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2009 Thanksgiving Menu

Drawing upon both a strong knowledge of cuisine and an expansive repertoire, Black Rooster offers a wide variety of menus, including receptions, sandwiches, dinners, barbecue, among others.  We also offer food gifts for colleagues, friends, and staff.

We are comfortable working in both casual and formal formats, and with both large and small groups.  This page will illustrate various formats, and offer links to more extensive menus.  Have fun with our site and don't be shy about calling us with ideas and questions.  We also send out a very occasional email announcing new and holidays menus, and the like.  If you would like to be added to the list, click here.

HORS D’ OEUVRES RECEPTIONS
Platters and hors d'oeuvres provide a versatile means of providing light snacks, interesting full dinners, or anything in between.  If you love reading menus, here is a complete list of trays and hors d'oeuvres; otherwise, what follows are several examples of different sorts of receptions.

A light reception, before or after an event.

A heartier reception, featuring some heavier platters.

A wedding reception, featuring dishes pulled from other menus.

SANDWICHES
As many of you know, Black Rooster is a kissing cousin of Jerry's Sandwiches, one of the most heralded sandwich purveyors in Chicago and probably the United States.  We know all of their secrets so you can order most anything you see on their menu from Black Rooster.  (You can also order direct from them; however, for any sort of more complicated catering they'll just refer you back to us.  They're lazy.)  You can see the Jerry's menu here; but, just to wet your whistle, here are a few sandwich favorites:

Sandwiches are available as box lunches, sandwich trays, or make-your-own deli trays.  All of our sandwich work features mostly homemade condiments and sauces, good breads (LaBriola and D'Amatos), homemade side salads, and a big selection of homemade cookies, bar, and select other desserts.  Here is our a snappy Catering Sandwich Brochure.

SOUPS
We love to make soups, and think we're pretty good at it.  While soup doesn't exactly constitute a menu, consider adding a soup to your order.  Soup also makes an excellent passed opener to a reception, and in a demi-tasse cup, a fine "amuse bouche" before a meal.  You can take a look at our ever-changing, infinitely variable soup list here.  A few examples:

DINNERS
We can work in both casual and formal dinner formats.  Owing to our strong background in American comforts foods, "casual" is format which likely sets us apart from many other caterers.  A list of Casual Dinner selections is available here.  Here's a few favorites:

A list of more Formal Dinner selections is available here.  Here's a few favorites:

BEVERAGES & BARS
In addition to the standard canned sodas and bottled waters, and in addition to homemade lemonade and iced tea, Black Rooster offers a wide array of interesting bottled beverages, including Boylan Cane Sodas, Sprecher Sodas, Izze Sparkling Juices, O vitamin waters, Honest Iced Teas, and Itoen Japanese Iced Teas.

Along with a good selection of wines including prosecco, we also stock over 170 North American craft beers.  You can take a look at our ever-changing craft beer list here.

We offer full bar service, featuring standard and deluxe liquors.  We run a full bar at Jerry's, 1938 W. Division, so we are comfortable discussing liquor options with  you.

FOOD GIFTS
We offer fresh food gifts for that special occasion such as birthdays, births, anniversaries, etc.  Packages usually include assorted cheeses & crackers, hors d'oeuvres, roast salmon, marinated steak, roast chicken, side dishes, fruit salad, breads, bake at home cookies, other desserts and beverages.  These items are available upon short notice as we tend to be working with them every day; however, other items from our menus are of course available but require more notice.  Alcoholic beverages are also available upon request.  Prices start at $200.  Call for more information.