About this vendor
Artistry Catering is a full-service, on-site catering company based in Burke, VA, passionate about providing your wedding with excellent service, eye-catching presentation, and, of course, delicious food. They deliver all the right ingredients to transform your event into a sublime culinary experience.
Boasting over 20 years of experience delighting patrons in the Washington, DC region, Artistry Catering can cater to occasions across Northern Virginia, downtown DC, and beyond. Owner David Haradon will work with you to bring your vision to life. By curating custom menus, whether that is for an intimate meal, cocktail-style affair for 200 guests, or elegant plated dinner for 100, he ensures all his couples enjoy a unique process.
Artistry Catering can make your casual wedding dining dreams come true. Offering deviled egg bars, slider stations, mac and cheese stations, and dessert boards, you will be wowed by their scrumptious fare. If you are hosting an outdoor occasion, their food truck, The Roaming Coyote, is available. More elevated atmospheres may be better suited to the Black Tie collection. Including appetizers like salmon spoons, plated blue cheese and toasted walnut salads, and moreish entrées, such as a grilled filet over garlic mashed potatoes with brandy peppercorn sauce, your loved ones will be raving about this meal for a lifetime.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cuisine
- African
- American
- BBQ
- Cajun
- Chinese
- Eastern European
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Sugar Free
- Vegan
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Catering Clean Up
- Catering Delivery & Setup
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
- Food Trucks
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What a wonderful catering company to work with! Shirley and the staff could not have been more friendly, flexible, and accommodating. From the start, Shirley made the process a bre...
eze. We were given plenty of hors d'oeuvres and dinner options - each one more delicious than the next. Even though it was tough to narrow down the selection, we were incredibly pleased with our final menu for our wedding. Our guests could not stop raving about the food and service. We are so happy we chose to work with Shirley's Catering for our special event.
DAVID!!! We owe him and his team the world. Finding a caterer was hands-down the most challenging part of planning our wedding. It is difficult to find someone that will work with ...
your budget, make you feel confident and positive, and provide an excellent culinary experience for your guests. David and his team have this trifecta!
From our very first conversation, I was impressed and relieved by his upfront honesty with me about how to work with my budget--without judgement. He worked with us to create a custom menu that accommodated many dietary restrictions, including vegans, vegetarians, and shellfish and nut allergies. He also worked with us in plating and serving strict Kosher meals (he is not a Kosher vendor, but he worked with us to make sure those who needed a Kosher meal were served one from another vendor).
David was also helpful and upfront regarding costs for linens, bartenders, drinks, etc. He was also endlessly flexible and responsive to us as we made changes as we got closer to the wedding (for example, we decided we wanted his bartending team, we switched up the appetizers, we adjusted the final numbers of attendees, just to name a few) and he was always receptive.
We also gave David a challenge -- it was really important to us to do the tradition of the Wedding Cookie Table (also known as the Pittsburgh Cookie Table). This tradition involves guests bringing cookies, and David's team was responsible for plating and serving them. They rose to this challenge beautifully and kept this tradition for us.
As for the food itself, it was absolutely delicious! David accommodated us for an incredible tasting on our timeline, and the food itself -- from appetizers to main courses to dessert -- was amazing.
Your caterer really makes or breaks the day, and we would choose David 100 times over. Thank you, thank you to Artistry Catering!
We really appreciated that Artistry Catering helped us build the menu that we wanted. The food was excellent and we got a lot of compliments on it. They were very reasonably priced...
, especially for how good the food was. Communication was sometimes a challenge, however.
Shirley and her team did a wonderful job catering our recent wedding. Everyone was courteous and very accommodating to our guests and vendors. We left in food comas after our tasti...
ng. Everything tasted incredible. On the day of, it all tasted the exact same from the tasting. It wasn't as piping hot but I think that's inevitable when you go with buffet style. Overall, I would definitely recommend them again!
Shirley's was great to work with in the planning stages (always a quick response to any questions we had), and the food was good, but the staff at the reception was a little unprof...
essional and did not seem overly enthused about working. The items that were supposed to be passed among guests were not passed nearly long enough (which is why we took home tons of leftovers of these items), the bartender had to be told how to mix one of the signature cocktails we had chosen, they served the cake by flopping each piece onto the plate with their hands, and the food on the buffet table very quickly got that "picked through" look because no attempt was made to condense and consolidate as items were taken. Five stars for planning, one star for execution.
Shirley's was okay to work with in the planning stages (we never actually met or spoke to Shirley, just Bev, who was occasionally boderline rude), but the actual day-of service was...
not worth the price tag. Food was cold, buffet tables were messy, servers were incredibly slow, and the bar tender didn't know how to make one of the two drinks we put on the menu (which we had decided on months before hand). The servers, despite asking and being told multiple times when cake cutting would be, were no where to be found. My husband eventually had to go fetch them from the kitchen. Then, after they (messily) served the cake, my mother-in-law walked into the kitchen and found the servers licking frosting from the serving utensils!
We loved working with Shirley's Catering. From the start, they took an interest in our wedding and making it the best and most affordable wedding experience. Meredith did a wonderf...
ul job taking care of all of the day of coordination. She was even available weeks before the wedding to discuss all of the decoration details. Our guests could not stop raving at how well Shirley's made our wedding run smoothly. From the day of coordination, food, drinks, and service. Shirley's is a one stop catering shop. Highly recommend!
Shirley was wonderful throughout the whole planning process. She even prepared my husband and I a plate which was served to us immediately to allow us to get a chance to eat! Highl...
y recommend!
Absolutely rude. I called to get more information about all that this company offers and the woman I spoke with was very rude and condescending. She did not offer me helpful inform...
ation and was not inviting for me to ask questions. If this is an indication of how I would be treated throughout my planning process, I will gladly take my business elsewhere and deal with understanding professionals, NOT THIS PLACE.
Shirley's Catering did a phenomenal job at our wedding. The decorating, food, and service were all top notch. I would highly recommend them for weddings or any other function or p...
arty. We will definitely be calling them again in the future. Thank you Shirley.
Let me just start by saying WOW. We are so thrilled we had the honor of working with Shirley's Catering for our wedding. We had met with another caterer and they did not meet our e...
xpectations. We then were introduced to Shirley's and were just blown away. I have a gluten allergy, therefore being the bride, that can be difficult! Shirley's had NO problem accommodating this! When we went in for our tasting, everything was absolutely delicious. We couldn't even decide on our passed hor d'oeuvres because they were all so good and ALL gluten free! I felt so special because I could eat everything! The food was delicious, the presentation was delicious and Shirley and her staff are incredible. So kind and friendly. All of our guests were so impressed and raved about everything, especially the grilled cheese and mini butternut squash soup shooters -- so yummy! Thank you Shirley for making our day so special and making me feel so, so 'catered' too - we truly appreciated it!!!!!!
-Our contact was always prompt in responding and very accommodating in our requests from the initial tasting, to interfacing with the staff, to changing the final headcount just da...
ys before the big day.
-The menu and catering-style options are varied and all mouth-watering with enough to satisfy guests with dietary needs or restrictions.
-The presentation was beautiful and colorful with the fruit and veggie spread; the set-up was very accessible although the space was limited.
-The staff kept everything replenished and hot, and packaged the ample amount of remaining food to be taken (which all re-heated almost as tasty as the day-of!)
-We heard nothing but compliments from our well-fed guests.
Shirleys provided great food for our wedding!
Shirley's was great! I'm usually very picky about food, but loved everything I tried. I even had more than one of my guests tell me it was the best wedding food they ever had. A...
nd one of those ladies had been to 38 weddings in her time.
Contact
5799 Burke Centre Parkway, Burke, VA | DMV area, Northern Virginia, DC, Surrounding suburbs
Artistry Catering