Most restaurants are willing, with advance notice, to prepare almost anything on the menu for you to take home. If you have the time, you might drop off your own platters, casserole dishes, and cake stands to achieve a homey look or for anything that might look messy if you have to transfer it to your own dishes at home.
Soups reheat particularly well.
10124 River Rd. Orzo with roasted eggplant and pine nuts and haricots verts with red onion and red-pepper slivers, both to serve hot or at room temperature, from Sutton Place Gourmet. Dolly Sin fudge cake from Sutton Place Gourmet. In One Day Caterers to Call Three Cool Cocktails Easy Party Recipes Finding a DJ or Band From the October 1999 issue of The Washingtonian. 2001 by Washington Magazine Inc.