About Rivertnova
We cook what grows here, for the people who live here
Rivertnova is a Québec City catering company built around the conviction that place-specific food is better food — for guests, for producers, and for the environment.
Who we are and what we do
A team of ten, based in Vieux-Québec, cooking for events from ten to four hundred guests.
Rivertnova was founded in 2016 by chef and entrepreneur Laurence Savard, who spent eight years in restaurant kitchens in Québec City and Montréal before deciding she'd rather build food experiences that existed outside of a permanent dining room. The company began with private dinner clients and a reputation for rigorous sourcing, and has grown steadily to a team of ten full-time kitchen and service staff — with a roster of trusted contract specialists for larger events. Today we cater weddings, corporate programmes, and private gatherings across Québec City, Charlevoix, and the broader Capitale-Nationale region. Every event, regardless of size, is planned by one of three senior coordinators who remain your point of contact from initial enquiry through post-event follow-up. The kitchen team has developed over two hundred original recipes across eight years of seasonal work — none of them are shared between client events.
How we work and where our limits are
Honest about process, honest about what we won't take on.
Our process is collaborative but structured. After an initial call, we send a written brief confirming what we've understood about your event, which you review and correct before any menu work begins. Menu proposals are delivered in writing with full sourcing notes, and we don't consider a menu confirmed until you've tasted it — private tastings are included in all wedding and executive dinner contracts, and available at cost for other event types. We're well suited to clients who have a point of view about food and want a caterer to meet that standard, not simply fill a slot. What we don't take on: events where the primary brief is the lowest possible per-head cost, last-minute bookings of less than three weeks for groups over fifty, or events in venues more than 120 kilometres from Québec City without a confirmed advance site visit. These limits exist so that every event we do accept is one we can execute at the level we've committed to.
What separates Rivertnova from every other caterer I've worked with is that they actually read the brief. They came back with ideas that were specifically ours — not the default package with our name written at the top.
Mathieu Boivin, event producer — Québec City, QC
Come and find us
We're based in Vieux-Québec and available Monday through Friday for calls, site visits, and tastings by appointment.
340 rue Saint-Paul, Québec City QC G1K 3X3, Canada · hello@rivertnova.online · +1 (418) 555-0174