Lenores Kitchen Catering is an off-premise catering company founded by Lillia Key 23 years ago. Ms. Key started Lenores Kitchen by providing food and catering service for friends and family. As a child growing up in the Englewood community, Ms. Key watched her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts throw fabulous family parties. After absorbing everything she could about cooking and entertaining from them, Ms. Key found she had a forte for party foods and planning. While attending college those cooking skills were fine-tuned by cooking for her neighborhood every night and planning parties for her social club in major downtown hotels.