Catering in Hoboken, NJ

All four are the restaurant's own, published on their catering page, not our summary of them.

• 24 hours' notice. That is the stated requirement for a catering order.
• No minimum order. None to place an order, and none to have it delivered. A small office lunch is as welcome as a fifty-cover party.
• Plates, napkins and cutlery are not included. Say this out loud before you plan a party around it. If you need them, call and ask rather than assume.
• Dietary requirements: call first. Their own wording is that they will do their best to accommodate gluten-free, vegan and allergy requirements, and to phone directly before ordering to talk it through. That is the honest version, and it is the right one, a form field cannot manage an allergy.

The restaurant names its own service area rather than drawing a radius on a map. Inside Hoboken: Castle Point, Downtown, Southwest and the Waterfront. Beyond it: Jersey City, Weehawken, Secaucus, West New York and North Bergen.

If you are on that list, you are covered. If you are just outside it, call (201) 238-2484 and ask rather than assume the answer is no.

Worth knowing, because they genuinely differ and the difference will catch you out.

• Mon – Thu · 9 AM – 2 PM and 5 – 10 PM
• Friday · 9 AM – 2 PM and 5 – 10 PM
• Saturday · 10 AM – 9 PM
• Sunday · 10 AM – 8 PM

The catering team runs later into the evening than the dining room does on a weeknight, which is useful if your event is a dinner rather than a lunch.

Not every dish survives a journey, so here is the honest split. The Whole Rotisserie Chicken Family Meal ($36.00) is the natural centre of a catered lunch: local organic chicken, your choice of adobo or classic spices, rice and beans included. It needs 45 minutes and only starts at noon, build the order around that rather than the other way round.

Jumbo Mutz Sticks ($16.00) and Jumbo Chicken Wings ($18.00) hold their heat and are built for a table to share. The Greek Salad ($16.00) and the Baby Kale Caesar ($15.00) both hold, and both are built as a meal rather than a side apology.

Anything that arrives under melted cheese or on a griddled bun is better eaten in the room. We will say so when you call rather than send you something that turns up tired.

This is the part most caterers in town cannot do, because most kitchens have stopped cooking breakfast before your meeting starts. Our brunch board runs to four in the afternoon.

The Breakfast Burrito ($14.00) is avocado, eggs, tater tots and cheddar, and it is the most practical thing on a catering order: self-contained, holds well, needs no cutlery, which matters rather a lot given that cutlery is not included. Bacon, Egg & Cheese On A Roll ($11.00) does the same job for less. For something that looks like an occasion, the brioche French Toast stuffed with Nutella ($16.00) and the Lemon Olive Oil Pancake ($14.00) both photograph better than they need to.

Their own catering page names four: corporate events, lunches, meetings and company parties; weddings, rehearsal dinners, receptions and cocktail hours; private parties, birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings; and holiday parties.

Their booking form takes headcounts in bands from 1–10 up to 50+, which is the clearest available signal of the size of job they are set up for.

Call (201) 238-2484 or email antiqueat112@gmail.com. Have ready: the date, the headcount, the time it has to be on the table, and any dietary requirements. That last one shapes the order more than the budget does, and it is the one they ask you to phone about.

Remember the 24 hours. A same-day catering order is not something to plan around.

Not sure of the date yet? A gift card covers catering too. And if you are asking because you want to work these events rather than book one, we hire.