Balaboosta is a boutique catering company based in Brunswick that offers thoughtfully curated menus for a wide range of personal and professional events. From baby showers to memorial gatherings and everything in between, the team creates beautiful food and provides attentive, seamless service.
They also specialize in donor events and fundraisers, helping organizations host memorable gatherings that support meaningful causes while giving back to the community.
Ali Waks Adams, Chef/Owner.
I began my professional career in the theater, moving on to the event/trade show business. No Matter what I was doing for work, I loved to cook and feed people! 25 years ago, I took the plunge and began working in food – and have been going strong ever since. I’ve fed so many people in Brunswick, whether at my first pop-ups at Butter & Salt, dinners at The Brunswick Inn (now 165 Park Row), my Pandemic Pop-up Willie & Chet’s out of Dog Bar Jim, through events for Maine Health or MCHPP, plus a multitude of private parties, weddings, and memorials. I love seeing the familiar faces at the farmers’ market or Hannaford! I am on the board of MCHPP and live in Brunswick with my husband, two cats, and two birds.
Brunswick reminds me of the town I grew up in on Long Island. Believe it or not but way back then East Hampton was a lovely town full of artists and fishers and farmers! I just fell in love the first time I came up here, and when my father passed away and I was looking for a home and place where I could find joy and smell the ocean Brunswick presented itself to us, 12 years later we are still here.
I think it would surprise people to know the origin of our name Balaboosta – it’s a term for a woman who makes things nice, one who cooks with love and care, sets a beautiful table and provides a warm comfortable space. We couple that with our logo a matushka nesting doll, she symbolizes the knowledge that is inside me from generations of Balaboostasin my family.
It always changes! We are doing a fabulous holiday party for a construction company here in in town with a Philly style Sandwich bar that’s super fun and a Ukrainian Wedding which also had a gorgeous menu with a Ukrainian charcuterie full of sausage, pickles, smoked fish and garlic cheese – plus potato varenky, pork loin with sour cherries, roast chicken with Creme fraiche and garlic confit.
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