About
Eleven years of Buffalo cooking.
One kitchen in Orchard Park.
Mike and Becky Morgan opened Apple Wood Café & Catering in Williamsville in 2012. Eleven years later, they brought the kitchen to the historic Mansard Inn building, 1.4 miles from Highmark Stadium.
The story
You may know us as Apple Wood Café.
From 2012 to 2023, Mike and Becky ran Apple Wood Café & Catering out of a small storefront in Williamsville. Over those eleven years they catered thousands of events across Western New York — everything from ten-person rehearsal dinners to 200-guest weddings, from corporate lunches on Main Street to funeral luncheons at parishes across the Diocese of Buffalo.
By early 2023 the catering volume had outgrown the Williamsville kitchen. When the Mansard Inn space in Orchard Park became available — a larger kitchen, a real dining room, and a raised outdoor deck — the decision was easy. In the spring of 2023 they moved everything south and opened as The Mansard Fine Drink & Eatery.
Same owners. Same chef. Same obsessive attention to what's on the plate. Bigger room, better facilities, and a stage on the deck.
The kitchen
Executive chef Mike Morgan.
Before Apple Wood, Mike was executive chef of David's Grille in East Aurora — a tenure that built his reputation for clean American cooking with European technique and a firm hand with protein.
At The Mansard, Mike runs the line most nights of service and the catering kitchen every morning. The menu changes with the season; the standards — the ribeye, the pork tenderloin, the lobster linguine — stay, because our regulars would have our heads if they didn't.
Becky runs the front of house, the catering books, and every conversation with the families we cater for. If you've booked a wedding with us, you've talked to Becky.
The building
A mansard roof gave this place its name.
A mansard roof is a four-sided roof with two slopes on every side — the steep lower slope you can see from the parking lot, distinctive in this neighborhood. The style came out of 17th-century Paris and became a fixture of Second Empire architecture across Western New York in the late 1800s.
The building at 3365 Abbott Road has worn that roof for generations, first as the Mansard Inn. When we reopened it in 2023 we kept the name — the silhouette is the reason Orchard Park recognizes this corner. Inside we updated the bar, the deck, and the kitchen, and we added a private Board Room and a Round Room for private events. The rest we left alone.
What we care about
A short list of things we don't skip.
- Real ingredients.
- We buy the good stuff, cook it from scratch, and plate it the same way for a table of two as we do for a 150-guest wedding.
- The family at the table.
- Every catering contract has a name on it. Becky knows it. So does the kitchen. We treat your event like it's the only one that week.
- Our Orchard Park neighbors.
- The families, the Bills fans, the teams at Ralph C. Wilson, the parishioners, the funeral directors, the wedding planners — we work for this town every day.
Come by
Two ways to meet us — a table or a quote.
Reservations are easy over the phone. Catering quotes come back within one business day with a menu tailored to your event.