Our food is ridiculously fresh with menus that reflect the seasons. We work closely with the local growers, producers and farmers to create seasonal menus of rare and fine flavors. We believe that we can make the world a better place by buying local and supporting other community businesses. Whether you're planning a dinner party, a wedding or any other event--we want to be a part of it.
Join Jan in the comfort of your own home and learn everything you need to know to create a delicious, seasonally inspired meal for your family or guests. Each cooking class is complete with a PDF of recipes to keep you cooking long after! Book a class to enjoy with friends and family today.
Join Jan in the comfort of your own home and learn everything you need to know to create a delicious, seasonally inspired meal for your family or guests. Each cooking class is complete with a PDF of recipes to keep you cooking long after! Book a class to enjoy with friends and family today.
Services
At The Kitchen Porch, we conspire and create exquisite meals for our clients' special events with superb production and thoughtful service. We are passionate about food and supporting our local community. We care about people, animals and our earth. We source produce in season from local farms. All meat and poultry is humanely raised and slaughtered, and seafood is sourced from sustainable fisheries, all traceable.
Jan Buhrman, M.S. Ed., has been cooking delicious, locally sourced meals on Martha's Vineyard for over twenty five years. She combines her passion for food with a love of teaching to enhance people's understanding of their food through farm tours, cooking classes, and nutritional workshops. All programs are designed to connect people with local food systems.
From the initial client-caterer meeting to the big day, catering involves planning, preparation, teamwork, creativity, and flexibility. From the first concept to the last uneaten bite that gets sent to our pigs or composted, our a catering team works closely with each client to custom craft a true farm to table experience.
It depends on your event. We have a standard staff to guest ratio that we use according to the kind of service you need. For formal events such as weddings, we staff one server for every ten guests. For buffets and more casual events, we staff one server for every 20 guests. We always staff according to your needs.
If you'd like to join our award-winning team, or you know someone who'd be a good fit, we have always need passionate and solid folks. We have great learning opportunities with openings for a Catering Manager, Logistical Assistant, Farmer's Market Manager and Sale Associates, Dishwashers, Servers, Drivers and Captains.
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Rick Hamilton
Jun 13, 2021
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Matt W.
Nov 30, 2019
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Sarah L.
Jul 30, 2015
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I had the delightful experience of using The Kitchen Porch" for a reception event following my mothers memorial service. I began by looking for a catering service that was generally organic, farm to table concepts ~ which is what The Kitchen Porch is all about ! Over several weeks of planning done through emails and phone calls I was pleased to work out details for our event with wonderful suggestions from Jan as the owner, directly. The hardest part became making a selection from all the delectable options available. I found it easy to work with them to accommodate our needs based on budget
