Regardless of which you want to organize a banquet - business, sport or charitable - food always plays an important role. Association of big group of people demands to be determined by a concrete occasion well concerning food which will be given. Always it is necessary to consider that tastes and the state of health at all different, and to try to please each guest.
Try to learn in advance whether someone from invited any diet adheres. Anyway, the menu has to be rather nutritive and at the same time have a variety and balance. The careful thought-over banquet menu has to include a wide choice of snack, main courses, desserts and drinks.
Cold cuts and cheese plate are the first that comes to mind. If to serve these dishes with several types of bread is the good option allowing to satisfy all guests. Besides, it is necessary to serve the cut vegetables with sauces and fruit which will be suitable for vegetarians. Sushi and rolls of several types will be in certain cases good.
How to decide on the choice of main courses
As a main course it is possible to serve the made meat which cold can use. Roast beef slices, beef sirloin, a roast chicken or the stuffed chicken breasts – all this will be the good choice. To provide the range of banquet dishes and to offer a treat for each guest, besides a meat dish, it is necessary to prepare also something from fish and seafood and also fast (vegan). Brochettes from seafood, a fried fish are ideal for a banquet (for example, a salmon or a rockfish). Without use of animal products it is possible to make various vegetable casseroles or rolls stuffed with vegetables mushrooms and so on. Thus, you have to offer a wide range of dishes which correspond to requirements of the majority of invited. Sauces and sauces which often are served for meat and a bird have to be in separate ware. As a garnish it is better to serve the vegetables made on a grill as potato, rice or paste aren't really good cold. Thus, it is better to choose green beans, peas, broccoli and corn.
Choice of a dessert
To finish food, you have to offer guests limited choice of cakes and pies. Cheesecake and carrot pie, chocolate cake and apple pie and also cookies, ice cream and the fresh cut fruit will serve as good desserts. The chocolate fountain can be good addition to a fruit plate. Surely consider options of unsweetened desserts in case any of guests doesn't use sugar.