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Graduation Party–The Lobo Way

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!!!

 

How to Plan a Luau in Northern Colorado

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.

Tell Your Friends You Have 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.

Party Island Barbecue Sauce

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!

Message in a Bottle Invitations

12 Personalized Island Hibiscus Bottle Labels Once your private island is booked, slip a map to the island inside one of these customizable Message in a Bottle product from Orientaltrading.com.

Recommended Luau Menu

If it was our party this is what we would serve on the Island… Kalua Pork, of course!

  • Smoky, shredded Pork Sandwiches on fresh bakery buns
  • Party Island Barbecue Sauce–Our blend of pineapple, brown sugar and tropical spices make a made-from-scratch sauce that we serve no where else but on the Island
  • Macaroni Salad–a classic luau side dish
  • Fresh fruit
  • Chips because something about a beach requires chips.
  • Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Email us to get a proposal for this menu.

Summer Party Grill Menu

Perhaps you’d prefer that we bring hot dogs, brats and hamburgers and grill them up on site.  Check out our Grill Menu.

  • Hamburgers/Cheeseburgers
  • All Beef Hot Dogs
  • Veggie Burgers or Turkey Burgers
  • Potato Salad
  • Baked Beans
  • Potato Chips
  • Fudge Brownies
  • Deluxe condiments

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!

Cool Drinks for your Hawaiian Escape

  • Fruit punch
  • Lemonade
  • Iced Tea
  • Sodas and Bottled Water
  • Margarita Machine (we can bring that, too.)  In fact, if you call your liquor order in, we’d be glad to pick it up, chill it, and deliver it for you.

We’d Add These Fun Details

Hula Girl StrawsTropical Cocktail ParasolsHibiscus PicksCoconut Cups With Flower

All from orientaltrading.com

Party Details

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.

  • Leis to greet each passenger as them disembark
  • Sunscreen
  • Bug spray

Let’s Get This Party Started!

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!

 

 

Barbeque Ideas (Go Ahead and Steal ‘Em)

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.

A creative invitation heightens everyone’s excitement about the party.

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.


available at www.fakebugs.com

What picnic is complete without ants?

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.

A western theme can make for a great barbecue.

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.

Don’t forget some festive centerpieces.

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!

 

End of School Year Party Teachers Salad Potluck

School Office Managers and PTOs:

Why make your hardworking teachers eat cardboard flavored pizza at the end of the year party again this year when you could order barbecue and a salad for about $3.00 per guest?

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…

Ask Parents or Guests to Bring A Salad Topping

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.

We love taking care of teachers in Poudre, Thompson and Weld County area school districts.

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.