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For 50 years, Gourmet Caterers has earned an unassailable reputation for creating exceptional food service experiences of every size and level of complexity. As New England's leading in dining hospitality, Gourmet is renowned for its talented chefs, impeccable service, and for producing thousands of unforgettable events, weddings, galas, mitzvahs, and every kind of social occasion. Gourmet is the exclusive caterer to the Artists For Humanity Epicenter, Boston Symphony Hall and Tanglewood Music Festival, Edward M. Kennedy Institute, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Whether it’s an intimate soiree for just a few of your closest friends, or a citywide convention for thousands, sophisticated elegance or a classic summer clambake beneath a starry Boston sky, the party starts now.

Great Performances is an independent New York hospitality company with two connected businesses: Catering & Events and Great Performances Hospitality Group (GPHG). Since 1980, we’ve been known for producing exceptional events across New York City. Through GPHG, we bring that same expertise to workplace dining, cafés, and hospitality programs for corporate offices and commercial properties. Catering & Events Our team produces thousands of events each year, from corporate gatherings and nonprofit galas to weddings and private celebrations. We are the exclusive catering partner for some of New York’s most celebrated cultural institutions and destinations, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wave Hill, and The Plaza Hotel. Great Performances Hospitality Group GPHG manages workplace dining, cafés, executive hospitality, and internal catering for corporate offices and commercial real estate. We build each program around the people and places we serve, with wellness programming, pop-ups, local restaurant partners, and seasonal experiences that keep guests coming back. We track what guests choose and how dining patterns shift as the workplace evolves, then use those insights to refine menus, production, and service while reducing waste. For occasions beyond the daily program, including executive dinners, tenant events, and holiday parties, our Catering & Events team comes in to plan and run them. Food comes first Across Great Performances, our menus start with deliciousness and are shaped by the seasons, New York’s food culture, and Katchkie Farm, our own 60-acre organic farm in the Hudson Valley. Relationships with local chefs, producers, and community organizations connect our food to the city we call home. Life Happens Around Food®

While the name Zabar is synonymous with smoked fish and the quintessential New York brunch, Eli Zabar envisioned a different kind of food store from his family’s West Side landmark delicatessen. Inspired by the food halls and markets of London and Paris, Eli’s has become an institution on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, directly across town from the store and home where he grew up. Best known as New York City’s pioneering gourmet food purveyor, Eli Zabar first opened New York's beloved E.A.T. in 1973. Over the last four decades, Eli's empire has grown to include his flagship market, Eli’s Market at 80th & Third Avenue; Eli’s Market at The Vinegar Factory; Eli’s Markets at Grand Central (Bread & Pastry; Farm to Market); New York's beloved E.A.T. Café; E.A.T. Gifts; Eli’s Table, and the adjacent wine shop, Eli’s List; Eli’s Bread; Eli’s Essentials, grab-and-go cafes; Eli's Gift Baskets; Eli’s Night Shift and Eli’s Bar '91 (the most recent additions to Eli's restaurants), as well as the recently re-designed e-commerce sites, www.elizabar.com and www.elizabarwine.com. Throughout his storied career, Eli has kept New Yorkers well-fed with the highest-quality, most-carefully sourced ingredients and products, along with his signature handmade breads & pastries, all with a seasonally-driven European sensibility. Most recently, Eli has been excited to share his passion and knowledge of European wines that celebrate lesser known vintners making beautiful, expressive wines, whatever their terroir, at Eli's List and on the nightly rotating wine lists at Eli's restaurants.