Ann’s Catering

We asked Ann’s Catering to cater the food for our 120-​person outdoor wedding in Berkeley and were able to feed everyone, with TONS of leftovers, for a fraction of the price of a typical wedding caterer. Their food is extremely reasonably priced and extremely tasty, and especially perfect for a large event because it’s cooked to be served at room temperature, so no messing around with chafing dishes or last-​minute reheating. The food was delivered on time, beautifully presented. Delivery cost — for enough food to feed 120! — was $ 25 on a Saturday evening. Just for that alone, we will appreciate Ann’s forever. We had a bunch of friends help us with setting the food up at a buffet table when it was delivered, served it buffet-​style, easy peasy. Our guests raved about the food, especially the charred corn salad and poached salmon with lemon dill aioli. Lots of great vegetarian and vegan options on the menu, too!
Rhea at Ann’s Catering was really helpful and professional around helping us determine how much food to order and how to provide a good mix of veggies, grains and protein entrees.
A thousand thanks to Ann’s for superb service, delivery and value. We loved working with you.

This place is incredible! My wife and I hosted a party for 40. We called Market Hall. They were all booked up. I then found Ann’s Catering. The menu is huge. The food was fantastic. They made it super easy to order and have the food delivered an hour or so before our party started. We didn’t have to do anything but take the tops off the platters. Everything looked great. Our guests loved it. I will use this place for all my catering needs moving forward.

I had the #38, ham, salami, and provolone on ciabatta bread, and was pleasantly surprised. The ciabatta was soft and yummy, and there was a lot of meat on the sandwich! There was even a little side of pasta and an apple included.

The place I work for often uses Ann’s Catering. On the adminstrative side, they are responsive, timely, easy to work with, and professional. In regards to the food, the food is always presented beautifully and tastes amazing! We often have rave reviews about what we’ve ordered from those who we provide Ann’s Catering to. I would highly recommend using their catering services.

I’ve used Ann’s for appetizers/​pick-​up catering for two parties, one was about 20 people and one was about 40 people. They are easy to deal with– I just went on their website, looked at their current menu, emailed the order, then called with the credit card info. Bam! The food is always good. Personally I really like the stuffed potatoes and the little biscuit sandwiches. I also like the endive boats. I think they have good vegetarian-​friendly options, too, compared to a lot of other caterers. They are also pretty reasonably priced, it makes to hard to even consider using another caterer when the food is consistent, well-​priced, and hassle-​free!

Ann’s Catering supplied the food for a dinner party in my home for sixteen adults. This was my first time doing business with Ann’s catering. I had a few phone conversations to discuss the menu, and they were helpful in suggesting items and amounts. Reserving the date and ordering were all handled by email. The website is pretty easy to navigate.
But what really matters is that the food was delivered on time, looked appealing, and tasted great. We had some leftovers, but just the right amount. All my guests raved about the food.
I’ll certainly use Ann’s Catering in the future.

Simply put, Ann’s is my go-​to caterer. I’ve been using them for about four or five years now for drop-​off catering, and everyone always raves about the food. I’ve had last-​minute emergencies, I’ve had small events and great big ones. The staff is professional, sweet and helpful. The food is great. Presentation is very good. AND… they are always on time or early!

We used Ann’s Catering based on the good Unilocal reviews for our wedding reception of about 50 people. We went and tasted some of the food and loved it. We especially appreciated that the food could be served room temp or cold. The team from Ann’s was very helpful and they dropped off the food right on time and exactly as expected. The guests absolutely raved about the food especially the Fried Chicken Biscuit Sandwiches, the Sweet Potato and Shrimp Cakes and the Grilled Marinated Flank Steak. For dessert, the Lemon Tarts and Hazelnut Tarts were absolutely delicious as well. My mom called me to see if she could come pick up some leftovers of the tarts because she didn’t get enough at the party. The only thing I was worried about was that the platters would look inexpensive but my brother made me some really nice wooden serving pedestals and the white trays looked surprisingly nice. They recommend you refrigerate the food after leaving it out for a couple of hours but we left it out for the whole party and we even ate some of it after coming home from the bars at 4am without refrigerating and had no problems!

This food was outstanding! They just catered my mother’s retirement party and everyone raved about the food. They arrived a half hour early with the platters (thank you), cooked salmon for 50 people perfectly (almost impossible), and delivered warm phyllo triangles that never got mushy and tasted fresh all night. Each piece of salmon was soft, flavorful and edible for the 6 hour party. Guests went back for thirds! I’m a huge fan. Thanks for making our day run smoothly!

Ann’s Catering does a wonderful job with their food. However, I just want to point out that Ann’s Catering has been a tremendous support to our Berkeley Schools. Every year they donate two platters of fabulous sandwiches or Biscuits to our Annual Teacher’s Reception. The Berkeley Schools Fund (formerly the Berkeley Public Education Foundation) sponsors a dinner where all teachers and their families are invited to eat drink and be recognized by the community. A big thank you to Ann’s Catering for your continued support.

I needed appetizers for my mother’s memorial service repast. I emailed Ann’s Catering on a Friday night and was able to secure my order the next day on Saturday. I ordered the teriyaki and plain roasted wings, finger sandwiches and a vegetable tray. It was all delicious and affordable. I should also note we picked up our order, we did not do delivery. I plan on using their services again. I am truly grateful that Ann’s Catering was able to accommodate me and I highly recommend them.

Got 10 huge Breakfast Biscuit Platters at work today. The biscuits were darling, and the brie, pb&j, and veggie sausage ones were good. Two stars for them.
HOWEVER, there was a glob of mayonnaise on every single smoked ham biscuit and turkey sausage biscuit. Every. Single. One.
I would have given them a pass had this ingredient been mentioned on the menu.
It’s not.
As a result, there are a ton of half-​eaten Breakfast Biscuits in our compost today. No one wants mayonnaise at 10am.

I’ve been to a few events catered by Ann’s and I’m always impressed. The food is delicious and healthier than your standard catering. My favorite is the red quinoa salad. It’s awesome! I don’t have any idea what it costs, but it’s definitely a higher quality catered meal.

This review is slightly overdue.
Ann’s Catering provided the refreshment (appetizers) and beverage (hot and cold) for my sister’s retirement party held last month at Haviland Hall on the U.C. Berkeley Campus.
Presentation of the platters of assorted appetizers and fresh fruit was very appealing and tasty. I enjoyed their stuffed mini potatoes, tea sandwiches and fresh fruit platter, except the lemonade was just a tad too sweet. I did not see any iced tea to balance the sweetness of the lemonade (darn, could not fix an Arnie Palmer).
The appetizers were delish that when I went back for seconds, there were none left. Since I loved those stuffed potatoes very much, I will be visiting Ann Catering’s in the future.

I was an attendee for a Christmas party my job threw. Ann’s catered (obviously) and the food was awesome! The chicken with cajun aioli was the best thing there… YUM. Good job Ann!

Used for my outdoor wedding — after several tasting with other caterers — we went with Ann’s because they had a great selection of foods at really great prices.
Delicious food that stayed fresh despite the heat.
$ 25 delivery on the weekend.
They picked up coffee/​hot water holders the following day.
Affordable, very delicious and professional

This was my first time using Ann’s and I will definitely recommend and use again. I called the day before the event and asked if it was too late to place an order. They were responsive, quick and a pleasure to work with.
All of my guests commented on how good the sandwiches were. Thew were presented nicely and were just so easy to handle.

I’ve had their food at a couple of events at Cal. Nearly spotless each time. What I’ve tried:
–Roasted spiced squash
–Chicken fried wontons with pineapple ginger sauce
–Roasted Vegetable sandwiches on foccacia
–Desserts: multiple brownies, amazing key lime pie bar, lemon bar, pecan bar, cheesecake bar… drool
–Thai peanut pasta
–Chicken or mushroom skewers with peanut ginger sauce or basil pesto
–Stuffed mini potatoes
–Shrimp sweet potato fried cakes
–Pesto pasta with sun dried tomatoes
All of these are SUPERB. The basil pesto can be smeared on anything to taste amazing. The sweet potato shrimp cakes are phenomenal. The fried chicken wontons, be warned. You may just each one too many because their very flavorful and delicious. Key lime pie bar, just right amount of sweet and tart. Cookie like base, great.
Only thing I didn’t like was the stuffed potatoes. Tasted really weird.
Best catering ever.

I was looking for a local place to cater a special event at my work within a pretty tight budget, and came across Ann’s. I had everything delivered, and everything came on time, and ready to go. Also, everything that was supposed to be warm, was perfectly heated when we received them.
We ordered a large variety of things, and the food was all pretty decent. Nothing to rave about, but no complaints either. For the price, I would say I’m pretty satisfied with what I received, that being, a good service that went smoothly with no problems of any kind.

Found Ann’s Catering on Unilocal to cater my friends’s Baby Shower back in Mid-​September. I ordered Spring Rolls, Aram sandwich platter, Crostini Platter, Fresh Fruit Salad and Gemelli with Summer Squash Salad.
Everything from the pre-​ordering to all my questions was done in a professional matter. It was easy to order and work with Ann’s catering with no fuss involved which I really liked. The most important thing was the food got to the baby shower on the time as I requested.
The food was a total hit, everyone loved the food. My favorite was the Gemelli with Summer Squash Salad, I could not get enough of it. In fact, Ann’s catering was nice enough to share the recipe for me.
If you are looking for a caterer, Ann’s catering is highly recommended, they have a wide variety of food items and everything is simply delicious. Give them a try, you won’t be disappointed.