Everyone loves a celebration! And there’s no celebration without food, it seems. Regardless of their culture or religion, people love to eat when they are celebrating. Food enhances the experience, promotes interactions between people, and prov...

Here at CBM, we spend a great deal of time talking about food. However, when planning an event, we know that food is but a part (a great part, but a part nevertheless) of the whole experience. With this in mind, let’s talk about the non-food elemen...

It might have started in the 50s and 60s with tableside service. Towards the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 21st century, people looked back on tableside service and laughed. But from the 2000s on, caterers wanted to bring it back to add to ...

The team behind the shared-use commercial kitchen space, Kitchen Chicago, presents The Fairlie —  Chicago’s newest wedding venue. Located on Bell Avenue in the West Loop neighborhood, The Fairlie opened its doors to the public this spring, just ...

You look at the calendar and you see the Big Red Circle around that special day. It could be a once-in-a-lifetime event like a wedding, graduation, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, or Aunt Millie’s 100th birthday celebration. Or it could be that family reunion, ...