The Senior Class at Rocky Mountain High School has chosen our Honest-to-Goodness Real Barbecue for their senior picnic. It will be our pleasure to be led in our old age by kids with enough good sense to choose slow cooked BBQ over hot dogs (and still get their administrators to serve and wait on them that day.) See the world is in good hands!
HOWL!!!
No place is too far from the tropics to celebrate luau style! If I wanted to throw a really fun party for a customer appreciation day, school year-end party, employee picnic, or super-memorable wedding, I’d start by booking a private island.
Did you know you could rent an island in Fort Collins for your party? You can rent an island from Island Lake Marine and Sports. Imagine greeting all your guests as they disembark from the speed boat that brought them across the lagoon!
The Island has pavilions, serving tables, picnic tables, gas grills, volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, fire pits (and firewood!), water trampolines, canoes and paddle boats. Best of all, Albert Pit Barbecue is a Preferred Caterer at The Island.
Our visit to the Island that will be the site of your party inspired us to create a BBQ sauce that mimics the inviting warmth of the Tropics. We precisely mix a blend of pineapple, brown sugar, and tropical spices to make Party Island Barbecue Sauce. The sauce compliments our hickory-smoked meats. But you can only get it on the Island…we won’t serve it anywhere else!
If it was our party this is what we would serve on the Island… Kalua Pork, of course!
Email us to get a proposal for this menu.
Perhaps you’d prefer that we bring hot dogs, brats and hamburgers and grill them up on site. Check out our Grill Menu.
Then email us to get a proposal for this menu and ask us about adding pineapple slices to the menu to top the burgers. We’ll be glad to send the staff to schlep all the items to the Island, cook them to perfection, serve them to your guests, and carry all the mess out!
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Everything that you take to the Island has to be schlepped in and out by boat so I’d only bring the essentials. Still, I’d want to have a few niceties for my guests who come a little less prepared.
Call the Island and book your event at 970-381-2557.
Contact Albert Pit Barbecue and book your meal.
No one will forget this party! And if you have it catered, you’ll have a good time, too!
Sometimes I see something so brilliant I wish I’d thought of it myself (and reaped the imagined pile of money that certainly must come from the idea. Thus, I introduce you to this durable plastic table cover that fits tables like a bed sheet.
Never again will you have to struggle with taping plastic to tables. We stock these in a variety of colors. Just tell us your table size and color preference and we’ll add them to your catering order for a very reasonable cost.
On the First Friday of the month, for three hours, customers flock to Albert Pit Barbecue. It is the only time during the month that our catering company offers carry-out. To us, it makes a difference to our ability to operate profitably when customers choose to spend their dining dollars locally.
“Our catering kitchen isn’t on the main travel corridor,” says caterer Korey Albert, “so people have to make an effort to come here for dinner. But when they do, we give them some great barbecue at a fair price. They help us keep our doors open and, in turn, we employ people, we can support local causes and we purchase from local businesses that we’d hate to see disappear. It’s a circle. ”
For carryout, drop by our catering kitchen between 4:00 and 7:00 on the First Friday of the month. The Albert Pit Barbecue Catering Kitchen is located at 3201 East Mulberry, Unit F, Fort Collins at the corner of East Mulberry and Dawn (It is easy to find. We are on Mulberry, east of Timberline and east of Summitview. We are on the south side of the road in the Ironwood Plaza.)
It happens on the first really warm day of spring. We are barely out of bed (OK we are still in bed) and the phone starts ringing. Then another follows and another….ah, it must be May. We can tell the temperature by how many phone calls we get in a day and how many hits we get to our website.
On a sunny day a peoples’ thoughts turn to summer parties. When it is warm and sunny outside company picnic planners start calling, mothers of graduates start planning, brides realize that their wedding is only a few months away. The calls start.
Our kids are thrilled to have the door bell ring and to see a basket of May flowers on this, the first day in May. But Korey and I, we are thrilled to hear the phone ring and to see our summer catering calendar fill in.
Happy May Day! (Make our phone ring (970) 213-7427)
Throwing the biggest, best barbecue that your co-workers, friends and family have ever seen doesn’t take much work, just a little creative planning. First, order Albert Pit Barbecue’s Honest-to-Goodness Real Barbecue. Second, use the following ideas to create a fun, casual atmosphere.
Try writing the party details on disposable plastic bibs or aprons. Tie them up with ribbon for a fun look.
If you could hand-deliver barbecue sauce bottles to all your invitees, why not make a label with party details and stick them on the bottle. Imaging how much fun it would be to get such an invitation in your in-box at work. Albert Pit Barbecue can arrange label-free bottles of our sweet, Kansas City style barbecue sauce for you to use.
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Why not order a bunch of plastic ants (available online at fakebugs.com) and spread them around the tables as confetti, freeze them in your ice cube trays, and slip one in the invitation envelope. In fact, put them everywhere, including on the mirror in your guest bathroom! If you are planning the party at work, add to your co-workers suspense by marching your ants around the workplace a few days before the invitations arrive…put a line of them across the time clock…add a few to the lunch room table…glue ants on pencils and put one on everyone’s workspace.
Wrap your invitation up in a bandanna. Use bandannas as napkins. Give every guest a cowboy hat—if you put their names on the brim it makes a great replacement for name tags. You could even put the hats on the tables as place cards. See our bandanna wrapped box lunches.
For an outdoor party, set a kid’s pail in the middle of the table, tie on some balloons, and fill it with party cameras, fun-shaped sunglasses, sunscreen and bug repellent.
Albert Pit Barbecue is here to help make your party a smashing success! Let’s do it together!
Welcome ASA Teams to Fort CollinsOur city is proud to be hosting your tournament again this year and we want to be sure you get a taste of what makes our city unique. Albert Pit Barbecue is ready to deliver mouth-watering, slow-cooked, hickory-smoked, REAL barbecue to your practices, team meetings, and family gatherings. We deliver free to all the hotels and parks in Fort Collins.
Our experience can help to help to make you look like a hero. We can recommend the amount of food to order based on the demographics of your group so you are sure not to run out of food. We can help you plan a menu that will suit your vegetarian guests. We can suggest a menu that will fit within your budget. We will deliver your food on-time so that you won’t have to worry at all.
If you like, we can drop off the food in easy-to-clean up disposable aluminum pans and you and you can take care of the clean up. Alternatively, you can choose our No Work Catering Service where we prepare, deliver, and set up the perfect buffet line. We’ll bring everything you need including buffet tables, tablecloths and chafing dishes, and clean up the mess afterwards. Either way, we will make it as easy as possible so that you can enjoy the party, too!
Albert Pit Barbecue has done all the planning, all the cooking, and we will work hard to make sure the barbecue we serve your guests is the same barbecue that we would serve to guests in our own home. Call 970-213-7427 to order your full service or self-service barbecue today. Your team will be glad you did!
I know it sounds improbable, but you could recreate one of the best ladies luncheons I’ve ever been to for your school’s staff for under $3.00 per person. Here is how it works.
Call Korey a week or so before your event at 970-213-7427 and tell him you want to order a big bowl of lettuce and some smoked chicken from our bulk menu and that you only want to pay $3.00 a person. Korey will set to work smoking whole chickens over hickory wood and then pulling it by hand so that only the best bits make it into your meal. Then, he’ll do all the work of washing the lettuce. (Do you hate that kitchen task as much as I do? That’s why I’d recommend letting Korey do it.) He’ll deliver the food directly to your school. So that is the first step, order the smoked meat and salad. Now here is the second step…
Second, ask your parents or staff members to contribute a salad topping or dressing. With this plan it is easy for everyone to bring something.
Third, get some big bowls (either disposable or not). Get enough bowls not only for the guests, but also to pour all the donated salad toppings in for table display. While you are finding the bowls, find some forks, napkins and cups. (You might be able to scrounge these from teacher snack areas if necessary.) You’ll also want to buy a bag of ice, find a pitcher and a lemon (or cucumber–your teachers will love cucumber water.)
On the day of your event, watch for Albert Pit Barbecue to deliver your big bowl of salad and smoked chicken. Fill the pitchers with water and add the sliced lemon or cucumbers. Set out the bowls and utensils. Then enjoy the ease of the simplest (and most creative) potluck you’ve ever organized.
Albert Pit Barbecue has done all the planning, all the cooking, and since everything is disposable/recyclable it is super easy for you. Call 970-213-7427 to order your end of the year teacher party.
When it snowed last Thursday and we had to wake up the college student at CSU Engineering College at CSU in Fort Collins with the news, all might have been lost. But to his credit the student, Jesse, had made a pretty good snow plan. Good think too since he had 600 hungry students planning on him for lunch. Company picnic planners or other planners of large events can learn a lot of tips from this event.
The planning committee had a backup plan to move the celebration indoors–but they didn’t decide to implement it. Unlike a smaller event, logistically it isn’t easy to move a large event indoors. Tip number one, have a back-up plan in advance.
Having a tent is a requirement. No one ever thinks it could possibly rain on their large wedding party, fundraiser or company picnic, but ask Jessie–it might not rain it might snow! Having a sturdy tent with lots of weights in case of sudden wind gust and tent sides is a smart move. Don’t be cheap–order the tent sides because if there is the slightest wind much of the tent’s potential coverage space is lost to snow or rain drifting in. Because we had a tent we could create a great space for serving barbecue. We made a spiffy sun to hang up on the tent out of paperboard, put on a Beach Boys CD in a boombox and headed to the Fort Collins campus. This year the tent kept the food out of the snow, in past years it has made a canopy to keep guests out of the rain.
We heard from the organizers that several of the vendors for the event cancelled when they saw the snow. For large events, it is wise to ask your vendors under what weather circumstances they will perform and what happens to your deposits in case of foul weather.
As an approved cater on campus we list CSU on our insurance policy and follow, not just our own food safety rules, but all of the special rules CSU requires. This legal paperwork is recommended for large events. It costs the vendor something to add you as an “additional insured” on their policy–so expect to pay for this service. Ask your corporate legal department what you’ll need. At a minimum, request proof of insurance and a copy of the vendor’s state and local licenses.
One of the fun things about this event was that the corporate sponsor worked on the buffet line. Event sponsor and student supporter, Slumberger, sent some representatives who spent several hours serving the traditional barbeque sides of coleslaw, potato salad and beans. Have you considered which suppliers and supporters of your organization might be willing to provide giveaways or funding for your picnic?
The Engineering College chose a feast of traditional barbeque and grilled items for their event. We consider the diversity that a campus crowd offers when we plan a menu for this event, and so we bring vegetarian, gluten-free, and pork-free meal choices for this client’s guests. At large events, it is a safe-guess that guests will need varied menu options.
We love the happy exhaustion that comes from all the work of a large company picnic, association event, or fundraiser. It was all made easier by a picnic planner for a large event that had done their homework. Next year, let’s hope it is sunny!
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