Glorious Kosher Caterer (Baltimore)
Anyone know anything at all about them? They are both on the approved list for a venue we are considering. I can call for price info but am looking for recommendation on quality of taste and service. Want food our non-Kosher guests will also be impressed with. I understand if we decide to go dairy then I think it has to be Celebration but are still in the early planning stage so havent decided on menu options.
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This is a great Kosher catering company. Glorious Kosher catered our rehearsal dinner -120 people -at the Nat'l Aqaurium in Baltimore last year Valentine's Day. The food was truly outstanding - kind of expensive proposition to bring Kosher Caterer to the Aquarium b/c a trailer had to be set up and parked behind the Aquarium on Friday, erev Shabbat, and nothing could be started before 6:00 PM Saturday. But , Charles Levine and his staff prepared the most scrumptious food- from the appetizers to the dessert tables -you are lucky to have such a great Kosher caterer in your midst-we are from Cleveland and don't have a kosher caterer that compares- not to mention the venue- awesome!
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Their supervision is not accepted in the Orthodox community. It is your business to use them, but you should be aware if you have Orthodox guests as they will probably end up not eating. Their was a lawsuit in DC a few years ago when another caterer under this hashgagah served shellfish and eel in the sushi.
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re: jes
According to this link:
http://www.celebrationskosher.com/
They are under the METRO-K, which is a Conservative hashcagah out of DC. Same as Glorious.
I was at an event once catered by Celebrations. Everything looked very fancy and nice, but since I wouldn't eat it I can't comment on the taste.-
re: Beaconstreet
A couple of corrections, at the risk of having this thread taken down.
Metro-K is not a "Conservative hascagah." While it is not generally accepted in the Orthodox community, the rabbis involved are all Orthodox rabbis. I think the executive director is actually a graduate of Ner Israel though I am not certain. At any rate, though most of the synagogues which allow Metro-K supervision in their kitchens are Conservative, it isn't a Conservative organization.
As far as the shrimp and eel case, you most definitely cannot pin that on Metro-K. Do a little googling and you'll see that this was a case of a caterer which has a kosher division under Metro-K and a non-kosher division as well. The family in question wanted kosher meat but didn't want to pay for supervision. So they got no supervision and apparently no one at the caterer realized that a family which wanted, and was paying extra for, kosher meat, wouldn't want shrimp and eel on the sushi bar. I don't see how this is the fault of Metro-K when the family explicitly declined hashgacha.
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