Below is Porretta's Dinner Menu.
Click here to see our Lunch Menu.

Individual Dinners

  • Prime rib of beef (Au jus)
  • Prime New York strip steak with mushroom caps
  • Prime rib eye steak with mushroom caps
  • Filet mignon with mushroom cap
  • Filet mignon and shrimp scampi
  • Chateau briand with bordelaise sauce
  • Beef wellington
  • Chicken shish kabob (with rice)
  • Veal with lemon wine sauce and mushrooms
  • Veal parmigiana
  • Chicken kiev, with veloute sauce and wild rice
  • Breast of chicken with lemon wine sauce and mushrooms
  • Chicken parmigiana
  • Broiled swordfish with lemon butter
  • Orange roughy with lemon butter
  • Filet mignon and lobster tail

Family Style Dinners

  • Chicken and sausage
  • Chicken and beef
  • Chicken kiev and beef
  • Beef and sausage
  • Veal parmigiana and chicken
  • Spezzatino di pollo, with beef or sausage
  • Additional meats
All Packages Include
  • Unlimited red and white wine during dinner
  • Champagne at the head table
  • Four hours of cocktail service
  • Background music during cocktail hours
  • Public address system
  • Floral centerpieces
  • Choice of cake with cuttings and wrapping
  • Free parking
  • Your very own private bridal suite
  • Soup or fresh fruit cup
  • Bread and butter
  • Salad
  • Vegetable
  • Potato
  • Dessert
  • Coffee and tea

Appetizers

  • Fresh fruit cocktail
  • Antipasto tray (Imported capicollo, pepperoni, cheese, and salami)
  • Antipasto with prosciutto
  • Antipasto with fish salad
  • Quartered fresh pineapple (garnished with fruit)
  • Fish salad
  • Bocconcini
  • Shrimp cocktail
  • Baked clams
  • Fritto misto
  • Arancine
  • Stuffed shrimp scampi
  • Fruit salad in a cantaloupe or honeydew
  • Melon, with proscuitto
  • Sorbet (before main course)
  • Grigliata

Soups

  • Minestrone
  • Tortellini in chicken broth
  • Clam chowder
  • Cream of mushroom
  • Cream of broccoli
  • Cream of chicken

Salads

  • Tossed green salad with red cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumbers
  • Porretta Salad with bib and romaine lettuce, black olives, and provolone
  • Spinach salad with mushrooms

Potatoes

  • Baked potato with sour cream
  • Porretta roast potatoes
  • Potatoes parisienne
  • Whipped potatoes
  • Wild rice pilaf
  • Double baked potato boat

Pasta

  • Pastas
    • Mostaccioli
    • Rotini
    • Orrechietti
    • Tagliatelle
    • Farfalle
    • Rigatoni
  • Sauces
    • Porretta's home made sauce,
    • Boscaiola,
    • Pomodoro basilico,
    • Garlic and oil with broccoli

Vegetables

  • Glazed baby carrots
  • Sauteed cut green beans
  • Green beans alla marinara
  • Green beans almondine
  • Sauteed green peas with mushrooms
  • Broccoli alla Porretta
  • Asparagus
  • Italian mixed vegetables

Hors D'Ouvres

  • Pizza bread
  • Meat balls
  • BBQ Chicken and Ribs
  • Zucchini sticks
  • Mozzarella sticks
  • Italian sausage
  • Iced shrimp pyramid
  • Champagne fountain
  • Deluxe hors d'oeuvres table with fish and shrimp pyramid

Desserts

  • Assorted sherberts
  • Spumoni ice cream
  • Nocciola ice cream
  • Espresso ice cream
  • Bacio ice cream
  • French vanilla ice cream
  • Fresh fruit platter
  • Baked Alaska

Sweet Table

  • Canolli with French chocolate
  • Baba rum
  • Napoleon sliced with french chocolate and custard
  • Amaretto with pecan, chocolate dipped strawberries
  • Cannaloni ala french cream
  • Cream puffs with five different fillings
  • Spumoni slices
  • Horns with custard or french cream
  • Pagnottini with vanilla frosting or chocolate
  • Square cake slices with assorted fillings
  • Tortellini with lemon
  • French chocolate or strawberry
We are also more than willing to accommodate any special requests.

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