Festival-week catering for Boulder, January 21 to 31, 2027
Fifteen announced venues, one production kitchen a short drive from all of them, and a team that has already cooked inside four.
- Serving Boulder since 1987
- Seventeen years of Best of Boulder honors
- More than 4,000 guests served at a single event
Built for a festival week
The 2027 Sundance Film Festival runs January 21 to 31 across fifteen announced venues, every one of them a short drive from our production kitchen on 55th Street. We are a full-service caterer with our own kitchen, service teams, bartenders, and trucks, so a premiere reception at one theater, a lounge at another, and a late dinner across town can run on the same day from one plan.
For more than three decades, A Spice of Life Catering has been creating exceptional culinary experiences that celebrate the people, places, and communities that make Colorado unique. As a Boulder-based company, we are deeply connected to the local food ecosystem and intentionally cultivate relationships with regional producers, artisans, and partners who share our commitment to quality, sustainability, and hospitality. We proudly work alongside respected local businesses such as Rock River Bison, Bee Squared Honey, and the Boulder County Farmers Market, and we source many of our ingredients directly from trusted producers whenever possible. Menus for festival week are elevated and authentically connected to place.
Inside the festival footprint
Over the years, we have developed extensive experience working within many of Colorado's most respected event spaces, including several the festival has announced for 2027. This is where we have already cooked, and how often.
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Boulder Theater
Screening venue
Two events in 2025, one of them the Boulder Chamber, a repeat client.
Photo: Boulder Theater, z2ent.com
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Dairy Arts Center
Boedecker Theater, Gordon Gamm Theater, and talks
Five events across 2024 and 2025 for corporate, university, and nonprofit clients.
Photo: The Dairy Arts Center, thedairy.org
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CU Boulder campus
Macky Auditorium, Roe Green Theatre, Muenzinger Auditorium, Old Main
Macky Auditorium in 2025, Fiske Planetarium, the CU Library, and twenty-five events at the Koenig Alumni Center, where the venue lists us as a caterer.
Photo: Koenig Alumni Center, colorado.edu
The rest of the 2027 footprint
- eTown Hall (screenings and talks; we catered there in 2024)
- Chautauqua Auditorium
- Boulder High School Auditorium
- Casey Middle School Auditorium
- Cinemark Century Boulder
- Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library
- Hotel Boulderado, festival headquarters
Venue teams know us. We walk every room before the first service, coordinate load-in and timing with the house staff, and bring a field kitchen where there is none. See the venues we work in.
Scale without losing the plate
We have served more than 4,000 guests at a single event and a green room for twelve with the same attention. A festival week is both at once: a seated dinner for several hundred one night, passed appetizers in a theater lobby the next, boxed meals for a crew at dawn. The Boulder Chamber is a repeat client, including its 2025 event at the Boulder Theater.
Every event in the window sits on one proposal and one run-of-show. A dedicated coordinator stays with you from the first call through the last course, so the person who planned the week is the person answering the phone during it.
How we run a festival week
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Our own kitchen
A licensed production kitchen in Boulder, a short drive from every festival venue, where tastings are hosted and every festival menu is built and dispatched.
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Our own service teams
Uniformed servers, bartenders, and chefs who work together every week. Setup, service, and breakdown are ours, so the venue and the host never staff the food.
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Bar service where the venue allows it
T.I.P.S.-trained bartenders and a certificate of insurance provided as a matter of course; the host or venue supplies the alcohol. Signature cocktails, wine and beer, or a dry lounge, as the room calls for.
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Labeled, restriction-friendly menus
Gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and allergy-aware options, labeled at the table and handled with care in the kitchen. Menus are written around the restrictions in the room, not patched after the fact.
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Handheld, boxed, and late
Passed and handheld menus for lobbies, boxed and grab-and-go for crews and volunteers, and late service for after-parties, all from the same kitchen and the same plan.
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Festival-week events we cater
- VIP and green rooms
- Filmmaker and press lounges
- Sponsor and brand activations
- Premiere receptions
- Seated dinners and galas
- After-parties and late service
- Crew and volunteer meals
Standards. Committed to sustainability through composting, local Colorado sourcing, food-donation partnerships, and eco-friendly serviceware. Rentals, china, glassware, and linens coordinated as part of the proposal. Seventeen years of Best of Boulder honors.
Who already relies on us
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Listed by CU Boulder
The Koenig Alumni Center names A Spice of Life among the caterers it recommends to renters, and we have catered twenty-five events there in two years.
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Trusted by the Boulder Chamber
A repeat client whose gatherings we have served at the Boulder Theater and the Dairy Arts Center.
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Best of Boulder, seventeen years running
Gold and silver honors in the city's Best of Boulder poll, plus a 4.8 average across more than 280 Google reviews.
Festival-week questions
How far ahead should a festival-week event be booked?
Can one caterer serve events at several festival venues on the same day?
How are dietary restrictions handled for a large, mixed guest list?
Is late-night and after-party service available during the festival?
Denver · Boulder · Colorado
Request a festival proposal
Michelle Cordes, Business Development · (303) 443-4049 · www.aspiceoflife.com
Tell us what you are planning for the week and we will come back with one proposal covering every date, venue, and room. Michelle reads every request.