Trends Catering

Susan and team are the most phenomenal caterers and people to work with. They brought so much love to our wedding at every step of the planning process as well as the day of. Working with Susan and Christine was simply magical. From dietary restriction planning to day of execution, it was simply flawless. Our shared love of food and flavor was enjoyed by every guest! Make sure to try the sweet potato gratin if you get the chance! Thank you trends for making our day so rich with love and flavor. -R&D

Sue is the best. I could stop there however I will continue but that first statement sums up who this team of next level caterers truly are. They take time to care, understand and embrace your vision. Then.they make it their own. Then they blow your mind with how perfect everything is. We selected a tasting with Trends prior to a few others for our wedding and right then we knew that Trends was going to be our vendor for our wedding.

We did the traditional tasting with a chicken and a fish, both were excellent but I really wanted TACOS. My wife then said we could get a taco truck later but I really wanted TACOS for dinner. We mentioned it to Sue and she took it upon herself to make a Mexican themed menu for our guests that quite honestly was the BEST FOOD I think we've had.

Nearly two months later, we are still hearing about how excellent our food was because again. Sue is literally THE BEST. If you are looking for some next level catering from someone that literally can make your wedding next level.look no further. Sue again. THE BEST. Thank you Sue and Carlos for being again who you are! All of your help is so appreciated. We love you! - Mike and Jaclyn.

Susan and her team are the absolute best! They catered our recent June wedding. During our tasting she sat down with us, talked about the meal and made fabulous suggestions to go with the dishes we really enjoyed. She really got to know us as a couple and made us feel like a member of her family. We had a few bumps with picking out linens/glassware and Susan's ability to meet at our venue for our 3 month meeting due to weather (who knew it was going to flood right before these meetings and Susan got flooded into her home, but luckily the weather got rain out of its system before our actual wedding day).

Despite this Susan was on the phone and made the bumps feel seamless! She takes amazing notes at every meeting and always comes prepared. She is responsive to emails and any changes that need to be made. And most importantly, her food is wonderful!

We tried several caterers and both sets of parents and we all unanimously picked Trends. The food tastes like it's cooked from the heart and it is. Susan is deeply involved in her business and it's very obvious how much she cares about what she's doing. Susan was fabulous to work with and very responsive. The food itself is incredible. I'm still dreaming about the Thai chili quesadilla appetizers we had passed around.

The family-style service was also a big hit for everyone! Susan's staff were really on top of it - we never saw a line at the bar and the servers were thorough, efficient, and friendly. They also did a great job of checking in with me and making sure I was eating and had what I needed! At the end of the night, Susan sent us home with a little care package of leftover food, which was so thoughtful. It's that level of care and extra effort that really sold us on Trends to begin with.

We all loved it so much, our family decided to use Trends to cater the rehearsal dinner as well! We would highly recommend working with Susan and her team. We're so glad that we did!

Susan catered our wedding this August and we couldn't be more grateful that we had the chance to work with her. She went above and beyond to make sure we had everything we wanted-- combining some of her signature dishes with our special requests and matching our vision for our wedding. She made sure that our guests were well attended to and our friends are still telling us how good the food was. We really felt like we had her full attention in preparation for the wedding and it made a huge difference. We definitely recommend Susan and Trends.

Where do I begin? With Susan: she is sweet, caring, hilarious, and an exceedingly hard worker to ensure that the food, service, and presentation at your special day is perfect. Trends catered our wedding at Vine Hill House on September 15, 2018. From my first contact with Trends to the tasting to selecting our menu and table settings, etc. to the big day, Susan and her staff were committed to flawless execution. Trends food is delicious (our guests raved about the fresh, seasonal flavors and beautiful presentation - family style was perfect!) and Susan and her staff were so professional and hard-working throughout the evening.

I can't say enough good things about the Trends food and vendor experience - you will be glad, again and again, that Susan and her staff are an integral part of your wedding team.

Susan did our daughter's wedding at Vine Hill House on 7/28/18. We loved working with Susan at Trends Catering! Susan offers a great menu to choose from - had a hard time picking out dishes because it was all good! Best wedding food I've ever had. Everything came to the table hot and beautifully plated family style. Each dish was perfectly cooked.

We had NY strip steaks, salmon with chipotle/honey glaze and mango salsa. Fantastic. Appetizers were amazing. Everyone had nothing but good things to say about the food. Her staff was great. Bar was set up beautifully. Met us with trays of drinks after the ceremony so no waiting in line for drinks. Everything was so professional. Truly an exceptional dinner we will never forget. Thank you Susan! We miss you! - Kathy & Tad

We got married July 13, 2018 at the Vine Hill House in Sebastopol (highly recommend) and Susan catered our wedding. AMAZING food! We did family style with steak, salmon and assorted sides. We got so many compliments on the food, we were very happy! Presentation was gorgeous and food came out hot to every table! At the end of the night we took home a "picnic" dinner so we could have a late night snack after our wedding, bottle of wine included. All the food we tried during tasting so good it was hard to choose! Thank you Susan and your team for feeding our crazy wedding! We loved it!

This company just catered a holiday party for my job and man was the food good. As an added bonus the owner & staff were all super sweet. If ever l need an event catered l will certainly go with them

Nothing short of extraordinary. Sue and team were 150% committed to making my wedding perfect. The tasting was indicative of the quality of service, food and attention to detail. Sue was involved in the wedding planning and helped pick out pitch perfect rentals. When it came to the big day, Sue and team delivered and helped triage any last minute questions with ease. We looked at other caterers - no one came close and the game day delivery of Trends exceeded expectations. Highly highly recommended

Trends is the best catering in Sonoma County! They are incredible to work with at all times during planning and the wedding. We worked with Trends for our June 2017 outdoor wedding. They truly helped us in more ways than just catering. They were big influences on what rentals we needed and worked with our planner to make sure they had what they needed for our site.

Our site didn't have an outdoor kitchen and had limited power supply, but Trends being local to the area for so long, had done weddings there before and knew exactly what to do and what foods to recommend for the situation. Sue was easy to get a hold of and a wealth of knowledge. She really kept us focused and was willing to work with us and get things into budget.

The tasting day was one of my favorites and her team had prepared full plates of food - we did not leave hungry! She helped us to create the Pescetarian menu we had hoped for and was very supportive of our decision to do so. I strongly recommend to ANYONE that they need her Thai Quesadillas for an appetizer and the Stuffed Mushroom as an entree at your event.

Some of the best things I had ever tasted. I had guests asking me for recipes after the wedding. Her staff day of was incredibly prompt and kind. I felt relaxed at the wedding and well taken care of. I can go on forever about how amazing Trends is, but you should just trust me and book them for your wedding!

We selected Trends to do our catering for our Vine Hill House Wedding in June 2016. Everyone loved the food and service. Working in events for over 15 years, I can appreciate this! We chose family style which worked well. The staff deserves an A+! We had two meetings with Susan and even a tasting! Everything was on point and they even made us a little to-go bag at the end of the night so we could eat at 11PM! Susan can seem a little overwhelmed and seem a bit abrasive on e-mail but her staff and product are wonderful and she's great in person so we overlooked this! Her captain, Christina, was an amazing help the day of with last minute stuff. Thank you TRENDS! WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Our guests were impressed!

Delicious food and amazing service! We used Trends Catering for our wedding on 4/30 and the food is amazing and people from the wedding are still telling us how delicious it was! It is SO satisfying to hear your guests had fun, but also loved the food. This will happen for you too if you choose Trends :) All the food was cooked on site at the venue and came out fresh and hot.

We did family style and I can't tell you how many people told me they loved not having to choose between the amazing tri tip in a pinot noir reduction or my personal favorite, chicken breast grilled with pancetta and fig. There are too many amazing sides to choose from, but another personal favorite was the pesto pasta. This was a hit with EVERYONE! Vegetarians included :). Trends is a green caterer, with all the food being local coming from a 100 mile radius and everything is seasonal!

This makes a huge difference in the taste of your food and something that is so important when choosing a caterer. You also got to chose all your linens for the tables, bar, glasses and flatware with Trends, making the process so simple for you and efficient with it all coming from one place. I chose some amazing rose gold flatware and it was included in the price!

It looked phenomenal with my blush/peach linens. I have to specifically mention the staff too. All of the bartenders and servers were some of the nicest people I have ever met or worked with before. They were there to help in any situation, always attentive, and anticipated your needs. What a great group of people! Have no hesitation in booking Trends, you will be so happy you did!

We had Trends cater our wedding on 4/22 and we couldn't have been happier with their performance. We've repeatedly been having our guests tell us over the last 2 weeks that our wedding food was the best wedding food they've ever had so that's been great to hear. We were introduced to Susan through Vine Hill House and after meeting with her once we knew we had found our caterer and didn't need to meet with others.

We shared with her our vision for the wedding day food and she immediately understood what we were looking for and started coming up with great ideas that matched the theme we wanted and it was clear that we were on the same page. We made a number of last-minute changes but nothing threw Susan and her team off and they were completely accommodating on all fronts. Susan is really fun and on point, she was a blast to work with but the most important thing was the quality of the food and the service her team delivered on our wedding day.

We did passed appetizers and then a family style meal and got rave reviews on every dish, especially this really cool meatball appetizer that they did that came on a stick with some pieces of pasta on top of it, it was really delicious. We couldn't have been happier with our choice for our caterer and we highly recommend anyone to work with Susan and Trends Catering!

We used Trends Catering for our wedding a few weeks ago at Vine Hill House and we were SO happy with the food. Susan was wonderful to work with, not to mention pretty funny. She made sure we could have all we wanted within our budget - she went above and beyond to make sure we were happy with the menu. Her waitstaff was WONDERFUL. We opted for a family style meal and Trends delivered each table with piping hot food seamlessly.

They also sent us home with a full meal, knowing the the bride and groom rarely get to actually eat. So perfect. I would highly recommend Trends Catering to anyone looking for farm to table/wine country style delicious food! Bonus: Susan works so well with Dan, the owner of Vine Hill House, and they have a great relationship which made planning meetings a blast.

I'll pile on here with another glowing review - simply put, Susan & her team NEED to cater your wedding or event. We had our wedding at the Vine Hill House in April 2015 and our guests raved about the food & service. Susan was a pleasure to work with, she and her team is a ton of fun and they take every event personally. They were very responsive and went above and beyond in every aspect of the planning process. Tips: family style was a hit, pasta raviolis were a favorite and well as the blackened chicken. Thanks for everything Susan!

Trends catering did our wedding at Trentadue Winery only a few weeks ago (April 10th) and what forced me to write this review is that my family is still talking about the amazing food, service and atmosphere Trends brought to our wedding. We are living in Oregon and finding vendors a state away was not easy! However, using Trends turned out to be one of the easiest and best decisions we made during the planning process.

Not only did they bring amazing drinks (ginger-mint lemonade is amazing) (and we were at a winery for crying out loud!) but the food is something we are all still dreaming about. Food that I didn't know my family would eat, like polenta or Thai quesadillas (we are usually not adventurous) are things we wish we had gotten the recipes for. I come from a family of picky eaters, but there were no sad faces or complainers making snarky comments.

Rather from diabetic grandparents to a gluten-sensitive groomswoman, the food couldn't have been any more perfect. My husband and I looked at every caterer on the required list and when we talked to Susan we knew immediately she was fun, outgoing, a good listener and overall everything we wanted in a vendor. We highly recommend using her, not only because of her amazing staff and food - but also, she got all of out rentals, is very reasonably priced for the area, and coordinated with our vendors every step of the way!

What can I say about Susan?! She's the best! After I had looked into a number of catering companies, my venue owner suggested I meet with Susan. "You two will really get along, " he said. Well, he wasn't kidding. Susan and I are both type A people. I was planning my entire wedding, and I wanted to play a big part in deciding how to make the food "us." Susan was one of my favorite parts of the planning process.

She jumped at all my ideas, would add her two-cents, and from there we'd develop a plan. She's quick to respond to your emails, like, very quick! We found that bouncing ideas off each other was a lot of fun! She understood that I didn't want a cookie-cuter wedding, and she delivered! Her food was made AT the venue - not "seared" at the venue.

Our guests RAVED about the food! This is hard to come by at a wedding. And because we were off taking pictures & talking with people, we didn't get much to eat - so she surprised us with a huge bag of food to take home at the end including 1 plate of each dish, not just each entree, but even the hor d'oeroves! She not only agreed to make enough cookies for a cookie bar (instead of a cake), but she used my mom's "famous" recipe!

That really touched my heart. She met with me whenever I wanted, and let me tell you this wasn't because she wasn't busy. She was SWAMPED! She was constantly off running to another wedding, or meeting with a bride but she still was able to prioritize me & my wishes. This is what brides want, or at least me - a vendor who can be there when YOU'RE available vs the other way around!

The only sad part is that my wedding is over. Susan & I have emailed a few times just because we miss each other. Kinda sad, but she's awesome. If you're into planning your wedding, I highly recommend Trends! If you want to make your wedding your own, talk to Trends! If you want to serve yummy food that's made at the venue, hire Trends!

If you want to have a friend post-wedding, pick Trends! OH- and did i mention that she was the most affordable?! and I highly recommend serving it Family style! I couldn't say enough good things! :-)

To be honest, I've been waiting till after my wedding to write this review, but I knew from DAY ONE Susan was going to get 5 stars and let me tell you why. I emailed her one day with a vision in mind, she was out of town, but she emailed me back right away to tell me how excited she was and loves trying something new and that she would get back to me when she got home.

She followed through, we emailed for a few weeks about the type of dish I wanted (Southern but classy BBQ) and she created this AMAZING menu. We met, and it was love at first sight. She is hilarious, down to earth, passionate, hard working, and took my vision and created a master piece. The food was out of this world. I explained my concerns were all the hungry fireman coming to the wedding and she assured me, no one would go home hungry, and THAT WAS A FACT!

People are STILL talking about the food. The best part wasn't the food though (although it's a close second), it was the hospitality! Susan's whole staff is so accommodating even when we wanted to pass bottled beer in koozies (and trust me it sounds like a good idea at the time) but it was not the most 'stable' trays they passed that evening. but they still performed with excellence!

Everyone was so quick, and polite and FUN and just amazing. I used to work for a VERY popular and known catering company in Sonoma County, and they don't even compare to the hospitality and service we got from Trends. I could talk forever about this company, and how perfect it was. I want to work for Trends just so I can hang out with these people everyday. Trust me, if you book them for your wedding or event, you wont be disappointed.

One of the best decisions we made. Susan and the wonderful team at Trends catered our wedding at Vine Hill House in August. From the start, it was a fabulous experience. Dan at Vine Hill narrows down the caterers he recommends that you use to a short list of excellent vendors. So while I'm sure we would have been in good hands with any of the caterers on the list, we are so glad that we found Trends. Susan is an artist, with her food and her presentation.

She is easy-going and an absolute joy to work with. And so is her team! Christina was great and so were the MANY other memebers of the team - I think she had something like 12 people helping that day - we were very well taken care of. Our wedding was hands-down the best day of our lives and Trends was a huge part of that. I have a background in event management so I know all that goes into making an event seamless.

It is a TON of work, but Trends has got it down. I didn't have to worry about anything the day-of and my guests are still RAVING about the food! Stop stressing and choose Trends.