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

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

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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!

Albert Pit Barbecue is proud to cater “Honest to Goodness Real Barbecue” to northern Colorado–with the sauce on the side.  One of the ways to identify real wood smoked barbecue is that it isn’t covered in sauce.  No matter how good the sauce, the sign of barbecue made with shortcuts is a sauce dousing.   Our pit master doesn’t drown his creation.  After all, he just spent 6 to 12 hours smoking the meat over hickory, constantly monitoring the pit  temperature to keep it “slow and low,” shifting meats from hot to cool spots and then back again, and pulling and slicing the meat by hand.

Now, the thing to do with a barbecue sauce (especially a great tasting one like Albert Pit Barbecue’s homemade Fat Albert sauce) is to serve it on the side. Then the sauce can be added (a little or a lot) to compliment the meat.  Just the way a wine expert takes a small sip; Barbecue Enthusiasts always take a little taste of the meat before adding the sauce.  Some hard-core Texas BBQ joints serve no sauce at all with their smokey ‘cue…and sneer at any outsiders innocent enough to ask for it.  In Colorado, our clients like to make their own decision about sauce and serving it on the side lets them do so.

Fat Albert Barbecue Sauce is our Colorado take on the thick, spicy, tomato ketchup-based variety that is popular in Kansas City.  Our sauce is tomato based and has a little kick, but it is thin so it penetrates the meat rather than just sitting on top and soaking into the bun.

Available by the bottle on our First Friday Carry Out Nights…and of course with any catered bbq order.