Have you begun planning Valentine’s Day for your special someone yet? Forget the crowded restaurants and let Chez Hay bring dinner to you! This February, the 10^th to 14^th, we are offering a Sensual Platter for Two. Dinner includes: Mini Beef Wellingtons, Shrimp Cocktail, Roasted & Marinated Asparagus & Mushrooms, Fruit & Cheese—Grapes, Strawberries, Brie & Cheddar, Chocolate Truffles, and Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. $50 per couple or $70 with champagne! Dinner is available for pick up or delivery. Surprise your honey and call us today about this great deal!

Nordic food is a popular trend for 2012 that not many people saw coming.  Most will crave the comfort the Scandinavian food offers. In short, it will remind you of what Grandma used to make.

Igniting the taste buds include: Yellow Pea Soup, Lefse (flatbread), Gravlax (raw salmon), Mazarin Torte, Skagen Toast (baby shrimp, crème fraiche, caviar, and dill), Lihamojakka Beef Stew, and Chicken Fricassee with Mushrooms & Dill Dumplings.

If these basic menu items remind you of home, let us know. We would love the chance to create the comfort food for you! What food do you miss most from your childhood?

Need a bartender for an event at your home? We do that as well! Whether serving our alcohol or yours, our bartenders are excellently trained and will make the most of any event you have!  When serving our alcohol, we bring the mixers, ice, and garnishes, too!  Call us today to reserve our services for your next event!

During the holiday parties at Chez Hay this season, we offered a different signature cocktail for each event. One of the more popular was the Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake Martini.  To make this drink take 2 parts Raspberry Vodka, ½ part chocolate liqueur, ½ part Irish Cream and serve in cocoa-rimmed martini glass. Enjoy!

For you new brides: Chez Hay is now booking for 2013! Get your date before it is gone! A decorating hint for the coming year: neon is very hot. Use them in invitations, flowers, cupcakes, and dresses!

Chez Hay has two specials this month: Orange Coconut Curried Shrimp over Purple Rice with Braised Cauliflower and Carrots; or Braised Short Ribs over Cheesy Mashed Potatoes with Sauteed Green Beans with Dried Cranberries. Both specials are $11 per person. Call us today at 489.7445 to get yours ordered for this week!

The Wedding Fair this past weekend is one of the many signs that the wedding season this year is approaching fast. It’s sometimes easy for the stress of planning a wedding to be overwhelming to couples and their loved ones. To help reduce this amount of stress, we work together with our couples to create custom menus that are unique not only to their wedding, but also to their personalities. By having an open approach, we are able to walk people through our menu items and help them create what works best for them so they don’t have the stress of trying to figure it out on their own.

We are excited to be working with all of our new couples and their families this wedding season and we look forward to meeting more new couples throughout the year.

Welcome to the first Chez Hay blog of 2012!  We hope everyone’s New Year’s festivities found them in good spirits and looking forward to the coming year.

Chez Hay had a very busy and exciting 2011! Some of our highlights of the year included: being named one of the exclusive caterers for the Champions Club and Wick Alumni Center, the Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach plated dinner at the Lied Center for over 300 guests, catering the Lincoln Marathon’s Pastathon in May, UNL’s Newman Center plated dinner for almost 400 guests in October, catered to 19 different companies holiday parties, participated in both Lincoln’s Okto Beerfest at the Lancaster Event Center and Downtown Lincoln Association’s Shop the Blocks, and had the opportunity to host Craftacular at Chez Hay in November. Thank you to everyone who ordered, booked, viewed the space, attended, and spoke with us at events in 2011! We hope to work with you again soon in 2012!

For you new brides, be sure to come down to the Cornhusker Hotel on 13^th and M for the Wedding Fair! The event begins at 12 p.m. and ends at 4 p.m. Make sure you stop by and say hi to Wendy and Brandie!

Some of the food guests enjoyed over the weekend included Asian Bacon Wrapped Shrimp, Red Coconut Curry Meatballs, Hot Bruschetta, Spring Rolls, Cranberry Orange Chevre Cheese Ball, Champagne Brie Dip, Orange Roughy, Baked Ziti with Eggplant Parmesan, Dessert Buffets, and many others.

Don’t forget that Chez Hay is still taking catering orders for the week of December 27-30. Get yours in soon!

-Happy Holidays from all of us at Chez Hay!

With the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Winter Graduation this coming Saturday, Chez Hay will be keeping busy with graduation festivities and the continuing holiday parties. Congratulations to UNL’s final class of 2011!

We would also like to remind everyone that we are still taking orders for the next two weeks. Chez Hay will be close at noon on December 23 and will be closed completely December 26 and January 2. Get your orders in soon!

If you haven’t been on our website, www.chezhay.com, yet today, our new winter special is now available! Call today to order your own Braised Short Ribs over Cheesy Mashed Potatoes and Sautéed Green Beans with Dried Cranberries.  Don’t forget that we are still available to cater your holiday parties this season! Our holiday menus are available on our website as well.

Be sure to “like” us on facebook for additional specials and photos! Check us out at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chez-Hay-Catering/71587260062.

With the holiday approaching fast, our chefs have created the new holiday menu that will bring a smile to everyone’s face. The menu choices include everything from our unique Cranberry Orange Chevre Cheese Ball and Mini Beef Wellingtons to our wonderful dessert display of Bourbon Brownie Pops, Pecan Pie Tartlets, Peppermint Cake Squares & Mini Holiday Cupcakes. All of these items and more are available on our website at http://www.chezhay.com/content/seasonal.php.