Why Food Trucks Are One of the Best Option for Catering

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There’s a joy that can be found in being a great host or hostess. The parties, events, and gatherings you hold leave guests feeling welcomed, treasured, and well-fed. You understand that the food is what holds a party together, what people will talk about for months to come, and although you are perfectly capable of creating feasts for all to enjoy, you know that the efficient and smart thing to do is to cater your special event, leaving you free to do all the other thousands of items that go along with creating an occasion to remember! Listed below are just a few reasons why Modern Tortilla provides great options for catering!

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Work Smarter, Not Harder

When you hire a food truck, you hire a self-contained feeding service, one that offers all the staff, all the clean-up, and in our case, all those delicious tacos. There will be no need to hire anyone else allowing you to make a phone call, make a few decisions, and then move on to other details that are almost as important.

We Go Where You Want to Be

Maybe you don’t want the hassle of people in your house. You’re not interested in preparing your home before, and you’re definitely not good with the cleaning after, and you have decided that your special event is going to be held at a local park. You don’t have to worry about electricity options, about food possibly spoiling in this desert heat, and because we have wheels, you know that if there is parking available for a truck this size, we can be everywhere you want to be.

Impressing Your Guests

If you have never hired a food truck before, this will be an experience, and it more than likely will be the start of a new tradition, especially when you see the sense of excitement your guests will feel when our colorful Modern Tortilla food truck rolls into place. Knowing that it holds all that good food inside, their smiling mouths will be salivating, and the wow factor you have provided will never be forgotten.

Saving Money

Saving money is always a good thing, and because catering services often have high overhead that they pass on to their clients, saving is not something that will take place unless you hire a food truck. It costs less to run a food truck, and we share those lower fees with our clients while providing meals that will make their taste buds stand up and cheer.

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Cater A July 4th Celebration With Modern Tortilla

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When you choose to live life in the desert you can’t help but like life on the spicy side; the scorching heat of a summer day, the fiery beauty of a desert sunset, and the inimitable taste of Modern Tortilla tacos just make life better, especially on the most American of holidays, the 4th of July. And just because you like the heat, it doesn’t mean you have to roast in your own kitchen preparing for your Independence Day pool party, it just means you should consider choosing our Modern Tortilla catering services in Phoenix to delight your guests. This guide to the tacos that will make your pool party shine will help take the heat off your plans for being the host or hostess with the mostest. Celebrate the 4th of July with Modern Tortilla.

Red, White, and Delicious

Chances are, if you don’t have a pool whatever celebration you decide to enjoy will be spent inside the air conditioned coolness of your desert digs, but for those with pools, the party is on, Dance to the music playing through your outdoor speakers while dancing in the cool waters of your pool, laughing until the tears stream from your eyes, and eating tacos until you can’t eat another bite. If this isn’t one of the freedoms our forefathers fought for all those hundreds of years ago, we really think it should be! Life, liberty, and the pursuit of tacos; that has a catchy sound, and your 4th of July soiree will be a celebration of all 3.

More than Tacos

Of course, life can be about more than tacos. It can also be about burritos, quesadillas, and house made mason jar lemonade, all things we feature on our catering menu. Choose your favorite flavor of the night, mix our lemonade with some Tito’s vodka, and discover all the ways life in the United States of America is the only life you want to live. Oh, and don’t forget about the chips and salsa that always show how weak your willpower really is, spicy, salty, and crunchy, this side hits all three of the major food groups, enhancing the flavor of your 4th of July celebration!

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Celebrate the differences of desert life by choosing Modern Tortilla to cater your fabulous 4th of July fiesta and spend the night enjoying your friends, family, and neighbors instead of worrying about the food you are serving!

Cater a Small Event with Our Taco Cart

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There are always going to be the big moments in our lives, the moments that deserve a celebration to remember—weddings, anniversaries, or milestone birthdays to name a few—but we at Modern Tortilla feel that every event deserves the best food, and our taco carts are the perfect way to show your guests you care. Offering the same delicious taste you have learned to expect from our food, just offered on a smaller scale, if you aren’t catering your small event with a Modern Tortilla taco cart, your party may still shine, just a little duller and with far less taste.

Not Everyone Has the Room for a Food Truck

It is true that our Modern Tortilla food trucks offer an impressive entrance to any grand soiree, and it is even truer that tacos make a party one no one will ever forget, but the smaller size of our taco carts ensure that you can celebrate no matter how tiny your yard or home may be. Designed to keep the hot ingredients hot, the cold ingredients cold, and all the ingredients absolutely delicious, your guests, no matter how few, will be lining up eagerly for their turn to taste the tacos we have prepared. And you won’t have to move all your furniture against the wall or stack your lawn chairs in the garage, because our taco carts are designed to fit in the smallest of spaces while providing the largest of taste explosions.

Every Day Is Taco Tuesday with Modern Tortilla

After your kiddo is accepted in Cooperstown, your husband got that big promotion, or when you learn that the neighbors you have lived next door to for many years are moving on, it is time to start planning the event that commemorates all of the above. And because every day can be Taco Tuesday, all you need is our phone number, some good music, even better friends, and an Arizona-sized appetite to throw a party that will be the talk of the neighborhood.

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The small events can offer the big moments when you choose to cater your party with our Modern Tortilla taco carts. Contact us today and let our tacos be the perfect ingredient to your small event.

Cater a Summer Pool Party with Modern Tortilla

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The summer barbecue is a simple pleasure enjoyed by families all over the world, and when a pool is added to the equation, it levels up the fun and wonder, but in the desert, we take the fun to a whole other dimension. We live in the sunshine and we crave the heat, and even as we hang out in triple-digit temperatures, cooling ourselves in the fresh clear waters of our swimming pools, we keep the heat close to our hearts with the foods we serve at our summer pool parties. It’s the spicy flavor of tacos that makes our hearts sing, and choosing Modern Tortilla to cater your summer pool party will help you fall under the spell of summer even more.

The Flavor of the Sun

Obviously, we can’t taste the sun—we can’t even look at it without risking permanent damage to our eyes—but we like to think if we could taste the sun, it would taste like tacos. Complex and spicy, the different salsas or hot sauces actually work to both cool down the taste as they build up the heat, adding a dichotomy to your dining adventures. It’s impossible to have a bad time at a summer pool party, especially when surrounded by friends, family, and your fur baby, and if you have a Modern Tortilla taco in hand, ecstasy is sure to follow.

Do You Have the Room?

Yards in the Phoenix area seem to get smaller every year, and having a pool as its focal point shrinks the available “space to do activities in” even further, but that’s ok. Our Modern Tortilla taco carts are designed to fit into smaller spaces, ensuring that even a tiny yard has room for tons of flavor. Our taco carts are built to keep hot ingredients hot, cold ingredients cold, and make it incredibly easy to blend them both together to create the world’s most perfect handheld.

Your Summer Pool Party Deserves to Be Catered by Modern Tortilla

We aren’t saying that your reputation as the hostess with the mostest is at stake if you don’t add Modern Tortilla tacos to your party, but we will say that you and your guests deserve the explosion of taste that each taco you bite into will bring. Give us a call today at (602) 848-8823 and let our tacos take the starring role in your summer pool party!

 

Let Modern Tortilla Cater Your Wedding Party or Reception

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There will be a lot of special days in your life: the day you were born (although you won’t remember that one!), your first day of school, your last day of school, and the day you say I do to our favorite human. While every event can be a wonderful one, it is only the last one that will change your life forever. The party that accompanies your wedding day should shine as brightly as your love does, and although there are many details that go along with planning your reception, we can help you mark off at least one item from your to do list, that of choosing the caterer. This guide to all the reasons you should let Modern Tortilla cater your wedding party or reception is just our way of showing you all we can to do to help on the most beautiful and important day of your life.

Kick Up the Heat

The fire between you and your betrothed will be kicked up a notch when you choose Modern Tortilla for your catering needs, providing a taste of home to all who support you on this wonderful day. Offering the favorite foods you, as a native desert dweller, were brought up on, our tacos, quesadillas, and burritos will enhance the flavor of your love, and your guests will love you even more for keeping the celebration casual. Good food doesn’t have to be small in portion size or made with overpriced ingredients, and because the strongest marriages are built on tradition and fun, our tacos will fit right in—plus our reasonable catering costs will leave you more money to spend on a honeymoon you will never forget!

Every Wedding Is Different

There is no other couple like yours, and your day should reflect who you are, and in a world of cold cuts, you are proud to call yourselves tacos, so why not step outside the wedding catering box and serve the food that has always brought you comfort and joy? Celebrate your special day with a foundation of friendship, family, and the food that makes you smile most. Give us a call today at (602) 848-8823 and discover what our food trucks and carts can bring to your celebration of love and forever.

Cater Your Memorial Day Celebration with Modern Tortilla

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Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were bemoaning the end of the big winter holidays, dreading having to return to work and school, and wishing that summer wasn’t that far away? The Valley of the Sun has a love/hate relationship with summer, understanding that it is a season that doesn’t end in just three months; rather, it goes on and on and like the Energizer Bunny. But you love the summer holidays and warm memories made by spending the day playing with your friends and family, and because you have a friend in Modern Tortilla on Memorial Day in Phoenix, you won’t have to spend hours slaving over a hot stove or grill!

Savoring the Memories

Memorial Day is more than just the unofficial beginning of the summer season, however, it is a holiday devoted to the memory of those who sacrificed everything so we could enjoy summer barbecues with friends, travel with family, and all the other freedoms our country offers to its inhabitants. And while you are savoring the memories of your own family heroes, perhaps planting a flag on their final resting place and giving a salute of thanks, you can also be anticipating the moment our Modern Tortilla food truck pulls into your driveway, ready to start feeding the hungry guests who will soon be gracing your doorstep. The party starts with the first scent of tacos, so turn the music up, leave the front door wide open (who wants to be constantly stopping their dancing to answer the door?) and prepare to savor the fun that will be remembered for years to come.

Mexican Food at an American Celebration?

The best part of being American can be the assimilation into all the cultures that have made our country their new home. We are supposed to be a melting pot, and nowhere is that blend more obvious than when it comes to the food gracing our dinner tables. The taco is fast becoming our nation’s favorite handheld, edging out the burger, and on this all-American holiday, your guests will appreciate the flavors of our Modern Tortilla tacos, burritos, and quesadillas, even as they would love burgers equally well. Your favorite 80s music will complement a Chicken Tinga Taco, and a game of cornhole is even more fun after devouring one of our carne asada tacos. There is no wrong way to celebrate, unless, of course, you choose to celebrate WITHOUT food, because can you really consider it a party if there is no meal at its centerpiece?

Margaritas for Everyone

The best part of Mexican food is knowing that it goes with everything and although we offer house made lemonade that can be purchased to go along with your meal, you may choose ice-cold beer for your Southwest Steak Burrito, some chilled chardonnay to go along with that chicken tinga taco we discussed earlier, or, frosty margaritas for everyone to enjoy, knowing that their cool taste will enhance the spicy heat of your Modern Tortilla catered dishes. Sitting poolside with taco in one hand, margarita in the other, and your toes dangling in the cool waters is one of life’s greatest luxuries, and the best thing of all is knowing that you don’t have to wait until July 4th to experience this moment again; you can stop by our food trucks nearly every day of the week. You deserve all the tasty moments, and Modern Tortilla can provide!

More Reasons to Choose Modern Tortilla

As if tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and crème filled churros weren’t enough reasons to choose Modern Tortilla for your Memorial Day shindig, we haven’t even mentioned the time saver we can be. Throwing a party can take up a lot of energy and time as you scrub floors, skim the leaves off the top of your pool and shock the algae that seemed to begin the minute the temperatures rose above 90. Instead of adding grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning again, you can already be floating on your unicorn raft, margarita in hand as we are setting up the meal. Choose between a taco cart or our colorful food trucks, or, if your celebration is family only, order up our drop off taco bar and enjoy the day with the people you know and love best.

Memorial Day in Phoenix Will Be Here Before You Know It

You work hard every day of your life, and this bonus day off deserves to be a celebration of fun and relaxation, starting with the food that will feed your hungry guests. Memorial Day will be here before you know it, however, so give our catering staff a call today and let’s start planning THE party of the season together! Creating memories that last a lifetime is easier with Modern Tortilla by your side. We also offer catering for other special occasions, including wedding catering!

Cater A Summertime Party With Modern Tortilla

The simple pleasures of summer are best enjoyed with the people we love the most and when it is time to start planning a summer party, Modern Tortilla can make it even simpler, allowing you to spend less time working and more time enjoying your guests and because we all know that it is no fun grilling in 100+ degree temps, you will stay cooler as well. Check out all the reasons summer catering in Arizona with Modern Tortilla is the best idea, allowing your fiesta to sparkle and your relaxation to begin!

Authentic Taste of the Southwest

Now if you are new to the area, you may be wondering what kind of summer party offers Mexican food at its centerpiece, but if you have lived here any length of time, you know. Mexican food is our comfort food, the food we were raised on, the food that adds sparkle to an otherwise ordinary day and Modern Tortilla takes tacos, burritos, and quesadillas to the next level of absolutely fabulous.

Made with locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, our taco carts are destined to be the talk of the neighborhood, securing your position as the hostess with the mostest or the host no one wants to ghost. And because we do the hard work, the shopping for the ingredients, the preparation of the tacos you will love, you can spend your pre-party hours sitting by your pool sipping margaritas and waiting for your guests to arrive.

Our drop-off menu comes with all the paper products you need, and the serving trays and utensils are disposable, so clean up is a breeze as well, this time allowing you to spend your time with your guests and not washing dishes in the kitchen.

Taco Tuesday Every Night of the Week

We think Taco Tuesday should be a national holiday, but we also believe that it should be celebrated every day of the week, so don’t even think about being forced to hold this fiesta on a Tuesday night! Tacos for days that begin with T, including Tuesdays, Thursdays, today, and tomorrow and your awesome hosting skills will be even more appreciated because you chose Modern Tortilla to cater your summertime bash! Fill out the form on our home page or give us a call at (602) 848-8823 today and let us take care of the hard part while you sit back and enjoy!

Cater Your Party for Spring Break in Arizona with Modern Tortilla

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Remember the days when your idea of the perfect Spring Break involved cheap hotels, all the alcohol you could drink, and pizzas that were cheap, huge, and shared by everyone in your group? There were probably some very good times that happened in those days, but your idea of an excellent party has probably changed over the years, and today, as you begin planning a Spring Break in Arizona celebration, the differences will become very clear. No more hard hotel beds with questionable sanitation, the alcohol you drink may run towards craft beers, silky wines, and high-end tequilas, and the food you crave? The delicious flavors of the Southwest are what you seek, all catered by your favorite gourmet food truck, Modern Tortilla, and if you hadn’t thought that far along, today we will discuss with you all the reasons why you should have your Spring Break party catering in Phoenix with Modern Tortilla!

Pizza Is So College Dorm Party

Not that there is anything wrong with it, but pizza is something you eat on a busy Friday night after the kids are home from their sporting events or something that was standard at your old college dorm parties. And whether you grew up on the spicy flavors of Mexican food or are a more recent transplant to the Valley of the Sun and have learned exactly why tacos are fast becoming America’s favorite handheld, you know that a fiesta starring Modern Tortilla and our wonderful dishes will be one that will be talked about for years to come! Saving you time and effort, our catering menu is a special one that just may become your newest obsession with our catering number (602) 848-8823) coming up on your speed dial for every party you host.

The Season of Promise

Spring is known for April showers (although not so much in the desert), May flowers, and for being the season of promise, and we promise that your Spring Break celebration will be one that everyone will wish never had to end. Celebrate the beauty of March with our tacos, burritos, and quesadillas and wonder why you never thought of doing this sooner, feeling secure in the realization that you will never have to party without us ever again. Offering four ways to party with the tacos—drop off, full catering, taco carts, and taco trucks—you won’t need to change your party to match the theme of the catering because we match our catering services to what your party needs.

The Simple Joys of a Really Excellent Taco

Whether your party is a raucous celebration with neighbors, coworkers, and friends or a family gathering with kids playing tags, dogs barking happily at their feet, and the matriarchs and patriarchs sitting under the gazebo, talking about the good old days, the simple joys of a really excellent taco will enhance the event. Chicken tinga, carne asada, and the surprising excitement of our veggie tacos with their tortilla shells filled with sweet potatoes, corn, onions, and red peppers are just a lot of words that can be boiled down to one simple sentence: Modern Tortilla’s tacos are that good.

More Than Tacos

If tacos were all that we offered for your Spring Break extravaganza, we are sure you would be happy and satisfied, but Modern Tortilla doesn’t subscribe to the belief that less is more. In addition to the tacos listed above, your party guests will be able to choose between our Southwest Steak Burrito Plate and our Chicken Fajita Quesadilla. The steak burrito will please the heartiest of eaters, its red chile tortilla stuffed full with carne, corn, cilantro, and a variety of cheeses while the chicken quesadilla will introduce adults to a new version of an old comfort food. Every plate we offer comes with chips and salsa, ensuring that although your guests may leave the party a little tipsy and a lot exhausted, they definitely won’t leave hungry.

The Season for Tacos

Every season is the right season for tacos (yes, even in the hottest days of summer, a taco can bring joy) but when you celebrate the season of rain, flowers, and brief escapes from the world of school and work with a taco, burrito, or quesadilla, spring will become THE season for tacos. Portable and delicious, these crispy pockets of spice and flavor can be enjoyed poolside as the sun drops behind the mountains, setting the sky on fire. An Arizona sunset once witnessed is not soon forgotten and an Arizona sunset complemented by the fiery taste of a chicken tinga taco is one that will go down in history as the best sunset EVER! Additionally, if you’re planning a spring wedding, our team can help provide the ultimate feast with our wedding catering services.

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Ring In The AZ New Year With A Meal At Modern Tortilla

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The holiday season can be a stressful one, but the end is in sight. It is time for the swan song of 2023 and all that is required of desert dwellers in the Valley of the Sun is to relax, drink champagne, and, although this next item isn’t a requirement but more of a suggestion, ringing in the AZ new year with a deliciously spicy meal from Modern Tortilla. Take a break from your busy Christmas shopping, cleaning, and cooking itinerary and learn all the reasons that a meal at Modern Tortilla will be the best way to welcome 2024.

No Expectations

The new year stretches before you, a blank slate just waiting to be filled, and on this, the last day of 2023, all that is left to do is to make a few resolutions and celebrate with the rest of the world. Unlike Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are no expectations on what you should do or what you need to do and as you count down the seconds to midnight, 2024 begins with high hopes and beautiful optimism and we at Modern Tortilla hope that we can be there to watch it all take form. And whether you have big plans to hit all the hot spots in Phoenix, partying until the countdown to midnight has come to its natural conclusion, or you are planning on staying home and watching the big crystal ball drop on Times Square in the comfort of your home and in your jammies, a good meal will still be needed with Modern Tortilla providing all the delicious meals you grew up on. Tacos, burritos, even quesadillas that are created so that adults will love them too, you may be wondering how anything bad can happen in 2024 when you start out the year with a taste of all we have to offer.

Happy AZ New Year from Modern Tortilla

2023 has been an interesting year, not as bad as some and not as good as others, but without you, it would have been a year we would like to forget. We at Modern Tortilla wish our guests who have become family, the happiest of new years and we hope that we can help your celebration be one you never forget, leading into a year that will be filled with love, happiness and everything good!

Have Modern Tortilla Cater Your AZ Winter Event

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When winter arrives in the desert we are all more than ready to rush to greet it, often with outdoor parties and holiday get togethers with our closest friends and family. Summers are for hermits in this state, encouraging us all to stay inside in the air-conditioned coolness and winters are for all the fun you skipped earlier in the year!

Of course, winter is also about the holidays, bringing with it chores, shopping, and all the little things that make us feel as if we are constantly behind, which might discourage any thoughts of whooping it up, but if you can accept a little help from your friends, the parties never have to end!

We are, of course, talking about having Modern Tortilla Arizona catering for your winter event. Whether it is a holiday shindig or a cozy bash with friends, this guide will give you a sneak peek into how your party will be the talk of the town simply because you did!

Tacos for Everyone!

While the rest of the world may be deep frying turkeys and smoking briskets for their holiday celebrations, we Arizona rebels understand that nothing is more memorable than a taco and all the trimmings, even at Christmas!

We are born and bred in heat and fire and our food choices often reflect both, which makes hiring Modern Tortilla the natural choice. And while we are setting up a food truck in your cul de sac, a taco cart in your backyard, or even a buffet with chef-manned action stations in your formal dining room, you can be working on perfecting your outfit of the night, catching up on a Hallmark Christmas movie marathon, or reminiscing over the last time the Diamondbacks won the World Series and noting how much sweeter it was this year! (Ok, we confess, the series hasn’t begun as we write this, but we believe in the power of positive thinking!)

When your guests arrive, the scent of cilantro and salsa will make everyone salivate and although it may be quite noisy at first, with the first bite of our delicious tacos, the only sounds will be the music playing in the background and a more than a few “OMG’s!” Your winter event is guaranteed to be the talk of the neighborhood for months to come, all because of your sparkling personality, your stellar party planning skills, and your choice of Modern Tortilla!

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Winter will be here sooner than you think and wouldn’t it be sad if someone else booked us on your big AZ winter event? Contact us today!