Charlotte NC's Best Bites Vol 2: A Registered Dietitian's Guide to Corporate Catering, Hors d'Oeuvres, and Celebrations in the Queen City

Charlotte NC's Best Bites Vol 2: A Registered Dietitian's Guide to Corporate Catering, Hors d'Oeuvres, and Celebrations in the Queen City

This is the second installment of Charlotte's Best Bites — my ongoing series exploring food culture, nourishing eating, and local dining in Charlotte, NC through the lens of 40+ years of registered dietitian practice. In Vol. 1, I dug into the city's charcuterie culture and made the case — nutritionally and culturally — for why it's become Charlotte's signature food format. This time, I'm zooming out to look at the full picture: the events, corporate gatherings, weddings, and celebrations that define daily life in the Queen City, and what actually gets served at them.

Charlotte Runs on Events — And the Food Tells the Story

There's a version of Charlotte, NC that's written about in business press: America's second-largest banking city, home to Fortune 500 headquarters, a financial services capital with a skyline that keeps reaching higher. That version is real and important.

But the version I've come to know through this series — and through conversations with Charlotteans across neighborhoods and industries — is a city that runs equally on relationships. Corporate entertainment. Client dinners. Team off-sites. The breakfast meeting before the market opens. The cocktail hour after the ribbon cutting. The Saturday afternoon bridal shower in Myers Park. The baby shower in Davidson with a guest list that spans four zip codes. The graduation party in Weddington for a kid who just finished high school in one of the fastest-growing counties in North Carolina.

Charlotte is a city of celebrations. It has the corporate density to fill a convention center calendar year-round and the social warmth to keep a caterer booked every weekend. It hosts major business conferences, NFL and NBA events, NASCAR functions up in Concord and Mooresville, and more groundbreaking ceremonies, grand openings, and ribbon cuttings than almost any other metro in the Southeast.

All of those moments have one thing in common: somebody has to feed the people.

As a registered dietitian, I've spent 40+ years thinking about what people eat and why it matters. Event food — the catered spreads at corporate meetings, the hors d'oeuvres at wedding cocktail hours, the finger food at holiday parties — is one of the most underexamined areas of nutritional life. We track what we eat at home. We have opinions about restaurants. But the food that gets served at the dozens of events we attend each year? We mostly just eat it, whatever it is, without much thought.

This article is my attempt to change that conversation for Charlotte.

The Problem With Traditional Event and Corporate Catering

Let me describe a scene that every Charlotte professional has experienced.

You arrive at a morning conference or client breakfast at a Ballantyne office park or Uptown conference room. The catering is already set up: a tray of pastries, a box of assorted bagels with foil-wrapped cream cheese packets, a fruit skewer platter that was assembled hours ago, and a stack of individually wrapped processed granola bars as the "healthy option." The coffee is fresh. The food is not.

You eat a bagel and cream cheese because there's nothing else. By 10:30 a.m., your blood sugar has spiked and crashed, your focus has evaporated, and you're counting the minutes to lunch. Nobody in that room is performing at their best.

Now expand this to the wedding cocktail hour. The hors d'oeuvres passed around the venue are fried — mini crab cakes, beef sliders, fried mac and cheese bites. Everything is heavy, greasy, and structurally incompatible with wearing formal clothes while standing for three hours. Guests can't really eat the passed items without making a mess. By the time dinner is served, some guests have eaten too much of the wrong things and don't want dinner; others haven't eaten at all and are two drinks deep on an empty stomach.

These are not edge cases. They're the default state of event catering in America — and Charlotte is not exempt from it.

The nutritional problems are well-documented. High-glycemic, low-protein event food creates blood sugar swings that impair cognitive performance, energy, and mood. Research published in nutritional neuroscience consistently links meal quality to afternoon cognitive function — the difference between a protein-and-fat-forward lunch and a high-glycemic processed one is measurable in terms of attention, working memory, and decision-making speed in the two to four hours that follow. In a city full of bankers, consultants, lawyers, and executives making high-stakes decisions in the afternoon, this is not a trivial concern.

The good news is that Charlotte has better options. And more of the city's event planners, corporate hosts, and celebration organizers are finding them.

What Nutritionally Smart Corporate Catering Actually Looks Like

The criteria I use when evaluating corporate catering are straightforward:

Protein-forward, not carbohydrate-forward. The primary macronutrient profile should be built on quality protein and healthy fats, with carbohydrates as a supporting element rather than the foundation. This keeps blood sugar stable, supports sustained energy, and avoids the post-meeting crash that high-glycemic catering reliably produces.

Real ingredients, not processed ones. The difference between artisan cured meats and grocery-store deli slices, between aged cheese and processed cheese products, between fresh seasonal fruit and canned fruit cocktail — these differences compound in terms of micronutrient density, inflammatory impact, and digestive response. Quality sourcing isn't a luxury concern. It's a nutritional one.

Visual variety as a proxy for nutritional variety. If the spread is nutritionally diverse, it will also be visually diverse. This isn't decorative — it reflects the actual range of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and fiber sources on offer.

Dietary inclusivity built in, not added as an afterthought. Any corporate catering spread in 2026 will serve a room with gluten-free requirements, dairy sensitivities, vegetarians, and guests managing conditions from Type 2 diabetes to IBS. The format should accommodate all of these gracefully, without requiring special requests or separate "allergy trays" that signal the guest is a problem to be managed.

Portion architecture that allows grazing, not gorging. Working meetings need food that people can eat while talking, thinking, and collaborating. Food that requires plates, utensils, and full attention to eat is disruptive. The ideal corporate catering format is one where people can take what they want, graze over the course of a meeting, and eat at a pace that matches their hunger.

Charcuterie boards and grazing spreads satisfy every one of these criteria. That's not an accident — it's why they've taken over Charlotte's corporate catering market among companies that think carefully about what they're serving.

Charlotte's Corporate Catering Landscape, Neighborhood by Neighborhood

Charlotte's corporate geography is distinct enough that event catering strategy actually varies meaningfully by area. Here's how the city breaks down:

Uptown Charlotte

The financial core. Bank of America's global headquarters towers over Tryon Street. Truist Financial, Wells Fargo's major operations hub, LendingTree, and dozens of law firms, consulting groups, and financial advisory practices cluster within a few blocks of each other. Uptown runs on client entertainment and internal corporate events — breakfast meetings before markets open, working lunches during earnings season, after-hours receptions for client relationship management. The format expectation here is elevated: if you're hosting at a Bank of America conference room or an Uptown law firm, the catering needs to communicate sophistication and care. Individual charcuterie boxes or a beautifully composed board says something different — and something better — than a Panera Bread corporate order.

South End

Charlotte's fastest-growing neighborhood has evolved from its mill-district roots into the city's tech and creative hub. Companies like Red Ventures, AvidXchange, and a growing ecosystem of tech startups and marketing firms have made South End a daily commuter destination for thousands of young Charlotte professionals. The catering culture here skews slightly more casual — team lunches over shared boards, startup all-hands with grazing spreads — but the expectation for quality is high in a neighborhood where food culture is part of the identity.

SouthPark

The upscale commercial and professional services district, anchored by SouthPark Mall and surrounded by medical practices, law offices, financial planning firms, and wealth management companies. SouthPark hosts a very high volume of client-facing meetings — the kind where how the food looks and how it's presented is genuinely part of the business development conversation.

Ballantyne

Charlotte's premier corporate park district. The Ballantyne area hosts dozens of national and regional corporate campuses: MetLife, Synchrony, Brighthouse Financial, and many others. Conference rooms here see hundreds of catered events per week. The scale of corporate catering demand in Ballantyne is enormous, and the opportunity to serve that demand with something better than sandwich platters is equally large.

Weddington

One of the most economically active suburban communities in the greater Charlotte area, Weddington has a surprisingly deep corporate event and conference catering scene alongside its social calendar. Conference catering in Weddington and corporate event catering services in this area represent a genuine and underserved market niche in the Charlotte metro.

Mint Hill

Mint Hill is Charlotte's hidden growth story. The community's rapid residential expansion has been accompanied by new business development, community events, and a social calendar that's become increasingly active. Corporate event catering in Mint Hill and conference catering for Mint Hill's growing business community are areas where demand clearly exists — and good local options are limited. If you're planning a business event or corporate gathering in Mint Hill, this is worth knowing.

Matthews and Concord

Matthews is Southeast Charlotte's suburban hub with its own active corporate and catering scene. Concord, northeast of Charlotte, is NASCAR country — home to Hendrick Motorsports, Chip Ganassi Racing, and a corporate sponsorship culture that runs alongside the racing industry year-round. Both communities have substantial event catering needs that fall within Charcuterie Chic Charlotte's service area.

Individual Boxes vs. Shared Boards: A Practical Guide for Charlotte Corporate Hosts

One practical question that comes up constantly in corporate catering planning is the format question: shared board or individual portions? Here's the framework I use:

Individual charcuterie boxes and cups work best when:

• The event is a formal meeting or presentation where guests are seated and focused

• Dietary restrictions vary significantly across the group

• The meeting involves executive-level guests where individual presentation matters

• You're catering a hybrid event with some remote participants (individual boxes for in-person attendees have a visual cohesiveness that reads well on camera)

• Health and safety protocols at the venue prefer individual servings

Shared boards work best when:

• The event is collaborative — a brainstorm, team lunch, workshop, or social gathering

• The group size is 8–20 people around a conference table or shared space

• The atmosphere is intentionally communal and relationship-forward (client relationship building, team bonding, new hire welcome)

• You want the board itself to be a conversation piece — the visual impact creates connection

Grazing tables work best when:

• The event has more than 20–25 guests and a cocktail-hour or reception format

• You need to cover multiple dietary needs across a large group simultaneously

• The visual and social centerpiece function of the food is intentional

• The event involves movement (standing reception, mingling, networking) rather than seated dining

Charlotte's leading companies have figured this out, which is why you'll see individual charcuterie cups at bank conference rooms and grazing tables at the same company's holiday party.

Charlotte's Social Calendar: Every Celebration, Mapped

If Charlotte's weekday identity is corporate, its weekend identity is celebratory. Here is the full map of the occasions that define Queen City social life — and what each one needs from a catering standpoint.

Weddings and Rehearsal Dinners

Charlotte wedding season runs nearly year-round. The Piedmont climate makes outdoor weddings viable from March through November, and the city's inventory of event venues — from the McNinch House in Dilworth to private estates in Weddington, vineyard properties in the Lake Norman area, and rooftop venues across Uptown and South End — keeps the calendar full.

The cocktail hour is where the hors d'oeuvres conversation happens. Hors d'oeuvres catering for Charlotte weddingsis one of the most competitive and consequential catering decisions a couple makes, and it's also one of the most nutritionally consequential for their guests. Three hours of standing and drinking on heavy fried passed apps is not a recipe for a good wedding night. A well-constructed grazing table that gives guests protein, fresh produce, quality carbohydrates, and something genuinely delicious to eat throughout the cocktail hour is both better nutrition and better hospitality.

Rehearsal dinner catering in the Charlotte area and Fort Mill, SC requires a similarly thoughtful approach — intimate, personal, good quality — but in a format that accommodates a smaller, closer-knit group for a more relaxed, communal meal.

Bridal Showers and Wedding Showers

Charlotte's bridal shower culture is distinctly Southern in its embrace of ceremony, presentation, and hospitality. Showers in the Queen City are typically held at private homes, event venues, restaurant private dining rooms, or garden spaces — and the food is expected to look as good as it tastes. Bridal shower catering in Charlotte, NC increasingly means a beautifully presented charcuterie board or grazing spread rather than a plated lunch or generic finger food tray. The format allows guests with varying dietary preferences to eat comfortably, it photographs exquisitely for the inevitable event coverage, and it creates a warm, communal focal point for a celebration built around connection.

Baby Showers and Sip-and-Sees

Nutritionally, baby showers have particular significance. Many guests at a baby shower are pregnant, breastfeeding, or in early postpartum — all periods when food quality genuinely matters. A spread built on protein, fresh produce, healthy fats, and minimal processed ingredients isn't just thoughtful hosting; from a dietitian's perspective, it's appropriate care for the people in the room. Baby shower catering in Charlotte is a space where the quality of what's served carries more weight than at most events. The charcuterie format — rich in protein, adaptable to dietary restrictions, fresh and visually beautiful — is well-matched to this occasion.

Gender Reveals

Charlotte's gender reveal events have grown into genuinely elaborate affairs. The catering needs are similar to a baby shower but often with a larger guest list and a more festive, party-forward energy. Easy to eat, visually colorful, accommodating of a mixed crowd — the criteria write themselves.

Graduation Parties

Charlotte's graduation season runs from late April through June, covering high school graduations across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) district — one of the largest school districts in the country — through Queens University, UNCC, Johnson C. Smith, Johnson & Wales, and other local institutions. Graduation parties in Charlotte range from intimate family gatherings to large neighborhood celebrations. The catering challenge: feed a multigenerational crowd that includes grandparents, college-aged siblings, and teenagers, all with different food preferences and physical tolerances. Charcuterie-forward spreads with their variety and visual abundance are among the most crowd-pleasing solutions available.

Birthday Milestones

Charlotte celebrates milestone birthdays — 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond — with genuine investment. Whether it's a backyard gathering in Myers Park, a rooftop party in South End, or a reserved dining room in SouthPark, the food is part of how the host expresses love and care for the person being celebrated. A beautiful, personally presented charcuterie board has become one of Charlotte's signature birthday catering and gifting choices.

Holiday Parties

Holiday party catering in Charlotte peaks hard from November through early January. Companies plan holiday celebrations across every neighborhood in the metro — rooftop events in Uptown, company-wide parties in Ballantyne conference centers, team gatherings in South End office spaces. This is also peak season for residential holiday parties in Dilworth, Myers Park, Cotswold, and across the Lake Norman communities. The format challenge: maximum dietary flexibility for a maximum-size crowd, often with a mix of alcohol and non-alcohol, in a standing-reception format that favors grazing-style service.

Awards Ceremonies, Ribbon Cuttings, and Grand Openings

Charlotte's business community has one of the most active civic and commercial event calendars in the Southeast. The Charlotte Chamber, the Urban League, the NAACP Economic Empowerment Awards, the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance, and dozens of industry associations hold awards ceremonies throughout the year. Awards ceremony catering in Charlotte, NC — and specifically in communities like Weddington, Mint Hill, and Monroe — is a specific niche with clear demand and limited quality options. These events need food that looks impressive, requires no seated service infrastructure, and doesn't distract from the program. A beautifully styled grazing spread is ideal.

Similarly, Charlotte's extraordinary pace of commercial development means ribbon cuttings, grand openings, and groundbreaking ceremonies are a near-daily occurrence across the metro. Ribbon cutting ceremony catering in Charlotte needs to communicate celebration and generosity without the cost and complexity of a full catered meal.

Open House Catering

Charlotte's real estate market — which has remained one of the most active in the country despite national trends — generates constant demand for open house catering. A thoughtfully presented charcuterie board at a home showing creates an atmosphere of warmth and hospitality that a bowl of wrapped candy simply does not. Open house catering in Charlotte, NC is a use case where the food's primary function is emotional and atmospheric, but it still reflects on the host's taste and care.

Hors d'Oeuvres in Charlotte: What Works Nutritionally and What Doesn't

The traditional cocktail hour hors d'oeuvres menu — fried items, heavy carbohydrates, passed appetizers that require two hands and a napkin — has some serious nutritional liabilities.

Fried foods at a standing reception create satiety too quickly and in the wrong way: a heavy, fat-and-starch combination that slows digestion, promotes lethargy, and sits poorly with alcohol. They also create logistical awkwardness for guests in formal attire who have nowhere to put down a champagne glass.

What works nutritionally for hors d'oeuvres catering for parties and weddings in Charlotte:

A grazing table or composed spread gives guests control over their own plate. They can build a balanced small plate of protein, produce, and carbohydrate at the proportion that works for them. They can return as hunger dictates rather than being constrained by the pace of passed items. People with dietary restrictions can navigate the table without requiring server intervention. And the format has a generosity and visual abundance that makes guests feel well-fed and well-cared-for even before they've eaten a bite.

From a practical standpoint: hors d'oeuvres catering for parties and weddings in Charlotte that takes the grazing format over passed appetizers typically costs less, requires fewer service staff, accommodates more guests with fewer logistical complications, and results in better-fed, more comfortable guests at the end of the cocktail hour.

Fort Mill, Rock Hill, and the South Carolina Side of Charlotte

The South Carolina communities that make up the southern edge of the Charlotte metro — Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Tega Cay, Indian Land, and Monroe — are no longer suburbs in any sleepy sense of the word. Fort Mill has one of the fastest-growing economies in South Carolina. Rock Hill has made deliberate investments in its downtown, sports facilities (including the Panthers' practice facility), and business attraction. Tega Cay is a master-planned lakefront community with a strong civic identity. Indian Land in Lancaster County is among the fastest-growing communities in the entire Southeast.

These communities have active event and catering needs that mirror the Charlotte metro's — corporate events, weddings, rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, birthday parties, graduation celebrations — but have historically been underserved by Charlotte's better catering options. Fort Mill SC corporate catering, wedding catering in Fort Mill and Rock Hill, and rehearsal dinner catering in the Fort Mill area are areas where search demand is clear and quality options are genuinely limited.

The good news for residents and event planners in these communities: Charcuterie Chic Charlotte serves the South Carolina side of the metro. The free delivery model that covers the Charlotte metro extends across the state line to these communities, meaning access to the same quality available in Myers Park or Ballantyne is available in Fort Mill and Tega Cay.

Feeding Mixed Groups: The Dietitian's Guide to Corporate and Event Dietary Accommodations

One dimension of corporate and event catering that requires its own treatment is the challenge of feeding a room with diverse dietary needs — which in 2026 means essentially every room.

A corporate team of 20 in Charlotte today will typically include guests managing Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes (blood sugar stability is a real and growing concern in a sedentary knowledge-worker population), guests following gluten-free diets for celiac or sensitivity, guests who are vegetarian or vegan, guests with nut allergies, and guests managing lactose intolerance. Add a wedding guest list or a large corporate conference, and the dietary complexity multiplies accordingly.

The traditional catering response to this complexity is the "allergy tray" — a separate, smaller, visually inferior spread that marks the guest with restrictions as an inconvenience. This is not hospitality. It's a barely functional accommodation that creates social friction and communicates that the host didn't really plan for you.

The better response — and the one I consistently recommend — is designing the primary spread to be as inclusive as possible from the ground up, rather than building a standard spread and then adding accommodations.

Practically, this means:

• Building the primary board with naturally gluten-free components prominent (meats, cheeses, fresh produce, nuts) and offering GF-certified crackers alongside standard crackers rather than as a separate platter

• Including substantial plant-based components so that vegetarian and vegan guests have a genuine meal, not just crackers and fruit

• Labeling shared nuts separately so that nut-allergic guests can navigate the spread safely

• Including dairy-free spreads and hummus alongside cheese-forward options

• Keeping cross-contamination in mind in the overall layout — ingredients that are problematic for certain guests shouldn't be mixed into components that are otherwise safe for them

A well-designed charcuterie or grazing spread can be built to accommodate all of these requirements simultaneously while still looking and tasting exceptional. This is genuinely harder to achieve with traditional catering formats, where each dish has a fixed composition — and it's one more reason the charcuterie format has won Charlotte's event catering market.

Spotlight: Charcuterie Chic Charlotte for Corporate and Event Catering

Readers of Vol. 1 in this series will already know the full story of Charcuterie Chic Charlotte — the award-winning, woman-owned charcuterie business built by Mayra through a journey that began during three rounds of IVF and has since grown to serve 2,500+ events across the Queen City and surrounding communities.

For this volume, I want to focus specifically on what makes Charcuterie Chic Charlotte the answer to so many of the corporate and event catering problems described above.

For Charlotte corporate catering: Their individual charcuterie boxes and cups are built for the office environment — portioned, self-contained, protein-forward, and visually professional. For corporate catering for business meetings in Charlotte, NC, the format fits conference rooms from Uptown to Ballantyne without the logistical overhead of traditional catered service.

For Charlotte weddings and hors d'oeuvres: Their grazing tables have served as cocktail hour centerpieces at weddings across the metro and into Fort Mill and Rock Hill. The format handles large mixed groups with diverse dietary needs better than any passed-appetizer format, and the visual impact at a cocktail hour is unmatched. For wedding and event grazing tables in Charlotte, they handle the logistics so the host doesn't have to.

For bridal showers, baby showers, and milestones: A delivered charcuterie board for a bridal shower catering order in Charlotte — sized, styled, and delivered free to the event address — removes every catering decision from the host's plate while delivering a result that looks professionally planned.

Free delivery, 7 days a week, across Charlotte, Mint Hill, Weddington, Matthews, the Lake Norman corridor, Fort Mill, and Rock Hill. Same-day availability for urgent corporate needs: (704) 275-1566 or charcuteriechicclt.com/online-ordering.

Planning Timeline: How Far Ahead Should You Order?

One of the most common logistical mistakes in event catering is waiting too long to order. Here's a practical timeline for Charlotte events:

Same-day / last-minute (0–24 hours out): Possible for many individual and standard board orders — call directly at (704) 275-1566 to confirm availability. Charlotte's corporate pace means same-day corporate catering needs are common, and a quality provider should be able to accommodate them.

Casual corporate meetings and small office events (2–5 days out): Standard lead time for individual boxes, board orders for small meetings, and regular recurring corporate orders. Enough time for any customization discussions around dietary needs.

Social gatherings, showers, birthday parties (1–2 weeks out): Comfortable lead time that allows for full customization discussion, board sizing, and dietary accommodation planning.

Weddings, large grazing tables, holiday parties (4–8 weeks out): Large event grazing tables warrant earlier planning to ensure availability, discuss scale, and plan the full spread composition. For major holidays (Thanksgiving week, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day), earlier is always better — Charlotte's catering market compresses significantly during peak seasons.

Annual corporate contracts and recurring orders: For Charlotte companies with regular corporate catering needs — weekly team lunches, monthly all-hands, quarterly client entertainment — establishing a recurring relationship with a quality local provider is both more economical and operationally simpler than ordering event-by-event.

A Dietitian's Manifesto: Charlotte Deserves Better Event Food

I want to end this volume with something that goes beyond the practical.

Charlotte is a city of significant resources, high expectations, and genuine ambition. It attracts talented people — executives, professionals, young families, entrepreneurs — who take their health, their careers, and their quality of life seriously. Those same people attend hundreds of events per year where the food served is a nutritional afterthought — a decision made based on cost-per-head minimums and vendor relationships that haven't been revisited in a decade.

There is a direct line between what we eat at events and how we feel, think, and perform in the hours and days that follow. Blood sugar stability matters in the afternoon of a long conference. Protein density matters at a three-hour wedding reception. Dietary inclusivity matters for the increasing proportion of guests managing metabolic conditions. The food at events is not decoration.

Charlotte has an answer for this. A local, woman-owned business that built its brand on exactly the standard I'm describing — real ingredients, thoughtful composition, beautiful presentation, dietary flexibility — has been serving the city for six years with a perfect five-star rating. The fact that the corporate catering default in many Charlotte offices is still a sandwich tray or a Panera delivery isn't an information failure. It's a habit.

Habits change when someone makes the first different choice. If you're an executive assistant ordering for your next Charlotte conference, a bride choosing cocktail hour catering, or a new parent planning a baby shower — I hope this article gives you the information and permission to make that different choice.

Up Next in Charlotte's Best Bites

In Vol. 3 of this series, I'm turning my attention to Charlotte's farmers market scene — one of the most underappreciated and genuinely nourishing parts of life in the Queen City.

The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market, the Matthews Community Farmers' Market, the Atherton Mill & Market in South End, and the weekend markets in Davidson, Cornelius, and Waxhaw all tell a story about where Charlotte's food actually comes from — and what it means to eat locally in a city growing as fast as this one. I'll be covering it as a dietitian and as a food-curious person who believes that proximity to your food source is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health.

Eat well. Eat local. Eat with intention.

— Ruth, Registered Dietitian Nutrition by Ruth | 40+ Years of Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice

Disclosure: This article contains outbound links to local Charlotte businesses that align with the editorial focus of this series. Nutrition by Ruth has not been compensated for any mentions in this post. All opinions are the author's own.

About This Series

Charlotte's Best Bites is a recurring feature on Nutrition by Ruth exploring the intersection of food culture, local community, and evidence-based nutrition across Charlotte, NC and the surrounding region. Each installment is written from the perspective of a registered dietitian with over 40 years of professional practice.

• Vol. 1: Charlotte's Best Bites: A Dietitian's Guide to Charcuterie Boards in the Queen City

• Vol. 2: Charlotte's Best Bites: Corporate Catering, Hors d'Oeuvres, and Every Celebration in the Queen City (you are here)

• Vol. 3: Coming soon — Charlotte's Farmers Markets: A Registered Dietitian's Shopping Guide

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