Sweet and savory crepes cooked in front of your guests, styled as a buffet and served through two hours of live chef preparation, planned around the Coral Gables venue you are actually using — historic property, hotel ballroom, office suite or clubhouse.
Coral Gables events tend to be built around a room that already has a point of view — arched windows, terrazzo, a courtyard under old trees. A live crepe station adds motion to that without competing with it: the chef works in the open, each guest picks a direction, and the plate arrives hot instead of sitting under a chafer. That makes it flexible enough to close a seated dinner or to carry part of a standing reception. This page covers the Coral Gables side of the setup; the full service overview lives on the South Florida crepe station page.
Final fillings, dietary accommodations, setup details and logistics are confirmed in the proposal before booking.
The current published base price is $19 per guest with a 25-guest minimum. Delivery, taxes, upgrades, availability, venue requirements and final menu selections are confirmed in your written proposal, so treat this as a starting point rather than a final total.
Open product and current priceIf you are coordinating on behalf of a client, a firm or a committee, the planner resources page covers how we work alongside outside planners.
Coral Gables reviews events on city property through its own permit process, and its parks are reserved on a separate track. Sorting out which one applies to you usually decides your date before the menu does.
Service area focus: Coral Gables, Florida. This map identifies the city only and does not represent a VNV Events office or address.
VNV Events does not apply for, obtain or guarantee permits or venue approvals. Permitting is the responsibility of the host, the venue or your planner. What we will give you is the setup detail — footprint, power, cooking method, timing — you need to answer the City's or the venue's questions accurately.
This is cooked equipment standing in a guest-facing spot, so a short walkthrough answers most of it before anyone signs anything. In the Gables, the answers usually come down to shade, power and how the vehicle gets close.
Need the covered area itself? See tents and event rentals.
Build the three sweet fillings around fruit, chocolate and cream so the station lands as the dessert moment of the night.
Use the three savory fillings so the station carries part of the meal instead of sitting at the end of it — useful for cocktail-style receptions with no seated course.
Coordinate the buffet presentation with the colors and the architecture of the room, so the station reads as part of the design rather than equipment parked in a corner.
The current published base price is $19 per guest with a 25-guest minimum. Delivery, taxes, upgrades, availability, venue requirements and final menu selections are confirmed in your written proposal.
It depends on the property and the setup. The City of Coral Gables handles special event permitting through its Community Recreation Department, and the permit applies to events on city property and in city facilities. The City's published guidance directs organizers to submit to the Recreation Division at least 30 days before the event date, and notes that a special event permit may be one of several approvals an organizer needs. Private venues, hotels and community clubhouses apply their own vendor rules on top of that. Confirm your specific event directly with the City and with the venue. VNV Events does not apply for or guarantee permits.
The City requires a permit for the exclusive use of pavilions, fields or facilities, issues them first come, first served, and does not complete reservations over the phone. The City's park rental page notes that permits should be submitted at least seven days before the event and that a security deposit applies to park and facility rentals. Because a pavilion reservation covers the pavilion area only, ask the City directly whether adding a live cooking station also requires special event review before you commit to a date.
Yes. The package includes two hours of live-chef preparation on-site, with sweet and savory crepes made in front of guests and served from a styled buffet.
A covered cooking area, a safe power source close to the station and a clear load-in path from parking, valet or the loading dock. Historic properties, hotel ballrooms, office buildings and gated-community clubhouses each handle outside caterers differently, so exact power, placement and access requirements are confirmed with your venue before the proposal is finalized rather than assumed.
Send the date, venue and guest count and we will confirm what the setup needs and what the proposal would include.
