D'Amico Catering

Catering reviewWe used D'Amico's catering and bar service for our wedding and they far exceeded our expectations! From the start they were incredibly thoughtful and responsive and helped us work within our budget. We wanted to do food stations rather than a buffet or plated meal and they were able to accommodate, worked with our venue to make sure the right tables and equipment was there, and helped us craft our perfect menu including a custom station with an assortment of foods from the states that my husband and I are from, a chef-tossed pasta station, and a flatbread station. Everyone raves about our food!The bartenders at our wedding were phenomenal and we got so many compliments from our guests! They also were very flexible and allowed us to serve 3 custom drinks. Our tasting experience with them was fabulous and my husband and I were so stuffed and very impressed with their plating and their willingness to adjust any recipe's ingredients, spice level, salt level, etc. Their pricing wasn't the cheapest I saw but for the quality it was absolutely worth it. 10/10 recommend!

D'Amico catered an event that I attended recently, and only my goodness did they do a great job! There was tons of food, including a selection of cheeses and some gorgeous roasted vegetables. There was also a large carving station with choices for meat lovers of all persuasion. There were lots of options at the bar, including fun and festive themed cocktails (non-alcoholic option included!). Excellent staff across the board, too.

We used D'Amico to cater our wedding at Mill City museum. For our location we did not have a choice in our caterer, but I am so happy we had D'amico. Let me just say that there service and food was amazing! We were able to have a tasting before our wedding to choose our appetizers, main entrees, and desert options. We received so many compliments on the food at our wedding! Their service and food was top notch, I definitely recommend using them for your wedding reception!

Our office frequently orders boxed lunches from D'Amico. I like their strawberry salad which comes with the obvious greens and strawberries- in addition there is chicken, chèvre cheese, walnuts, and a lovely balsamic vinaigrette. All in all you cannot go wrong with this salad. Box lunches come with chips and a cookie or you can sub fruit. As I've stated before I am a lettuce snob so I find it really annoying when there is so much lettuce rib and not actual leaf. Not to mention when the lettuce itself has bad spoiled pieces. Therefore I always carefully pick through any salad I do not make myself. There was about a good cup and a half of bad lettuce in my salad.

I have experienced Damico Catering at a few events. Let me start by saying the food is amazing. It tastes like you are at one of their many fine dining restaurants. What really impressed me was the professional service they bring. If your planning a event consider Damico Catering. They are the best you can get. Dp

Catering Review ~My wife and I used D'Amico for our wedding reception in May. For context, my wife and I live in Seattle, but she is from Anoka, just outside of the Twin Cities. So when we decided to have our wedding there it meant we would have to do a lot of the planning from a distance. One thing we decided we couldn't do from a distance was the catering. So I scheduled us meetings with 8 different caterers in the Twin City area during a trip we had planned in February (the goal of the trip was to solidify a few of the in person details we still needed to take care of). Almost all of the caterers were quite pleasant to chat with, and a few had pretty good food, but D'Amico won us over with their price point and offering.Before we went to meet with Christie Altendorf at D'Amico we were almost 100% sure we were going to go with Vittles as the caterer for our reception. (We ended up going with Vittles' food truck Kabomelette for our rehearsal) But after comparing side by side D'Amico and Vittles we just had to pick D'Amico. The funny thing here is that we didn't actually get to try any food with D'Amico. So going into the wedding we were simply going on reputation and the overall cost to offering ratio. Mind you, the lack of food tasting was not entirely on D'Amico. I had been in touch with Christie and thought that we had confirmed a date/time, but when I looked back I saw that she had asked for email confirmation in one of her last emails to me, and I hadn't responded.After choosing D'Amico for our catering services we had a few rounds of changes to the contract and numbers before finalizing and putting a downpayment on it. Christie was extremely easy to work with during all of it. It's a hard line to walk between cost effective and not seeming cheap. I think we managed that quite well.The day of the wedding, Christie's team there for the wedding was on point and practically invisible, save for the bartender, who was kept quite busy with everyone running to him for cool IPAs on the ridiculously hot day our wedding turned out to be. (Mid 90s in MAY!! Who'd have guessed?!?) The team was also quite helpful in other ways as well. They cut our sheet cake even though we had people to do it, and it would have been an extra cost, had we written it into the contract...The food. Oh the food. So delicious. Having not actually tried the Fresh Faire we didn't know what to expect. But it was a hit! We had vegans in the form of my sister and a few of my wife's invites, so D'Amico came up with a delicious jackfruit taco for the vegans, which ended up being the hit of the food for EVERYONE, not just the vegans. I can't tell you how many people we had come up and compliment the jackfruit. Even now a few months out people are still talking about it when our wedding is brought up.In all we are super happy with the service provided by D'Amico, Christie's willingness to be flexible and change the contract for us a few times, and just the overall awesomeness of the food on our special day. Thank you D'Amico, and than you Christie.

D'Amico catered our wedding at Wabasha Street Caves. We couldn't have been happier. We had an hors d'oeurves menu which was enjoyed by all. Not a single complaint, plenty of raves about what everyone thought was the best on the table. We also had a mini dessert selection instead of cake, also enjoyed by all.The back and forth emails with the coordinators made it easy to plan though we are from out of town. A few details weren't clarified in the planning, but easily redirected on site. I requested linens for a table at the front. We asked that we be informed of when to open/close the buffet, and the manager asked us herself or sent a server. We were pleased with everything.My only complaint was that the tastings are not at all convenient, especially if you are from out of town. So we were unable to do one at all. However, I was familiar with the restaurants and their quality and trusted that with our wide menu selection we would have more good than "ok" food. It all was, in fact, marvelous and there genuinely were joking arguments over what was best and few complaints. Thank you for contributing to our delightful night! Between you and the venue, everything was perfect.

I used Damico catering for the first time this weekend for a bridal shower. It was WONDERFUL. The service was FANTASTIC. They take all the work out of it for the client. All I did was tell them the head count. They picked the perfect menu (though the clients can pick that too but I wanted to think as little as possible and worry as little as possible about it!). Everyone raved about the food and it was kid friendly enough I didn't have to do anything special for them, which was really nice.The food came on time and the delivery driver was polite and helpful. It really met my expectations not only of great food but of making it really easy and stress free for the client. They really do it right.

D'amico oversells their events and throws away half the food just to charge you more. They also add a service charge onto their final bill and do not use that to tip their staff, but use it instead to add to their bank account.Beware.

Katiee and Rachel,I can not tell you enough for the fabulous professional service. Everything was perfect. The staff, especially David & Astor was incredible! They were quick, efficient, pleasant to the point of friendliness. The receptionist in your office was simply delightful. Their type of service is hard to find. The event planner, Rachel and her assistant Katie, were patient, understanding and easy, making working with them a pleasure. The food was delicious! Your company should be very proud of their employees. Thank you again for all of your efforts. We are just so happy we chose you as our caterers. Julia and Phil Wenzell