Joint Venture

Catering services pricing

Food starts at $150 per person.

About Joint Venture

Joint Venture

Chef

Danny has spent the past dozen years working in kitchens around New York City and abroad. After attending the French Culinary Institute, Danny worked at Momofuku Ko, Isa, Estela, and Cabane à Sucre Au Pied de Cochon in Montreal. In 2015, Danny founded Joint Venture as a way to explore how food can bring people together beyond the confines of a restaurant’s four walls. JV is a departure from and reaction to the kitchens of his past. It's about collaborating with friends, reconnecting with nature, and working directly with farmers and producers. JV creates menus that are of the season and expressive of their surroundings. JV is ever-evolving.

Working closely together, we’ll develop a custom menu that aligns with your vision. Sitting face-to-face, sharing ideas, and tasting things together is the way we create a food experience for your special day. Through building our relationship, learning about your individual paths and specific palates, we are able to enhance your vision. Our inspiration comes from the natural world and every meal is planned based on seasonality and sustainability. Our expertise in cooking the freshest ingredients over live fire brings a sense of immediacy and emotion to every event.

Sample catered weddings

Alexis and Ryan were inspiring to work with because they both are so excited about food. Alexis is a chef and Ryan is an enthusiastic eater. They appreciate fresh, local ingredients and allowed me to play to my strengths: working with nearby farms and vendors to secure the best produce and products and cooking over live fire to get the deepest flavors. We created a menu that felt reflective of the venue (the horse farm where Alexis grew up) and the surrounding landscape (the Catskills, where so much delicious food is grown).

Guest Count

101

Total Catering Cost

$20,000

Menu Highlights

  • Seated meal
  • Buffet
  • Stationary appetizers
  • Harvest table with summer crudité, meats, and cheeses; raw bar with oysters, tuna, and shrimp; buffet with vegetables, potatoes, chicken, and lamb.

Services Included

  • Chef(s)
  • Setup / Breakdown
Harvest table with summer crudité, eggy dip, onion dip, Kabonsay, cheddar brats, kielbasa, smoked trout, parmesan, sourdough bread, butter, and jam
Sweet and bitter greens; corn with husk cherries and cashew cream; new potatoes with fried garlic sauce; fire-roasted chickens; whole roasted lamb.
The raw bar featured oysters with mignonette and prepared horseradish; tuna with soy, chili, lime, and berries; and Old Bay shrimp with spicy mayo.
For dessert, an assortment of pies were served. The late night snack was cheeseburgers with pickles, onions, and ketchup.

Services

Meal types

  • Breakfast/brunch
  • Buffet
  • Dessert service
  • Family-style meal
  • Food stations
  • Passed appetizers
  • Seated meal
  • Stationary appetizers

Extra costs

  • Liquor License
  • Rentals - beverage ware
  • Rentals - dining ware
  • Rentals - furniture
  • Rentals - linens

Reviews

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5.0 out of 5

6 reviews

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  • Unforgettable Food

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    •Alden H.•Sep 6, 2024

    Joint Venture cooked some of the best food of our lives for our wedding of 135 people last year in the Catskills. Danny somehow managed to create a menu that was comforting and indulgent, yet nourishing. I'm a musician who's played hundreds of weddings and I've never experienced a caterer close to Joint Venture's level. He also focuses on seasonal ingredients and sustainable farming practices-- even growing some of the food for the meal himself. We couldn't recommend Joint Venture more to anyone looking for a transcendent catering experience that's also down-to-earth (literally).

  • An exceptional meal

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    •Jordan L.•Apr 26, 2024

    We can't recommend Danny and the Joint Venture team enough. It was important to us for this meal to feel more like what you'd expect from a restaurant than a typical wedding, and Danny's imaginative menu design and execution exceeded expectations and was stellar from start to finish. Even amidst unideal weather conditions, Danny exceeded expectations and his food has our guests raving to this day.

  • Creative and delicious Catering

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    •Table 75 Events•Jan 25, 2024

    Danny of Joint Venture is a creative and exceptional chef. He can take his clients vision and turn it into a beautiful meal. His execution is the perfect balance of refined and relaxed, complex and comforting.

  • Working With Danny

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    •Massi & W.•Jan 24, 2024

    Danny was receptive to our needs while being creative on his own. He needed very little guidance and managed to deliver a fantastic meal that everyone raved about. 10/10!

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