Wedding Caterers in Santa Maria, CA

Wedding Caterers in Santa Maria, CA

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46 Wedding Caterers in Santa Maria, CA

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Catering Connection 

5.0

  • Serves Santa Maria, CA

Be a guest at your own event. Catering Connection is a full-service, boutique catering & event company with over 20 years of experience in the Santa Barbara area. Specializing in tasteful & elegant cuisine, Catering Connection services events from Fundraisers, Company Picnics, Corporate Events to Weddings, Holiday Parties and Private Events.

Working with Catering Connections was a great experience. They were super receptive to all of our changes and requests and worked with us to get the exact menu that we wanted. They were really responsive and also great with helping us ensure that we had the correct rentals for the space as well! So many of our guests told us that they LOVED the food -- especially the cod and the churros, they were the biggest hits of the night!! We know how weddings can go, so we don't think it's a huge deal, but here are a few things that happened that resulted in a four star. Thankfully, none of the guests had any complications, but I'm not sure that the dietary restrictions were too carefully considered - the bride specifically called out a dietary restriction that she noticed when the first course came out, but obviously we aren't able to validate all of the meals. We were also told by guests that the meals took quite a long time to come out between the first and second course and lastly that the bartenders provided by the catering company didn't stir any of the drinks. All small, and overall a stellar experience but just a few things that we took into consideration for our review.
Nicole C., 3 months ago
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FUEGOS LA 

5.0

  • Starts at $450
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA

Authentic Argentinian flavors will be bringing a different experience to your event and your guest! Fuegos is passion and our modern set up will bring a nice touch to your party! We can offer a variety of Argentinian delights to improve the experience of your event

Absolutely blown away by the empanadas from Fuegos! As an Argentinean, I know my empanadas inside and out, and these are the real deal. The dough is perfectly flaky, with just the right amount of crisp on the outside, and soft, tender goodness on the inside. And the fillings? Out of this world! Whether it's the classic beef, loaded with juicy, seasoned goodness, or their creative vegan empanadas, every bite is like a little taste of home. I recently used their catering services for a work event, and they went above and beyond to customize the empanadas to perfectly match my taste and that of my guests. The beautiful packaging added an extra touch of elegance, leaving everyone impressed! Not only were they on time with the delivery, but they were also incredibly organized, ensuring everything went smoothly. Their attention to detail truly made the event even more special! Coming from someone who grew up eating empanadas, I can confidently say these empanadas are legit. If you’re looking for a true Argentinean experience, whether for yourself or for an event, you’ve gotta check them out. You won’t be disappointed!
Valeria B., a month ago
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YOOSHI SUSHI CATERING & EVENT PRODUCTION 

5.0

  • Starts at $2,500
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA

I had my first shot at managing a sushi restaurant when I took over an empty section of the family restaurant and introduced sushi to my customers. It was a challenge that I will never regret accepting. It was fun, a lot of fun! I had the opportunity to work with some really talented and creative chefs. I quickly learned that it’s not just about having fresh fish anymore. Sushi dining has transformed into a culture. A culture built by imagination and creativity. With the help of GD and the support of my family, I took all that experience and fused it with my imagination and created Yooshi Sushi Catering and Event Production.

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Zad catered the sushi at our wedding in March. His trendy presentation and quality choices of fish made it a big hit for our guests. Everyone agreed he was the highlight of our first course. Great team and easy to talk to. Looking forward to more joyous events with Zad by our side.
Ruben Z., 3 years ago
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The Libation Station 

5.0

  • Serves Santa Maria, CA
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Welcome to our mobile beverage service! We are a women-owned business , certified and insured with over 20 years of experience in the industry, ranging from barista to bartender and everything in between. Our passion for creating delicious drinks led us to start this dry hire mobile beverage service, where we specialize in serving up specialty coffee drinks and espresso, handcrafted cocktails, mocktails, and more. At TLS, you provide the alcohol and we take care of the rest. Whether you're hosting a wedding, corporate event, private party, we are here to elevate your experience with our expertly crafted drinks and exceptional service.

Highly recommend The Libation Station for any bartending, barista needs. They truly delivered at my company gathering and we will definitely be using them again.
Jesse M., 18 days ago
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homegrown kitchen 

5.0

  • Serves Santa Maria, CA

We offer full-scale event production and catering services in Southern California region. We aim to use local ingredients to highlight regional cuisines from around the world. We handle parties for families of 10, small weddings, up to large scale corporate events for 400 guests.

Homegrown Kitchen really knocked our party hors d’oeuvres & dinner out of the park! She took the time to understand our tastes and provided selection of tasty options to choose between. The actual day of-guests and family RAVED about how delicious the food was from start to finish, and the potions were more than generous. Be sure to verify needs for plating/dinnerware and any kitchen requirements per your venue. Highly Recommend Homegrown Kitchen!
Ellen and R., a year ago
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Aphrodite Oysters 

5.0

  • Serves Santa Maria, CA

Aphrodite Oysters has been catering raw bars since 2013. We are established in multiple cities; beginning in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Lubbock TEXAS - we are now in Nashville, Middle TENNESSEE, also serving GEORGIA, and CALIFORNIA. Our clients healthy and safety is priority, thus we prepare seafood day of your order and oysters are always shucked on-site. Please let us know how we can help brighten your day or someone else. We offer delivery to private residences, offices, vacation rentals, and boats. Private Chef dinner parties and Wedding Meals also available in most cities.

Kristen and her team made the wedding party with their fresh delicious oysters and adorable setup. It literally was where everyone flocked. Order extra extra because this will be the place to be at your next gathering. I found Aphrodite at a Holiday Party a few years prior. We have ordered a few times for home delivery since. It is so easy and SO FUN!
Jean and D., 4 years ago
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Late to the Lake 

5.0

  • Starts at $450
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Great taste is the name of the game and we're committed to stepping up to the plate. Our goal is provide unforgettable, delicious, and eye catching options. That's why we prepare all of our boards and graze displays to your style, with the highest quality products. Whether it is an intimate dinner or an event for up to 800 guests, we do it all! If you are considering a Graze table for your wedding or next event, reach out and we'd be delighted to create something beautiful for you!

Awarded Best of Zola
We used Late to the Lake for our wedding and our rehearsal dinner. They were on top of EVERYTHING! The food was superb. The staff was attentive and courteous. The attention to detail was impeccable. Would recommend to anyone conisdering catering for any special event in their life.
Jennifer + B., 6 months ago
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Joint Venture 

5.0

  • Starts at $3,750
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Danny has spent the past dozen years working in kitchens around New York City and abroad. After attending the French Culinary Institute, Danny worked at Momofuku Ko, Isa, Estela, and Cabane à Sucre Au Pied de Cochon in Montreal. In 2015, Danny founded Joint Venture as a way to explore how food can bring people together beyond the confines of a restaurant’s four walls. JV is a departure from and reaction to the kitchens of his past. It's about collaborating with friends, reconnecting with nature, and working directly with farmers and producers. JV creates menus that are of the season and expressive of their surroundings. JV is ever-evolving.

Joint Venture cooked some of the best food of our lives for our wedding of 135 people last year in the Catskills. Danny somehow managed to create a menu that was comforting and indulgent, yet nourishing. I'm a musician who's played hundreds of weddings and I've never experienced a caterer close to Joint Venture's level. He also focuses on seasonal ingredients and sustainable farming practices-- even growing some of the food for the meal himself. We couldn't recommend Joint Venture more to anyone looking for a transcendent catering experience that's also down-to-earth (literally).
Alden H., 15 days ago
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Chef John's Events & Catering 

5.0

  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Chef John's Events & Catering serves weddings throughout the Phoenix area and beyond. Led by Chef Jeannette, this team has created cuisines of all kinds for celebrations both intimate and grand. Our creativity is constrained only by the availability of fresh and seasonal ingredients, which help us craft the most delicious dishes possible. Chef John's Events & Catering is inspired by culinary traditions all over the world. For your wedding, we invite you to choose one global cuisine, or your favorite dishes from several. Whichever you decide upon, we will wow you and your guests with mouth-watering flavors and beautiful presentations.

Awarded Best of Zola
Jeannette was super responsive and easy to work with. She solved all the problems and attended to all my catering needs. Delivery was on time, and the break down was perfect! The chicken piccata was so soft I still find hard to believe. The assorted desserts were definitely a talking point, they sure were assorted (was not even able to try them all!) and so delicious I couldn’t pick a favorite either. My wedding cake was everything I dreamed of! I can’t recommend chef johns more, and it sure was one of the best investments of my wedding.
Denise and C., 2 years ago
GourMel Catering 

5.0

  • Starts at $9,000
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

GourMel Catering has earned a steady and loyal following of corporate and private clients, integrating a fine dining experience with a one-of-a-kind nature that is unique to each special event. Intriguing menus with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal ingredients, kind, professional service and creative presentations make GourMel an excellent choice for your wedding needs. We'll make your event memorable for all of the right reasons. Each affair begins with a consultation wherein food and wine are paired, décor and presentation are attended to and rentals are ordered.

Awarded Best of Zola
For a fun and delicious menu, a beautifully decorated unique event, solid staff and peace of mind, Mel at GourMel catering is the one call to make. Mel helped us with EVERYTHING. From menu and drink planning, to centerpieces, to rentals, to party favors, to set up/breakdown and staff and all the little details I forgot, Mel was there with ideas and all the help we needed to perfectly execute our dream wedding. No detail was spared and there was nothing I needed to worry about the day of. Her response time and communication is excellent - very kind and attentive and patient when I couldn't figure out what I wanted! I would definitely use her again for events big and small and would highly highly recommend her to anyone.
Melissa and G., a year ago
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Nomada | Gourmet Taco Catering 

5.0

  • Starts at $2,600
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Nomada is boutique taco catering service based in Irvine specializing in traditional yet modern Mexican cuisine. We are passionate about quality ingredients, exquisite presentation and unparalleled service.

Awarded Best of Zola
If you're planning a wedding and wanting to do something truly AMAZING with your catering, then quit scrolling and reach out to NOMADA right now! If that one sentence doesn't pull you in, let us explain how everything went down for us! We reached out to NOMADA through email and had the absolute pleasure of working with Laura who was super professional, helpful, and always coming up with ways to make our event even better! We got to meet her and the NOMADA team in person at our tasting and it was WONDERFUL! They let us try everything (which we recommend going with an absolutely empty stomach because you're gonna want to try EVERYTHING)! We fell in love with all of the food (especially the Chilean Sea bass tacos--YUMMM!) and we were already tailoring what we would want for our wedding menu! After the tasting, we signed a contract that they really helped tailor towards our event and make sure that everything was covered (i.e. mobile kitchens, chips and salsa, servers, etc.). After that, we had to wait a few months until the event (just DREAMING of eating their delicious food) and all during that time, they answered all of our questions and made sure we felt taken care of! When it was finally time for our wedding... NOMADA WAS INCREDIBLE! So many of our guests told us they were some of the best tacos/food they have EVER had at a wedding before! They also couldn't stop talking about how nice and helpful the team of servers were! Overall, the whole team SMASHED IT out of the park in every sense and we truly couldn't have been more thankful them! Overall, the food was delicious, the service was efficient and so personable, and all of their attention to detail throughout the whole planning process was unmatched. Our guests felt so taken care of and well fed as everyone went back for seconds (and possibly thirds)! They are worth every single penny! Now quit reading this long review and book them because they are the absolute best! :D
Keara G., 3 months ago
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Fire & Wood Catering 

5.0

  • Starts at $2,000
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Welcome. We are Southern California’s most unique Wood-Fired Pizza Catering Company. We bring an exceptional outdoor food experience, with our wood fired oven and our 100% wood-fired menu. All of our food offerings, curated by Chef Thomas, are cooked in our customized mobile wood-fired oven. All of our ingredients are locally sourced from California, as we pride ourselves on taking the time necessary to find the best possible ingredients, and close to home.

Awarded Best of Zola
Everyone absolutely LOVED all of the food that Thomas and his crew provided. Everyone has told me that the Chicken Parmesan Sliders were the best food they have ever eaten. Book them and you and your guests will be SO happy! (Also, any pizza that was left over they put in boxes for us to eat at the end of the night)
Samantha, 5 months ago
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LA Speakeasy 

5.0

  • Starts at $1,000
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Hello! We're Iveth and Vincent Navarro, co-founders of a bartending and mixology team called LA Speakeasy. We specialize in creating craft cocktail experiences through our mobile bartending service and mixology workshops. For people who can appreciate the craft, we offer the best value and one of the most convenient options to hosting your very own cocktail bar. When the drinks matter #laspeakeasy.

I am writing this review wayyyy too late (2 years to the date after my wedding) and it has been eating me away inside because I need to give LA Speakeasy all the praise they deserve. As a wedding planner myself, I had worked with Iveth and Vince previously and found them to be so sweet and easy to work with as well as extremely professional. First of all, they make hands down the best cocktail in the biz. They are so easy and flexible to work with. I knew I wanted a tiki cocktail and they were able to create a Navy Grog inspired cocktail that was exactly what I was looking for. I was able to change all of the cocktail names and we created a custom bar menu with photos Iveth sent me of the cocktails for the artist to create from. The cocktails themselves were even more gorgeous than the drawings! My guests absolutely loved them and by the end of the night we had almost run out because my guests were in love with them. They still ask about some of them to this day! I highly recommend LA Speakeasy, I even used them for a custom Mocktail for my baby shower which was absolutely delicious and yet again my guests couldn’t stop raving about it!
Aletha, 6 months ago
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Tuck-ins 

5.0

  • Starts at $250
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Tuck-ins are a roastable, Inside-Out S’more on a stick, each containing a crunchy handmade graham cracker, covered in decadent chocolate, all inside a fluffy marshmallow! Tuck-ins® are available in Classic, Cookies & Cream, and Peanut Butter! Tuck-ins can be given out as favors with guests roasting them at home over a gas or electric stove. You can even have your own roasting station at your event with TerraFlame Fire Bowls available through Tuck-ins!

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We arranged to have the Tuck-ins team come to our wedding to set up a table with small fire stations and Tuck-ins so that our guests could roast their own s'mores as a fun, interactive dessert. All of my guests loved them and they were also able to take some home if they wanted to save one for later. Additionally, working with the Tuck-ins team was great; they're very responsive and were even able to customize the labels on the Tuck-ins to have our names and wedding date on them. It was truly a unique part of our wedding and I think everyone enjoyed it. Highly recommend!
Kyra, 3 years ago
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Boards and Blooms 

5.0

  • Starts at $15 per person
  • Serves Santa Maria, CA for additional fees

Boards and Blooms is a local, Costa Mesa based small business that offers charcuterie boards, grazing tables, and small floral arrangements. Perfect for any occasion from date nights or Duffy boats to weddings, showers, and large events. We go above and beyond with every detail, so your platter will be sure to WOW whoever you’re sharing with!

Cannot say enough great things about Chelsea and the amazing charcuterie boards/grazing tables she puts together! Chelsea worked with us for our wedding to put together a grazing table for our 65 guests. She was very professional and did such a wonderful job listening to our wants and capturing our vision. The grazing table turned out gorgeous with added flowers and extra touches outside of just the food. We had several people come up to us weeks after our wedding to compliment how amazing the grazing table was- from the presentation to the delicious spread, it really was perfect! Thank you again Chelsea for helping to make our big day unforgettable!
Jamie and M., 3 years ago

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About wedding catering in Santa Maria, CA

How much do catering services usually cost in Santa Maria, CA?

Full service catering packages range from $500 to $8,500 and average around $1,500.

Which are the most popular caterers in Santa Maria, CA?

Some of the most popular caterers in this area include Martino'S Catering, Simply Appetizing and Fire & Wood Catering.

Do catering packages include serving staff?

Yes! 37% of packages in Santa Maria, CA include serving staff, such as servers and bussers. Many others also include rental coordination, just ask before you book!

Can caterers in Santa Maria, CA accommodate specialized diets?

They can! 11 offer kosher services and 21 offer vegetarian packages. You can search on Zola for caterers who can accommodate nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, halal and vegan diets as well!

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