Private events
Birthday dinners, anniversary celebrations, milestone family gatherings — Rivertnova brings full-scale catering craft into private spaces without disrupting what makes them yours.
No two households run the same way. We work around yours.
Private event catering from Rivertnova covers the full range from a chef's table for six in your dining room to a garden party for eighty with a wood-fired station. What stays constant is our respect for the space — we arrive with our own equipment, we keep the kitchen cleaner than we found it, and we exit without asking you to manage our team. Private events are often where the most personal flavour stories come from: the dish from a grandmother's recipe you want us to interpret and elevate, the region of France you honeymooned in that set a flavour standard, the family dietary pattern you've navigated for twenty years. Tell us those stories. That's the material we work with. We serve Québec City and surrounding areas including Charlevoix, Chaudière-Appalaches, and the greater Capitale-Nationale region.
Whether it's a long table or a standing cocktail gathering, we have the format covered.
For groups of four to sixteen, we send a dedicated chef and front-of-house team to your home. The menu is built specifically for your evening — full tasting format with optional wine pairing guidance, designed at the level of a serious restaurant without leaving your table.
Outdoor summer and autumn gatherings in the Québec region benefit enormously from what's in season. We design menus that make sense in open air — foods that travel well, hold temperature, and create a sensory experience that matches a canopy of October maples.
Milestone birthdays, anniversaries, retirement gatherings — occasions where the dinner itself is part of the memory. We design with intention: a specific arc from aperitif through dessert that reflects the person being celebrated, not just the size of the room.
My mother's eightieth birthday dinner was for twenty-two people in our home outside Lévis. Rivertnova built a menu that wove in dishes from the region she grew up in. She cried at the venison course. I can't explain exactly why it worked so well, but it did.
Caroline Beaulieu, client — Lévis, QC
Tell us about the occasion, how many guests you're expecting, and where it'll be held — we'll take it from there.