About Us
Origins
What started off as nothing more than just a dream, The Taste Garden Café & Catering has rapidly blossomed into a tangible form of reality. Bringing two of life’s most important elements together; food and family. Our family owned café and catering business provides a prodigious experience for everyone to enjoy. We provide a vast selection of food that are both rich in flavor as well as culture; we can take you from one end of the world to another with just one bite.
Freshness is one our main priorities, this is showcased greatly at our 35 Nutmeg Drive location in Trumbull, CT. We offer both vegetarian and gluten free options, we also support local farms by using their fruits and vegetables in many of our fresh salads located at our salad bar. All of the dressings are also made in house; from our salad dressings to the flavored mayonnaise’s and salsa’s used in your favorite sandwiches!
Aside from our amazing tasting food, we are complimented by a hardworking & welcoming staff. Our business was built on the foundation of family which is how we treat both our staff & our customers.
On a personal note…
We are a family owned and operated catering business turned cafeteria and food truck! What started off as a one man show, Chef Genaro starting his own side catering business quickly became a family affair. It became all of his kids first official job during high school; learning to plate food, bake deserts, serve buffet lines, and later on learning all of the recipes. The love of family in food is what pushed our family to open up our cafeteria. With now over 35 years of catering experience, we are in our 9th year at our cafeteria located in RD Scinto’s commercial office building at 35 Nutmeg Drive, in the Trumbull Corporate Park and our 3rd year with our food truck.
With all of the support we receive from our long time customers, we decided to expand and bring our food to different parts of the State of CT and surrounding areas with our food truck where we highlight our Mexican culture and share it in the form of tacos!
Seeing how much our business has grown and how our family only grows stronger with it, we would love to thank all of those who have supported us throughout this journey. Without you guys, we are not what we have become today. With every “we can’t” you reminded us that indeed, we CAN. Thank you all for continuously challenging us and our abilities, we truly love you all from the bottom of our hearts.
The Taste Garden Cafe Supports Local Businesses
Buying locally grown and raised products comes with many benefits. For one, it allows us to help cut down on the costs and damages that come along with packaging food for long distance travel. When produce and meat are shipped, they are chemically engineered to withstand harsh weather during travel. They are injected with chemicals/hormones that allows them to appear fresh once they arrive to your grocery store. When buying at a local farmers market, you’re usually eating fruits/vegetables that have been picked within the last 24 hours, rather than a few days traveling in a large truck (which as you know, is usually traveling across the country and produces more pollution).
Buying local also allows us to help stabilize the economy within our very own community. We support many local farms by shopping at numerous farmers markets in our area, we also travel to farms in which we personally hand pick the fruits and vegetables. It allows us to spend quality time together as a family, all while providing even fresher ingredients to our customers!
We have proudly support Clover Farms, a local dairy farm. We purchase their half & half and whole milk to use in our food, as well as our coffee station. You can also find their whole milk and their chocolate milk in our coolers!
