Cocktail party for 20

The menu

These are preferences, not a lock. The planner can swap a dish that does not fit the kitchen or a diet you add.

• Warm olives & fried almonds
• Pimento cheese that holds its own
• Gougères
• Devilled eggs, crisp shallot
• Arancini al burro, fried to order
• Harbor toasts with sardines, roasted grapes and black-pepper labneh
• Shrimp cocktail shooters
• Dark chocolate pots
• Batched aperitivo, bottled
• Bitter-orange spritz, zero-proof