Small-event catering is the search people use when they are embarrassed to call it catering. Twelve colleagues. Eighteen cousins. A committee that meets in a church basement in Saint-Laurent. A condo lounge in Brossard. Pierina’s scale fits that middle: we already pack household meal prep, and we already pack office trays. Eight to thirty portions is not a special machine. It is the honest centre of the kitchen.
Private-event catering is the wider story (showers, receptions). This page exists so a 12-person brief does not drown next to a 40-person Christmas party. If you are closer to a family Sunday, use family-gathering catering. If you are closer to a downtown boardroom, use office lunch. Cannibalizing those URLs with a cloned paragraph would help no one.
Logistics shrink with the count, they do not disappear. We still need a date, a postal code and a receiver. Pickup at 3954 Bd Leman often wins for small Laval and North Shore tables (Terrebonne, Blainville, Sainte-Thérèse). Montreal island and the South Shore still want a confirmed window if nobody can drive.
We will not print a “starting at $X per person” badge. That number would be fiction without your count and pack. The pricing page lists the questions; the quote lists the CAD.
What “small” means in this kitchen
- A count you can write on one line — not a maybe-80
- One or two mains plus sides, not a seven-station menu
- Trays you can park on a dining table, or boxes you can stack in a fridge
- Same Sunday/Wednesday production rhythm unless the quote holds another cook slot
Small rooms across the 50 km ring
- A Plateau or downtown apartment that can seat ten if someone takes the couch
- A Longueuil or Boucherville dining room that does not want a restaurant minimum
- A Terrebonne or Repentigny family room that can pick up on the 25/40
- A West Island kitchen island that becomes a buffet for twenty
Skip us if
- A headcount that keeps growing in the email thread without a lock
- A request for wait staff “just for the first hour”
Saint-Jérôme, Châteauguay, Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche sit near the rim. Small events there are welcome when the pin is inside the radius; they are pickup events when it is not. We would rather say no than invent a courier.
Vegetarian splits matter more at 16 than at 4. Give the number. MAPAQ kitchen, MAPAQ, honest allergen talk.
Send the real number. We will not upsell you into a hall we do not have.