Last night Chef John Alverez and his staff Eric and Diana catered the most amazing dinner! The…read moreoccasion was a 50th family birthday party for our daughter with 21 guests ranging from 2 months to 80. Our theme was Mexican and everyone agreed the food and service were the absolute best! John Alverez and his team Eric and Diana brought their own kitchen which they set up on our deck even though my kitchen was available for use. This allows them to keep every thing they cook at exactly the right temperate. The chicken, shrimp and beef were cooked to perfection! All food was beautifully presented and tasty. Desserts were beautiful and spectacular. The team was so respectful and easy to work with. I highly recommend Five Course Provisions and will definitely hire them again!!! Shelley from Hillsborough

We highly recommend Five Course Provision! Chef John, Diana and their team created a truly…read morebeautiful and memorable wedding banquet for our daughter and extended family. Chef John and his entire team are an incredible group of people who poured their hearts into making our dinner event beyond special. Chef John was very collaborative from the beginning and listened to us and created an unbelievably personalized, curated meal. Diana was a constant source of support and organization throughout the process of planning the perfect dinner. We will absolutely use Five Course Provision again and we recommend you contact them for your next event!

Chef Valerie is teaching our son how to cook. He has intellectual and developmental disabilities…read moreand struggles with fine motor skills, which can make learning new tasks very difficult. Chef Valerie approaches him with boundless patience, kindness, and understanding. She has a massive heart and a true passion for food that shines through in everything she does--from how she handles cooking tools, ingredients to our chats during class. Because of her deep knowledge, flexibility and experience, she easily adapts recipes to fit our son's taste sensitivities and even saves the day when I forget to prep an ingredient. Our son typically has a very small appetite and struggles to gain weight, but whenever he cooks with Chef Valerie, he proudly cleans his plate! Needless to say, her food is absolutely delicious!

Chef Valerie has been cooking for our family weekly for a few months now. Our family has LOTS of…read morefood allergies and sensitivities, including needing to eat totally gluten free, and Valerie has been incredibly accommodating about them all. She offers tasty and creative recommendations for meals, is also totally welcome to make anything we suggest, and is receptive to feedback about all of it. Her food is delicious, too! She is excited to experiment with new recipes, and we are beyond grateful to have found her, as in addition to being a great chef, she is a really kind and cool person!

I have been using the weekly delivery services from the Chef Works for about 3 months now. I have…read morebeen extremely happy with the service. Not only is the food delicious, but the service in impeccable. Once a week, I choose from over 250 items. The meals are delivered to my home and keep me and my family stocked up for the entire week. My kids love the Panko Crusted Chicken Fingers and Deb's cookies. Very hard for me to choose a favorite. I love the Stuffed Pork Loin and the Lasagne. Enchiladas, flank steak, spaghetti and meatballs. You name it, they make it. The sides are also amazing and they have tons of healthy options. I highly recommend the personal chef services of The Chef Works for busy families that need a title extra help with the cooking.

What a pleasure to come home after a hard day at work and have a complex, delicious home cooked…read moremeal. The variety of meals to choose from is terrific and every meal I've had has been very enjoyable. Chef Joe always has a smile and joke which makes the experience even more enjoyable. I would recommend this service to anyone who wants a delicious meal cooked with love and heart at a reasonable price...

Such a successful birthday event! All thanks to Ryan at Fillhardt Artisan Bartending. Very easy to…read morecommunicate and coordinate with. It was a party over 120+ and they saved me SO much time and provided pretty much everything -- portable/mobile bar even down to the cocktail garnishes. Their food menu selection was very impressive and Ryan was able to cater to my customizations. The two bartenders were Mike and Andy, who arrived professionally on time. My guests not only enjoyed all the drinks they made but their presence! Very personal and pretty entertaining. Lastly THEY CLEANED UP!! Super efficient. I will definitely be using Fillhardt Artisan Bartending for future events and I highly recommend! Thank you so much for making this birthday not only amazing, but memorable.

We found Ryan on Yelp only weeks before our event. Ryan was easy to work with electronically…read more(email/sms/phone) and delivered big time. Ryan and team showed up on time with all the required equipment the bar was top class and the food was amazing. 130 guests were happy and so was I. The team left the place tidy and there was not much for us to clean. Highly recommended.

A wonderful experience all-around! Highly recommend to…read moreeveryone~ clients, family or friends. John does an amazing job with staging and serving. Nothing but rave reviews & compliment's on the food. Thanks as always for accommodating/meeting our needs with utmost care. The food is always delicious and the service you provide is outstanding. Wouldn't go anywhere else. A true pleasure to work with! x

I wish I could leave a good review. I really wanted them to cater the Celebration of Life for my…read morehusband. The reviews were good and the food was exactly what I wanted. I called and spoke to someone who told me he thought they were available on the day of my event. He asked me to call back in the afternoon after he checked the calendar. I called several times and emailed multiple times and never got a response. I explained that I had just lost my husband. It was a tough time for me and I found their non responsiveness to be very disrespectful.

First things first, if you need a caterer in the Bay Area, use Mark! My fiancee and I were in a…read morepinch. It was weeks away from our wedding and everything went to hell with our other caterer, Piper Johnson Catering (they will be getting a horrible review). We called Mark and he was willing, on a short timeline, to do it. I shouldn't even say "willing." He didn't hesitate! The entire process was seamless: initial phone call, getting quotes very quickly and tweaking the dinner to our every need, including gluten-free. He followed up on everything and made me (bride-to-be) feel at ease. Now, the food! My goodness the food was beyond perfect. We'd requested apps, a salad course, prime rib, and salmon, and he delivered without a single flaw. All I kept hearing from the wedding guests is that it was the best wedding food they had ever had. And I could not agree more. Mark is insanely nice to boot. He took care of us and made my special day into an amazing day!

I can't say enough good things about chef Jacquie Steiner or her business, Moveable Feast!…read moreJacquie's absolutely exquisite food recently came to our rescue in a big way. My husband and I ended up on projects that were keeping us both so busy we could barely get to the store, much less cook. (NOT ideal!) We longed for the comfort of delicious, nourishing home-cooked meals, and were getting tired of store-bought substitutes and take-out from restaurants. Then Moveable Feast's Jacquie entered our lives. She is an incredibly kind, truly caring woman who really listened to what we requested, asked questions, made suggestions, and worked with us to put together a menu we could only dream about. OH and did it ever pay off. I seriously attribute her fantastic meals to helping us each survive our projects in one piece. She delivered several hugely delicious items and meals, and they far far far exceeded our expectations. The flavors and textures and combinations still make me hungry when I think about them. One of my favorites was this Moroccan chicken, which we had with a side of amazing soup we pulled out for the occasion. I think it was Indian. OMG I've never had such delicious soup in my life. The food was the BEST but what's just as terrific is Jacquie. She is the real deal - a phenomenal chef, a super good person, and empathetic as they come. It may sound weird, but you can almost feel and taste the love she puts in her food. I told her that it was the kind of feeling I would have gotten from my mom making us some meals in our overwhelmingly busy situation if she were still alive and if she was a really good chef. We felt nurtured from the inside out and the outside in.

Caveat: We didn't use Schumann's for our wedding. I'm only basing this review on our tasting…read more Schumann's gave us a big list of dishes on various sample menus to choose from before the tasting. We had tried some of their food before at a Brazilian Room bridal fair like onion puffs, and thought they were good but not amazing (GBNA), and wanted to try some new stuff. They served us many of the apps we suggested as well as the onion puffs. At first I was disappointed to seem the ol' onion puffs, but then I realized why they push them so much. They were by far the best appetizer. That's when I realized - there's a reason caterers push certain dishes. Schumann's let us try several appetizers. The curried chicken triangles had too much puffed pastry. The chicken satay was served cold, and overlooking the fact that the meat was still only okay, not nearly as good as what you could get in a restaurant. The accompanying dipping sauce was terrible and tasted like peanut butter instead of a peanut sauce. (We had tried the chicken satay at Ann Walker Catering two weeks before and this paled by comparison). The bruschetta suffered from out of season tomatoes, so as a result it was hard to judge. (But really they shouldn't have served it to us.) The appetizers we liked the most were the curried carrot soup shots. They were GBNA, but we thought they would be fun to serve at the reception. The boyfriend liked the ahi tuna on crostini, but I thought it was only fair to middling. The mushrooms stuffed with pine nuts and pesto were my favorite. And of course the onion puffs shined after the poor showing of the satay, chicken curry triangles, and bruschetta. The best dish we tried by far was the spring greens with candied pecans and pears. It was one of the best salads I've ever had. Even the boyfriend who isn't a big salad fan and doesn't like salad dressing, liked the salad and dressing. The caprese salad of tomato, fresh mozarella, and lettuce was only okay. Again, the tomatoes were out of season, and I don't think there was any basil to punch up the flavors. We also tried sides of asparagus spears, saffron risotto, and broccoli with pinenuts. Of these, the asparagus spears were the only ones worthy of continuing on to our potential wedding menu. The entrees were unimpressive. The seabass with fruit salsa and chicken in a mushroom wine sauce both tasted like bad hotel food. While tasting the food, one word kept popping into my head: "amateurish." That's how I felt about many of the dishes - especially the unfortunate appetizers. And I wanted a caterer where I felt I would pay for their food if they had a restaurant. I did not feel this way about Schumann's. The brothers Schumann are super nice. The tasting is in their office which is super cluttered with books and papers on every piece of furniture. They offer some of the lowest prices for catering around. We're super into food and dining out, so we weren't as impressed with the food, but for a bride who's trying to save a buck this is a good option. And I've seen many good reviews for them online.

The first time we met Al, we immediately felt good vibes from him. We are a couple of a very tight…read morebudget, so we hate surprises. Al is very direct and specific of what we had to pay. We do not have to pay for chinaware and forks, no corkage fee, we provide the drinks, he provides the bar tender, no cake cutting fee and we pay the servers, linens and the food. Our event is not as simple as any other wedding. We had to add ethnic food to our menu, and Al is very flexible with it. As the event comes close, we have to cut some of our expenses and Al does not really mind us doing this. 2 weeks before the wedding, we met at the hall where I will have my ceremony and reception. We had a very stict time guideline and we will need the servers to convert the hall from ceremony to reception, while taking care of the hors'd erves and serving the guest. We almost thought Al will not agree to the time frame we provided him, but to our surprise he said it is difficult but is possible. He is flexible and is willing to work with us every single time. He let us be in charge of our own wedding, and he did the best that he can to provide us with a very good service. We asked for a tasting, and we love the food that was served to us esp. that wrapped artichoke hearts. Al is very warm and easy to work with. With our budget, I think we got a steal.. Food, service and the touch of class he provided is very much appreciated.