Greenport’s grab-and-go food scene just got an upgrade.
Pip’s Café & Provisions is launching an expanded food program come Memorial Day Weekend, where people can pick up prepared foods and dinner for the family that night or call up the café to cater their event.
“What we’re attempting to do is create an environment with Pip’s where people are able to take a little bit of our talent and ability to cook delicious things home with them and feed their families,” says Pip’s chef Finn O’Hara.
The new venture will keep the counter case stocked with salads, deli classics and ready-to-heat proteins like herb marinated chicken, steak with chimichurri and a Silver Sand’s Motel Boathouse specialty where O’Hara’s also in the kitchen — the meatloaf.
One of the chef’s coveted creations — fried chicken — is made by soaking bone-in thighs in a buttermilk marinade, dredging them in a flour mix, frying to a golden brown and finishing with a citric acid-sugar-salt mixture. It will be available by the piece or in a 12-, 24-or 48-piece order.
In the freezer, customers will find made-from-scratch soups, chicken pot pies, cookie dough and raw scones and biscuits.
“For me, the missing need — and maybe this is born out of selfishness — but when I work too much and don’t feel like cooking at home or I’m too tired, there’s not a place to get a healthy adjacent, delicious meal,” says Alexander Perros, co-owner of Pip’s.
Pip’s catering menu will feature some of the brand’s breakfast and lunch customer favorites. (Photo credit: Pip’s Café and Provisions)
But don’t fear — the beloved bread and pastry program isn’t going anywhere. Kareem Donigan, the esteemed baker behind the hand-laminated croissants, milk buns, demi ciabatta and sourdough, will keep up his carb-packed creations at the bakery, even expanding sales to wholesale for local accounts.
On the catering side of things, Pip’s lovers can share their favorite breakfast and lunch items with a group.
The Pip’s Breakfast Spread, priced at $48 per person, suits 10 to 200 guests and includes seasonal quiche tarts, fresh fruit, sweet scones, coffee, buttermilk biscuits with butter and jam, yogurt parfaits with jam, fresh fruit and granola and iced tea or fresh-squeezed orange juice for an additional fee.
Another option, breakfast trays, include 15-count breakfast sandwiches or avocado toasts for $150. Breakfast beverages are also available to add on.
For a midday option, Pip’s Lunch Spread, which is $15 per person for 10 to 200 people, is packed with sandwiches and a mixed salad with kale or farro.
If you’d like to share a little bit of everything with your loved ones, the $25 per person Pip’s Tasting Spread, made for 10 to 200 people, provides light bites like savory scones, fresh green salad, quiche, tarts and seasonal fruit danishes.
Stop in to grab some prepared food or learn more about catering your next event with Pip’s on their website.
