Top 15 Trending Corporate Holiday Party Dining Ideas

Top 15 Trending Corporate Holiday Party Dining Ideas

by | Aug 29, 2023 | Christmas, Dining, Event Catering, Events, Holiday

Planning your corporate holiday party and looking for the best dining options? Whether you need fun Christmas party ideas or delicious New Year’s dinner ideas, there’s something for everyone when it comes to corporate parties–if you know where to start looking!

But what are some of the latest and greatest dining options for your Thanksgiving, New Year’s, or Christmas office party? This article will outline the top 15 corporate holiday party food and dining ideas to guarantee your party menu is the best. Let’s dive in!

Ideas for Christmas

1. Holiday Appetizers

Successful holiday parties start with one thing: the appetizers. Choosing the right appetizers for your corporate Christmas party will start the celebration on the right foot and ensure your guests love every second of their time. If you want your Christmas party appetizers to stay in-theme, consider some of the following tasty bites:

  • Baked brie with cranberries
  • Roasted chestnuts
  • Pigs in a Blanket wreath
  • Spiced candied pecans
  • Warm, baked spinach dip

2. Christmas-Themed Drinks

If you’re seeking Christmas gift ideas for your employees or coworkers, why not surprise everybody with delicious Christmas-themed drinks? No celebration is complete without a comprehensive drink menu, and to celebrate the season, you can consider making or catering drinks like an eggnog cocktail, cranberry mimosas, pecan pie martinis, or mulled wine!

3. Grand Christmas Meals

Christmas is the perfect time to go all-out with your main meal. Celebrate your corporate holiday party by having a multi-course meal or a holiday buffet packed with Christmas staples–or get your delicious holiday meal catered by us.

4. Delicious Christmas Desserts

What corporate holiday gathering is complete without delicious themed desserts? Your office Christmas party is the perfect time to go all-out on sweet treats. You can add an extra element of fun to your celebration by having a gingerbread cookie decorating station for employees to come together and create their own delicious dessert!

5. Have Fun With Holiday-Themed Challenges

Beyond the food, you want your corporate holiday party to have plenty of fun activities for everyone to enjoy. Consider getting people involved by hosting some challenges during your party, such as an ugly Christmas sweater competition. This challenge will get employees brainstorming the best Christmas party outfit ideas, making for a fun and exciting competition when it comes time to vote for your favorite outfit at the party!

Ideas for New Year’s and New Year’s Eve

1. New Year’s Dinner Ideas

The focal point of a New Year’s Eve party is usually the dinner, drinks, and the countdown at midnight, of course! Having an extravagant New Year’s Eve dinner is the perfect way to make your office party memorable and enjoyable. Some of our favorite New Year’s Eve dinner ideas include:

  • A gourmet wine pairing dinner and tasting experience
  • Outdoor BBQs and bonfires
  • Around-the-world buffets (to make this idea extra fun, keep track of when the clock hits midnight in other countries and celebrate from across the globe by eating traditional foods from that country!)

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2. Champagne and Tapas Tasting

No New Year’s party is complete without some champagne! Host a fun tasting experience with different types of champagne and pair the champagne with tasty tapas and small plates. Offer fun appetizers like charcuterie boards, banked brie wreaths, fondue bites, or shrimp cocktails!

Consider some of our favorite New Year’s Eve dinner recipes if you want to go beyond appetizers and offer a full meal!

3. Festive New Year’s Eve Desserts

One thing that comes to mind when we think of New Year’s Eve is the champagne. While you might assume it’s reserved for drinking, you can make your New Year’s celebration festive by having some champagne desserts! From cupcakes to trifles and cheesecakes, there’s no shortage of delicious bites you can make to celebrate this holiday season.

4. Fireworks and Outdoor Dinner Bash

Fireworks are one of the best New Year’s traditions, so why not make your holiday party special by having an outdoor dinner bash and watching the fireworks when New Year’s arrives? If your property has enough space, you can throw a fun outdoor party that brings you and your coworkers closer together.

5. Black Tie Buffets

The champagne, glitz, and glamor of New Year’s Eve is undeniable–so why not emphasize it with a fun black tie buffet? Bring your employees or coworkers together to enjoy a lavish buffet with the finest champagne and plenty of top-tier dishes to make the night one to remember!

Ideas for Thanksgiving

1. Traditional Thanksgiving Feast

Who doesn’t love celebrating Thanksgiving Day with a traditional feast? One of the best ways to celebrate the holiday is with a corporate Thanksgiving feast with all of the holiday classics, like the following:

  • Turkey
  • Mashed potatoes and gravy
  • Stuffing
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Cranberry sauce

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2. Pie Potluck

One of the best corporate Thanksgiving events is a classic pie potluck packed with the most delicious Thanksgiving desserts! Have your Thanksgiving dinner catered, and finish off your celebration by asking employees each to make their own take on classic Thanksgiving pies for an end-of-party tasting experience.

3. Harvest Buffet

You can step outside traditional Thanksgiving feasts by having a fun Thanksgiving harvest buffet packed with delicious recipes for Thanksgiving and autumn, like roasted vegetables, slow-roasted meats, seasonal desserts, hearty soups, and more! With something for everyone, employees will undoubtedly love the annual holiday party this year.

4. Harvest Picnic

Share the spirit of Thanksgiving by celebrating with a fun, corporate harvest picnic that employees and their families can enjoy this holiday season. Along with having employees make and bring their favorite seasonal dishes, you can complete the experience with plenty of blankets and seasonal decorations to make a comfortable and fun environment for everybody!

5. Pie and Coffee Social

One dessert comes to everyone’s mind when they think of Thanksgiving: pie! One of our favorite Thanksgiving party ideas is a pie and coffee social, packed with the best Thanksgiving sides and treats to complete the experience. This cozy celebration will bring everyone together for a fun and memorable time!

Get Catering for Your Corporate Holiday Party

Whether you’re looking for catering for family celebrations or a corporate event, you can meet your catering needs with Kpacho. We provide the best catering services out of the restaurants near you, guaranteeing that your holiday events will be as delicious as they are fun. Contact us today to order take-out, schedule catering for your holiday parties, or visit us in person!

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Themed Halloween Food Ideas

Themed Halloween Food Ideas

by | Sep 29, 2020 | Holiday

The leaves are falling and there's a chill in the air. Soon all the ghouls and ghosts will return to walk the earth. This Halloween is going to be different, with many municipalities banning trick-or-treating, parties canceled, and school shutdowns relegating kids' party contests to Zoom. But there's no reason you can't have some of that spooky Halloween spirit in your own home, and what better way to do that then with creepy themed treats? Here are a few ideas.

Calaveras

You can't talk about Halloween food without talking about Mexico's centuries-old tradition of making candy skulls for your friends and family. You can go the traditional route and mix sugar with hot water and lemon juice to make a delicious and sculptural paste, or alfenique, reserving some to die with food coloring so you can pipe creative decorations onto the skull's ghoulish face. Or, if you're working with kids, skip the hot water and make skull-shaped sugar cookies with colorful icing.

Eyeball pops

Who doesn't love a cake pop? Literally the only way to improve on a lollipop is to make it out of cake. And what's creepier than an eyeball? Put the two together and you've got an instant Halloween hit. And the best part is, you can make them in a hurry. Just pull out your favorite easy recipe for cake pops, then dip the finished pops in white icing or white chocolate, stick a blue or green Smartie or candy of similar size and shape onto it, put a black dot in the middle of the candy, and add a few crinkly red veins around the "white."

Spooky Jell-o molds

For some, molded Jell-o will always be a reminder of mid-twentieth-century suburban kitsch, but it has two distinct advantages when it comes to Halloween treats. One, it comes in all shapes and sizes; if you want to make a Jell-o mold of a brain or heart or burgeoning heap of guts, some macabre mold maker will have you covered. Two, it jiggles. It quivers. It does everything that a disembodied human organ would do. In short, it hits the exact balance of cartoonishness and realism that a good Halloween snack should hit.

Mummies-in-a-shroud

They're just pigs-in-a-blanket, but for Halloween. Instead of wrapping up a cocktail frank in a solid sheet of pastry, you cut the pastry into a long strip and wrap it in a loose spiral around the frank. Then, after baking them according to package instructions, you take two white 4mm sugar balls and put them near one end of the frank to create the illusion of blank, staring eyes. Or, if you feel like pressing your luck, you can check your local Halloween stores for sugar eyes — they come in handy for all kinds of Halloween treats.

Witch''s hats

Witch's hat cookies are as simple as they are delicious. You start with your favorite recipe for one- to two-inch chocolate cookies, then, once the cookies are cool, you add a dollop of frosting on top and stick a Hershey's Kiss right in the middle. Now you have a witch's hat with a ribbon around the inner brim. Use your frosting to neaten up the ribbon, then draw on a bow or buckle. If you have large, square sprinkles, you could also make the "buckle" out of one of those, or find a suitably buckle-looking candy.

Halloween may be all about creative snacks and desserts, but when you want a festive family meal to top it all off, you want K. Pacho. K. Pacho is a Mexican restaurant, bar, and lounge in New Hyde Park. Dine in or order out before your socially distanced Halloween party.

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