Rustic Food Custom Catering is one of Northern New Jersey's outstanding off -premises catering companies, providing creative catering concepts, customized menus, gourmet food and professional event staffing for events of all sizes since ****. Whether it's an intimate party at home, your corporate holiday party or the wedding of your dreams, Rustic Food will help create an unforgettable occasion.

Rustic Food is prepared at our state of the art kitchen facility in Clifton, NJ. All of our food, including all of our desserts and baked goods, are freshly prepared for your event. We avoid pre-fabricated and processed items. Rustic Food grows our own greens, herbs & vegetables in season in our on-site organic garden.

Elaine Rust President/Executive Chef
Elaine has been cooking professionally since ****. She has held back-of-the-house positions at The Griswold Inn in Essex, CT, The Dock at Saybrook Point in Old Saybrook, CT and The Gelston House in East Haddam, CT.

She served as Sous Chef at The Sovereign in Branford, CT under Chef Mark Baker and became Executive Chef at Hot Tomato's in New Haven in ****. During her tenure, Hot Tomato's was judged "Very Good" by the New York Times Connecticut edition and was voted "Best Italian Restaurant" by the New Haven Advocate Reader's Choice Poll in **** and ****.

Elaine has held numerous restaurant executive and kitchen management positions, including banquet coordination and production, at Patzo in New York City, Madison Square Bistro in Hoboken, Arthur's Landing in Weehawken and Tomato's in San Diego, California. She catered for private clients while working in financial services until the inauguration of Rustic Food in ****.