Eos Catering’s objective is to share our love and passion for wonderful food and service with our clients and guests in the Greater Knoxville Area.
Our primary concern is for your event to be flawless. Our company has grown primarily by word of mouth from our satisfied clients and their impressed guests.
Whether it’s a birthday party for 50, a buffet corporate lunch for 75, or a cocktail fundraiser for 400; Eos Catering & Special Events will incorporate your ideas with culinary experience and passion to create an outstanding event.
Holly Hambright's reason for choosing the culinary field at first was strictly financial. Floundering at the University of Tennessee in a field of low demand and high competition (music), she felt her vocational time clock ticking and believed that at 22, had only a short time to rethink her professional direction.
She had experienced two seasons cooking at a large summer camp on Watts Bar Lake. A gourmet’s nightmare yes, but the hard work and instant gratification of satisfying one of the most basic needs for people was immensely enjoyed. To hear a ten year old say that his spaghetti was better than his mother’s was at that time inspirational.
Believing she had found her calling, Holly left UT to attend Baltimore’s Culinary Arts Institute graduating #1 in her class in 1983. She has held the positions of Executive Pastry Chef, Executive Sous Chef and Executive Chef in various luxury hotels in Baltimore, Washington, DC, Boston, and Bermuda feeding such notables as Her Majesty the Queen of Thailand, Mrs. Anwar Sadat, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Barry Tuckwell, Lamar Alexander, and Presidents Ford and Clinton.
She has learned over the past 25 years that one will never be “just a chef.” It’s not just the long hours spent cooking and being a technician; there is so much more. The opportunity to share her knowledge and experience, the vision to inspire and achieve common goals, the opportunity to promote the profession by promoting her staff has brought Holly to the understanding that one “gets” what one “gives”.
Holly Hambright, Corporate Executive Chef/Catering Manager and Chef, holly@namasushibar.com
Let us know the details of your event and we will contact you with further information.