Emerald City Catering & Events

Our family hosted a funeral lunch here today. Everything turned out so well! We enjoyed the chicken, Polish sausage, beef, pasta salad, mashed potatoes and desserts. The staff were friendly and very welcoming to our family. They have a large bar area and the bartender did a good job keeping up with our group. Thank you, Emerald City for taking good care of us. I would definitely recommend using their catering services for your event.

I wish the occasion could have been more upbeat; however, my friend held her late husband's memorial service at Emerald City. I have done take out but never ate inside. It's a very nice hall that I would rent for a medium size group.It's not easy to prepare good quality food for a party - especially when it is fried. However, they did an incredible job. The fried chicken and fish was piping hot and had great flavor. I dislike when breaded items don't have flavor but they rocked it.Mashed potatoes and gravy? Yes please! I loved the spread - they even had french fries to go with the battered cod.

Delicious catering. Really good fish fry as well. The employees are very nice and welcoming.

Emerald City Catering blew us away. Not only was the food delicious, it was fairly priced. The owners are SO responsive and wonderful to work with. They helped us create a package for our wedding that worked for our smaller budget. They also have options to cater all your other wedding related events (and host them too!). The food we chose was delicious and we loved having a plated service. We never could have never afforded catering from other big name vendors in the MKE area and are so thankful we found Emerald City 100% reach out to them and go in for a tasting! Thanks Emerald City for being part of our wedding

Awesome fish and shrimp fry.... I've been there multiple times for carry out and the food is always fresh. They also have a pay as you may program to help people struggling during the pandemic... support this place!

Hands down, the owner has one of the biggest hearts ever. He catered our wedding back in June of 2019 and everyone loved the food and the staff. And not only that, he personally set aside swedish meatballs for me because he knew how much I loved them and I would be out getting pictures done while they were being served. He also made us some swedish meatballs for our one month anniversary! He does wonderful things for the community, such as his Pay As You May buffet once a month. He is a genuine, good hearted man with a great business and great food.

Service was great friendly staff and food was awesome.Ypu have to try the all u can eat fish and chicken.They serve you family style. Sides included Cole slaw baked beans German potato salad potato pancakes french fries bread apple sauce and tartar sauce. We will be back!!!

Not a fancy place on the outside or in but the owners are nice and the food is good so I'm glad we gave it a go. A little more window dressing would go a long way for a humble little place like this. Our first try was two types of fish fry and some chicken wings. Everything was great. Portions were good for the price. Large coolers of ready made meals looked intriguing and we will give those a try too.

A big thanks to Oz at Emerald City Catering. We were excited to have them cater our wedding, but had to postpone a year because of Covid. Without a question they refunded our deposit and were easier than my other vendors to talk with about this. We hope to use Oz for our big reception in a year. As I told him, the stuffed mushrooms are still on our minds! Thanks Oz and crew, good luck to you during this time. Please support this group during these restrictions! Looking forward to connecting again next year!

Let me preface this by saying that Oz was a very pleasant, nice guy to work with. He was always prompt with responding and very accommodating, but on the day of the wedding, when it actually mattered, and nearly 5k in the hole later - none of that mattered.We let Oz know how important it was to have a vegetarian and vegan entrees available for the wedding. No, I'm not talking about just preparing a few on the side for a couple of vegetarians, I'm talking about entrees. We did a tasting of the stuffed eggplant, and it was delicious! Oz would also whip up a few vegan entrees for the vegan guests.What we got: No grilled stuffed eggplant at all. Vegetarians were forced to eat salad and bread for their dinner. He made an 'executive decision' not to make the entrees we paid for last minute and instead served sliced pieces of raw, cold eggplant.We paid extra for Oz's staff to serve the meal from the buffet line, give out water for water service, slice the pies and hand out to people, and pour the champagne toast:What we got:- Guests had to serve themselves. - No water service, there weren't even glasses for water as we discussed.- Pies were ordered to be whole so that we could stick a flag in them to let guests know what they were eating - no, they were placed on the wrong table (they were supposed to be under a table that had a pennant banner reading 'TRY SOME PIE'), pre-sliced without ANY signage, and also without forks!! Guests had to eat mystery slices of pie with their hands.- Any banquet server knows that you should have a tray when passing out a champagne toast to guests. In this case, there was no tray, and Oz's 2-person staff passed out champagne glasses 1-2 people at a time, and delayed the toasts by nearly half an hour. A fed up guest that works in the restaurant business had to jump up and help them out.We let Oz know we wanted baked macaroni and cheese, not the regular mac and cheese, as we had sampled it before and didn't like it.What we got: The regular mac and cheese.Other strange things:- The food was ice-cold; and guests let me know.- The beef brisket was nothing like we had tasted - the cut of meat was all fat and people did not eat it.I know no wedding is perfect, but you'd think after missing out on an entrée we paid for (plus the vegan entrée!) the complete absence of service that we tipped out while signing our contract, bad food, and general oversights for almost everything we paid for, we'd at least have some sort of reimbursement, right? It's very obviously a disaster. No, we got $200 back. That doesn't even cover what we tipped for his staff's 'service.'Heed my warning now, folks! We overpaid and weren't really even sure what we were paying for in some cases, and we didn't get delivery on half of it. Treat your guests and your pocketbook well - steer clear.