Renaissance Catering

I went to Festa Italiana last weekend and spotted Renaissance Catering’s pizza truck and thin-​crust pizza on display. I ordered a slice of sausage pizza and it came out looking good from the oven, but was very plain in flavor. Price was excellent at $ 4 a slice and service was friendly. The whole operation was well organized. Sadly, the pizza slice became weighted down by the grease from the sausage and was bland. As it became floppier from the grease, it was also more difficult to handle on the paper plate. They had other pizza choices available; perhaps those are more flavorsome and easier to handle? I don’t know, but I probably won’t be back to this venue to sample them.

My nonprofit organization used Renaissance Catering for a fundraising event in July. I can’t even express what a joy Emily and Kris were to work with! They asked up front what our budget was and not only honored that but came in under. They listed to our needs and designed a menu that completely hit the mark. They were organized and responsive leading up to our event, and the food received raves from all of our guests (we’re still getting comments from guests about the food a month later!). We could not be happier with our experience and will certainly be a repeat customer!

We just completed our first ever vineyard event with Renaissance Catering. They were fantastic. What a team: Emily does the planning and is amazing. She is really good at it. She went out of her way to make sure we had everything we needed. And with this being our first event, we were making changes up to the day before. Emily was ever so calm and accommodating. And Kris does the cooking. Wow, is he good. I learned flat bread pizza in northern Italy — the simplicity and quality of the ingredients with a perfectly cooked thin crust. Heaven. Well, our owner had the foresight to stop by so Kris could taste our wine. He zeroed in immediately, knowing what he wanted to prepare. The execution was truly outstanding. Kris made 3 pizzas, the 3^rd being a bonus pizza to surprise us. My rating of the pizzas? 5, 4.8, and 5. The duck confit and the mushroom and bacon taking the 5s. They were an outstanding match to our 2011 and 2012 Chehalem Mountain AVA Pinot Noirs. Absolutely delicious.
We started with a Northwest salad, dressed perfectly. And finished with a dark chocolate pot de cre‘me, infused with rosemary, topped with sea salt — mmmm. Emily and I collaborated on that selection. Perfect match for the robust 2012.
If you want to wow your customers, give Renaissance Catering a call. We found a partner for all our future events.

If you like rude caterers then this is the place. The pizza we had to throw away, it was not edible.