Main event caterers Review

MEC was recommended to us by our event planner. We have never hired a caterer for a private party before, so we were nervous about how to go about planning. They had great suggestions for what a party of our size, and our designated time would be with suggested menus for our budget. We were able to customize the menu easily with all their choices! On the day of our party, the caterers were there setting up as soon as the venue allowed. When we had guests that were bringing some food for gifts, they were very accommodating, and they helped us arrange for the extra. Throughout the event, their waiters were working very hard and made sure that we did not run out of utensils, food, or any other requests that guests had. The bartenders did not have a large line at any point in the evening. The food was very well received by everyone that we asked at the party. I was pleased with how we looked in putting together such an event with such good food and service. At the end of the night, they wrapped up all the leftover food for us to take home! My family really enjoyed having them for the next couple of days afterwards. I hope to be able to use them again for another event in the future!

I want to thank Main Event Catering team for this exemplary service and amazing food. I recently planned a wedding for a couple in DC and MEC provided the food and assisted with set up and breakdown. The entire team was so helpful and the food was absolutely delicious. I will definitely work with them again in the future!

Spencer and his team were amazing at our tasting!! From start to finish they put out the red carpet and presented the most beautiful and delicious food options I ve ever tasted! Such a first class experience!
With such a wonderful tasting experience, we knew Main Event was the best choice for our wedding! The Main Event team ensured the food was perfect, drinks were always filled and no one needed anything. They took their jobs so seriously and made a personal connection with our guests, which meant the world to us!
Thank you for the perfect day!

Our team over at Your Plan A Events had a fabulous wedding weekend this last weekend with Main Event Caterers. Their team was phenomenal and so professional. Their attention to detail was impeccable. Every guest we came in contact with could not stop raving about the food! This team is top of the line!

We hired them to cater a wedding of 160+ people and they did a phenomenal job. Food was one of the highest priority items for us and Main Events just knocked it out of the park. Also, did I mention that they had incredible vegetarian options and were very accommodating about dietary restrictions? Just amazing.

Everyone was astounded at the quality of food they were served. And almost just as important, their service was absolutely top notch. Would highly recommend them!

before hiring them for my wedding I went to a tasting at their headquarters. Food was amazing. I was super excited to share with my guest the food we had tasted and how amazing it was on the day of my wedding. When the day arrived the food was a disaster, it was not the rice I had requested. The rice looked like it was mashed potatoes, some of my guest had requested well done steak and the majority of them did not get that even though it was specified in their name cards. Let s not talk about the desert table, there was NO Desert table. There were only 10 different macaroons on a plate. It was not what I expected and it was definitely not 13,000.00 dollars worth.

Do Not Book Them!

Main event was selected for our wedding in VA and we live in San Francisco. The catering menu looked fantastic and we picked to use them based on our wedding planners recommendation. We did the tasting and everything was made perfectly and well done with some critiques on the salad for the day itself. They quoted us for 150 person wedding and ended up have 109 total.
The cost went up by 5k after the initial quote for 150 was dropped to 109 and they couldn't give me a valid reason why except they needed more staff to move furniture at the venue. The salad we chose was incorrect on the wedding day (Blue cheese instead of Parmigiano-Reggiano. The cost was dramatically more than was quoted upfront.
The final straw was after the wedding and paying them over 20k to feed 109 people food that was incorrect to what we chose originally they send me a request to pay $33.72 6 weeks after the wedding. I would of never written this review until they were petty with the small extra amount they want due. Again no reason outside of saying we increased headcount, yet we had 3 less people than 109 at the actual wedding due to a few last minute cancellations.

We also paid for our own alcohol prior to the event and they over estimated by double and told us to purchase an additional 10 bottles of hard alcohol and 3 cases of wine and 84 more beers.
We had 12 bottles of hard alcohol and 5 cases of wine plus 120 bottles of beer.

Main Events catered my wedding last week. Several of my guests commented how delicious the food was. When the band showed up late and things had to be moved around, Karla, the Main Events on-site supervisor, provided helpful suggestions that kept the reception program on track. All my interactions with Main Events were very positive. They were consistently professional and accommodating - even providing us an additional tasting to make sure the herb chicken was to our liking. I highly recommend them!

Truly can't say enough about how great our experience with Main Event was. Spencer and Melissa made the tasting, planning, coordinating, organizing, and everything else incredibly easy in advance of the wedding. They always offered input, ideas, and feedback but were also more than happy to follow our lead. Without a doubt they were the best catering option among the 10 or so that our venue allowed. On the day of the wedding, the service staff was absolutely outstanding in every way. They were quick to set up, did everything perfectly, and transformed a tented terrace into a beautiful dining room. The food was astounding, the service was impeccable, the bar was great (we got countless compliments on our bartender), and breakdown was quick and easy. Main Event was a critical part of our special day, and they executed everything perfectly.