No, we have catered everything from dinner parties for two to a week-long conference serving more than 3,500 meals. For social and private events, we recommend a minimum food budget of $1,000. Our corporate clients are not subject to a minimum.

Yes, as your creative marketing agency that speaks in food, we want to make sure your event meets your vision. We offer several additional services including:

• Event staffing
• Bar/beverage service
• Equipment rental including tables, chairs, flatware, glassware, plates, etc.
• Valet parking
• Security
• Decorations
• Event production
• Venue acquisition
• And more!

We cover a wide area in Greater Los Angeles from here on the Westside to downtown Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and the San Gabriel Valley. We also cover all of Los Angeles County, north to Ventura County, and south to Orange County. That said, as you travel, so will we. Whether a conference in Palm Springs or a retreat in the Caribbean, Vucacious has the team in place to cater events around the globe.

For most events, the range of booking is two weeks to one year in advance. However, we’ve also catered an event for 200 with one day’s notice. If you need last-minute catering, call us at (310) 853-8005 to see whether we can help you.

We specialize in corporate events, providing catering solutions for business meetings, cocktail hours, town halls, company retreats, holiday parties, brand activations, open houses and more. In addition, we cater adult birthday parties, children’s birthday parties, bat/bar mitzvahs, family celebrations, private parties, fundraisers, baby showers, bridal showers, and weddings. We are experienced in catering at a wide variety of venues including corporate offices, event venues, private homes, and AirBnBs.

Yes, about 80% of our produce comes from the Santa Monica Farmers Market, and we buy from organic meat purveyors. In addition, the disposable plates, eating utensils, and cups that we use are all compostable.

Yes, we do offer tastings though they are not complimentary. Tastings for weddings are optional and subject to a fee for food costs and labor. We recommend checking out our photos on Instagram and reading our reviews on Yelp in order to get a good sense of our quality.

A good place to get a complimentary taste of our food is at the Main Street Santa Monica Farmers Market every second Sunday in 2018. Chef Kim is the Chef-in-Residence for the city of Santa Monica and does a monthly cooking demonstration using the fresh ingredients straight from the market. Demonstrations are at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon.

No, we can cook without a kitchen on-site. By preparing your dishes in our kitchen and using techniques like hot holding, we can still offer you a wide variety of dishes. Your guests won’t know the difference.

Yes, we can build a custom menu for you that can be either partially or fully vegan or vegetarian. During our first phone call or contact, we make sure to ask whether some of your guests are vegan or vegetarian. And because we build custom menus, we can do vegan or vegetarian dishes in a wide variety of cuisines.

Yes, we can definitely make your food nut-free or gluten-free. Because we cook or bake all our food from scratch, we control the ingredients and will exclude the specific allergen. And as a special consideration for your guests, we can also create signs for each dish to indicate whether it does not contain nuts or gluten or any other allergen.

Yes, depending on your vision for your event, we can help you find one that will accommodate your specific needs.

You may also book an event at our Vucacious Tasting Kitchen or our sister property, Sorry Not Sorry in Santa Monica.

While our kitchen and equipment are not kosher certified, we are able to provide “kosher style” catering to our clients. We are well-versed in all laws of Kashrut and can accommodate some of them through ingredient selection, preparation, and/or boxed meals from a Kosher supplier. We are happy to help you determine the best solution for your event.

Here at Vucacious, we provide much more than just delicious food. Since no one word defines our offerings, founder Chef Kim Vu created that word herself. “Vucacious” embodies all of the words that create the personalized excellence in hospitality and taste that Chef Kim Vu deems most important — Vucacious Catering is delicious, gracious, audacious, and voracious.

We are located at 1828B Lincoln Blvd., in the heart of Santa Monica.

The service charge is NOT a gratuity. For custom caterers like Vucacious, a service charge is a custom production fee. It covers the labor of custom ingredient acquisition, the pre-event production labor (since all our food is made from scratch or fresh baked), transportation, and more. It also helps offset the costs of new minimum wage laws.

No, a gratuity is never expected, but it is always appreciated.