Creative Cuisines

I have had the pleasure of working with Creative Cuisines on several weddings over the past three years. Chef Stephen Munday and his team prepare, hands-down, some of the best available special event menus in Williamsburg. I always tell clients when I'm referring them to Steve every wedding I've coordinated with Creative Cuisines has lead to an onslaught of guests asking me at the end of the reception for the caterer's card. His crab cakes are truly heavenly.

Noreen and her team were amazing. They were very responsive and accommodated our every request. Everything was delicious. I would highly reccomend.

Noreen Graziano and her staff hosted a wonderful small private birthday party for out family. She proposed an imaginative menu and was easy and responsive to our needs. The food was delicious and the service first class. Her venue is gorgeous and comfortable. I highly recommend these people.

As the Mother of the Bride, I would like to warn people about the risks of using Stephen Munday of Creative Cuisines of Williamsburg, VA as caterer. He added incredible stress and confusion to the occasion. He never called when he said he would; we finally worked via email.I asked him to look for ways to revise the menu to reduce the cost of the food to $33.00 per person from $38 pp. It took him 20 days to come back with a menu at $36.88 pp, requiring a further round of modifications.When I questioned him on certain unexplained costs, he sarcastically replied, "Since you seem to be systematically dismantling the way we do business, I'm not sure what we are doing." I checked on a detail and he replied, "I am a bit surprised that you would make the assumption that we would conduct ourselves in a less than professional manner. Sometimes when you don't have a clear understanding of whom you are working with it might be best not to assume the worst case scenario." The condescension was uncalled for, especially considering that later there were details I should have checked on that were not present. He was unprofessional: "Since [wedding planner] doesn't ever have time to meet with me on any events . . . [She] also does not share information with me. . . Had I known that [she] was involved I would have conducted things differently. Her communication skills with vendors is (sic) lacking."After a month of working exclusively with me, he called the groom who had not been involved in the finalization of the details. This was confusing to all concerned. The wedding went off well and the food was fine (hence the star). There were details I would have liked to see: the umbrellas I paid for over the appetizers, plates for the appetizers, a display of the signature cocktails, wine poured into the glasses on the tables - all details I should have checked on but didn't want to "offend his professionalism".All in all, it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience dealing with this vendor, adding stress and confusion to the preparations. I would not recommend that you subject yourself to working with him.