ARTISAN ICE CREAM

Rugged Coffee is a specialty coffee catering company, but we don’t just stop at specialty coffee. We also provide specialty ice cream and ice cream coffee mixes. The ice cream that we provide is made from scratch with no artificial ingredients. We don’t even use regular sugar to sweeten our ice cream, we use Honey. Honey has a lot of health benefits, benefits like containing an abundance of antioxidants, phytonutrients, it helps your digestive system, is better for blood sugar levels than regular sugar, and helps to improve heart health.

Our ice cream can be combined with any coffee drink to create a float. You can try a Mocha Float, Matcha Float, Chai Latte Float, Vanilla Latte Float, Caramel Latte Float, or the fan favorite the Affogato. Not only can you combine coffee drinks with ice cream, but you can also just add your favorite flavored syrup onto the ice cream to give it that extra delicious flavor. Flavors like Samoa, Big Red, Vanilla, Caramel, Chocolate, Gingerbread, Lavender Honey, Maple Spice, Cinnamint, and the list goes on.

Consolidating your caterers is not only cost effective, but it also makes your planning easier. We offer you customizable options and quality with the ease of planning because you will only need to allocate 1 area for our serving space, instead of 2 different spaces, and you will only need to worry about 1 vendors electricity requirements, instead of 2. Because this is an upgrade, we offer this quality service for a lower price than most other ice cream caterers and, at the same time, this upgrade gives your guests access to a much larger menu than any other ice cream caterer. Ice cream and coffee, sounds like a match made in heaven to us. Inquire today to find out how we can best serve your event or check out our “Packages” page on our website to see more info.

COFFEE AND DESSERT

Celebration at each wedding or event is a must and that is why each wedding has things like sparklers, cakes, champagne, drinks, and delicious food. Coffee service is another part of the celebration that is on the rise in popularity, and we offer some of the best coffee you can get from a catering company or even any coffee company in general in Southern California.

Desserts are another big-ticket item that people have to have at their wedding, event, conference or gathering, so that is why we sought out the best quality for desserts to offer. As one of our upgraded options, we offer delicious and freshly baked artisan pastries from a local baker called Eastbrew Cafe. These pastries are some of the best that we have ever tried with options like Banana Muffins, Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Chips Cookies, Seasonal Scones (sometimes pumpkin flavored, sometimes cherry flavored, and more), along with danishes, and one that is rarely seen at coffee shops or bakery’s - the Cinnamon Roll. Not only do we offer pastries as an option, but we also offer Affogato’s and Ice Cream. Who doesn’t like two great things coming together like Ice Cream and Espresso? What about a Cold Brew Float?

Upgrading the menu to have us serve Ice Cream, Affogato’s, and Pastries is not the only way to bring sweet decadence to your gathering, our Signature Flavored lattes are more than enough to do that on their own. With Flavors like Oreo Latte, Apple Pie Latte, PB&J Latte, Eggnog Latte, Samoa Latte (yes like the Girlscout cookie!), and the Tiramisu Latte. When you pair our Homemade Signature Flavors with the delicious coffee we use, you end up with a coffee or espresso drink like you've never had before. Rugged Coffee brings decadence and quality in everything we do, from Specialty Coffee to Signature Flavors, from Pastries to Cookies, and from Ice Cream to Affogato's.

BARTENDER

One thing that a ton of weddings and events look for are bartenders, but what do you do when a lot of your guests don’t drink or can’t have any alcohol? Coffee is a great alternative to alcohol and it doesn’t have to be an either/or choice, we like to work with the bartenders to make great alcoholic coffee drinks. An espresso martini is an amazing drink that will keep guests awake and in the party mood long into the night. Another drink that I see guests like to have is coffee or cold brew and Bailey’s. We are fun and like to make delicious coffee so that whatever drink that your guests want to make, you know it’s gonna taste good.

Drinks that are an alcohol alternative but still make you feel like you’re drinking a cocktail is a Mocktail. Mocktails are drinks that replicate cocktails, but instead of alcohol in the drink, it is replaced with coffee, such as, espressso or concentrated cold Brew. Some of our favorite mocktails are the Espresso Tonic, made with Tonic Water, simple syrup, and Espresso served over ice. Another favorite of ours is the Coffee Mule, made with Fever Tree Ginger Beer, concentrated cold brew, and lime juice that is served over ice. If you dont have guests that want cocktail replica’s or cocktails themselves, then that is where our Espresso Bar shines making espresso drinks down the board like Mocha’s, Lattes, Cappuccinos, and we even have Signature Flavored Latte’s that you as the host get to choose for us to carry.

If you’re going to have the cocktail bar alongside our Espresso Bar, then we’d recommend getting festive and having our Homemade Eggnog and mixing rum with it or you can get creative and add bourbon to your mocha, or there’s always the classic Espresso Martini. We like to have fun with our service and offerings, so if you’re guests have any other cocktail ideas that they want to mix with coffee, then we are always ready to help them make that drink spectacular.

SIGNATURE FLAVORS

Our Signature Flavors are one of the things that set up apart from other coffee caterers. We let you choose unique flavors that we have already created for us to serve at your wedding, corporate event, or conference. If you want a flavor that is not on our list then request it and we will customize the flavor uniquely for you. Most coffee caterers out there only use premade store bought flavored syrups and are therefore unable to make custom flavors for you, but not us. Every flavor that we offer, we create with our own custom recipe that blends extremely well with the Specialty Grade Coffee that we use.

Some of our Signature Flavors that we offer range anywhere from more common and popular, such as the Vanilla or the Lavender Honey all the way to the super unique, such as, the Tiramisu or the Bourbon Caramel. Our favorite has to be the Tiramisu, the PB&J, and the Big Red (which makes your latte taste like the cinnamon flavored Big Red Bubblegum)

Creating brand new flavored syrups sometimes takes a few hours, but often times takes weeks or even a full month, so that is why we only offer a brand-new custom flavor if given at the least a 30-day notice. Creating custom flavors is a fun process for us where we enter into the R&D phase, where we first research what it would possibly take to make this flavor, then we purchase the high-quality ingredients needed to experiment. Once we have the ingredients, we create a recipe using results from past syrups for what worked before. Then we begin the experiment process. Start with the initial recipe, then make a latte with that first syrup. If anything is off or we want to change an aspect of the syrup, then we do that by adding or subtracting certain parts of the recipe that we think would yield a good result. Next we brew it again, then we do the entire process all over again until we reach perfection.

WEDDING VENUES: HIDDEN OAKS

One thing we like to do is write about venues that we have served at, but we wanted to take a moment and write about a venue that we would like to serve at someday. The Hidden Oaks in Rancho Cucamonga is a beautiful venue located in Riverside County nestled away in the Inland Empire.

This outdoor venue has beautiful landscaping with old adobe brick walls, including their archway with a large bell in the middle. Their abundance of large trees provides this whimsical feeling like you’ve been transported to a place seen in fantasy movies while providing a covering of natural shade. The large reception area is surrounded with more of that adobe brick wall and nicely trimmed bushes. As the sun goes down, lights strung from one archway to the next makes the adobe old timey feels turn into a magical experience. Despite the beauty that this venue has to offer, another thing that we really like about this venue is that it is really affordable.

This venue is a faith-based Christ focused organization and with our coffee catering company being rooted in the love that is only found at the foot of the cross of Christ, this is a perfect match. With this being a Christ focused venue, this means that there is no alcohol permitted, but all the more reason to have a coffee and espresso cart pumping out some of the best coffee drinks you’ve had at your wedding. Day or night, our beautifully rustic coffee cart would really flow well with the magical aesthetic feels of this venue.

As a coffee catering company that is based in the Inland Empire, we feel it is our duty to provide excellent Specialty Coffee to weddings happening in our hometown. Having Specialty Coffee, or third wave coffee, at your wedding creates a unique experience you cant replicate with anything else.