Custom Boutique Catering
You are unique and your event should be too.
Custom Boutique Catering
You are unique and your event should be too.
Lickskillet Catering
We are a boutique catering company located in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in custom menus designed specifically for your event. We work with our clients to design, build and create an experience that matches their vision within their budget.
We also provide catering for drop off events, corporate events, large scale events such as cycling events, private dinners from 2-20 people with an in-home chef experience.
What makes us different?
We focus on making a unique, personal experience that matches your personality. Do you have a memory, taste or smell you want to recreate? We love being able to capture just that so each bite brings your favorite memory to surface. We don’t want to re-use menus time and time again, but instead make each event unique.
How to get started?
Interested in us catering your event? Fill out our form request and tell us a little about what you’re looking for.
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
John Lawyer
Reaching from his New York, Midwest, and Colorado culinary roots, John has a diverse pallet and ability to create a menu that suits your personality, style, and financial resources. John created this company based on, ‘you are unique, and the food for your event should be an extension of you.’
SJ Lawyer
With a passion for organization, details and watching events come to life, SJ is our experienced coordinator. What started out as a hobby planning events and helping friends plan and design their weddings, SJ fell in love with the planning process and all the details involved.
John is your chef and the brains behind all things food. He is creating your menu and executing all parts to also ensure to stick within the budget. John is a master mind in the kitchen.
How did John and SJ meet and start working together?
In 2017, John was catering a wedding that SJ was helping coordinate and provide decorations for. When they met, there was instant chemistry. Throughout the wedding, they had to work as a team to solve problems (ice cream cake being put in the fridge and melting, cake cutting knife broke, cake server broke, etc.) They learned how to pivot as a team and fell in love.
SJ will be your main point of contact to ensure we have what we need to make your event flow smoothly.
After connecting and seeing each others strengths in the same industry, they decided to work together and form an even stronger team.
Fast forward…John proposed in 2020 and a few months later they were married.
The Foundation
Lickskillet Road and much more!
The Foundation
Lickskillet Road and much more!
Why Lickskillet?
John Lawyer was raised in a military family who moved a lot. Because of this, he became diverse in different types of food and found a love for cooking and the creation of unique flavors that capture smells and trigger a memory. As his own family grew, John left his Asian fusion restaurant in Illinois and moved back to Colorado to start something new and be closer to family. Having grown up a little in Colorado, John was familiar with the cycling world and would enjoy long rides along the front range which lead to the discovery of Lickskillet Road.
Lickskillet Road just may be the steepest dirt road in all of Boulder county -- with its one mile, 754ft climb, and 18.2% grade at its steepest part. Destined to be a restaurant name, John salvaged the abandoned road sign that was tossed across the creek while cycling up to the town of Ward. John’s background in culinary and his hobby of cycling led to his future food business, Lickskillet Catering.
John’s love for food and the industry left him to also open a ramen restaurant and two food truck concepts one being the well established and well known food truck, Corndoggies (see more below).
Through Lickskillet Catering, we focus primarily on custom menus but do have a pre-made menus that are easy to choose from when you don’t know which direction to go. We cater events ranging from drop offs, corporate events, private in home meals from 2-2- people and large scale cycling events feedings 100-3000 people in a day.
We are based in Fort Collins, Colorado and serve the greater northern Colorado area.
But wait, there’s more!
Corndoggies
John Lawyer started up an artisan corndog food truck called, Corndoggies in 2016. Handmade varietal sausages dipped in our own unique batter (gluten free option as well) and complimented with the perfect sauce. You can find Corndoggies at local breweries and food truck rallies. You can also book the truck for a special event. Book Truck
Sponsorship
We sponsor an individual cyclist athlete, Michael Kanter.
“I fell in love with bike racing in 2021 and haven't looked back since. Though I have enjoyed working through many tiers of competition, and now racing head to head with full-time, professional cyclists, my relationship with the bike runs deeper.
I first started riding while recovering from a ski accident in 2019. Having sustained multiple spiral fractures to my tibia, swimming and biking were the only forms of exercise I could do for over six months. These sports kept me going as I encountered mental health challenges along the way. I initially had my eyes set on triathlon, which I tried for a season before realizing I wanted to devote myself to cycling and see where it could go.
Having started with road and xc mountain bike racing, I found myself preferring the trails and long days in more remote mountains. I now compete in long distance xc mountain bike races and gravel races like Foco Fondo. The communities surrounding these sports have been unbelievably welcoming and caring. It's really special to have such genuine connections between the high performance side of the sport and the folks who participate more recreationally.”
“I'm so grateful for sponsors like Lickskillet Catering who make it possible for me to chase my athletic aspirations. Their connection to the cycling community and understanding of my nutritional needs is integral to my performance.
Outside of sports, I work as the director of the Fort Collins Boys and Girls Club, and I'm currently applying to law schools, in hopes of furthering my career in public service. It can be difficult to balance my professional and academic goals with sports, but having people like John and SJ in my corner helps make it happen.”