Culinary Landscape handled the catering and served dishes like mini coconut cream pies on plantain chips.
At the City View Loft grand opening in Chicago last month, a drink station from Pure Kitchen Catering had a drink dubbed "the Jam." Guests could drop pure fruit preserves into glasses of champagne.
On February 6, event-industry pros gathered at Chicago Union Station for an open house that had an “Aurora Borealis” theme. Food for Thought brought in an unusual serving device—a drone—that carried chickpea meatballs. “The drone has a load-bearing capacity of 1.5 pounds, but we needed to pick hors d'oeurves that were heavy enough so as to not be blown off,” said a rep for the catering company.
For another "give and get" experience, a trained remote-control pilot from Horizon Hobby loaded a "pastry drone" with a tray of sweets from the French Pasty School and West Town Bakery. He launched the drone from the second floor of the space, and patrons waited below.
