I have had the pleasure of attending a few celebratory occasions at La Perla. This banquet hall is unique in decor & location. It seats up to 300 for banquets, with fantastic views of the Fraser river - it is located at the New Westminster Quay - River Market Mall. The dance floor is spacious & is just in front of the 'balcony' which transcends a feeling of dancing in the streets of Italy! The food is catered by Orlando's Catering & I just absolutely love the Risotto they make. It's so delicious! On my last occasion there I had a beef shank that was so soft & seemed to melt in my mouth! I've been very fortunate as well to have been there when the functions I attended had additional dessert provided by Tre Galli Gelato Cafe(located in the mall). Their gelato is mind blowing - try their salted caramel & lemon flavours! One must see this hall to understand it, as its really too beautiful for words. Being able to look out at the Fraser River day or night is pretty spectacular while attending any function here! read more

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My favourite venue in all metro Vancouver. Highly recommended . Very professional service, high quality food and what a waterfront view. read more

Wonderful venue , the view is amazing! Food is really good, high quality and great service. Highly recommend it !! read more

Food is really good and the view is amazing!!!!!! wonderful venue and great staff!!!

NEVER book your wedding at La Perla Ballroom or using Orlando's Catering. I recently had my wedding there on July 4, 2015. It was an awful experience for the following reasons: PRE WEDDING 1. It takes weeks to actually get an email response from anyone during the planning process. 2. During the final head count a few weeks before the wedding they tried to increase the price on the final invoice for everyone's meal by $1 thinking i would be too flustered and not notice; they did the exact same thing for my cousin who used Orlando's catering on June 20, 2015 for her wedding. 3. As per Silvio's instruction my decorator dropped of all of the table clothes on the Wednesday before my wedding so when we showed up Friday to decorate the tables would all be set. My decorator arrived on Friday and NONE of the tables were set as well they didnt even have the right amount of tables out or chairs at any of the tables. My decorator sat there doing nothing for an hour until i arrived. My bridesmaids and myself had to move all the tables into the correct format that i had sent him weeks prior as well as dolly all the chairs to the tables so my decorator could put chair covers and sashes on them. 4. We asked Silvio if he could please turn off the coloured lights that shined on the dance floor and he said sorry it cant be done so my decorator climbed up on a ladder and just unplugged them. DAY OF WEDDING 1. guest arrived and non of the candles were lit (I had given them a full timeline saying lite candles at 4:00pm) My dad and my Mother in Law had to run around lighting all of the candles 2. We had a welcome drink of Sangria for all of the guests as they walked in. This was not put out in time. My dad again had to go grab it and they locked guests out until they had it ready. 3. We paid extra for 2 bartenders and 2 bars; a beer and wine bar and a hard bar. We were only provided with 1 bar the second bar was not even set up. Even though he promised me it would be set up and even showed me the location of it. 4. The bartenders told our guests we werent serving beer even though we had 4 kegs of it. Guests had to go into a back hallway and serve the beer to themselves once i found out where it was. 5. In our contract with La perla we paid for free parking as well as a parking attendant. There was NO parking attendant and TONS of our guests got parking tickets even with leaving the wedding invitation on the dashboard that stated free parking 6. In our contact with La perla we paid for coat check. There was no coat check 7. They served all of my guests with allergies the wrong meals even after getting an allergy list of the 4 people and what tables they were at (yes i did have placecards at the tables with the peoples names) Then proceeded to come up to me at the head table during a speech and tell me they had done this and what i wanted them to do about it. 8. The servers were ridiculously loud and kept coming up and talking to me at the head table during speeches. 9. they force you to use their DJ and say he is absolutely amazing. HE IS TERRIBLE (Canadian DJ). He played our wrong first dance song; then took him 5 min to find the correct one. THANK GOD I HAD AN AMAZING MC WHO SAVED THE DAY. My husband and his best man also made a wedding slideshow that the DJ was supposed to play. My husband strictly told him he had to save the file onto his computer and then play it because when you play it directly off the USB stick it can skip. The whole slideshow skipped and the DJ just let it play not even attempting to fix the issue. 10. Part of the selling feature of the venue was that they had a camera and the people doing speeches would be displayed on the TV's so everyone could see. The DJ couldn't figure out how to make the camera work at all the whole night. 11. we were told we had until Sunday at noon to take everything out of the venue and then at 1:00am he told us we had to everything out now including all leftover booze, gifts and all decor. read more

The Ballroom/hall is fantastic. Great location, superb view. Close to a hotel if you don't want to go home. The food is amazing with with a variety of types and the price for what you get is a very good value! I have had many functions there and was always fully satisfied. I highly recommend it for small or large functions. read more

Highly recommended! Great services and Amazing food!!! La perla ballroom has definitely exceeded my expectations.

I have waited 5 months to write this review, being that I have an infant at home, I have my hands tied up at all times! This review is from my husband and I`s wedding of 180 guests that took place at La Perla Ballroom, and I can assure you that the La Perla Ballroom owners are well aware of this review, cause I did mention that I`ll be writing it. I`m gonna try and make this very short. The ballroom itself it is beautiful, my husband and I were so thrilled about it, even our guests (especially soon-to-be-married) were excited about it. Very new and classy looking ballroom. However, the service and food, not so great :( First off renting the ballroom it had to come with their own catering, Orlando`s catering which is an Italian family owned along with the ballroom. You have two brother you deal with, one about the food, and the other about the set-ups You NEED to sit down with both of them together to talk about the plans, menu, etc, because if you discuss one thing with one of them, and reconfirm with the other about it, they`ll just say...well you talked to my brother about it, so deal with him. Also make sure EVERYTHING gets WRITTEN down and SIGNED by BOTH BROTHERS...I was so stupid for not doing that, ex one of the appetizers we had was a smoked salmon dish and I specifically asked to be individually served (which is more expensive), but the owners decided to serve it as family platter (a lot cheaper), which I brought up to them and because I talked about this with one of the brothers, the other one said well you`ll have to bring it up with my brother, you discussed with him, and when I did discuss it with the other brother, he stated that we always serve that as platters and of course I never got reimbursed for the difference. One of my guests had the chicken dish, and unfortunately the chicken wasn`t cooked properly, so she asked for a new one, just to be denied because apparently they`ve run out of chicken, I mean, really...who runs out of food at a wedding event! I was just shocked! And because they ran out of chicken, another guest of mine apparently, received a very small piece of chicken and a small schnitzel (she really didn`t know what that was, therefore she didn`t eat it) I mean they just substitute it with something else... For kids I had chicken strips and fries, and I had a mommy telling me that they never brought a dish for a 4 year-old so she ended up sharing her dish with her kid. Later on for the Late Buffet, I asked if my guests be served mini sandwiches, on a table on the side, where they just pick up on their own, but of course that failed too, Orlando`s Catering just put out some salami and cheese, and buns on the side, and my guests were making their own sandwiches at the end of it all... Service was poor as well, the plan that we discussed to have bottle of wines at all times on the tables, once the bottles are empty, replace with a new one, that failed, my guests ended up asking the waiters to bring them new ones, as well as coffee, actually my guests were sent to the BAR to get coffees, when they were supposed to be served at the tables.. There is so much more, but I did say I wanted to make it short, yet I am getting carried away! Final thought: If you do decide to choose this venue, PLEASE make the owners sign everything you come to an agreement with, also sit the owners TOGETHER so they don`t blame each other about things that aren`t done to your expectations read more

What a terrible experience. Incredibly overpriced event hosting in a cheesy atmosphere. The food was embarrassingly bad with undressed salad (when I asked for dressing and ordered "Italian" I was given lime juice. Literally), and awful, cold, overcooked main of fish and vegetables. When I sent it back (stone cold!!!) they microwaved it and sent the same plate back to me. The servers were apologetic but unprofessional in dealing with the issues due to an obvious lack of experience. Other reviews online note how difficult communication is with the business. In keeping with that their website is down so I couldn't even give feedback directly. read more