Cheese plates and veggie platters are classics, but for your next party, go worldly with EthniCity Catering.

Operated by the Centre for Newcomers, the catering collective creates edible delights from around the world including East Asian flavours, Latin American staples and South Asian items. Impress your guests with pakoras ($2.29) to start, followed by fatouche salad ($3.99) and a main dish of chicken korma with rice ($7.49). The aforementioned classics are also available but your guests will be too busy noshing on samosas and baked fatayer.

EthniCity Catering, 125-920 36th St. NE, Calgary, 403-537-8809, www.ethnicitycatering.ca

In a perfect world, our personal chef would create every meal and we’d have a catering team on hand for entertaining.

That culinary dream just got a little closer with new store CRMR At Home. Known for its three mountain lodges, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts (CRMR) group also includes four Calgary restaurants.

The specialty store offers sauces, stocks, meat pies, breads, pastries and other items from the CRMR restaurants. Think: Cilantro’s famous gorgonzola and pear pizza and the restaurant’s divine mussel sauce, Divino’s fig jam and CRMR elk and buffalo. High-end Italian glassware, kitchenware and Global knives are also on-hand.

As for that entertaining, the store also provides catering services.  

Now sit back and let someone else do the work.

CRMR At Home, 330 17th Ave. SW, Calgary, 403-532 0241, www.crmr.com/athome