CHAFING DISHES, BUFFET WARMERS & SERVERS
The antique and vintage chafing dish and buffet servers are the objects of magnificent, flavorful event drama and theater.
Chafing Dishes-Alcohol Lamp Heated
“As a designer, she believed a dinner party was a living canvas. She had bypassed the traditional, heavy floral arrangements of her mother's generation for the mid-century’s cleaner and streamlined dinner table. The meal was a celebration of the era's culinary evolution: a crisp wedge salad with blue cheese, followed by the rich, wine-braised beef. Inside these walls, surrounded by good design and close friends, there was a defiant optimism. It was Camelot.”
Turn-of-the-Century Chafing Dishes
“The air was thick with the sharp tang of bathtub gin disguised in crystal water goblets. The Victorian era of the ten-course, heavy sit-down dinners was dead, and the modern flapper demanded speed, theater, and midnight socializing…They ate whenever the music finally stopped playing. A waiter wheeled out a gleaming chafing dish mounted on a rolling cart. The table watched, transfixed, as the performance began.”
Reticulated Stands with Oven-Safe Inserts
“At precisely fifteen minutes past eight, the mandatory window of polite fashion, the first guests swept into the room. To show a ravenous appetite was a vulgar social slip; to speak of business, politics, or religion was an outright sin. Instead, they nibbled slowly, using the "outside-in" array of forks and spoons, trapped in the Victorian glittering, frost-white silence where every breath, chew, and silver chime was weighed on the invisible scales of high society.”
A chafing dish with fitted cover counts multiple pieces in a complete set. A sturdy stand holds a water pan that is filled and heated with a direct, live fire heat source, either by Sterno or alcohol burner with a lit, replaceable wick.
Choosing the Best Buffet Server for Your Venue:
Chafing Dishes, Buffet Warmers & Servers
Covered warming servers keep hot-prepared foods warmed with lighted-wick alcohol burners or with lit votive candles in a candle cup.
Covered or uncovered buffet servers, in two or three pieces, hold glass inserts in a frame to serve either hot or cold foods. Guests can enjoy the visual aesthetic of prepared dishes in when presented in uncovered buffet servers.