Marians Catering

My review of Marian's Catering will be different from all other reviews that I've written. It will be a cumulative review since they started doing order on-line foods for pick-up. They started doing this just around the time covid-19 restrictions came about in mid March 2020.I remember well when the first time I ate foods ordered from Marian's Catering. This was in the late 1960s after a funeral at Leeward Cemetary in Pearl City when they had a place to sit down and eat. All these decades and I didn't know until I saw a Hawaii News Now video I believe talking to the owners of Marian's Catering and Dot's Restaurant. Yes, it was explained that Marian's Catering was the catering side of the business while Dot's Restaurant was the sit-down restaurant side! When you see the maps of the locations or go there in person, you now know they are located right next to each other on Mango Street in Wahiawa. When covid-19 restrictions were enforced, I must have online ordered two times and sometimes three times per week for well over a year! The only person I remember until this day was Adrienne (sp?) for she was always cheery and a pleasant person to talk to when she delivered the foods to us customers waiting in the parking stalls. They had a lot of good plate lunches for cheap, and I mean cheap, cheap, cheap! I believe their 3-piece fried chicken with maki and cone sushi with ume nori rice ball was just $6.50 (it is now at $9.75). Their chicken thighs were ginormous in size! They had fried rice with eggs, meats for just $6! Those fried rice plates I knew were priced too low for the amount they gave - no lie ! Surely enough, few things they offered back then are no longer available (like the fried rice plate). They were tinkering with whether to sell ice cakes - one time they offered it to customers if they did a certain thing prior to getting there and in turn, would be provided an ice cake piece. In this instance, it was about 2 or 3 months down the road when I asked what happened to that plan to sell? Adrienne asked me if I wanted one, and she gave me one ice cake manuahi (I dunno, maybe because at that time I was going there almost three times per week - which led to my weight gain during the pandemic). I thought they could have sold that ice cake for at least $1.50/$1.75 --- it was ONO ! Hey Scott, sell that ice cake!Over the few years, I have tried almost everything with some plates being hits and some being misses. The hits were the fried chicken, the fried rice, two entree option plates, their long rice (taste soo old school- so delicious)! I cannot believe that their pork guisantes was better tasting and using LESS salt than Elena's Restaurant! Hmm, gotta mean have some Filipino men or women working here! The day-old scuffins (scone/muffin - think it was a 4 pack) were sold at 1/2 off! The misses were that Firecracker Chicken I think the name was, like 6 pieces of small mochiko chicken with some squirts of mayo/siracha that cost $15 which I could not fathom why that expensive. I never bought that plate again. I noticed on Sundays if I ordered foods, mistakes would happen --- like one time when the mac/potato salad was entirely missing its mayonnaise, or the person who normally did the andagi did not come in that day, so someone was trying their hand at making the andagi (at least they warned me when they came to my car to tell me so) and that it may not turn out as good. True, it was not as it looked like clumps of dough that were deep fried and not fried at the proper temperature as it was soo oily. When I got home to try that andagi, it was practically a throw away as they were way too oily.Anyhow, they have cut off many items that were expense eaters or not popular and they should so that Marian's Catering can survive! Yes, I don't come as often now compared to 2020/2021 as other places have reopened. But remember to try Marian's Catering ---you have to order ONLY by on-line process and give AT least one hour (or you can select a time slot when to pick up) ... Once you go into the small parking lot (you can even park in the handicapped stall as no one is supposed to get out of their vehicles anyway) as they will deliver the foods to you in your vehicle upon calling them on arrival. By the way, they have a rewards program that when you get 100 points, you can redeem it for 10% off on your next order !In my youth, I only knew this business just for doing funeral caterings, lol ! They currently provide catering for the Chiefs Luau (at the Kapolei waterpark) and the Mauka Warrior Luau. They also did Germaine's Luau for over 25 years until a change in plans by Germaine's.Anyway, I now know better and glad to be a customer since early 2020 just after the pandemic struck and this on-line ordering commenced! As they say, support local businesses!

Food are reasonable and customer service is absolutely excellent. Called to pick up order and it was ready within 10 minutes.

We ordered from here for Christmas and I'm sorry that this review didn't come sooner!The pre-orders for Christmas didn't start till about a week after Thanksgiving. We were afraid that we wouldn't make it in time, but we got lucky and secured a spot. Ordered a bunch of the comfort foods from fried noodles to cucumber namasu and fried chicken and scheduled a curbside pick-up time.On the day of pick-up, we got there and it was very organized, I was impressed! There were numbered stalls up front, with 1 person checking everyone in. Another individual came with a cart and all our items and within 10 minutes we were out of there. Based on this experience, I would definitely order from them again!

We order three trays Pork long rice & 3 trays of sweet sour spareribs. Both items went well with my family and friends. Only good remarks we got from everyone. We especially appreciate when we were a little late in making our order but they fit in anyway. When we had pick up our order they were well organized in bringing out our order out & help us load it. Mahalo I will recommend to my friends & family.

We ordered food for New Year's and enjoyed everything we ordered. We'll be sure to order again. The online ordering was easy to use and service at pickup was efficient.

First time customer and was really impressed with the quality and taste of their dished. My family really enjoyed their Christmas lunch. I will now become a regular customer.

The food is exceptionally good and they cover the holidays so you can plan family time around them. Prices are very competitive and reasonable. I keep going back because they are that good.

They were great for my mother-in-law's funeral. Food was very tasty and they delivered on time. Unfortunately for my mother her service is in a Monday and they will be closed.

Easter was our 2nd time ordering from Marians. The Fish Tempura - by far the best we've tasted on Oahu!Also delicious: Chinese chicken salad, sweet n sour spareribs & fried chicken. Pre-holiday online ordering very easy to navigate. Friendly service by Joyce. Curbside pickup is the way to go!Thank you Marians Catering!

Amazing service and the food was great! Customer service was wonderful. They usually don't do same day service but they took time out of the day and made an exception for my aunty which was a blessing.