This review is coming embarrassingly late, but the bright side is that I can say that 1.5 years later, our friends and family are STILL talking about the food from our wedding (and we are still dreaming about it). Potliquor is truly a cut above the rest, the creme de la creme. We loved that they are passionate about fair labor practices. Laura and her team took such care in helping us craft the meal to blend our Italian and Californian backgrounds and were very patient with us with all our changes and additions along the way. It's clear how much they love what they do and how incredibly they do it. Each course tasted better than the next and was so beautifully presented. And beyond that, they're a joy to work with. We really can't say enough good things about them. If you love food and it's important to you on your wedding, just book Potliquor. Thank you so much Potliquor (and we're so sorry this review is so late!)
Anny Z.
Potliquor helped cater our rehearsal dinner and wedding near Mendocino in August 2023 and they were absolutely incredible. Everything they made was delicious and all our guests raved about it for weeks! We wanted to serve food from a variety of different Asian cuisines and they were extremely open and receptive to our ideas even helping us cook up a Kamayan feast (with suckling pig!). Brittany and her team helped scour multiple bakeries to find the durian cake of our dreams and Chef Richie made the most delicious ramen for our late night snack menu at our wedding. Additionally Brittany has experience working as a pastry chef and went above and beyond helping us transport our fragile wedding cakes for an extremely windy 4 - 5 hour drive up Highway 1. She really put our minds at ease as we knew she could handle / fix any damage on the cakes.
Rachel Z.
Potliquor catered our wedding at Stable Cafe in August 2021 and I hardly know where to begin in expressing how phenomenal of a job they did. We wanted the dinner to feel like we were throwing a dinner party for our friends and family at a favorite restaurant. And we wanted the food to be delicious and interesting and to generally reflect what's great about eating in Northern California in the summer. We were looking for a caterer that, like a great restaurant, had their own strong culinary vision and that we could trust to create a great meal rooted in their own style and sensibilities. TLDR on this review is that Potliquor is exactly that and so much more: incredible culinary visionaries; incredible cooks; lovely people, and a team that is damn good at the many, difficult, logistical aspects of planning and executing a gorgeous event. We had an initial call with Laura and Jennifer to discuss the budget, food preferences (what do we like to eat? is there anything we'd especially love to have on the menu?), and the venue details. We were really excited while talking to them and knew right away we had found our caterer. We followed up with a frantic list of other foods and themes we had forgotten to tell them we cared about (wild flowers! mushrooms! Jewish roots! Polish roots! biology!); I have no idea how they harnessed these stream of conscious ideas into a menu proposal, but they did and we loved it. The menu felt so personal - thoughtful and creative ideas that reflected our story and tastes. Having a custom menu created for us was easily our favorite part of wedding planning. Then we did a tasting a month before the event which was *also* our favorite part of wedding planning It was SO much fun to meet Laura and Naseem and collectively decide on a few tweaks to the menu, and of course, the food we tasted was delicious. Dinner at our wedding far exceeded our wildly high expectations. Our guests freaked out about it and so did we. We are all, still freaking out about it. Everyone says that you never get a chance to eat at your wedding but that was definitely not the case for us - we ate everything and it was so much fun. In keeping with the dinner party atmosphere, they served family style dishes that guests could share and enjoy together. All of the food was delicious and beautifully presented. Stable Cafe, where we hosted the wedding, has a wood burning fireplace, which Potliquor used to cook a delicious roasted vegetable and fava bean dish - it was impressive and very cool to use the unique cooking setup at the venue. Other highlights included the most delightful selection of breads; a stunning salad of locally sourced or foraged greens and flower; the fried maitake and vegetable appetizer that my mom talks about every single time we've talked on the phone for the last 3 months post-wedding; and definitely the roasted sea bass with red chermoula ---- a beautiful and unique dish and one of the best fish dishes we've had. One other important note is that working with the Potliquor team was straightforward from start to finish - everyone we worked with was so helpful and friendly. I worked most closely with Laura who is completely on top of everything. Especially when things got a bit stressful towards the end of our extremely compressed planning timeline, I so appreciated her quick communication and attention to detail, and found myself trusting her judgement not just on aesthetic and culinary decisions but also about the many practical questions that arose. And the entire food and drink serving staff was delightful at the party. I didn't realize how integral the catering team would be from a planning perspective and feel that we really lucked out that they are so fantastic on the service & logistics end too. The upshot was a MASSIVE success according to everyone. Potliquor is just incredible; the perfect team and we feel beyond lucky that they catered our wedding.
Ian N.
Jennifer & Laura own and operate the best catering service in the Bay. They catered our wedding in October 2019, customized an incredible menu that reflected our tastes and cultures and delivered a top-notch professional experience throughout the process. It was the best decision of our wedding and worth every penny. Communication was a dream. The food was incredible. And it was one of the only stress-free parts of planning our wedding. If you want a delicious meal that is lovingly planned and executed, don't think twice about hiring this talented duo.
This review is coming embarrassingly late, but the bright side is that I can say that 1.5 years later, our friends and family are STILL talking about the food from our wedding (and we are still dreaming about it). Potliquor is truly a cut above the rest, the creme de la creme. We loved that they are passionate about fair labor practices. Laura and her team took such care in helping us craft the meal to blend our Italian and Californian backgrounds and were very patient with us with all our changes and additions along the way. It's clear how much they love what they do and how incredibly they do it. Each course tasted better than the next and was so beautifully presented. And beyond that, they're a joy to work with. We really can't say enough good things about them. If you love food and it's important to you on your wedding, just book Potliquor. Thank you so much Potliquor (and we're so sorry this review is so late!)
Potliquor helped cater our rehearsal dinner and wedding near Mendocino in August 2023 and they were absolutely incredible. Everything they made was delicious and all our guests raved about it for weeks! We wanted to serve food from a variety of different Asian cuisines and they were extremely open and receptive to our ideas even helping us cook up a Kamayan feast (with suckling pig!). Brittany and her team helped scour multiple bakeries to find the durian cake of our dreams and Chef Richie made the most delicious ramen for our late night snack menu at our wedding. Additionally Brittany has experience working as a pastry chef and went above and beyond helping us transport our fragile wedding cakes for an extremely windy 4 - 5 hour drive up Highway 1. She really put our minds at ease as we knew she could handle / fix any damage on the cakes.
Potliquor catered our wedding at Stable Cafe in August 2021 and I hardly know where to begin in expressing how phenomenal of a job they did. We wanted the dinner to feel like we were throwing a dinner party for our friends and family at a favorite restaurant. And we wanted the food to be delicious and interesting and to generally reflect what's great about eating in Northern California in the summer. We were looking for a caterer that, like a great restaurant, had their own strong culinary vision and that we could trust to create a great meal rooted in their own style and sensibilities. TLDR on this review is that Potliquor is exactly that and so much more: incredible culinary visionaries; incredible cooks; lovely people, and a team that is damn good at the many, difficult, logistical aspects of planning and executing a gorgeous event. We had an initial call with Laura and Jennifer to discuss the budget, food preferences (what do we like to eat? is there anything we'd especially love to have on the menu?), and the venue details. We were really excited while talking to them and knew right away we had found our caterer. We followed up with a frantic list of other foods and themes we had forgotten to tell them we cared about (wild flowers! mushrooms! Jewish roots! Polish roots! biology!); I have no idea how they harnessed these stream of conscious ideas into a menu proposal, but they did and we loved it. The menu felt so personal - thoughtful and creative ideas that reflected our story and tastes. Having a custom menu created for us was easily our favorite part of wedding planning. Then we did a tasting a month before the event which was *also* our favorite part of wedding planning It was SO much fun to meet Laura and Naseem and collectively decide on a few tweaks to the menu, and of course, the food we tasted was delicious. Dinner at our wedding far exceeded our wildly high expectations. Our guests freaked out about it and so did we. We are all, still freaking out about it. Everyone says that you never get a chance to eat at your wedding but that was definitely not the case for us - we ate everything and it was so much fun. In keeping with the dinner party atmosphere, they served family style dishes that guests could share and enjoy together. All of the food was delicious and beautifully presented. Stable Cafe, where we hosted the wedding, has a wood burning fireplace, which Potliquor used to cook a delicious roasted vegetable and fava bean dish - it was impressive and very cool to use the unique cooking setup at the venue. Other highlights included the most delightful selection of breads; a stunning salad of locally sourced or foraged greens and flower; the fried maitake and vegetable appetizer that my mom talks about every single time we've talked on the phone for the last 3 months post-wedding; and definitely the roasted sea bass with red chermoula ---- a beautiful and unique dish and one of the best fish dishes we've had. One other important note is that working with the Potliquor team was straightforward from start to finish - everyone we worked with was so helpful and friendly. I worked most closely with Laura who is completely on top of everything. Especially when things got a bit stressful towards the end of our extremely compressed planning timeline, I so appreciated her quick communication and attention to detail, and found myself trusting her judgement not just on aesthetic and culinary decisions but also about the many practical questions that arose. And the entire food and drink serving staff was delightful at the party. I didn't realize how integral the catering team would be from a planning perspective and feel that we really lucked out that they are so fantastic on the service & logistics end too. The upshot was a MASSIVE success according to everyone. Potliquor is just incredible; the perfect team and we feel beyond lucky that they catered our wedding.
Jennifer & Laura own and operate the best catering service in the Bay. They catered our wedding in October 2019, customized an incredible menu that reflected our tastes and cultures and delivered a top-notch professional experience throughout the process. It was the best decision of our wedding and worth every penny. Communication was a dream. The food was incredible. And it was one of the only stress-free parts of planning our wedding. If you want a delicious meal that is lovingly planned and executed, don't think twice about hiring this talented duo.
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