Reviews for Darae & Friends Catering in Lexington, KY
Darea & Friends Catering catered a winter wedding I planned at Limestone Hall. Darea & Friends Catering team were professional... and fun to work with. I could tell the caterers wanted to be there and enjoyed their work. Their team members worked the entiretime and made sure all the wedding guests were well taken care of throughout the entire evening. The cheese and fruit displaywas elegantly arranged and the fruit pizza cookies were delicious! Dinner was served on time and they oversaw cutting andserving the wedding cake. They packed up to go boxes and extra cake slices for the bride and groom and left the kitchensparkling clean. The bride?s mother didn?t get a chance to eat during the reception and at the very end of the night after allthe food was already backed up a team member from Darea & Friends Catering went down to the loaded van and personally made her aplate to enjoy. They went above and beyond to make it a special day for the wedding party and guests! I highly recommend Darea &Friends Catering to caterer your next wedding or event! Read more
Friendly staff and the best food I have ever tasted when it comes to catering. I high recommend her to everyone! This business... can cater to almost any kind of event you have and you will never be disappointed with the food! Read more
My husband and I were recipients of generous angels who brought us a meal. We had the pot roast sandwiches w/green beans and... potato wedges. The food was delicious. It was very well seasoned. Will be trying them again in the future. Read more
Darea & Friends Catering are amazing. They catered my daughter?s wedding and I could not have asked for a better experience. In... the planning stage they allowed for us to make custom menu that asked for a couple of strange requests. There was no questioningthey just did it! The day of wedding the staff arrived and got right to work. The food was spectacular and the entire staff wascheerful, on task and just a joy to have around. I highly recommend Darea & Friends and their bourbon mint tea...partyfavorite. Thank you everyone xoxoxoxox, Becky Kraft Read more
Darae and Friends catered our company's Holiday meal and it was the best I've had in the 21 years I've been here. All the... dishes were delicious and you could tell they were homemade. Excellent job! Read more
Darae catered my wedding in October 2017. Her staff was amazing, the food was DELICIOUS and the whole process was very simple... from start to finish. Darae was always available & provided some very much needed information for me as I worked to figure outnumbers, foods that would work well together, and timing and planning of food and bars. Couldn't recommend her team enough! Read more
We attended our friends wedding in August at Buffalo Trace Distillery, in Frankfort KY. We were excited to attend this unique... wedding at a bourbon distillery. The wedding started off with rain. The bride and groom still had a great ceremony. Then thereception started and that is when things went over a CLIFF! The bar was serving wine, two types of beer, and then they hadmixed drinks for $8.00 per small cup. Before the food was even served the bar ran out of a very popular beer, it took almostthirty minutes for them to get more. Then they served the food. The company ran out of one or two of the food items half waythrough the serving line. Shortly there after they ran out of all the beer and wine. It once again took about thirty minutesfor new beer to arrive but no wine. The bar was offering to make mixed drinks and not willing to change the price from $8 perdrink. The bar was finally able to get more beer in but it was warm. Close to the end of the wedding the bar ran out of beeragain. I was not happy about the way this catering company handled this situation so I asked for one of their cards. I wasasked why I wanted a card. I had to make up a story that I was looking for catering company for our wedding. The lady saidthey did not have any and so she wrote it down on a card. I found out later that night that the same lady was going out andbuying a case of beer at a time. When they ran out the first time that should have been a sign to pick up a lot more beer thanone case at a time. The family and bride and groom were very pissed at the way this catering company handled the night. Ifyou do go to an event that this company is catering might want to bring your own food and drinks with you. I would NEVERrecommend this company to anyone! Read more
I cannot fully express my disappointment in this catering service. Besides being an hour late and arriving at the same time as... our guests, there were many other issues. The bar and appetizer should have been set up and ready when the guestsarrived. Obviously they were not. Not only was the bar not ready, but drink-ware we paid for was not provided . The caterer wastaking it from the rented facility?s cabinets. I was led to believe this company arranged beautiful fruit and cheesearrangements. This so called ?display? was laid at the end of the buffet table and not very impressively arranged. This wasset up minutes prior to dinner, not at the beginning of cocktail hour. The invoice clearly states the fruit and cheese is anappetizer. I had to ask for plates and napkins for the fruit and cheese as it was set-up without these commodities. Theinvoice also shows both mint tea and lemonade. Bourbon was poured into the tea making it not drinkable for the kids andteenagers in attendance. The lemonade and water decanters were nonexistent. Thus at least ten of our guests had nothing todrink. The chardonnay we provided was not offered. The bartender REEKED of smoke. Though the shrimp and grits were tasty, theywere served on the plate separately; as though the grits were one dish and the sauce was another. I?ve always had shrimp servedover the grits. The portions were meager, explaining the full pans of shrimp and grits brought out after the guests wereserved. The servers and attendants did the best they could, but were obviously in over their heads. I don?t believe they wereproperly trained for the tasks they were performing. What we planned to be a beautiful tribute to our son and his bride turnedout to be an embarrassment. I would have been more pleased with this company had they told us from the beginning they did notwant our business. Needless to say, I will discourage anyone from using DaRae! Read more