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Phone: 954-288-6227
Email: chef@chefelisascatering.com
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Organic, vegetarian and gluten free menus available
Simply light and refreshing
Your choice of scallops, tilapia or tuna with avocado, tomato and cilantro. Fabulous taste and presentation
The Polynesian tar-tar, chopped raw salmon dressed with fresh tomatoes and scallions. Lomi means massage, so the secret to this recipe is to combine and massage the flavors.
Topped with crème fraiche and chives
A jumbo shrimp served a top of shallot crème fraiche with chipotle aioli and cilantro let’s talk about this one, it’s a pain in the butt
It’s all about the crab, crab cakes, served with cilantro aioli
Served hot and crispy with a coconut lime dipping sauce
Served with a White Wine Cream Sauce or in our signature Marinara.
Served golden brown with a your choice of a Cajun Remoulade or a Tropical pineapple dipping Sauce
Served with a trio of sauces, chipotle aioli, cocktail sauce and lemon mustard sauce
Served with Masaman peanut dipping sauce
Flank Steak topped with a super rich cucumber mint tzatziki on a grilled pita
Served with a creamy horseradish sauce a top toasted French Bread
Everyone’s favorite, young and old alike.
Served with apricot cilantro dipping sauce
Everyone’s favorite, young and old alike.
Asian Seared beef flank steaks cut skewers, topped with a rich Asian ginger lemon grass glaze
Layers of warm gooey cheeses wrapped in puff pastry and served hot
Topped with warm Brie and fresh strawberries
Topped with warm Brie, balsamic glaze and fresh basil
Yes, it’s as amazing as it sounds, we use special baking racks to ensure each rolls is crispy all the way around
Because is more about the ricotta and feta, than the spinach
Traditional w/ pickle, mustard, ketchup on our great mini hamburger rolls, Bacon & Blue with caramelized onions on our great mini hamburger rolls
Filled with crab or vegetarian and served with sweet Thai chili sauce
A spicy mixture of Served on a Chinese spoon with a wonton crisp
Served crisp and golden brown, vegetable, chicken or pork your choice of Sweet and Sour or Hoisin Sauce
The Italian classic served on rustic bread—add prosciutto for more yumminess
Full Wheel & Wedged Presentations of a trio of cheeses choices include double cream Brie, Parmesan and specialty cheeses, Served with assorted flat breads, seasonal fruits & almonds
We offer many flavors, based upon the seasonal fruits
Perfect for dipping fun with your choice of dips
Ordered by the pound and served with cocktail sauce, lemon wedges and little bottle of Tabasco for those who like it hot! Crab Claws are served with plenty of mustard dipping sauce

Stocked with fresh hamachi, wild salmon, smoked salmon, crabsticks, shrimp and ahi. Julienne veggie sticks asparagus, cucumber, avocado, gingered carrots julienne, cream cheese, fish eggs, and sweet seaweed salad. White rice & brown sushi rice, rice wrappers and seaweed wrappers And for sauces, miso peanut sauce for veggie wraps, chipotle aioli, cilantro aioli, ginger aioli, soy sauce, dumpling sauce, wasabi
Select from beef tenderloin, turkey breast roasted on the bone and pork tenderloin. Served with your choices of turkey gravy, hollandaise, balsamic glaze demi glace and a creamy horseradish sauce.
Slowly cooked to perfection and served with creamy horseradish sauce
Key Lime Mojo Criollo marinated flank steak flash grilled and served with an authentic Chimichurri Sauce
Baked and served atop a bed of rice with burnt green

Pick your favorite pasta dishes and we’ll do the rest giving your guests quite the show
Yes these really are my grandmother’s recipes and they are divine! Alfredo Sauce, ala vodka, Mama’s Marinara, scampi and Puttanesca just to name a few.
Served golden brown on a bed of sautéed garlic spinach with a Lemon Dill Françoise Sauce
Your choice of chicken, beef and vegetarian, served with sour cream fresh jalapeno, salsa, pico de gallo
Grilled medium rare served with a savory Port Wine sauce, mojito glaze or mint jelly
Chicken, Pork, Dolphin, Tilapia, Tuna, Salmon, seared to perfection served with your choice of a Key Lime Mustard Sauce, Cajun Remoulade, Jalapeno Tartar or a Mango Salsa.
Stuffed with a savory mixture of dried fruits and seasonings, wrapped in Apple wood Smoked Bacon served with a Balsamic Gastrique.
Low and Slow Pulled Pork severed with Chef Paul’s signature Smoky Barbecue Sauce Or Seasoned Barbecue Grilled Chicken
Layers of Yellow Squash, Zucchini, and Eggplant stacked atop our Signature Marinara held together by a mixture of Parmesan Cheese, Basil, and Savory Sundried Tomatoes
Italian Panko crusted chicken breast served atop Spaghetti in a Garlic Butter Sauce finished off with melted Mozzarella Cheese and a Basil Roasted Tomato mixture.
Traditional Spaghetti and Italian Meatballs served in our Signature Marinara Sauce served with penne or linguini.
Your choice of seafood (clams, mussels, lobster, shrimp) or poultry baked in seasoned saffron rice.
Seasoned chicken breast topped with sautéed spinach and a savory Shallot Cream Sauce with Cognac.
Seasoned duck breasts cooked crisp and served with a balsamic berry sauce.
Seasoned and grilled zucchini, eggplant, yellow squash and bell peppers
Fresh vegetables of your choice steamed to perfection
Seasoned and oven roasted
Mostly veggie, stir fried veggies and delicious noodles
Either on the cob or off, grilled or steamed with Chipotle lime butter or and seasoned savory
Sautéed in butter and honey
We offer many flavors, based upon the seasonal fruits
Check out our Wholesome Meal sides menu for more suggestions…
Creamy Arborio Rice fortified with Parmesan Cheese and your choice of fresh vegetable
Seasoned with Rosemary and Garlic and oven roasted
Creamy New potato mash seasoned and savory with caramelized garlic
Creamy casserole baked New Potatoes with Cheddar and Monterey cheese topped with chives and sour cream

with Cherry Amaretto Ice Cream

Zesty orange crepes flambé with grand Marnier and French Vanilla ice cream
A four tier presentation, offering cream puffs, lady fingers, strawberries, bananas, graham crackers & toasted marshmallows.
An elaborate assortment of petit fours, tarts and cheese cake bites and Chef Elisa’s Signature, Polynesian mini coconut cakes
Crème Brulee Flavors include white chocolate macadamia nut, Chai tea, French vanilla, and chocolate
Creamy New potato mash seasoned and savory with caramelized garlic
My new twist on a healthy and elegant treat. Our Fresh Fruit presentation, topped with raw sugar and then blow torched to create a crisp thin crust of sweetness.
Please don’t feel confined to simply our cuisine menu. Most often we are able to customize our recipes to suit your needs and wants. For Special Occasions, I like to serve special food. Here are a few of our more unique dishes
Our Polynesian inspired dishes and displays are a gorgeous and natural fit for South Florida entertaining.
White Chocolate & Salted Carmel Popcorn Cones are great fun at Mitzvahs, Live Sushi Stations with Sushi chef’s rolling your requests in front of you, and our grilled pineapple cocktail frank and Hawaiian sliders, chicken, beef or lobster
served with a parmesan pear cream sauce. Fiocchi is a little pasta purse filled with ricotta, blue cheese and pear. It’s very beautiful. I learned this recipe from my friend and colleague Chef Josef, Josef’s Table in Boca Raton.
crispy buttery phyllo dough surrounds succulent lobster tail meat drenched in hollandaise sauce. Extra hollandaise is served for more dipping goodness.
English Cheddar or gooey munster , gouda served with delicious dipping items of puff pastry straws, parmesan flat breads, sausage, red and green apples, pears, steamed broccoli & cauliflower cherry tomatoes and French and pumpernickel torn breads

For the true oyster lover there is nothing like a freshly shucked oyster. We serve with fresh avocado wedges, lemon wedges, bottles of Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and a Sauce Trio. Goes great with jumbo shrimp and seasonal stone crabs.
It’s all about the crispy edges! We like to serve ours with caramelized onion, sour cream and our signature apple sauce –you’ll never taste better!
dogs in a blanket , we’ve designed mummy toes for Halloween, colored red puff pastry strips for make “candy canes” and skewer grilled pineapple on top for a Polynesian experience. Or Traditional Served with ketchup, whole grain mustard and half ½ sour pickles
Topped with crème fraiche and chives
It’s amazing when is freshly made, it’s light and refreshing. Can make is more flavors such as balsamic
many flavors, traditional, caramelized garlic, smoked roasted red pepper, and masaman peanut hummus, And Many more Vegetarian salads
Halloween is hands down, the most fun and challenging holidays to cater. Over the many years I have accumulated an awesome array of décor pieces to add to any buffet table, bar and passed format. Every year I hear that little voice inside, how can I make it even spookier…. Book and we’ll have a blast of a bash!
Herbed Cheese Cake & Flat Breads
Lump Crab Meat Mousse
Thai Masaman curry chicken skewers with peanut dipping sauce Asian Glazed Beef skewers with apricot dipping sauce
puff pastry filled with mushroom & cheese
complete with manicure…amongst other ghoulish treats
Media Noche Snakes, puff pastry with ham, swiss, turkey, pickles and mustard Sun dried tomato Palmier
pigs in a blanket with almond toe nail
autumn leave design
black Fruits & Orange Mimolette Cheese and cheddar ball with poppy seeds, Pumpernickel bread toasts
Black Bean Dipped– topped with southwest crème layer and spider, served with blue corn chips and Veggie Crudités
Shrimp bisque shots with Pumpkin Shaped grilled cheese with a warm, smoked cheddar & gouda
devil design
Pepperoni Bread with Mozzarella
Garlic Hummus, Sun dried tomato white bean dip, Tuna Dip
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Over 30 years experience as a private chef, caterer, Chef Elisa has built her career and reputation serving celebrities and catering events. Over the years her clientele has included, Dan Marino, Tommy Lee Jones, Indigo Girls, hockey player Chris Grattin and many South Florida professional athletes. Chef Elisa grew up in South Florida, a graduate of FIU and Hialeah Miami Lakes High. |
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“I fell in love with food and recognized my gift when I was 12 years old. My remarkable mother found and hired a private tutor for me when I was just 14. Once a week for over 2 years, I learned how to cook something wonderful.” Her Tutor, a CIA grad who dabbled in catering herself, shared her knowledge and a many great recipes including Lump Crab Meat Mousse, which Chef Elisa still serves today. Her experiences with her tutor culminated when Elisa catered her first big party, a wedding for 75 guests, finger food buffet- drop off. “It was a shot gun wedding and the fact that I was 16 and unlicensed didn’t really matter. My price was right, the food was great, the pressure was awesome and I was hooked for life”. Chef Elisa continued as a private chef, catering dinner parties for her neighbors in Miami Lakes through her high school and early college years. |
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She left cooking for a while to pursue her career in broadcast news during the early 80’s and 90’s. She worked at local television stations WSVN, WCIX (Now WFOR), WPLG and KMOL and NBC Network in San Antonio Texas. Chef Elisa returned to her first love of Culinary Arts and decided to begin her own business. First there was In Home Gourmet a private chef style business, which grew into Chef Elisa’s Catering. On her return to South Florida from Texas she also taught home cooking classes she named Power Cooking, 7 meals in 3 hours and she was featured in the Weston Gazette in 2001. 2003 and 204, Chef Elisa used her broadcast news skills to do several cooking segments in NBC 6. |
For the past seven years Chef Elisa has been a donating Celebrity Chef for the Ann Storck Center at the Hard Rock Seminole, Hollywood, Florida. Her private nutrition work has inspired her new company Wholesome Meal.
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Paul Kahan grew up in Arlington, Virginia and at an early age began cooking meals for his family. Through these early efforts in making simple scrambled eggs and perfecting his mother’s tuna salad recipe, Paul’s interest in the culinary arts was born. Paul graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 2004 and then majored in political science at Towson University earning a Bachelors Degree in 2008. During his time in college, Paul regularly cooked for his friends and roommates. He received positive feedback on his cooking and recipes from his friends and this encouragement plus watching the Food Network regularly inspired Paul to consider pursuing the culinary arts as a career. |
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In order to pursue this passion for cooking, Chef Paul enrolled at The International Culinary School at the Art Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He understood that to become a successful chef he would have to master the fundamentals of cooking. His training at the Institute was complemented by work during school as a sauté chef at Smith and Jones owned by the renowned South Florida chef Johnny Vinczencz.
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Applying what he had learned at both the Institute and his work with Johnny Vinczencz, Paul grew as a restaurant chef but then expanded his repertoire by taking a job as a catering chef with Hugh’s Culinary. Paul began cooking for parties as large as four thousand guests and serving up to several dozen different menu items in a constrained amount of time. His passion for cooking blossomed and it became clear to him that cooking for the masses was both personally and professionally satisfying. Eight months and dozens of parties later, Chef Paul was introduced to Chef Elisa Eliot through a contact at The International Culinary School. |
While still working for Hugh’s, Paul worked several parties with Elisa and was extremely impressed with her work ethic and culinary talent.
He saw the opportunity and the potential to expand Chef Elisa’s existing catering and personal cooking business and to help develop her product line, which includes gluten free, organic, and vegan oriented wholesome foods.
Paul and Elisa immediately recognized the personal and professional synergies in joining forces, and thus a business partnership was formed. The goal of this exciting combination of talents is provide South Florida and ultimately the entire country with simple, sensible, and satisfying meals and foods.
Served with all the fix’ns, Lto’s, ketchup, mustard, mayo, chipotle aioli, and Chef Paul’s Bar b que sauce
“Low and slow” cooked savory chopped pork served with Kaiser Rolls.
Pick your butter glaze flavor
Get your team fueled up to be focused and alert Gluten Free Protein enhanced banana walnut pancakes with strawberry banana sauce, a selection of yogurts and fresh fruit
Chef E’s signature protein enhanced cinnamon crepes served an assortment of fresh and seasonal fruit fillings, nuts, oats and organic sauces.
Scrambled egg feast (served plain or with a mixture of vegetables and cheese), and breakfast potatoes with an assortment of bagels, toast, spreads, and fresh fruit

Scrambled egg omelets made to order incorporating a variety of fresh vegetables and cheeses. Served with an assortment of bagels, toast, spreads, and preserves
Traditional French toast, thick cut and light battered with a hint of vanilla, served with Chef Elisa’s signature maple butter and maple syrup
Turkey burgers, sweet potato fries, whole wheat buns, LTO, Grilled Salmon or Tilapia, Burnt Balsamic green beans, Organic potato, potato salad, Chopped Organic Spinach and Quinoa Salad
Farm Raised Chicken breasts grilled to perfection and served in several varieties: BBQ, Tequila Lime, Teriyaki, Rosemary Garlic, Lemon Pepper, Sweet Vidalia Onion, and Lime Mojo.
Chicken breasts coated in Asian style breadcrumbs and shaved parmesan cheese, roasted to a crisp golden brown served with Chef E’s signature Marinara.
Golden brown chicken breasts served warm with a lemon caper francaise sauce.
Layers of energizing zucchini, yellow squash and eggplant fortified with fresh basil, marinara, sun dried tomatoes and Chef E’s marinara.
Crisp lavash bread filled with roasted onions, tomatoes and parmesan cheese topped with smoked peppercorns.
Penne pasta tossed in creamy a la vodka sauce topped with shaved Parmesan cheese and crisp peas.
Elbow pasta in a creamy three-cheese sauce topped and baked crisp with panko breadcrumbs.
Crisp Romaine Lettuce tossed in a creamy Caesar dressing topped with Italian Croutons, and shaved Parmesan cheese
A blend of romaine, arugula and fresh basil are tossed with Italian vinaigrette and topped with tomato, cucumber and organic garbanzo beans
“Boars Head” roast beef, ham, turkey, fresh oven roasted turkey and chicken served on Ciabatta or French breads, with LTO finished with cranberry, dill, or Cajun Remoulades.
White Albacore tuna made with red delicious apples, celery, and a smidge of mayo.
All white meat chicken tossed with scallions, grapes, walnuts, and celery, mixed with a dill aioli.
Skin on Idaho potatoes chopped with celery, onion, parsley, dill, mixed in tasty mustard seed Aioli topped with capers and scallions.
A fresh assortment of seasonal ripe fruits.
Crisp Garden Vegetables served with a variety of dipping sauces
Chef E’s signature Hummus available in a variety of flavors, sun dried tomato, chipotle, roasted garlic, traditional Tahini and roasted red pepper
Bow-tie pasta tossed in a basil pesto with pine nuts; sun dried tomatoes, and feta cheese.
Rotini Pasta mixed with crisp vegetables, Kalamata Olives, and Feta Cheese tossed in Greek Red Wine Vinaigrette.
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