Food-Truck Catering

The first-ever food truck from Chicago's E. Leaven Food Company specializes in an impressive range of breakfast, lunch, and dessert items, including short rib piewiches and chopped salads, and can provide catering for meetings and events for groups of 10 or more guests. Most menu items cost less than $10 apiece.
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Handmade Doughnuts

Toronto's Glory Hole Doughnuts (gloryholedoughnuts.com) has been garnering buzz with flavors like maple bacon, chicken and waffles, and lemon meringue. The supplier can deliver as many as 300 handmade doughnuts or 500 “Lil’ Glories” for events.
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Comfort Food: Jalapeno Poppers

Bacon- and date-stuffed jalapeno poppers served with garlic and lime aioli, from Fig Catering (310.899.8595, figsantamonica.com) in Santa Monica, California
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Cocktail: Solid Drinks

Sangria, watermelon, and mango Campari spheres served in spoons, from Windows Catering Company
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Hors d’Oeuvre: Breakfast Bites

Buttermilk chocolate chip pancakes with maple syrup, jumbo blueberries, strawberry fragments, and powdered sugar, from Esprit Events Kosher Catering (212.207.3888, espritevents.com) in New York
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