Meet the pitmaster
Cooking with Purpose, Inspired by Fire.
Chef Manda has been cooking professionally since 2011, with a career spanning high-volume festival kitchens, downtown Toronto restaurants, fine dining resorts, and community food programs.
Trained under a Red Seal chef and seasoned on live-fire grills, Manda brings technical skill, creative range, and calm leadership to every event.
Alongside her fiancée, she founded Embers & Atlas Catering on Pender Island to create food that brings people together—rooted in fire, inspired by travel, and built for meaningful gatherings.
Catering Options
Drop-off, Buffet or Elevated
This isn’t plug-and-play catering.
From refined drop-off catering to bold buffet service and fully elevated, plated experiences, every menu is built around live-fire cooking, smoke-forward techniques, and seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.
No shortcuts. No watered-down flavors. Just confident, high-impact catering designed to anchor your event.
Whether you’re planning an intimate dinner, destination wedding, or corporate event, our catering services scale seamlessly—executed with precision, visual impact, and a distinctly elevated edge.
Choose your catering style. We’ll handle the fire.