The hand behind Marcy
Marcy is the character. Dawn is real.
Chef Dawn Drouillard grew up in Grand Marais on the North Shore of Lake Superior, a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe. She ran the kitchen at the Angry Trout Café, cooked for sailing crews racing across the Great Lakes, and came to Minneapolis to cook fine dining at the Loring Café.
In 1999 she founded Fabulous Catering and spent twenty-two years building it into one of the most respected catering companies in the Twin Cities: custom menus for every client, every special diet handled with care, and a team of more than a hundred people who learned the craft from her.
Today she cooks private dinners and small events, styles food for the camera, and makes every Marcy Green candle by hand. Her cooking grew out of her own clean-eating, sugar-free life: food that makes you feel good and still tastes like a celebration.
Marcy gets the mystique. Dawn does the work.
Highlights
Thirty years of big nights.
- 2025Red Lake Nation
A five-course decolonized dinner of pre-colonial ingredients for tribal elders, guests and Tribal Council.
- 2021Northern Michigan Food Sovereignty Symposium
Guest chef.
- 2019"Hearts of Our People," Minneapolis Institute of Art
Featured Indigenous chef for the opening of the museum's landmark exhibition of Native women artists.
- 2018"The Big Game, The Big Give"
An exclusive Super Bowl fundraiser with Shaquille O'Neal and Jamie Foxx. Her team won an ILEA Star Award for it.
- 2017–19Mia galas
All the food, drink and service for three years of the museum's lavish parties.
- 2014–15Gillette Children's "Come Fly With Me" galas
A seated dinner for 750 in an airplane hangar, cooked without gas or a single open flame.
- 2014MLB All-Star Game
Catering for Hank Aaron and the team owners.
- 2007–20Target Creative Studios
Daily lunches with weekly changing menus, seasonal, local and organic, with almost no repeats.
Beyond the kitchen
A bigger table.
Spa + healthy
Clean, intentional, sugar-free cooking is the spine of everything Dawn makes, with menus for vegan, gluten-free, paleo, keto and every allergy.
North Shore roots
Raised in Grand Marais and proud of her Grand Portage Ojibwe heritage, she cooks with respect for where food comes from and who it feeds.
On camera
A freelance food stylist since 2001, and a theatre major at the University of Minnesota Duluth before that.
Always creating
Divemaster, songwriter and singer in the band TWYG PARTY, and the creator of the whole Marcy Green family.