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Bridges Catering is a full service catering company that caterers to you! We are based out of Rock Island, Illinois. We cater not only to the Quad Cities area but surrounding regions as well. We provide our catering services at a full range of events including weddings, special events, conferences, business meetings, exhibitions, and other social occasions. Our wide variety menus has something everyone at your event will love! Contact us now for more information about our services and we can cater to you!
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Bridges was so accommodating and let us have a select few vegetarian entrees for our guests who didn’t eat meat. The food was great and the staff was very organized and respectful.
Bridges catered our wedding and they were wonderful! We had done 2 tastings with them and both times they were accommodating and the food was delicious! The food was the highlight for many at our wedding (we did the broasted chicken and the white fish) with several sides. The staff were so kind and helpful (we had two staff members dedicated to helping us the bride and groom to our table and getting us drinks).
I cannot say enough great things about Mary Jo and the Bridges catering staff. Thank you so much for helping with our wedding!!
Bridges Catering was great to work with and have great food. We had a late evening wedding, so we did a cocktail bar of food. They were very professional, and we loved them. The only thing we didn't like was their 2 hour max rule and that they couldn't leave any of the food behind. Being the busy bride, I barely had a bite off my husband's plate. Other than that, I'm told it was great!
Bridges Catering was our absolute life saver when just 3 months before our big day we cut ties with another local caterer due to disrespectful comments made to me. I contacted them for a tasting and they got us in just a few days later! We sat down for our tasting and we were met with smiles and genuine interest in our big day! They were able to meet our request for a plated dinner and were fabulous at communicating with us and our coordinators! We got so many compliments about the creamy baked chicken and the friendly wait staff! I was also stopped at our wedding by one of the employees who graciously thanked me for using them and told me how wonderful our day was! We cannot recommend Bridges enough!
Food was great however, had to deal with a lot of unorganized information at first. They did finally get it organized and worked out however it was a week before the wedding and was a bit stressful. They did make this right, and worked with us due to it, but overall if I could have used another catering service I would have gone with someone else.
Our guests loved the food at our reception! Bridges did a wonderful job and made sure to create dishes for some of our guests' dietary restrictions.
Bridges Catering was great to work with. I was originally planning my wedding from out of state and they were extremely accommodating when I had to last minute change our test tasting appointment due to our travel schedule. The day of the event the food was one time, everyone raved about our appetizers and the meal was great. They did all the work and when they were finished they sought me out to make sure they were good to leave. Their pricing was reasonable for a full service caterer.
Working with Bridges prior to our event was easy and wonderful! Quick responses and friendly customer service. During the event all food was delicious and the service was amazing. Loved having Bridges as apart of our day
Scheduling was a bit difficult but everything turned out beautifully and looked very professional.
Food was great, price was great and the people were awesome to work with!
The food and service were amazing! I had so many compliments on our food!
We couldn't believe how wonderful the wedding turned out, and a large part of that is due to your services, thank you so much! You did an absolutely fantastic job catering our wedding. We did most of our planning over the phone and through email because we live in South Carolina, and our wedding was in Rock Island, IL, which made my husband and I a little nervous, but Bridges did an absolutely AMAZING job. I would highly recommend their services to anyone. Not only was the food delicious, but the people they sent with were great as well! Even though we did a buffet style wedding, the servers brought my husband and I's plates to the head table, and they helped all of our elderly guests with their plates if it looked like they might have trouble (canes, walkers, etc), which was just great. Thank you so much!!!
Let me start off by saying this story has a happy ending.
This past October my husband and I held our wedding reception at the Quad City Botanic Gardens. Because we lived in Colorado while we were planning this wedding back home it was difficult to shop around for different caterers. We’d heard rave reviews from friends and family who had eaten Bridges at other events and because Bridges is the preferred caterer at our venue, we booked them without having a tasting first – it was just easiest, and we trusted those reviews. Admittedly, we shouldn’t have booked before having a tasting but in the end I’m glad we did it that way, because otherwise we might not have selected them as our caterer.
When we finally had the tasting, we didn’t know what to expect because we were going off menu – selecting to serve chili, soup, mac and cheese, baked potatoes and corn bread for our wedding meal – but even I had certain expectations that were let down. The mac and cheese was just Kraft, the chili was unimpressive and the cornbread was dry and stale.
Now, there were a few things that contributed to this: it was after Thanksgiving weekend so the bread was made the previous week, mac and cheese was traditionally only served to kids, and we were going off menu. But either way, when Tanja left the room to let us discuss it, I had a lump in my throat and a sinking feeling in my stomach. This was a disaster and we were already locked into the contract.
Thankfully, Tanja was very understanding and completely open to working on the menu and updating the options. My Mom provided different recipes for chili, mac and cheese, and chicken tortilla soup, and made requests on the presentation. The best thing was that Tanja worked with my Mom the entire time and was very accommodating to our requests. Tanja sourced out a new, gourmet mac and cheese that adults would enjoy, had her cooks tweak the chili to have more flavor, and accepted the different recipes my Mom proposed. The next time my Mom and Grandma went back for a tasting I received grade-A reviews that the catering would be good.
Fast forward to the wedding day and that was definitely the number one aspect I was most nervous about. But when I walked in the door, I was instantly happy. It looked amazing, it smelled amazing and I received glowing reviews all night long from my guests about how outstanding the mac and cheese was! We received compliments on the unique menu and the quality of the food all evening. To top it all off Bridges even had an attendant help me and my husband through the line and carry our dishes to our seats so we wouldn’t have to worry about spilling.
Bridges took a doubting non-believer and turned me around 180 degrees on the wedding day. I couldn’t be more happy with the outcome, and I’ll forever be grateful to Tanja and her team for graciously accepting our requests for changes, for creating a menu that was outside the box and for being the most professional vendors we worked with. Thank you so much for all your hard work, and the amazing service you provided.
Bridges Catering did such an amazing job for us. They were wonderful to work with from the very beginning. Great communication and a friendly staff.
I thoroughly researched caterers in my area and they really seemed to give the most for your money. People are still raving about how delicious the food was.
Thank you Bridges Catering for making our day even more amazing, and definitely more delicious!
The food was great! It was all set up by the time we got there, and they're service was great! I would certainly recommend them, the price was good, food was delicious, and the service was great!
Wide variety of food to choose from and tasting to go with your choice. Not just a sample, a full plate of food! Small town caterer, big time professionalism! Best pricing in town and you wont have to give up quality. Id give them an A for all they did for our guests.
We didn't work with Bridges too much directly as our venue does all the heavy lifting. The food was excellent and there was plenty of food. We would use them again in the future for other events.
We had Bridges cater for our reception at Abbey Station in Rock Island, IL. Prior to the wedding, we communicated with them discussing the details. They were always professional and prompt in replying to us. The food was amazing; we had a buffet with lots of options for only $19.95 per person. We received many compliments on how good it was. Drinks and hours d'oeuvres were great and reasonably priced as well; they provide lots of options for the bar. We ended up doing an open bar until after dinner, when we switched to beer and wine only. Everything was great!
They did a great job and the food was all very good too!
Bridges did a fantastic job with our wedding food and even made a couple of changes for us. Everyone who attended our wedding has complimented how great the food was. I highly recommend them!!!
We chose Bridges Catering because of the value and the many recommendations that were given to us. GREAT food, and a great value!
My husband is a Chef, so his job was the caterer! I'm so glad he chose Bridges! We were wonderfully happy with the food, and the service, and had MANY compliments from our wedding guests.
THANKS!!!
Bridges was reasonably priced and tasted pretty good. It was your typical wedding food, which is to say it was nothing overly special, but it was affordable and tasted good. The people at Bridges were exceptional to work with! They scheduled tastings and offered suggestions for us. I loved working with them! They were friendly and welcoming and always answered any questions we had. We did our reception Buffet-style and all of our guests commented on how much they loved the green beans! Everything ran very smoothly!
Wasn't expecting much from a buffet but it was pretty good. One thing that was noticed by guests is the fact that they kept the salads covered before the food was served.
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1713 3rd Ave, Rock Island, IL | Quad Cities and surrounding regions
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