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Choose your cocktail hors d'oeuvres from different menus, each reflecting the style of its creator:
Scroll down, check your choices and fill out the short form below. We will send you an estimate.
With you approval, a 10% deposit is required. Then 40%, 15 days prior to event. Balance on the day of the event.

Stationary Hors d'oeuvres:
Priced per person – Minimum order: 15 persons

Santa Barbara Fiesta: Blackened corn, pepper and tomato salsa. Guacamole. Tortilla chips. Beef picadillo empanadas with mint dipping sauce. Smoked chicken and cheese quesadilla, Blue corn tortilla chips with jalapeno queso bianco. $ 6.50

Californian garden basket: Artistically carved variety of ten vegetables(mostly organic). Artichoke dip & curry/garlic dip. $5.00

Northern European Seafood: Smoked salmon with condiments and blinis. Gravlax with pumpernickel. Smoked trout chevrons on endive leaves with red beet and horseradish spread. Oysters on the half shell with lemon and cocktail sauce.Salmon mousse with toasted dilled bread.$ 11.50

Country French: Armagnac & truffle chicken liver mousse with baguette . Baked brie with cherries and pistachios. Rosemary potato gaufrettes. Country bread “surprise” filled with mini salmon mousse sandwiches. Saucisson sec cones stuffed with Celery remoulade.
Classic deviled eggs. Puff pastry cheese sticks. Goat cheese turnover. $10.50

Mediterranean vegetarian: Cashew and coconut humus. Eggplant caviar. Dolmas. Yogurt and cucumber dipping sauce. Falafel mini stuffed cabbage. Saffron cheese tortellinis. Stuffed cherry tomatoes with Minted taboule. Seeded flatbread. Pita triangles.$ 7.50

Asian fair:
Assortment of pot stickers, spring rolls, lemon chicken.
Sushi: California rolls, tuna rolls, cucumber rolls with wasabi, pickled ginger and soy dipping sauce.$ 8.50

Hawaiian : Chicken wings with bananas. Salmon poupous. Caramelized pork and pineapple on skewers.
Grilled coconut shrimps. Chicken liver roumaki with star fruit. Dungenes crab dip with plantain chips.$9.50

Classic American: Chilled jumbo shrimp with lemon wedges and a tangy cocktail sauce. Artichoke Florentine mini quiche. Chicken wings and drumettes with honey mustard dipping sauce. Stuffed mushrooms. Pecan and apple cheese balls. $ 7.50
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Chef Astrid
preparing passed hors d'ouvres.


Our famous Californian "strawberry tree" with seasonal fruit. Five kinds of imported and domestic cheeses. Baguette, assortment of gourmet crackers, seeded Mediterranean flat bread. $ 9.50
Passed hors d'oeuvre:
from $ 3.50 to 8.50 for 3 choices
(= 6 bite size hors d’oeuvres)
Priced per person. Minimum of15 people

Grape, goat cheese and pistachio "pearls"
Blue corn chips with avocado concassee and Peruvian Ceviche
Persian cucumber basket with smoked salmon roses
Grilled beef tournedos on ficelle croustinis, horseradish sabayon
Deviled quail eggs on toast w/Sevruga caviar
Tuna sushi roll w/pickled ginger and soy aspic
Cantaloupe and honey dew with prosciuto
Grilled mission figs w/ Fontainebleau cheese & bacon
Pecan duck crepes w/ kumquat chutney & green onions
Californian date and chorizo tempura
Thai chicken and lemon grass sticks
Pomegranate onions tarts with bacon & cumin
Grilled shrimp "Indochine"
Baked jalapeno peppers/minted cream cheese & pancetta
Steamed mussel with mango/tomato/cilantro salsa
Hoisin pork on mini latkes with Fuji apple mousse
Moroccan quail and almond pastilla
Grilled monkfish on rosemary skewers
Roasted shitake and scallion mini quiche
Smoked trout mini quiche with pumpernickel crust
Crispy phillo crab bonbons
Purple endives w/Roquefort Papillon & candied walnuts
Polenta croustinis with Kalamata olive concassee
Almond, Regiano and goat cheese puffs
Golden cheese puff pastry sticks

You're almost done. Just fill out the short form below. We will send you an estimate.
With you approval, a 10% deposit is required. Then 40%, 15 days prior to event. Balance on the day of the event
* Name :
Nom et prénom:
* e-mail:
*Telephone:
*Date of the event:
Date de la réception:
*Place:
Lieu:
Number of Guests:
Nombre de couverts:

Wishes or questions - Vos questions et/ou commentaires SVP:

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Cold
Vine ripened cherry tomato stuffed w/crab salad, roasted pepper vinaigrette
$2.75
Smoked salmon on blinis with crème fraiche and beluga caviar
$3.75
Smoked trout rillette, caramelized red onion compote, on levain bread
$2.75
Ahi tuna tartar with lemon sesame dressing, crispy potato
$3.25
Prawn marinated in escabeche
$3.25
Crostini of tomato, garlic and Serrano ham
$3.00
Roasted baby eggplant stuffed with green olive, Almont tapenade
$2.50
Hot
Tartelette of artichoke mousse, hazelnut, goat cheese & fried quail egg
$3.50
Pissaladiere, focaccia with spring onion, olive, and anchovies
$2.75
Brochette of grilled chicken breast, lavender bbq sauce
$2.50
Cèpe mushroom, caramelized onion and goat cheese tart
$3.00
Duck comfit, apricot chutney and caramelized endives
$3.25
Seared scallops on potato gaufrette, beluga caviar and lemon oil
$3.75
Cocktail Hors D’oeuvres: (Priced per piece)

Jean-Philppe Sitbon prepares a Private estate Event.
(Photos ©Destination Santa Barbara,2001)

You're almost done. Just fill out the short form below. We will send you an estimate.
With you approval, a 10% deposit is required. Then 40%, 15 days prior to event. Balance on the day of the event
* Name :
Nom et prénom:
* e-mail:
*Telephone:
*Date of the event:
Date de la réception:
*Place:
Lieu:
Number of Guests:
Nombre de couverts:

Wishes or questions - Vos questions et/ou commentaires SVP:

*Required fields * Champs obligatoires

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