Excellent meal, service and attention to detail. Food was delicious, well presented and they served generous portions. All food allergies were accommodated. Would use them again for any event. Easy to communicate and very flexible with changes as they happened. Very pleased.
Soledad Graciano
All my guests loved the food. Customer service is excellent. Highly recommend them!
Sarah Hays
I can't recommend Hometown Chef Catering enough! The food and service was unbeatable! From our tasting to the wedding day they were very professional and great to work with. Our guests came up to us and said they've been to A LOT of weddings and this food was the best they've had. I could not be happier. We will definitely use them in the future for events!
Eddie Perez
I absolutely love this Catering Company. Family owned and operated. They treat their employees exceptionally well. Julio and Tiffany as well as the Management Team are 5 Stars.
Christina O'Dell
The Hometown Chef Catering Co. is more than just a caterer. They are a true partner in planning your perfect event. From the very beginning to after the event, they are professional and courteous and provide the best in the business all the way through. The food is amazing and the presentation goes above and beyond.
Amanda Petree, Your Realtor
The Hometown Chef ALWAYS delivers! Literally and figuratively, of course. They catered a small dinner party (20 guests) for me recently, and the food was delicious. Not only is the food great, but the service is outstanding. Margarita delivered and setup our buffet with professionalism and kindness. I highly recommend them for your next event, big or small.
Kristy Nguyen
Leading up to our wedding, we had great communication with the office team and a great consultation. On our wedding day, there were a few things that slipped through the cracks. While the food tasted great, the temperature was not. It was room temp as best. The service was lackluster. It was disappointing to see that my parents were not served their dinner when the rest of the table got their plates already. My dad had to flag down a staff member.Overall, food was good but the execution and service were not.
Charles Cogliandro
Hometown did a great job... From planning to execution everything was easy, on time and flawless. Food was terrific. Special thanks to Aaron and the staff.
Emily and Daniel Bland
The Hometown Chef was great to work with! We had a plated dinner for about 180 people and they were so efficient and made the dinner service run smoothly. The food was tasty and we had multiple people request seconds! They also worked with us on multiple dietary restrictions and did a great job making those accommodations for us. Raiza in particular was so helpful in coordinating everything! It was really important for us to have good food and quick service at our wedding, and The Hometown Chef really delivered!
Megan Cambio
You will not find a better staff or set of owners! They catered my wedding in May 2023 and the food was phenomenal. Our guests complimented us on how tasty the food was— which is not always common for weddings. Tiffany and her husband are DETAILED! She helped us nail down numbers with complicated diets, treated us to an excellent tasting, and was available when we needed her. The staff even packed my husband and I leftovers to eat later than night!
The entire team at Hometown Chef is amazing and always works with my clients to help build their perfect menu. The owners are a husband/wife team who meet every single potential client personally during the tastings. Tiffany takes time out to learn your story so they can know what is important to you. They have a catering menu, but are open to requests. Chef Julio is always ready for the next challenge. He personally comes out to receive feedback so that he can make the proper adjustments before the actual event. One of my brides wanted her jambalaya spicier and Chef made it happen without skipping a beat. The service on the day of the actual event is truly unparalleled! I've worked with many catering companies and none of them compare to the way this team works. The staff is extremely professional and checks in with me often to see how the timeline is coming along. They have no problem making adjustments when we are running behind and never make me feel stressed about it! Their service includes busing the tables and this is a task they take very seriously. My guest tables basically look like nothing was ever served!! Cleared & cleaned! Hometown Chef is quickly becoming my go to catering company for my events. Thanks so much!!!! Very excited to keep working together.
William Magness
Wonderful food, excellent service. Very attentive to our needs. Raiza, Maryanne, and Danny banquet captain are the best. Si is the chef!
Eileen Bell
I used The Hometown Chef for my Mom’s Celebration of Life. They were fantastic to work with from beginning to end. Everything turned out perfectly and they did a great professional job. Communication was timely. The food was yummy and the display was beautiful. I highly recommend using this company!
Allanah Ebenstein
I would 10/10 recommend using this caterer! Their communication up to the event was fantastic. They customized a great menu for us and met all our needs.Day of the event the staff was extremely helpful, friendly, and cleaned up perfectly!Did I mention how amazing the food was! Mouthing watering!
Mykaela Saenz
TL;DR - Fiancée and I got catfished. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!Let me start off by saying that I understand that catering is difficult due to travel time for the food and cooking in mass quantities. That said, what we got was NOWHERE NEAR what was promised and we were extremely disappointed.When we went to our menu tasting, the food was amazing! We were both really excited because the options we chose tasted great and we had hoped our wedding would be the one to actually have good food for once (spoilers: it didn't). Among the dishes were salmon, chicken, brussel sprouts, "adult" mac and cheese, as well as garlic bread and salad.Fast forward to the big day, we get our plate of food and immediately notice it doesn't look quite like what we had tried and expected. Ok, it takes time to get to the venue and food doesn't stay fresh forever, but taste and quality-wise it was akin to getting stale fast food - at least with old fast food, you know what to expect!Food:I thought the chicken was decently tender with an average sauce whereas my fiancée said her piece of chicken was bland and overcooked. My piece of salmon, as well as a few other guests, had bones in it. I'm glad the children attending didn't have issues with theirs, but that's not something I should have to worry about! The "adult" mac and cheese which my fiancée had been particularly excited for was basically just Kraft mac and cheese. Seriously. We went from a velvety and saucy mac with a slight kick to basically something most children could make on their own from a box. Garlic bread and salad were pretty standard and the only saving grace from this catering company were the brussel sprouts which actually tasted not too different from what we had tried. For quality reference, we had purchased a lechon (roasted pig) from another restaurant and brought it to the venue in the morning when we arrived to get ready and that was leagues better after 6 HOURS of sitting out compared to the "fresh" catered food.Conclusion:We intended to splurge ($60 per person!) on quality food after going through several different vendors and were excited after sampling what HomeTown Chef had to offer. To our displeasure, the product we got on our big day was nothing close to what we were promised. Quality control and consistency among dishes were extremely lax. The chicken had varying degrees of doneness from tender to rubber bullet and unlucky people (myself included) had bones in their pieces of salmon, something you should NEVER have had to worry about in the first place. Taste was a far cry from what we expected. The salmon wasn't as good as we remembered and the "adult" mac and cheese was not any better than something you could get at the grocery store. Gotta give credit where credit is due: whoever cooked the brussel sprouts that day did a good job as that was the only thing that was consistently good. Overall though, I would HIGHLY DISCOURAGE prospective clients from rendering HomeTown Chef's services unless they really step up their game past the initial sampling and can actually deliver even a fraction of what they promise. Honestly, you're better off treating each guest to a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant because at least you know the money you splurge on them will be spent on good food and not the bait-and-switch we had the misfortune of experiencing.
Excellent meal, service and attention to detail. Food was delicious, well presented and they served generous portions. All food allergies were accommodated. Would use them again for any event. Easy to communicate and very flexible with changes as they happened. Very pleased.
All my guests loved the food. Customer service is excellent. Highly recommend them!
I can't recommend Hometown Chef Catering enough! The food and service was unbeatable! From our tasting to the wedding day they were very professional and great to work with. Our guests came up to us and said they've been to A LOT of weddings and this food was the best they've had. I could not be happier. We will definitely use them in the future for events!
I absolutely love this Catering Company. Family owned and operated. They treat their employees exceptionally well. Julio and Tiffany as well as the Management Team are 5 Stars.
The Hometown Chef Catering Co. is more than just a caterer. They are a true partner in planning your perfect event. From the very beginning to after the event, they are professional and courteous and provide the best in the business all the way through. The food is amazing and the presentation goes above and beyond.
The Hometown Chef ALWAYS delivers! Literally and figuratively, of course. They catered a small dinner party (20 guests) for me recently, and the food was delicious. Not only is the food great, but the service is outstanding. Margarita delivered and setup our buffet with professionalism and kindness. I highly recommend them for your next event, big or small.
Leading up to our wedding, we had great communication with the office team and a great consultation. On our wedding day, there were a few things that slipped through the cracks. While the food tasted great, the temperature was not. It was room temp as best. The service was lackluster. It was disappointing to see that my parents were not served their dinner when the rest of the table got their plates already. My dad had to flag down a staff member.Overall, food was good but the execution and service were not.
Hometown did a great job... From planning to execution everything was easy, on time and flawless. Food was terrific. Special thanks to Aaron and the staff.
The Hometown Chef was great to work with! We had a plated dinner for about 180 people and they were so efficient and made the dinner service run smoothly. The food was tasty and we had multiple people request seconds! They also worked with us on multiple dietary restrictions and did a great job making those accommodations for us. Raiza in particular was so helpful in coordinating everything! It was really important for us to have good food and quick service at our wedding, and The Hometown Chef really delivered!
You will not find a better staff or set of owners! They catered my wedding in May 2023 and the food was phenomenal. Our guests complimented us on how tasty the food was— which is not always common for weddings. Tiffany and her husband are DETAILED! She helped us nail down numbers with complicated diets, treated us to an excellent tasting, and was available when we needed her. The staff even packed my husband and I leftovers to eat later than night!
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The entire team at Hometown Chef is amazing and always works with my clients to help build their perfect menu. The owners are a husband/wife team who meet every single potential client personally during the tastings. Tiffany takes time out to learn your story so they can know what is important to you. They have a catering menu, but are open to requests. Chef Julio is always ready for the next challenge. He personally comes out to receive feedback so that he can make the proper adjustments before the actual event. One of my brides wanted her jambalaya spicier and Chef made it happen without skipping a beat. The service on the day of the actual event is truly unparalleled! I've worked with many catering companies and none of them compare to the way this team works. The staff is extremely professional and checks in with me often to see how the timeline is coming along. They have no problem making adjustments when we are running behind and never make me feel stressed about it! Their service includes busing the tables and this is a task they take very seriously. My guest tables basically look like nothing was ever served!! Cleared & cleaned! Hometown Chef is quickly becoming my go to catering company for my events. Thanks so much!!!! Very excited to keep working together.
Wonderful food, excellent service. Very attentive to our needs. Raiza, Maryanne, and Danny banquet captain are the best. Si is the chef!
I used The Hometown Chef for my Mom’s Celebration of Life. They were fantastic to work with from beginning to end. Everything turned out perfectly and they did a great professional job. Communication was timely. The food was yummy and the display was beautiful. I highly recommend using this company!
I would 10/10 recommend using this caterer! Their communication up to the event was fantastic. They customized a great menu for us and met all our needs.Day of the event the staff was extremely helpful, friendly, and cleaned up perfectly!Did I mention how amazing the food was! Mouthing watering!
TL;DR - Fiancée and I got catfished. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!Let me start off by saying that I understand that catering is difficult due to travel time for the food and cooking in mass quantities. That said, what we got was NOWHERE NEAR what was promised and we were extremely disappointed.When we went to our menu tasting, the food was amazing! We were both really excited because the options we chose tasted great and we had hoped our wedding would be the one to actually have good food for once (spoilers: it didn't). Among the dishes were salmon, chicken, brussel sprouts, "adult" mac and cheese, as well as garlic bread and salad.Fast forward to the big day, we get our plate of food and immediately notice it doesn't look quite like what we had tried and expected. Ok, it takes time to get to the venue and food doesn't stay fresh forever, but taste and quality-wise it was akin to getting stale fast food - at least with old fast food, you know what to expect!Food:I thought the chicken was decently tender with an average sauce whereas my fiancée said her piece of chicken was bland and overcooked. My piece of salmon, as well as a few other guests, had bones in it. I'm glad the children attending didn't have issues with theirs, but that's not something I should have to worry about! The "adult" mac and cheese which my fiancée had been particularly excited for was basically just Kraft mac and cheese. Seriously. We went from a velvety and saucy mac with a slight kick to basically something most children could make on their own from a box. Garlic bread and salad were pretty standard and the only saving grace from this catering company were the brussel sprouts which actually tasted not too different from what we had tried. For quality reference, we had purchased a lechon (roasted pig) from another restaurant and brought it to the venue in the morning when we arrived to get ready and that was leagues better after 6 HOURS of sitting out compared to the "fresh" catered food.Conclusion:We intended to splurge ($60 per person!) on quality food after going through several different vendors and were excited after sampling what HomeTown Chef had to offer. To our displeasure, the product we got on our big day was nothing close to what we were promised. Quality control and consistency among dishes were extremely lax. The chicken had varying degrees of doneness from tender to rubber bullet and unlucky people (myself included) had bones in their pieces of salmon, something you should NEVER have had to worry about in the first place. Taste was a far cry from what we expected. The salmon wasn't as good as we remembered and the "adult" mac and cheese was not any better than something you could get at the grocery store. Gotta give credit where credit is due: whoever cooked the brussel sprouts that day did a good job as that was the only thing that was consistently good. Overall though, I would HIGHLY DISCOURAGE prospective clients from rendering HomeTown Chef's services unless they really step up their game past the initial sampling and can actually deliver even a fraction of what they promise. Honestly, you're better off treating each guest to a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant because at least you know the money you splurge on them will be spent on good food and not the bait-and-switch we had the misfortune of experiencing.