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                                                                  EXHIBIT 31.1

                     Quarterly Certification Pursuant to
                Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

        I, Jeffrey R. Nieder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer of Centennial Specialty Foods Corporations, certify that:

      1.   I have reviewed the Form 10-QSB of Centennial Specialty Foods
      Corporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
      December 15, 2003, as amended hereby;

      2.   Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
      statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
      to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
      such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period
      covered by this report;

      3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other
      financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
      material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
      cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in
      this report;

      4.  I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure
      controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and
      15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

      (a)  Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
      disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision,
      to ensure that material information relating to the registrant,
      including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by others
      within those entities, particularly during the period in which this
      report is being prepared;

      (b)  Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
      controls and procedures and presented in this report my conclusions
      about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as
      of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
      evaluation; and

      (c)  Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal
      control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's
      most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is
      reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal
      control over financial reporting; and

      5.   I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal
      control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the
      audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons
      performing the equivalent functions):

      (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
      or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
      reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to
      record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

      (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
      other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's
      internal control over financial reporting.

Date: February 5, 2004
                                      /s/ JEFFREY R. NIEDER
                                      Jeffrey R. Nieder,  Chief
                                      Executive Officer and
                                      Chief Financial Officer
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