Laura Michaelis

Review of A Spice of Life Catering Servi...

The experience, culinary excellent and service acu...

The experience, culinary excellent and service acumen of this venerable Boulder business is on full display as they cater a party of 300 academics. I was the program committee member charged with overseeing the conference party, and this was the first professional event I'd ever organized off campus. We held our event in the Dairy Arts Center (they are wonderful too) and the outstanding handshake between Spice of Life and the Dairy Center was tremendously calming and gratifying. We had a party that combined h'ors d'oeuvres tables with passed items. Tables were beautiful and servers were unobtrusive, polite and dextrous. Everything was delicious (and largely vegetarian, by my request). Pricing was very reasonable. We satisfied all of the diverse constituencies at an international academic conference. I should also mention that working with Emily at Spice of Life was a calming and fun experience. She is a consummate professional with great communicative skills, who anticipates everything. I would hold this kind of event again in a heartbeat. Although there are strong institutional pressures to hold CU events on campus, I note that many CU units do in fact plan off-campus events with Spice of Life. There's a bit of administrative overhead to doing this, but it is well worth it as an alternative to UMC Catering.