Basil & Bloom

Basil and Bloom (Top Notch) catering was fabulous to work with for our wedding food and dessert! Melissa and her team diligently helped us work on our menu and everything was set up beautifully. They are professionals! We had so many compliments on our food from guests! Thank you!

My wife and I had a very negative experience with Melissa for our catering for our wedding. My wife specifically asked multiple times that the salads not be "pre-set" at the wedding over email and Melissa wrote back and confirmed that this wouldn't happen. During the day of the wedding, Melissa started to pre-set the salads and our wedding coordinator reminded Melissa that that was not wanted (twice) and Melissa went ahead and did it anyway with no explanation. That's not the biggest deal, however, and definitely doesn't explain the 1-star review. The 1-star review is because we paid for and ordered vendor meals for the photographer, DJ, and day-of-coordinator so that they would have something to eat. We wanted them to be able to eat during the reception, not after, and when the photographer asked for her meal, she was rudely told it wouldn't be provided to her until after the reception was over. The wedding coordinator reportedly asked Melissa a few times if the photographer could get her meal and again was rudely told that she would be provided with a meal after the guests were served. So even though we paid for the vendor meals, not one vendor received their meal all night. When we emailed Melissa about this asking for a refund for the vendor meals which were not provided to our vendors, she denied the refund and told us that there was "PLENTY of food provided for them". She was incredibly unprofessional all around. Aside from this drama that occurred at the wedding, the food itself was not presented very well, though did taste "okay". I definitely wouldn't have remembered the food had it not been my wedding because it was not good but wasn't bad either. Overall, given Melissa's unprofessional attitude during the wedding, her inability to literally hand the photographer a plate of food after being asked multiple times by our wedding coordinator and the photographer, pre-setting the salads despite two emails confirming the brides desire to not do so (and two verbal requests from the wedding coordinator on the day of to not pre-set the salads), and then refusing to refund us the money after the vendors did not receive any food just because she wasn't willing to give them their food until close to midnight all around deserves 0 stars, but because I can't give 0 stars, 1 will have to suffice. Would not recommend to literally anyone.

Melissa and her staff are truly amazing! they were really easy to work with- very communicative and helpful. We initially chose them because our wedding coordinator suggested them because they are her favorite and she was absolutely correct. Everything from their professionalism to their food presentation was great, and the food was truly SPECTACULAR! we had so many guests tell us that it was the best food they had ever had at a wedding. Basil and Bloom is the best!!!

We cannot say enough good things about Top Notch Catering! We got so many compliments on our wedding food...it was delicious. Everything ran so smoothly and the servers were very friendly. They even cut and served our cake for us even though we didn’t purchase a cake through them. We had heard nothing but great things about them and it was very comforting to know we wouldn’t have to worry about a thing. It was one less thing to stress about. I highly recommend them for any event!