Best Company to get Finger Food from?

PaddyofNine

I'm hosting an event this week in UCD - a student run affair, but there'll be a lot of senior academic staff present and I need to organise finger food for thirty or forty people.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good deals in terms of both quality of food and price? It's just that the last time one of my committee organised food it was pure muck, so I really need to do well on this...

Many thanks!

Rabies

Prawns
Selection of various cheeses and an assortment of crackers.
Bread and dips.
Deepfried calamari as opposed to the usual chicken nuggets.

Enright

IMHO cadburys choclate fingers over fish fingers ever time

i'll gt my coat

JæKæ

Garlic mushrooms, some good quality chicken goujons

Faith

Rabies wrote: »

Deepfried calamari as opposed to the usual chicken nuggets.

Nooooooo! Not calamari! Possibly the most disgusting foodstuff ever, and loads of unwitting people will bite into it, thinking it's an onion ring or something*.


*I can confirm this actually happens from prior first-hand experience.

Mr Magnolia

LOL @ Faith. I friggin love fresh calamari.

Creamy Goodness

mini vegetable spring rolls.

garlic mushrooms.

end of discussion

IanCurtis

I hate the deep fried usual stuff....sausages, goujons, mushrooms....fingers get caked in grease and they're so unhealthy.

Brown bread with smoked salmon, tiger prawns with sweet chilli dip, cheese and fruit skewers, wild mushrooms on toast, melon wrapped in parma ham on cocktail sticks....any of this stuff gets my vote.

Most of it can be made hours in advance too!

PaddyofNine

cheers but i actually need company recommendations if anyone can help?

Dunnes have some OK frozen breaded prawns, check them out. Think they were on special offer recently enough too. Should be a pinky-purple box.

PaddyofNine

Thanks for the tip, but I'm not explaining myself well here. I'm looking for a company that will do all the work for me - i.e. a good quality well priced caterer for the night! We'll serve the food of course but I still need to source it!

weemcd

handfull of chicken wings wouldnt go amiss!

Rabies

To cater for 30-40 people with finger food is easy and can be done on the cheap.
Getting a company to do will cost a lot more.

LOL @ Faith

If calamari is done right it can be ok. Not a huge fan of it myself.

PaddyofNine

Yes, but none of our group have the time to do so - we're all in the middle of exams. Plus, the money is in the kitty for something like this - I'm just looking for the best company to do it! Recommendations?

Faith

I edited the thread title to make it clearer.

MzFusspot

A friend of mine got the Gallic Kitchen on Francis st to cater her mam's bday, they had a finger food buffet thingy and it was lovely (I was several glasses of fizzy wine to the wind but I distinctly remember some very tasty quiche) and not all that pricey (I think)

http://www.gallickitchen.com/