I had an event at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus and I worked with D'Amico Catering to offer food and cash bar to my attendees. The food was delicious and the service was amazing! Working with Matthew was breeze in the weeks leading up to the event. The on-site staff were fantastic (friendly, fast, and attentive)! I wish I had pictures or names to share the experience but I will use them again and I will recommend them to anyone! FIVE STARS IS NOT ENOUGH! read more

Matthew was such a pro to work with as the catering planner for our wedding at Woodland Glasshaus. He was incredibly quick, competent, accommodating, friendly, and professional. The food was delicious and the day-of staff was 100/10 - smooth and efficient. The bartenders were rockstars and we went into our wedding day knowing we were in the best hands. We can't thank you enough! read more

D'amico catered our wedding and we were incredibly impressed with the quality of the food, service, and responsive planning process. All of our guests raved about the food, water glasses were never left empty, and our waiter even went to get us (bride and groom) drinks from our bar. The tasting experience was a lot of fun and left us with high expectations, and somehow they were exceeded! Thank you D'Amico. read more

Catering review We 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! read more

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I've never written a poor review about a business, but I feel our experience needs to be shared. For any future couple getting married who's thinking about having D'Amico as the caterer, I'd think again. Go with someone else who won't cause you trouble on your wedding day. Below are a few things that occurred on our wedding day: 1. My biggest annoyance after working with them - they have no problem taking your money, but when it comes time to making things right for the issues they caused, they TRULY could not care less. We told them about our problems & NOT ONE person we worked with from their team has cared to give me a call back. 2. We spent hundreds of dollars paying for extra rentals to live inside our reception space so that we could have 2 bar areas for guests to get drinks. 1 of their bartenders just didn't show up leaving our second bar to be completely closed for a majority of the reception. After our wedding we let D'amico know & because no one was calling us back, & we sent them an email about the situation. Via email, D'amico replied & they offered to refund us the labor hours we paid for, however, if they would just give us a call back, they'd be able to learn that it's not just $500 in labor we got gypped. It was also hundreds of dollars in rentals we paid to have an extra bar & decor surrounding the bar. Last note about this, how could they not properly staff an event? They didnt have ONE back up person who could attend the bar? D'Amico claims to be the experts with a ton of experience, but this is such a rookie issue to have. 3. Our food was served cold. As the bride its hard to eat when you have so many guests to entertain & say hello. This caterer made it easy not to eat my main course. 4. We chose speciality cocktails to be served at our wedding & were not made aware until THE MORNING of the wedding that the specialty cocktails would only be available at the cocktail hour (our cocktails were simple 3 ingredient drinks: Old Fashioned & French 75). As an experienced catering company, how could they not continue to serve these throughout the evening, especially with these drinks being the easiest to make! In the instance that it did say in our contract that cocktails would only be served at our cocktail hour, it should have been made clear over one of our planning phone calls that specialty cocktails will NOT carry over to the reception because if it was made clear, we would have not opted in to paying more for specialty drinks. Big waste of money & again, we felt swindled. I truly hate to say this, but if you are getting married soon, I highly recommend you work with another caterer. And Im happy to sign my name at the bottom of this review.. maybe then we'll finally get a call back. - Jamie read more

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. read more

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! read more

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. read more

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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 read more

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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. read more

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. read more

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. read more

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. read more

D'Amico catered my July backyard rehearsal dinner and wedding at the Mill City Museum. Robin Guerrero was our point of contact for D'Amico, and she was absolutely amazing to work with. The entire operation was seamless. We had a large wedding and we were particular with the details. D'Amico offered to cook whatever we wanted, as long as we provided some recipes and guidance. We did exactly that - we chose partly from the menu items they had in mind, and then I gave them several recipes for other items. They were really great about my picky little instructions - no dill, etc. Robin sat down with us to go over the menu, and offered great suggestions based on what was in season and what D'Amico was already good at. Our guests told us that it was the best wedding food they'd ever had - EVER. For the rehearsal dinner, they set up in my MIL's backyard. The staff were professional, and the food was perfect. They worked with my wedding planner to make sure everything was set up in the right spot, and everything was efficient, on-time, and delicious. I even requested that we spiral cut the hot dogs we were serving, and that was done perfectly, too! For the wedding dinner, we opted for another buffet but with hand-passed salads, as Robin suggested. The food was amazing, and there was plenty for everyone. For our dessert, we chose a small cake to cut, sheet cake for guests, and then a dessert buffet spread. My wedding cake was a white cake with raspberry filling, and then also a white cake with lemon filling. I only tasted the raspberry, but it was amazing! I had been so worried because white cakes often end up being dry, but this was not the case. It was absolutely delicious, and I'm actually going to shoot Robin an e-mail to see if we can get a smaller replicate cake for the holidays. Robin also coordinated with our other vendors, worked with us to make sure that the wine we brought to the venue was in the right spot at the right time, and served properly. She was a dream to work with - accessible via e-mail and phone - and really made our wedding the best that our guests have ever been do. They even worked with us to serve pizza at 11:30, once the dancing had been going for a long time! At the end of the night, the staff packed up remaining cake and a pizza for my new husband and I to take back to our hotel. We were famished, and it hit the spot. The next morning, I realized that my wedding dress (I had changed into a reception dress) was missing. I sent Robin an e-mail, and she was immediately on high alert to find it. Luckily, it was tracked down to the undercarriage of my sister's stroller (whoops.) Overall, D'Amico did a stunning job with our wedding weekend. Feeding 180+ guests for two days off their menu repertoire didn't faze them. I want to reiterate - many of our guests said it was the best wedding food they'd ever had, and I found D'Amico and Robin to be absolutely professional and a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend their services. read more

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 read more

We had a wedding at Mill City through D'Amico Catering originally scheduled for the summer of 2020 that was ultimately rescheduled for summer of 2021. The process of rescheduling and figuring out the new contract was a nightmare and I would never do this again. D'Amico Catering was vague about their policies and employed a lot of disingenuous tactics to take advantage of their clients. They also were unprofessional and poor communicators, which made the entire process a huge headache and delayed a lot of time sensitive planning. For example, we had an original count of 250 people, but due to the governor's ordinances, that number was now limited to 50, although it was unclear if that limit would change in the near future. Due to the slow and incomplete responses we were getting from our coordinator, we were now approaching less than 6 weeks from our rescheduled date, and still without any solid confirmation on details. In the process of getting a rescheduled date, they tried to hold us accountable for the original minimum food/beverage amount for 250 because they "hoped our rescheduled date would allow us to have greater than 50 guests". So basically they wanted us to plan for a wedding of 250 people when we did not have that guarantee. It is impractical to invite and disinvite anywhere between 50 to 250 people in less than 6 weeks, but they didn't seem to understand that and it was challenging to get them to compromise. D'Amicos coordinators (Specifically Anne Bohnsack and Rachel Bruzek) were also unprofessional, slow with communication, and paid little attention to detail. There was even a point when Anne was intentionally avoiding our messages. We emailed her days ago with no response, and finally called her office phone to follow up. The call went to voicemail after two rings (ie she was screening calls), but she immediately answered when we called through the main office number. There are many more examples, but this will hopefully give you an idea of what we went through. Be wary of working with D'Amico. read more

My husband and I used D'Amico Catering for our wedding at the IMS in Minneapolis, and we couldn't have been happier with our overall experience! I had always heard wonderful reviews from friends about D'Amico, and I'm glad to say that I listened to their recommendations. From booking the reception site, to attending tasting events, all the way to the night of our wedding reception, D'Amico made the experience of planning our wedding extremely memorable. Our coordinator Robin always was available to go above and beyond for us, being completely patient when we sprung last minute meetings on her, haha! And if she wasn't available, anyone jumped in to see what they could do. That was much appreciated. But the BEST part was definitely the FOOD!!!! ALL of our guests still rave about it saying it was the best meal they ever had at a wedding! One of our picks was the braised short ribs, and the meat was so tender and juicy, it fell right off the bone! I know a lot of brides say they didn't have time to eat at their wedding, but there was NO WAY I was going to miss out on that meal! We did a mini dessert buffet and those were to die for... not one piece was left on the table! Service was wonderful, and several of our guests mentioned the same to us. The event supervisor was always checking in to make sure everything was going the way we wanted and planned and were very helpful with take-down at the end of the night. We highly recommend D'Amico for your next event :) read more

Top notch service. This group is always on top of there game. I think the management group is the best in the cities. They keep their catering group very positive. Customer service is amazing. read more

The best food that you can get catered. Very accomidating, great staff.

My husband and I had our wedding reception at the Metropolitan Ballroom on 5/30/2015. Kristen, our wedding coordinator, was amazing to work with prior to the actual wedding reception (we had a sixteenth-month engagement so we worked with her for a long period of time). She was extremely prompt with returning e-mails and was always so friendly/professional. We were SO impressed with the staff at the Metropolitan ballroom. Everything went very smoothly and they treated us like royalty! Audrey (server at the head table), Josh (event supervisor), and the bartenders were awesome! The food and cake were absolutely delicious! The food presentation was beautiful. The cake looked exactly like what we had requested. We received many compliments from guests on how amazing the food/cake were. The cake we had was literally the best cake I had every eaten (vanilla buttercream/chocolate cake with ganache filling & vanilla buttercream/white cake with raspberry filling)... very moist and flavorful. Our night was perfect. The staff even insisted on going out to the store to bring me back my favorite pop for the evening since they didn't have it at the bar. The Metropolitan Ballroom is a beautiful facility that is very well-maintained. The exquisite decor makes it a very elegant and classy location. As you can tell, we can not say enough wonderful things about this location and could not have imagined having our wedding reception anywhere else! We highly recommend D'Amico catering for your next big event!! read more

Where do I even start. I am a very understanding person, but I do not want any poor couple to go through what me and my Fiancé have. We booked with Ashery Lane (and their required catering company- D'Amico Catering) in January 2020 for a scheduled wedding in January of 2021. The event planner associated with D'Amico was very friendly, the barn venue was stunning, and D'Amico has been around for over 25 years so we thought we would be in great hands. We put our nearly $7,000.00 deposit down and then... crickets. No emails until 6 months later (cue Covid-19 changes) when I emailed the event planner about what we could be expecting to change at the venue. They told us we had to decrease our guest count from 170 to 120, we could not have a head table or sit with our bridal party, and all servers had to wear masks (annoying but understandable with the state restrictions). We sent out our save the dates and planned to have a modified seating chart. Then, just four months out we get an email stating we now all must wear masks (which will be policed by the catering company and they reserve the right to refuse servicing the wedding if people choose not to wear masks), we need to decrease our guest count to a maximum of 86 (or less than 36 if we want to utilize the second barn we already placed a deposit on), and we have to have a seated cocktail hour (in the same table arrangements from ceremony through to reception) where no one is able to mingle, they may only be excused to go to the bar by a staff member. They dropped our ridiculous bar and food minimums by only $1,000.00 knowing we would never make them with their required cuts to the guest list. AND the contract reads that D'Amico reserves the right to pull out of the contract as the caterer up until 90 days before the wedding if the guest count is drastically reduced. They said these changes could be altered up until the day of the wedding per the state requirements- yet more then five other venues I have spoken with do not have any policies this strict. They now refuse to give us any money back even though there has been little to no services given to us (not even a complimentary tasting). I am telling you- do not book here/specifically do not book with D'Amico Catering because they are only in it for the money. And, from personal experience: READ ALL OF YOUR CONTRACTS CAREFULLY. read more

I've worked with various caterers as a caricature artist who entertains at events. D'amico is probably the best I've encountered. Totally professional but not stuffy or stuck-up, though the caliber of the planning, decoration, food preparation and everything else they do is absolutely as superb. It is unusual to find this blend of genuine niceness and comfortable way of dealing with people with such perfectionism and attention to detail in the execution of an event. I hope to be working with them again, many times. read more

My Daughter's Wedding Reception:The appetizers were displayed beautifully at my Daughter's wedding. The food was good, we had a buffet of gyros, salad. I have had better gyros elsewhere, but the food was good. I want to say what really happened at my Daughter's wedding, and it does involve D'Amico catering staff and their head management person in charge that evening. I will let our Daughter return from her trip and she will have to address the issues. It does NOT involve the beautiful establishment we rented and held the reception. None of the issues were my Daughter's fault, but how sad that her reception ended on such a bad note. Many guests, friends of ours, and business associates all felt that D'Amico management did not handle the few issues that we had at the wedding very well. My Husband and I were unable to enjoy our Daughters reception to the fullest. We worked very respectfully and responsibly with D'Amico when they asked us to deal with the problems they were having. The management and staff were polite with us as well. However, they dropped the ball on handling a few issues, and what wedding has no issue! If you are in charge of running the show, then run the show and please do not burden the client and punish the Bride and Groom. The night did not end well. I could have ended much differently and with better reviews if the issue was dealt with & controlled right from the get-go! The parents of the Bride and Groom shouldn't have to deal with adults, guests they do not know very well and keep tabs on them for the evening. We tried to do this, and I know D'Amico staff worked on that too but truthfully, your staff should have handled the problem differently. We worked very hard and saved our money to provide our Daughter with the best possible reception we could afford. We were doing our best to ensue ALL our guests had a wonderful time. None of the issues were actually our personal responsibility. We have heard many good things about the catering from D'Amico. Maybe your event will have better luck than we did. read more

We used them for our wedding. The food was great but there bar management and bartenders received a grade of "F." One of the $600 kegs of Coors was skunked so bad that it was undrinkable. Also, one of the bartenders was very rude - so rude that most people who came to the wedding (I am the groom) said, "The wedding was great, food, location, etc. Buuut there was that bar tender who was being a you-know-what to everyone." read more