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Customize Your Menu

Whether you're planning a wedding, corporate gathering, or celebration, we offer fully customizable menus and comprehensive catering services, including plate & utensil rentals, all tailored to your day.

Tantalize Your Tastebuds

A menu as wide as your imagination

Explore a starting point, then make it completely your own. We source locally whenever possible—and when the right ingredient isn't local, we choose the best available for freshness, flavor, and quality.

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European-Style Dinners

A relaxed, abundant dining experience with beautifully paced courses and shared table moments.

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Hors d'Oeuvres

Passed bites and elegant appetizer displays that set the tone from the first taste.

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Entrées

Classic favorites and signature specialties for buffets, family-style service, and stations.

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Salads & Sides

Fresh salads and flavorful sides crafted to complement every main dish.

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Stations

Interactive food stations that add variety and energy to the celebration.

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Desserts

Elegant classics, custom confections, beautifully styled dessert tables, and an ice cream bar for a fun, crowd-pleasing finish.

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Something Else in Mind?

Let us tell you how one Albanian wedding inspired a menu made for one family's story.

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Everything on the Table

What's included, what's available, and what changes under 50

Full-service details are designed to make planning easy, with options shaped around your celebration.

What's Included

Part of full service

  • Menu consultation and private tasting
  • On-site, cross-trained service team
  • Food tables and thoughtful presentation
  • Clearing, cleaning, and breakdown

Full-service details are tailored to your menu, guest count, and celebration.

Available for Rent

Build the table you want

  • Dinnerware and flatware
  • Drinkware and service pieces
  • Tabletop accents and display pieces
  • Specialty serving equipment

A curated selection of rental pieces is available to complete your setting. Ask us about options for your event.

Hosting Under 50?

Included feels a little different

For intimate celebrations, we can shape a streamlined package around the room, the meal, and the way you want to host—including European-style service.

  • Personalized service plan
  • Right-sized staffing
  • Flexible table presentation
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Frequently asked questions

What areas do you serve?

We provide full-service catering across the High Country and Appalachian Highlands (the Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia mountains), including Boone, NC; Banner Elk, NC; Lenoir, NC; Asheville, NC; Abingdon, VA; Johnson City, TN; Elizabethton, TN; Jonesborough, TN; and surrounding High Country and Appalachian Highlands communities.

Do you provide plates, utensils, and place settings?

Yes. Plate, utensil, and place setting rentals, including dinnerware and drinkware, are included in our full-service package, along with food tables, stations, a dessert table, and complete set-up and breakdown. You never need a second rental vendor.

What types of food service do you offer?

We offer buffet, European-style dinners, family style, interactive food stations, and passed hors d'oeuvres.

Do you offer custom menus and tastings?

Yes. Every menu is fully customizable, and nothing is pre-packaged. Our full-service process begins with a menu consultation and creation, a private tasting of your menu, and a clear, detailed contract.

How experienced is Frugal Gourmet?

We have 30 years in the catering business, including 20 years serving the High Country and Appalachian Highlands. We are licensed and insured, and our cross-trained team has handled the depth of experience to keep service polished and seamless.

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