Catering · Catering Pasadena
Shawarma Catering for Pasadena, Off Our Glendale Spits
Pasadena knows good food, which makes it a fun place to deliver ours. We run catering east on the 134 all the time — Old Town office lunches, Caltech department events, Rose Bowl tailgates — with trays packed hot off the spit and timed to arrive when your crowd is ready to eat.
Glendale to Pasadena, Timed to the Minute
The 134 East is our road to Pasadena: about fifteen minutes to Old Town on a normal day, twenty to the Caltech side, and we pad the schedule for the days the freeway disagrees. That range is well inside shawarma's quality window — we carve against your serve time, load insulated carriers, and the trays come off the truck in Pasadena behaving like they never left the kitchen.
We plan each run around Pasadena's actual geography, too. An Old Town delivery means knowing which alley door your office actually uses. A Rose Bowl drop means staging around event traffic and lot logistics. A Caltech order means finding the right building on a campus where half the buildings look identical. Give us the details once and we'll show up like we've been there before.
What Pasadena Orders From Us
Old Town and the Lake Avenue corridor are office country, and those teams order the office formats: boxed lunches with shawarma, rice, salad, and toum for meetings, or tray spreads for all-hands and client days. Caltech and the campuses around it bring us in for department lunches, lab celebrations, and student events — crowds where clear labeling and strong vegetarian options aren't nice-to-haves, they're requirements, and we meet both by default.
Then there's the Rose Bowl. Tailgate season turns the Arroyo into one giant backyard party, and shawarma trays are an unfair advantage out there: they hold heat in the lot, the pita-and-toum assembly line keeps a crowd busy, and nobody at the neighboring tailgate has anything close. We deliver to the lots or you can grab pickup trays from the shop on your way — game-day mornings, call ahead and we'll have them ready.
The Full Catering Menu, Eastbound
Pasadena gets our complete lineup: drop-off trays of chicken and beef shawarma, falafel, hummus, salads, rice, pickles, warm pita, and house garlic sauce; boxed meals for offices; and the live carving station for weddings and large events anywhere in the city. Lead times run 24 to 48 hours for standard trays, a week for big headcounts, and two to three weeks for the live spit.
For a quote, call (747) 377-0707 or email yummy.patar@gmail.com with your Pasadena address, date, and headcount. We'll factor the drive into the timing, flag any venue logistics worth solving early, and get you numbers the same day. Pasadena is a town that takes its food seriously, and we like cooking for an audience that notices the difference.
Events we've fed
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Tell us about the event — we reply same day. In a hurry? Call (747) 377-0707.
Questions, answered
Do you really deliver all the way to Pasadena?+
All the time — it's about fifteen to twenty minutes east on the 134 from our Glendale kitchen, well inside the window where shawarma arrives hot and ready to serve.
Can you cater a Rose Bowl tailgate?+
Yes — we deliver to the lots around game-day logistics, or you can pick up trays from the shop on your way. Call ahead on game mornings and we'll have everything packed and ready.
Do you handle university and campus events?+
Regularly. Caltech department lunches, lab celebrations, and student events are familiar territory — clearly labeled trays and strong vegetarian options come standard, and we'll navigate campus delivery details with you.
What's the lead time for a Pasadena order?+
Same as everywhere we serve: 24 to 48 hours for standard trays and boxed lunches, about a week for 50-plus headcounts, and two to three weeks for a live carving station.
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