Please help us celebrate our grand opening with a free fall roast Saturday, October 25th 1:00pm - 5:00pm @ Vert Catering, 963 Dovercourt Road Come and enjoy: pork roast veggie and grain burgers veggie kebabs surprise finger food treats mulled apple cider Steam Whistle beer (our generous sponsor) Bring your friends and family to see changes to the shop and our new products: gourmet express menu daily vegetarian and meat dinners frozen dinners sweets and coffee RSVP HOW MANY GUESTS WILL BE ATTENDING AND YOU WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN 3 FREE DINNERS! RSVP HERE.

Welcome to our first monthly newsletter where we will share Vert Catering news, recipes and cooking tips with a monthly theme. This month it's all about catching up....

Vert Catering has now been at our Dovercourt Road location for just over a year and we are happy to say business is great. Over the year, we have catered for companies such as Teeple Architects, Yabu Pushelberg, Minto Properties, MMPI's Interior Design Show Gala, Universal Music Canada, and Coca Cola. We also catered for some amazing non-profits and government departments such as ACTRA, World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Toronto Community Housing, Ministry of the Environment among many others.

We were featured in a few publications which were good for business, namely Gordon Lightfoot hiring us for his week-long concert at Massey Hall after reading our Porter magazine article. Check us out in:

Porter airline's Reporter in-flight magazine
Biz Bash event magazine

We are happy to re-launch our gourmet express retail store that will bring new healthy food ideas, classes and programs that we hope will excite the whole community. Stay tuned for our bi-monthly what's for dinner emails with our weekly themed entrees.

We have been on quite a culinary journey since Marilyn, Conor and myself joined forces three years ago. We combined our beliefs, talents and values together and discovered the power of good food and good intentions. We love to experience how running a business can help people in need and help reduce our impact on the environment.

We continue to support our two community partners; SKETCH - an arts program for street-involved youth and The Stop Community Food Centre. We are happy to support SKETCH by donating high end caterings for their Board of Directors Meetings and Volunteer Appreciation Nites and we have raised over $600 for The Stop through our cause-related Christmas parties, Food that Gives program and donations as gifts for our wedding clients. We also regularly drop-off untouched catering remainings to Toronto Community Hostel.

As a chef, I prefer local uncertified organic products to help improve the local economy, the environment and our health. I'm a huge supporter of uncertified food like Mennonite chicken. My cooking methods have become extremely important as well, to be able to serve food people enjoy and make it as heatlhy as possible. By reducing the amount of cholesterol in the cooking process and encouraging eating protein in moderation for instance, I can play a part in promoting healthy food choices.

We look forward to seeing and serving everyone again at the store!



Pedro, Marilyn and Conor