Catering built for Marin County venues and homes.
Marin Catering Company started from a simple frustration: hosts here plan every detail — the hillside venue, the long table under the oaks, the guest list — and then settle for catering that does not match the effort. We cook from raw ingredients the morning of service, pack for the exact venue we are walking into, and deliver straight to your office, home, or event site across Marin and the North Bay. Narrow load-ins, tented lawns, one-lane driveways off Panoramic Highway — none of it is new to us.
A local Marin team with real capacity behind it
You deal with a small crew — one coordinator who knows your date, your venue, and your guest count from the first email through breakdown. That is deliberate: Marin events are too particular to hand off between departments.
Behind that crew is genuine production capacity. Marin Catering Company operates under Fresh Pulp Holdings LLC, a Bay Area catering group whose brands together cater well over a thousand events a year and have served more than a million guests. Because we run out of a production kitchen rather than a Marin storefront, our overhead — and your per-person price — stays lower, while we can still cook at volume the morning of service.
In practice that means a 20-person board lunch in San Rafael on Wednesday and a 220-guest wedding in Nicasio on Saturday get the same attention, the same scratch cooking, and the same itemized proposal with no surprise line items.
Grazing Table
Outdoor Buffet ServiceThe kitchen behind the menu
Jason has spent a decade writing this menu the hard way — at live events, where catering food is actually judged. A recipe only earns a spot if it still tastes right forty minutes into service, survives the drive over the hill, and sends guests back for a second plate.
That filter produced a menu that is broad on purpose — Italian, Mexican, barbecue, Mediterranean, and California classics — with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free dishes written as real plates rather than afterthoughts, and every tray labeled so dietary guests are not left guessing.
Full-Service Dinner ServiceWhat we cater in Marin
Our work runs from a standing weekly team lunch to a black-tie reception under the oaks. The formats we are asked for most:
- • Wedding catering — plated, buffet, or family-style, with bar service, florals, and rentals on one contract
- • Full-service events — galas, fundraisers, nonprofit benefits, holiday parties, and conferences with uniformed staff
- • Drop-off catering for Marin offices, studios, schools, and community gatherings
- • Individually boxed meals for trainings, film and production crews, and large-group logistics
- • Holiday catering — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and company parties
- • Florals and event rentals as add-ons to a menu or booked on their own
Cocktail Hour Toast
Mediterranean Feast
Wedding Dessert DisplayWhere we cater across Marin and the North Bay
We cater and deliver throughout Marin County and out into the wider Bay Area: San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, Belvedere, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Ross, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Nicasio, Point Reyes Station, Stinson Beach, and Bolinas — plus San Francisco and the North Bay for larger full-service events. One flat delivery rate covers our core Marin service area, so a downtown San Rafael office pays the same delivery as a ranch venue at the end of a gravel road.
Staffed Lunch Service
In-House Floral CenterpiecesLet's plan your Marin event
Send us your date, guest count, and venue and we will come back the same business day with a fully itemized proposal — menu, staffing, rentals, and delivery, with nothing left for you to guess at.