antipasto
  • venison tataki with mustard and sesame
  • moroccan lamb and harissa

Fried things:

  • Wontons: ginger pork, vegetable porcini
  • Mixed vegetable pakoras with coriander lime yogurt
  • Cheese stuffed green olives
  • Mini crab cakes
  • Salt cod potato cakes with lemon and tarragon
  • Root vegetable sesame potato cakes
  • Arancini (wild mushroom, sweet onion and tallegio, or shellfish) 
  • Mini falafel
  • Shrimp toast
  • Mixed vegetable tempura: oyster mushroom, eggplant, sweet potato)

Pastry:

  • spanikopita with sea spinach, feta and leek
  • wild mushroom-cheese
  • blackbean ginger veg
  • spiced meat pies tourtière style
  • samosas: lamb, chicken or vegetarian 

Spoons  

  • lobster crab salad with preserved lemon aioli
  • Nordic shrimp with ginger and sesame 
  • scallop ceviche with citrus and wild ginger
  • trout or shrimp escabeche with aged sherry vinegar and fennel
  • tartare: beef, venison, salmon
  • chopped salad:
    • nicoise
    • fattouche with cracked wheat
    • chickpea and olive
    • no lettuce caesar
    • herbed orzo
    • beet orange and fennel salad, goat cheddar
    • celery root remoulade with country ham
    • chopped lamb and olive
    • ratatouille and Que goat cheese
    • Waldorf with Rassembleu
  • marinated mussels
  • calamari salad mediterranean style
  • duck confit, celery root purée, mushroom oil 
  • lobster in bisque butter sauce
  • chicken, shrimp and sausage gumbo
  • creamed corn and chorizo
  • sweetbreads (with porcini or with sweet onion and fennel, or with curry and yogurt)
  • braised lamb with eggplant potato mash, almond crumble
  • Asian style BBQ duck or pork
  • chicken curry
  • Portuguese stewed beef with salt pork, olive and tomato
  • veal cheek with sunchoke purée and gremolata

Blinis

  • smoked wild salmon
  • salt cod brandade, caviar
  • shrimp, avocado and feta
  • smoked trout mousse
  • creamy sesame tofu and algae caviar

Straight up

  • Seafood sausage with aioli
  • Roasted quail with tamari, mustard and maple
  • Veal ricotta and spinach meatballs
  • Mixed game meatballs with molé
  • root vegetable latkes
  • Roasted vegetable Frittata,
  • Ham and eggs, truffle and dried tomato
  • Spanish tortilla with chorizo
  • Confit duck gizzard

Shooters

  • -oyster with lemon apple celery juice
  • -spicy tomato water with olive oil 
  • -melon-cucumber with ham salt

Mini soups

  • shellfish bisque
  • corn chowder
  • cauliflower foie gras
  • sunchoke wild mushroom
  • bacon watercress
  • curry squash and coconut

Stuffed stuff:

  • cheese stuffed dates, wrapped in bacon
  • seafood stuffed zucchini
  • bacon and cheddar stuffed mushrooms or zucchini
  • feta and olive stuffed vine leaves
  • stuffed oysters (Rockerfeller style)
  • caponata stuffed endive
  • sesame rice ball stuffed with hoisin BBQ duck or chicken
  • veal, proscuitto parm and rosemary roll

 Sweet things:

  • mini creme brulée (ginger, classic vanilla, vanilla grass, labrador tea and lemon, elderberry, coffee..)
  • double chocolate stuffed cookies
  • lemon cake, chantilly and strawberry
  • fruit skewers with labrador tea syrop
  • apple tarte fine with nougatine
  • chocolate brownie cake
  • melon soup with balsamic 
  • ice cider and vanilla-grass milkshake
  • moka pots de crème 
  • almond raspberry petit fours 
  • apple, berry and ricotta chaussons
  • pecan macaroons
  • mixed cookies: sablés, orange almond wafers, chocolate mint
  • 'saucisson' au chocolat