Essence Catering

Name: Essence Catering
Address: 430 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y1H1, CA
Telephone: +16138504776
Rating: 5

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Essence Catering

Specializing in bringing the fine food restaurant experience to your home and special events.
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12/11/2024

Sweet potato tataki.

This is a really really great little bite. Been working on it since this summer.

Now to spoon up 250more...

12/10/2024

Sweet potato tataki on the prep table this morning.
This one just makes me smile to prepare.

12/09/2024

Hadn't made these little lovelies in a while. Mini wild mushroom arancini. With romesco and smoked labneh. Pretty tasty little spoon of yummiest.

12/08/2024

Unabashedly pro oysters rockefeller. They disappear faster than I can make them.

11/26/2024

Easily one of my fave veg courses.

Roasted delicata squash. Charred leeks. Red onion jam. Braised shallot. Pea shoots. Pomegranate pesto. Feta.

11/18/2024

Some dishes just need to be made over. Again and again and again.

Seared kobe striploin. Grilled asparagus. Potato millefeuille.
Marsala demiglace.

So so so yummy.

11/14/2024

A fun small plate for standing reception or as part of a multi course meal. It just makes you smile as you eat it.

Cheese and charcuterie.

Roasted garlic and smoked honey ricotta brasaola cappelletti. Olivada. Aged balsamic. Percorino.

11/09/2024

Saturdays.

If you can't have fun. And maybe diabetes. What's the point?

11/05/2024

On the prep menu today. Our scallop credo. With compressed watermelon. Coconut lime. Cilantro. Corn nuts and jalapeño.
A seriously tasty dish.

11/01/2024

Another stellar evening of food and drinks with . Rabble and Papillon

10/30/2024

Out with my far better half. We were here last year and quite liked it. It's Riviera of the Rock.

10/30/2024

Today's expedition. Through St John's. Along the nature trail (not for the faint at heart). Up and over Signal hill. Stop at Mrs Garfields tap room and inn from the early days of this country. And lastly to my happy place if it were a brewery. Quidi Vidi. Great day with Tanya Poirier. Now for a nice dinner at Merchant Tavern.

10/29/2024

A cooks tour. Debauchery galore in St John's. God is love this city and this province.

10/27/2024

I hope people like this dessert as much as we do. First trial run was a success. But a tweak or two is in the works.

Pistachio and raspberry Panna cotta. Smoked honey roasted kataifi. Orange curd. Pistachio crumble.

10/26/2024

We've done it again. We had so much fun doing our last class that we've booked another class.
Effortless Entertaining with Essence. In this class, we will prepare several of our favorite canapés. Discuss ways of making your next party a success. All while also learning and drinking some cocktails.
1 night only. Details on the Split Tree page.
Or go to:
https://splittree.ca/products/effortless-entertaining-thursday-november-7th-6-00-9-00-pm?variant=46303010455739

We hope to see you there.

10/15/2024

We have several gigs coming up that required a new beef course. I've been doing the same ones for a while now and neede to change it up. It's a bit of the dilemma of catering. We book gigs often 1 year or more in advance. So when we make a dish change, we seem to always come back to old dishes during the transition. So you are likely to see images of this dish for some time to come.

I recently saw a plate in the ether that used sauce robert as the anchor to the dish. I hadn't made or tasted this sauce in over 25yrs. But as soon as I saw it, I remembered how awesome it is. And the first steps to a new dish was born. This one hits all my favorite tastes...

Beef, broccolini, and bacon oh my!

On our small plates and plated menus starting now.

Seared striploin. Charred broccolini. Tropea onion. Sauce Robert.

10/14/2024

I can't get enough of this dessert. The spiral cut apples cook so much better than the more traditional method. And obviously the look on the plate is super cool (though we did mess that up somewhat by dusting it with a crumble). This dish and it's method are going to go through several iterations to find ours. And our clients favorites.
This week we move from the sweet side application to the savory side.
First up will be celeriac...

10/11/2024

We love this chillier time of the year. It means this beauty dish is back on our menus. It goes through subtle changes each season. But the core remains untouched. One of out most popular and requested dishes.

36hr pork belly. Truffle gnocchi mac and cheese. Truffle hot sauce. Crispy things.

Have you tried it?

Address

430 Parkdale Avenue
Ottawa, ON
K1Y1H1

Telephone

+16138504776

Website

http://www.essencecatering.ca/

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