Last weekend was our last big outing for off premises catered events for awhile, and it definitely went out with a bang.
On Friday we made our way to Spoleto for a dinner of 250. The Dinner was for the end of the Festival dei due Mondi (festival of two worlds)an arts festival which takes place in Spoleto, and in Spoleto's sister city of Charleston SC. The dinner was for a famous Italian artist whose name I seem to have forgotten, but I remember that he his the son of famous Italian actor Vittorio Gassman.
I guess it was a pretty big deal because they had the local news teams there with cameras and lights and microphones. I was completely unprepared for this and I made a small deposit in my shorts when all of the reporters bum rushed our staging area and it was lights camera action time.
It was a strange evening because we didn't start service until almost midnight. We cranked out four courses for 250 people in just over an hour. It was nuts. These people were ravenous. Once we got into the rhythm, I forgot about the cameras. Everyone went crazy for the pasta course of potato stuffed tortelli with white and black truffles. People were coming up and grabbing plates and eating it with their hands. Under the circumstances, with everyone eating so late, how everyone was dressed, people losing their freekin minds over a pasta dish, my imagination started to stir. I started to envision scenes right out of "From Dusk till Dawn". I started to think that maybe I was dessert. Maybe when the clock struck one the gates would close and all of these truffle crazed vampires would start feasting on the blood of the innocent.
Fortunately, none of that happened. We banged out the food, then cleaned up and packed up the truck. It was definately a late night(didn't get home till 4:30am) but it was lots of fun.
The next day was a wedding at Vecchio Molino, a 15th century mill outside of Spolete. The building and the surrounding lands were really beautiful and I really wish I had more of an opportunity to take some more pics,but things just didn't work out.
The structure was built on a strip of land with a large creek on either side. I really felt like I was in another part of the world because the surroundings were very tropical. I guess that Umbria is crazy like that.
This was probably the most entertaining wedding that we have catered. They had a great jazz band followed by a couple of hours of these two medevil jesters that were sooooo cool. They topped the night off with an impressive fireworks display. Good times.
Every thing went smoothly, and we are all looking forward to the break and Umbria Jazz. Ciao.
