The Méndez Brothers, catering + eventsThe Méndez Brothers, catering + events
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Catering worththe whole room.

Los Angeles

Full-service event catering, bar, staffing, rentals and event production across Los Angeles — bespoke menus built with you, executed by a team that has been doing this since a hole-in-the-wall in Westwood Village.

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Three ways to be fed

Every menu is built with you, not picked off a list.

Buffets, plated & family style seated meals, receptions with stationary & tray passed appetizers, dessert stations, interactive chef stations, continental & hot breakfasts, morning and afternoon snacks & kraft services, craft cocktails & full bar service, beer & wine bar service, coffee & tea service, rentals, staffing, and much, much more.

Guests at a full-service catered dinner

Full-service catering

Our team on site, start to finish — menu design, culinary execution, service staff, rentals and event production. Corporate, social and weddings.

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Breakfast catering delivered to an office

Drop-off catering

Market-inspired, lovingly made catering delivered to your Los Angeles home, office or event. Individual boxed meals available. Delivery handled in-house by our own trained drivers.

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A cocktail from a full bar set up for a Los Angeles event

Bar catering

Full bar catering for every party beverage need — ABC licensed, RBS trained bartenders, and every rental that goes with it. Bar-only available if you’re bringing in outside food.

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A blackberry bramble cocktail

Bar services

A bar built for volume, and for taste.

We offer full bar catering for all your party beverage needs. We are ABC licensed with RBS trained bartenders and handle every type of event — corporate, social and weddings. Our flexibility, competitive price points and comprehensive capabilities make us the right fit for all your bar needs.

Packages include full premium liquor bars, beer & wine bars, and mixer-only packages (BYO), so you can customize everything served to your guests. Gorgeous cocktails tailored for high-volume event execution, delicious wines and craft beers come standard.

We also handle all bar rentals — wood bars, table & linen bars, service rentals (ice, trash, floor mats, chilling tubs, water pitchers, bar kits) and glassware — so you can focus on hosting a fantastic fete while we take care of the rest.

Bar-only catering is available too, if you’re bringing in outside catering. Non-alcoholic stations, mocktails and coffee & tea setups are always on the table.

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Weddings

Catering should be the easy part of the planning.

Your wedding is one of the most important events in your life, and we’d love to make it amazing. Once you’ve found your venue, simply call us — we’ll help you navigate the options and custom tailor a quote to your liking. We prefer to hop on the phone or meet in person so we can get to know you first.

Green Wedding Shoes, tropical disco party

Kyra + Edwin

Two artists who live in the desert and make their own rules. We served a fully custom family-style menu and added fun touches like hot tea and sake at the tables, plus custom cocktails the couple created themselves. Guests ate, drank and danced all night in a beautiful tropical disco.

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Love, Inc., Lego panda wedding

Joel + Bono

Two of the most thoughtful and creative grooms we’ve worked with. They wanted to take friends and family on a tour through their lives together through food and drink — so we fully customized the menu and replicated their favorite cocktails from a bar in the Philippines, where they met and fell in love. Family-style dinner, because it felt the most welcoming.

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Style Me Pretty, modern DTLA loft

Char + Brian

A wonderfully eclectic and beautiful wedding. Guests enjoyed an evening of stationary and passed appetizers, and a plated and family-style dinner combo with custom craft cocktails.

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Penthouse reception, 38 stories up

Susan + Dustin

A next-level bar program built around two of our signature drinks — Earl Grey goat-milk-washed scotch, honey, amaretto, peat; and carrot aquavit, yuzu, ginger, cardamom. We built a 20×30 tent in the parking lot at South Park Center and fed 175 guests 38 stories up. Family-style dinner: spinach salad, crispy baby potatoes with brown butter caper sauce, short ribs, sea bass, and a wild mushroom and grilled asparagus gnocchi.

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Style Me Pretty, old Hollywood glam

Natalie + Nate

Tray-passed appetizers and a plated dinner of green goddess little gems, ginger braised lamb shoulder, and wild mushroom farotto.

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Ruffled, Smogshoppe modern Mexican

Ashley + Luis

A spectacular plated dinner and dessert buffet at the Millwick in downtown Los Angeles.

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Delivered, assembled, ready to eat

Two ways we show up without taking over your space.

Office and home drop-off, and full crew catering for breakfast and lunch on set.

Appetizer skewers on a custom wood board

Drop-off catering

Bring our delicious, market-inspired, lovingly made catering to your Los Angeles home, office or event. Breakfast, sandwiches, hot buffet options, and our gorgeous ready-to-eat appetizer platters on wooden boards. Individual boxed meals also available.

Breakfast — incredible breakfast burritos, BYO avocado toast and all the traditional deliciousness, delivered for early AM meetings. Sandwiches — a la carte and boxed sandwiches, salads, sides and sweets; the catering service that started it all. Hot buffet — rotating items from our full-service menus, priced a la carte.

Cheese & mezze boards — clients love these. Orders arrive beautifully assembled on our custom wood boards in compostable boxes, ready for a casual gathering or office happy hour. Skewers and dips, heirloom squash and burrata, cajun shrimp skewers — everything designed to eat well grazing-style. Hot appetizer options available too.

Minimum
$300 food + beverage, plus delivery, service fee and tax
Notice
48 hours requested, but we do our best on last-minute requests — just call or email
Delivery
Handled in-house with our own trained drivers
Changes
No cancellations within 48 hours; product is in and prep is under way. Adjustments handled as we can accommodate
Buffet catering set up for a production crew

Production catering

We offer production catering for all your breakfast and lunch shoots — hot and continental breakfast, sandwiches, hot buffet menus, desserts and beverages. Individual boxed meals also available.

Continental + hot breakfast — menus rotate daily and include our incredible breakfast burritos, BYO french toast and all the traditional goods, delivered for early AM call times.

Hot lunch buffets — affordably priced, high-quality menus with lots of variety, covering all dietary needs and accommodations. Rotating menus change daily to keep your crew happy and well fed across 2–5 days of shoots.

Included
Disposable serving ware, paper plates, plastic flatware and napkins. Bamboo available for an additional fee
Add-ons
Chafers and heating elements, hot and cold beverage service, on-site staff to serve, replenish and clean up
Notice
48 hours requested; delivery and setup handled by in-house trained drivers
Upgrade
Want full service instead of a simple drop-off? We’ll quote staff, chafing dishes and anything else you need

Take a menu with you

Seasonal guides and package overviews.

These are starting points — every menu we build is custom tailored with you.

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We know the kitchens before we arrive

Across the county and beyond.

We know the venues, their kitchens and their quirks going in.

Westside + Malibu

coastal, estate, beach

South Bay + Long Beach

harbor, industrial, waterfront

Downtown Los Angeles

lofts, rooftops, penthouse

Hollywood + Eastside

studio, garden, gallery

Palm Desert

desert, destination

Our story

Two best friends since they were seven.

Jeff Faust and Woogene Lee were both born and raised in Orange County and have been best friends since they were kids — the kind you hear about in books, who go to college together in another city. Which is why going into business together made so much sense.

After graduating, with no experience in the food industry, they took a huge leap of faith and put their shared love of food to work. In 2011 a small, high-end restaurant opened in Westwood Village. That hole in the wall on a busy corner became the talk of the town and expanded downtown — until the demand for catering started to outweigh the restaurant. So they took another leap, and the catering company was born in 2017.

“The #1 best thing about my job is that I get to work with Woogene. We’ve known each other since we were 7 years old and it’s unbelievably rare and special to be able to work with your best friend and build your lives together.”

Jeff Faust, co-founder

With a small but mighty team led by two people who love food and service almost as much as they love their bond, we continue to bring bespoke, custom event catering to clients of all kinds.

A small but mighty team

The people who actually show up.

These are the names on your emails, the voices on your calls, and the people in your venue at 6am.

Jeff Faust & Woogene Lee

Founders and owners

Best friends since age seven, and business partners since 2011. They took the leap from a Westwood Village restaurant to one of the leading catering companies in the city, and every menu still carries the care they built the place on.

Lauren Morales

Director of sales

Born and raised in Santa Monica, taught to cook by her Ecuadorian and Austrian grandparents before she could read or write. She went to culinary school, then found her place on the customer side, helping clients realize their own creative visions. Nearly ten years with the company and the driving force behind its growth.

Favorite: Sunday Gravy in Inglewood — and anything her grandparents make.

Cindy Larimore

Senior catering sales manager

Her grandfather owned an Italian restaurant in Michigan; one of her earliest memories is cleaning squid for calamari soup and hand-making spicy sausage in his kitchen. She studied something else entirely, waited tables to pay for it, and fell in love with food. Over ten years in catering sales and event production.

Favorites: Avenue 26 Tacos, Jitlada Thai, Hard Times Pizza.

Kirsten Walker

Executive chef and culinary director

“Chef K” found hospitality at her first job in a high school coffee shop. She pulls inspiration from her travels and her Danish, Spanish and Filipino heritage, and loves collaborating with clients to design a menu around their vision. Her guiding thought: food is at its best when it invokes comfort, tradition and love.

Favorite: her mother’s cooking.

Jessica Lightfoot

Assistant catering sales manager

Born and raised in Colorado with a degree in theater arts, which led naturally from performance to production to event catering. She’s done floral design, hands-on service, and now acts as a sounding board for clients with hosting jitters who aren’t sure what they need.

Favorite: Bavel — specifically the duck hummus.

Ryan Watanabe

Director of events

From the South Bay, and never had a job outside customer service. He joined back when it was still just a restaurant, then moved into the events director role. He loves the variety on-site catering brings — every new space is a new challenge. Feeding his coworkers and friends is his love language.

Julio Castillo

Director of operations

Meticulous and creative, with a background in graphic design and programming that he merges with a love of organization. A weekend job turned into a career that took him from a Mexico City restaurant at sixteen, to running a casino before he was old enough to gamble, to Los Angeles.

Favorite: Sunset Sushi — in Phoenix, Arizona.

Tell us what you’re planning

The right person’s direct line.

Different events go to different people on our team. Pick the closest match and you’ll get their direct number — no switchboard, no form-and-wait.

Planning an event?

Let’s talk.

catering@fundamental-la.com (310) 870-1445