Christopher Robbins

E ven teur (i-ven-tur) n. One capable of coordinating a significant occurrence or happening with exquisite taste, expertise, and panache. ('Eventeur' is a registered service mark of Robbins Wolfe.)

Christopher Robbins is the Vice President at Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs, a leading, upscale catering and events planning firm located in New York City and on Long Island in Locust Valley and in Bridgehampton. Incorporated in 1987, his company boasts a significant high profile corporate, social, and celebrity client list including Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Katie Lee and Billy Joel, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Annette Roque-Lauer and Matt Lauer, Hilary and Bryant Gumbel, Debra Winger, Steven Spielberg’s SHOAH Foundation, Colin Cowie Lifestyle, Helen and Charles Dolan, Nina Griscom, Giorgio Armani Corp., Polo-Ralph Lauren Corp., among many others. A client list and recent event highlights are available on request and may also be viewed at the Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs website: www.robbinswolfe.com

Christopher has appeared on live television on the Today Show on NBC, on Plum TV Hamptons, Morning, Noon & Night Show, on Plum TV Telluride’s First Tracks Show, and on ABC Eyewitness News. He has also appeared on television on the CBS Prime Time Special, The Hamptons – A Summer Classic 2005 and 2006, the Food Network’s Behind the Bash, Bravo/NBC’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (as the featured caterer which won the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Direction of a Reality TV Show), the WE Network’s Colin Cowie’s Everyday Elegance, the TBS prime-time special Movie and a Wedding Makeover, The Kathy Hilton Project -The Good Life on NBC, Discovery Home Channel’s The Party Planner, on News 12 Long Island’s What’s Hot in the Hamptons with Gina Glickman, as well as on live radio on NYC’s WOR and on Long Island’s WLIU. He has also appeared on the web-cast of Who’s Who in the Hamptons on www.hamptons.com

Christopher has contributed to InStyle Magazine’s The Party Guide, and is currently featured as one of 12 selected event designers in the 2005 publication, InStyle Parties. He and/or The Company has also been featured in Colin Cowie Weddings by Colin Cowie, The Best of Martha Stewart Living Weddings by Martha Stewart, A Perfect Home Wedding by Kerry Eielson, and Be My Guest, Theme Party Savoir-Faire by Rena Kirdar Sindi. He has also been featured in numerous other publications including The New York Times, Long Island Newsday, New York Magazine (named one of six leading NYC caterers), Martha Stewart Living, Absolute Magazine (voted one of the top ten Society Caterers of 2005), Food & Wine Magazine, and Hamptons and Gotham magazines as well as on the Internet’s society websites -- www.nysocialscene.com and www.newyorksocialdiary.com.

Christopher has collaborated with many noted "celebrity chefs" including Ted Allen, Tom Colicchio, Colin Cowie, Harold Dieterle, Katie Lee Joel, David Lieberman, Geoffrey Zakarian, Vikas Khanna, and others.

With an office in Locust Valley, Long Island, Christopher creates events to high-end social and corporate clients along the famed Gold Coast and throughout Nassau County, and has catered many store openings and events at the Americana Manhasset, including Christian Dior, David Yurman, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Hermes, Lulu Couture, Tiffany & Co., and more. Also, his company is the only Manhattan-based catering/event planning firm with a commercial kitchen in the Hamptons, in Butter Lane Barn on Eastern Long Island. Robbins Wolfe is also the exclusive caterer at the Bridgehampton Tennis & Surf Club, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, and The NBC Experience Store in Rockefeller Center.

Currently, and for the past five years, Christopher is the Society/Entertaining Editor of Elements Magazine, based in Roslyn, LI where he writes and photographs for the society column, "Social Pulse". He is also featured as the Ambassador of Culture to Nassau County, Long Island on the website, www.theislandnextdoor.com where he writes a blog on all "destinations cultural" for the county.

In 2005, Robbins Wolfe merged with the large on-site dining company, CulinArt Inc. whose many clients from the NY Tri-State area to Southern California include, Pratt Institute, Qualcom, Iona College, The LA Times, Teachers College at Columbia University, The New York Univeristy Law School, The NY Mercantile Exchange, The Rubin Museum of Art, the law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLC, and many others.