About this vendor
Blue Heron Catering is an accomplished caterer situated in Castro Valley, CA. With over 35 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, these cuisine experts will ensure that your wedding is as refined as it can be. The team’s event managers will strive to take the stress off your shoulders with a fun and sophisticated culinary experience.
Blue Heron Catering does more than cook delicious food; they also ensure that you and your loved one are happy with every menu and service. These professionals will start by providing a private tasting to explore a range of flavors and cuisine from across the globe. These experts will ensure your wedding is everything you’ve always wanted with buffets, chef stations, appetizers, and polished rental items.
Blue Heron Catering offers mouthwatering meals with recipes inspired by the San Francisco Bay Area foodshed. Once you’ve chosen your favorite dishes, these chefs will ensure that each meal matches your dietary needs. These preferences may include gluten-free, nut-free, vegan, vegetarian, and pork-free. Besides your cuisine, you and your partner may choose your favorite beverages for your wedding day, from specialty wine to premium liquor.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cuisine
- American
- Eastern European
- French
- Fusion
- Greek
- Indian
Dietary Options
- Vegetarian
Reviews
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I cannot recommend Blue Heron enough. The food is superb, and the staff are incredibly responsive, flexible and talented. Working with them is a wonderful wraparound experience: pl...
anning, menus, design and set up of venue floor plans, and advice on staying within budget. You will not be disappointed. BH is a fantastic, local,
East Bay business with an intentional focus on sustainability. Just all around good people!
I could not recommend Debbie and Blue Heron Catering more highly. She catered our wedding with a Thai inspired menu, and we heard from many guests that it was the best wedding meal...
that they had ever had. In addition to the food and day of service being excellent, Debbie was wonderful to work with throughout the planning and aftermath of the wedding. I found her very down to earth and a clear communicator, she was very flexible with all of our requests, she was incredibly helpful on things outside of her purview (she recommended our wine selection and coordinated the delivery so we didn't have to think about it), and she maintained a calm and collected demeanor throughout. Were I to need future catering in the Bay Area, Blue Heron would be my first call.
We loved working with Debbie and AnneMarie for our wedding. Biggest shout-out to Chef Umberto for crafting such an amazing menu.
A little about my guests - I have a really big Vie...
tnamese family and we are all used to huge fancy banquets with Chinese food. They were a little bit skeptical about a Western style menu but were BLOWN away with how good the food was. They all raved about the paella, steak, cheesy polenta, and dessert. They all had seconds or thirds of the food which is a testament to Chef Umberto's skill.
I appreciated Debbie's patience and guidance on our menu. We probably changed our menu tons of times and she was willing to accommodate all of our wishes.
AnneMarie ran the show day of. She set up all of our tables, centerpieces, etc. she made sure everything was seamless and smooth.
Also shout-out to our bartenders and servers - our guests loved them and they kept the drinks coming!
All in all we loved working with Blue Heron and cannot recommend them enough.
Wow! Blue Heron was the caterer for an event we coordinated at Chabot Space Center and their whole team did an amazing job! Annemarie was the catering manager and she was not only ...
super efficient and on top of everything she was also just a very cool person to work with. Food was delicious and a great selection for both meat and vegetarians. Presentation A+.
Tony and everyone on the Blue Heron Catering team took our wedding day to another level with their delicious food and cocktails, attention to detail, and great service! We tried tw...
o other caterers when looking for a vendor, and Chef Humberto’s food was far and away the most delicious. Combined with Tony’s enthusiasm for what he does and active listening to what we wanted / needed for the day, they were the clear winner.
Tony always got all our requests for menu, set up, and rentals correct even as we evolved our choices over time. He was also really flexible with us and presented different options that would help us achieve what we want and also be cost-effective. Catering is a big part of the wedding budget, so we REALLY appreciated this!
Our guests loved the food and drinks, and we are still getting compliments weeks after the event! We highly recommend Blue Heron Catering, and would love to find an excuse to work with them again on another event!
Blue Heron catered our wedding and so many guests told us it was the best wedding food they’d ever had. We had primarily Indian, Mexican, and Latin American food. It was all great....
Especially the tamales. Amazingly, some of the food was actually even better at the wedding than at the tasting. They also did a great job catering to vegetarians and vegans.
Compared to other caterers we explored, we found that Blue Heron had more interesting food and a larger variety. They were also happy to do a bunch of different dishes on the buffet instead of just a few main ones. They were also quite reasonably priced. They didn’t have quite as many employees at the event as some other caterers quoted, which kept the cost down, but it didn’t cause any problems for service quality.
We got married at Chabot Space and Science Center, and Blue Heron was responsible for setting up all the furniture for the event in addition to catering food and tending the bar. They were clearly very experienced working at the venue and did a perfect job setting up the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception as well. They even figured out how to set up the chuppah for us.
Tony, Debbie, Humberto, and everyone else we interacted with was very helpful and organized. Tony even brought us (the bride and groom) a special plate of appetizers at cocktail hour to make sure we were well-fed. They also brought the groom a special extra large plate for dinner at his request :-)
Our menu:
Passed appetizers:
Sweet potato, leek and kale, tomatillo salsa empanadas
Potato and pea samosas with peach chutney
Memphis hot fried chicken slider, cole slaw, pickles, caper aioli
Buffet Dinner:
Chana masala
Aloo gobi
Paneer tikka masala
Grilled tri tip with chimichurri
Berto's Tamales
Salad with cucumbers, rainbow carrots, radish, napa cabbage, cashews and cherry tomatoes in a yogurt dill dressing
Jeweled basmati rice
Grilled Mexican-spiced vegetables and tofu
Oakland bread and creamery butter
Dessert:
Humphrey Slocombe ice cream
Blue Heron Catering was amazing. Jessica, our main POC, really understood what we wanted food wise right away and the quality of the food was delicious. Jessica is the true treasu...
re of Blue Heron and acted like our wedding planner both before and during our wedding, she knew the questions to ask, what people would want, and just had overall great insight. Thank you Blue Heron for a wonderful catering experience and give Jessica a raise!
Contact
3100 35th Avenue, Oakland, CA
Blue Heron Catering