We love bringing people together to break bread.
Our people, community, and delicious local and sustainable food
are at the center of everything we do.
we work with you to develop a personalized seasonal menu that will immerse you in a delicious, stress-free, and memorable dining experience with amazing customer service.
We provide high quality Full-Service personal chef and catering services for intimate in-home dinners and large celebratory events with fresh local ingredients.
our Sustainability Philosophy
TBD Foods is a small family owned and operated personal chef and catering company with a focus on creating a unique and delicious dining experience, while reducing food waste. Our mission is to bring people together for a memorable meal as we utilize and promote sustainability in local food practices, community partnerships, and our employees.
Sustainability in Our Food Practices
Sustainability is practiced in our creative and intentional food preparation and preservation processes.
Food Sourcing: We feel lucky to live in a robust farming and ranching area. Almost all of our proteins and produce are locally-sourced and organic. Visit our Partner Page to learn more.
Food Preparation: We make everything from scratch and utilize every piece of an ingredient possible so that even the parts that usually get composted, flavor our stocks or starches, get mixed in with proteins, or garnish a plate. We partner with our restaurant, Sullivan Scrap Kitchen, to ensure that ingredients that have small imperfections or pieces of ingredients that often go unused create unique dishes. Our food waste drastically decreases when we can utilize whole cuts of animals, produce, starches, and spices for fine-dining events as well as creative seasonal dishes in our restaurant.
Food Preservation: We devote shelves in our kitchen to freezing, canning, dehydrating, fermenting, and salting so that every piece of food is ethically utilized. We ferment scraps of peppers to create our own hot sauce. Cuts of bison, beef, lamb, and duck are cured and hung in our dry ager to be cured for 1 month to 1 year.
Sustainability in Our community
Our community includes our local farmers and ranchers, organizations with similar missions, and our clients and guests.
Farmers and Ranchers: Our focus on local foods starts with the Front Range’s local farmers, mushroom and microgreen growers, and ranchers, who always provide the freshest ingredients. We recognize that a recipe is only as good as the quality of ingredients, so we work with local farms to ensure that the best ingredients are being utilized. This not only allows us to showcase all of the delicious local food Colorado has to offer, but also helps put money into our local economy.
Organizations: We value our community and want to do what we can to promote others in the food waste reduction and sustainability space. We partner with Women in Sustainability and Good Business Colorado to promote policies and raise money as well as awareness. We also donate leftover food from catering events to Open Door Ministries and use their partner organization, Street to Life, for our screen printing
Clients and Guests: We love cooking because it brings people together. We feel honored that our clients choose to dine and celebrate their special moments with us. And our dedication to sustainability does not stop in our commissary. We utilize low-waste event practices by bringing our own compost bin and recycling when needed. We can also offer compostable disposable items for your events.
Sustainability in Our Team
The hiring, retainment, and development of our chefs, cooks, servers and bartenders is the final piece of our sustainability mission. We welcome team members of all backgrounds, including (but not limited to) ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, experience, and training and strive to provide equal opportunities and support for all members of our team.
our partners
TBD Foods and Sullivan Scrap Kitchen are proud to work with these amazing local Colorado purveyors. They supply our meats, grains, produce, mushrooms, micro greens, and more. Each purveyor plays an important role and provides key ingredients to create a delicious menu. If you see them at your local farmers’ market, be sure to stop by and give them your support!