DK Catering provided a wonderful Burns supper last night at the Hutchison House In Peterborough. His creative touches, terrific presentation and a thoughtful menu to delight the senses was an absolute winner. read more

Overpromised, under delivered and robbed. We gave him 2 months to respond and explain himself with no answer. If you want to hire him as a private chef, make sure you only pay him after. He asked for a deposit to secure his services which is understandable but he also demanded the outstanding full payment before he even arrives or prepares the food. His food was fine, but he promised us so much that we didn't see and eat. On top of that, he took all the remaining food home when he left. I've never heard of a catering/chef service that takes the food they purchased and cooked for your event home with them instead of leaving it. We hired him for catering and private chef services. He took home the uneaten breakfast muffin which we picked up as part of the catering part of the service. Again, in what world does it make sense to pay someone to cook food, which you pick up and take home, to then have them show up and take back the food you didn't eat.... Restaurants provide take out containers for the food we haven't eaten but DK catering thinks they have the right to take back food. Bread, butter and olives for the tables were never put out and he took it home. Less than 10% of the remaining food we paid for was left for us. It was so little that we actually had to go grocery shopping for our dinner the next day which we didn't hire him for thinking we would have left overs from the wedding to eat.... Thankfully, I said yes to keeping the uncooked brisket he "offered" me out of confusion as to why he was offering me uncooked meat that was part of the dinner plans I paid for. The cherry on top was the seafood buffet, originally meant for half our guests, we then changed to increase the portion for the seafood buffet to 30+ guests (18 additional guests to feed). Originally DK quoted us an extra $2800. I added an email asking for a reduced cost option, we didn't need iced seafood towers, lobsters and king crabs, just two large bowls or shrimp and mussels. Invoice he provided for the $1000 (attached) clearly states 1 shrimp dish, 1 prawn dish, 1 mussel dish, focaccia and other starches we didn't ask for. We paid an extra $1000. Keep in mind, a portion of the seafood buffet was already priced in our first invoice to feed 12-14 guests. This $1000 is only to feed the additional 18 people, so the extra quantity of seafood and I guess additional time to prep and cook the extra quantity of seafood. This didn't add new or more types of dishes, just increased the quantity. What we got was one bowl of mussels that fed 14 people at most and the world's smallest prawns I have ever seen. I wish I took pictures, so you could laugh at my expense. It was a small soup plate with a yellow sauce that had tiny prawns floating around in it. My mom thought that was a sauce for the mussels, not an actual "BBQ garlic lemon pepper prawn" dish. No focaccia, no green curry shrimp, no kimchi (which was promised over the phone, not on the invoice). I spoke with all our guests and half of them mentioned eating one or two mussels, the rest said "it was all gone when we saw it," and all the guests said "there was shrimp?!" I went to Costco to see how expensive this seafood buffet would've cost him... the mussels were 16$ and at most he served 2-3 packs worth. I have no idea where he got the worlds smallest prawns from but Costco had fresh shrimp at a normal size for under $30 each. So at most $200 was spent on food and I guess his hourly is $400+. So again in what world does one bowl of mussels and one soup bowl of lemon prawn soup feed 30+ guests and when have you heard of a chef that cooks for you but takes back the food you don't eat? If this wasn't a scam, it was robbery. read more