Culinary Crafts

We did our wedding at The Towers at Rice Eccles stadium, this venue is contracted with Culinary Crafts. Jinous and Mary were very nice, however from the beginning they never asked our price point and after a huge discrepancy they still didn’t respect our budget. They told us that there food was amazing but honestly it didn’t even compare to olive garden. My husband is Chinese and they told us that there Chinese wok was decadent… It was anything but, it was supposed to be like stir fry but it was sweet and tasted like peanut sauce and sesame oil. I, the bride couldn’t eat it because i thought it was disgusting. The chicken penne alfredo was pretty tasty and the focaccia breadsticks were as well but still not as good as olive garden or fazolis. They broke our cake stand and they served our cake from the top tier down so I now have no top to save but I do have a ginormous bottom tier that they did not serve out… I did tell them to go ahead and serve every tier because each of the tiers were a different flavor, but I just don’t understand why they would begin from the top and go to the bottom, and not cut or serve the largest tier which was the best tasting one, hence the largest tier. I am very disappointed in the food and the service. We were also promised that Jinous and Mary would be present for the event but neither of them were there.

DO NOT HAVE THEM CATER YOUR WEDDING. At first we thought that about $ 2,600 for a wedding venue was very cheap. They require a $ 300 deposit to reserve a date, which we paid. What we didn’t know, and wasn’t presented to us was that we HAVE to use their caterer, Culinary Crafts. We told them we just wanted pasta and chicken as the main course, ice cream, and wine. For this simple meal they calculated that for our wedding they were going to charge us $ 28,000!!! For freaking pasta and chicken. This is the most over priced caterer that we have ever worked with. A box of pasta at the store is about $ 1.00 which can feed 2 people. We have 300 guests, so that would be about $ 150 dollars. Tell me how can they get away with charging this ridiculous amount. They are running a monopoly. The planner (Jinous) was over 2 weeks late on the estimate. Avoid this caterer at all costs, there are better options as well as cheaper ones.

I am an event planner in Park City and had a wedding last week in which Culinary Crafts did the catering. My clients were two chefs who met in London and worked for Gordon Ramsey. Needless to say the food was a high priority on their list. Mary and her staff were so accommodating to their requests even cooking their personal recipes. The rehearsal dinner as well as the wedding was beyond my clients expectations. Previous to starting my company I was the Director of Catering for The St. Regis Deer Valley and a foodie at heart. I was blown away at the tasting of how creative and delicious every single item was. Whenever I need a caterer Culinary Crafts will be my first phone call.
Terri Gentry
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