Baker’s Best Catering / The Gordon Companies

Baker’s Best Catering is a Needham caterer that feeds offices, events and households, from boxed lunches and gourmet platters to buffets and full-service staffed events. For corporate clients it handles business lunches, networking events and executive dinners, while its event team helps with floor plans, menu design, rentals and decor. The kitchen emphasizes fresh, local ingredients, and customers can choose pickup or delivery. An At Home service delivers ready-made homestyle meals from a rotating menu.

Michael Baker opened the business in 1984 as a sandwich shop in his hometown of Newton Highlands, often hand-carving turkey in the store window. Customers soon asked him to cater their parties, and catering officially began in 1991, later shifting to corporate delivery and off-site events. A 20,000-square-foot commissary in Needham, built in 2007, now handles up to 170 orders a day. In 2022 Gordon’s Fine Wine acquired the company, joining two family-owned businesses under The Gordon Companies.

What to Know

• The Tasting Room in Needham, opened in 2023, hosts receptions, seminars, client appreciation and team-building events.
• Wine, spirits and food tastings can be arranged for groups of any size.
• The At Home meal service has no memberships or subscriptions.
• Gordon’s Fine Wine provides wine and cocktail pairings for events.