When planning your next catered event, choose an Italian food theme to impress your friends, family or work associates. Numerous restaurants that cater in Tucson, Arizona offer catering packages that include Italian pasta dishes, appetizers, salads and desserts for you to set up yourself on a beautifully decorated serving table.
Established in 1956, Mama Louisa's Italian Restaurant specializes in house-made linguini and fettuccini pasta, and house-made sauces such as Alfredo and marinara. The restaurant's extensive catering menu selections include an antipasto platter with Genoa salami, provolone cheese, eggs, olives, onions, artichokes and anchovies; and hot hors d’oeuvres such as meat ravioli, cheese tortellini and meat balls in tomato sauce, as of August 2010. The restaurant's pasta entrees, such as lasagna, baked ziti and eggplant parmesan, come in two sizes, one that feeds 10 to 12 people, and one that feeds 20 to 25 people. Mama Louisa's also offers three chicken entrees, chicken cacciatore, chicken Tuscany and chicken scaloppini, on the catering menu, as well as buffet packages that include two main dishes, salad, bread sticks and utensil packets. The restaurant also offers desserts such as seasonal petit fours, vanilla cheesecake, tiramisu and mini cannoli.
Mama Louisa's Italian Restaurant
2041 S. Craycroft Road
Tucson, AZ 85711
520-790-4702
mamalouisas.com
Specializing in Chicago-style pizza and upscale Italian cuisine, Fiorita's Italian Cuisine offers a catering menu with full pans that feed 12 to 16 people and half-pans that feed six to 10 people. The catering selections include entrees such as vegetable or meat lasagna, cheese ravioli, chicken Marsala, eggplant parmesan and cheese ravioli, as August 2010. Salad selections include Caprese salad, pasta salad and garden salad; and appetizer selections include stuffed mushrooms, artichoke bruschetta and finger sandwiches. Fiorita's Italian Cuisine also offers cannoli, tiramisu and cheesecake platters.
Fiorita's Italian Cuisine
2702 E. Grand Road
Tucson, AZ 85711
520-325-6913
fiortios.com
Trattoria Pina Cucina Italiana casual restaurant offers a family-style catering menu with sheet pans that feed six to eight people or 12 to 15 people, as of August 2010. The restaurant offers house or Caesar salad; and tiramisu or chocolate-Bavarian cream éclair desserts. Pasta entrees include selections such as chicken parmesan, stuffed shells, lasagna and penne Amorosi, or penne pasta with spinach, roasted peppers, mushrooms and asparagus tossed with a pesto cream sauce.
Trattoria Pina Cucina Italiana
5541 N. Swan
Tucson, AZ 85711
520-577-6992
trattoriapina.com
