About this vendor
Crateful Catering is an innovative Michelin Star catering company helmed by Executive Chef Cristina Bowerman taking its clients through a one-of-a-kind international culinary experience with an elegant european touch. Thanks to a carefully trained staff, Crateful Catering’s signature is sophistication in every detail, customizing each event to the client’s need, taking pride in originality and uniqueness, always paired with the search for perfection.
We know how important the wedding day is for our couples and our only objective is to simply make it the most magical experience they had in their lives.
Details
Cuisine
- American
- BBQ
- French
- Italian
- Mexican
- Middle Eastern
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Kosher
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Vegan
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Catering Clean Up
- Catering Delivery & Setup
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
- Menu Tastings
Awards and Affiliations
2022 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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5
out of 5.013 reviews
As the CEO of Martin & Vanegas Agency, we have been working with Emanuele and Crateful for over 5 years. They have always exceeded our expectations and over delivered. Grateful to ...
have them as a partner and look forward to many more events in the future.
Where to start? Emanuele catered my fabulous wedding at the Houdini Estate here in Los Angeles. He and his entire team at Crateful Catering were AMAZING! First of all, I'm an Itali...
an American - so it was important for me to have authentic Italian food. They knocked it out of the park with a number of Italian dishes including a fabulous Cacio e Pepe. That said, we also had a mix of appetizers, a charcuterie table, sliders and even a taco bar - so it was a really well-rounded presentation that gave our guests a number of options. Emanuele personally took the time to attend our pre-event walkthrough. He was also very responsive including answering after hours calls/texts when I needed to reach him - which is great because I'm usually busy with my companies during the day. He was available to talk when I was, which if you know anything about planning a wedding, you know that it can be stressful at times if you can't reach your vendors. I never had that problem with Emanuele. At one point we even had a little issue with the venue in terms of some contractual/layout items pertaining to the catering kitchen - and Emanuele was able to personally call in some favors with the venue owner to make a few things happen for us. In all, if you're looking for a standup guy, with a great company, to provide excellent customer service and even better food - particularly if you want anything Italian - don't hesitate to go with Emanuele Ponzo and Crateful Catering. Li raccomando vivamente! Five stars!!
The team at Crateful are amazing. Emanuele outdid himself with the delicious food and fantastic crew service at my wedding. People are still talking about how out of this world t...
he food was. They accommodated my wife's diet and truly went above and beyond. I even got the pleasure to enjoy a private toast with Emanuele. The tastings beforehand were an experience we will never forget. If you want top of the line food, presentation, and service, you would be cheating yourself if you did not go with Crateful Catering in LA. Huge thanks to the entire team for making our day so special.
I cannot say enough wonderful things about Crateful Catering and Emanuele. When we started planning our wedding the number one most important thing to us was the food. And all of o...
ur wedding dreams came true because of Emanuele and his team. From the initial tasting with him which had the best, most professional service, and most delicious food, to the responsiveness of his emails, and his understanding what we wanted and delivered exactly that, Crateful Catering made all of our dreams come true. Every single guest at our wedding was raving about the food. Even weeks later people still talk to us about it. In addition, the staff is incredibly professional and were a pleasure to be around. They also handled our bar service. We had a vision of what we wanted for the food at our wedding and Crateful Catering gave us exactly that. Our only disappointment is that we don't have another party coming up so we can use them to cater again. We can't wait until we do!
Emanuele and Crateful Catering were awesome partners to work with for our wedding. After thoroughly evaluating over 20 caterers, we had booked Crateful for our wedding over 1.5 yea...
rs ago, but we'd had to delay it until recently for obvious reasons. Throughout the entire time, Emanuele was flexible, responsive, and professional as we navigated the pandemic together. Even when our guest count dropped from 175 to 125 due to the Delta variant and other life events, Emanuele worked with us to make the experience even better for the guests who could make it.
His creative vision, attention to detail, and dedication to his craft are second to none. We asked for cuisine to reflect the diverse countries we've visited, and he presented an amazing menu of tasty and beautiful options. The food was some of the best I've ever had at any wedding. Our venue (City View Penthouse at South Park Center) was on the 30th floor of a skyscraper but required the kitchen to be set up in a parking lot outdoors, with all food being transported via elevators. Not a problem for Crateful, as Emanuele directed his staff towards flawless execution in an extremely challenging environment. Even though we booked a different vendor for bartending, Crateful stepped in to cover some of their missteps during the event. We couldn't have asked for a better caterer to make our event so memorable.
Emanuel and his team at Crateful have been amazing to work with ever since we first came into contact with them. I cant express that enough. His roots from his motherland of Italy ...
is obvious from the love he puts forward in his craft. He has a core that entails love of family, happiness and joy that he always expresses to everyone around him. During our tasting you can tell how much care he had for our ideas and style. He was very detail oriented and made sure everything was designed to our liking. We come from a Persian background that loves their Persian food. Everyone thought we should go with a traditional Persian caterer but from our very first email encounter with Emanuel we were excited to work with his team. He was able to accommodate our requests for our cultural and personal needs. All of our guests asked me how he was able to make such a delicious Persian Beef. All of his dishes were very delicious and presentation was perfect for our wedding. You can tell every individual dish was personally crafted towards perfection. Our venue changed last minute and he was still able to adapt to the constantly evolving situation. He even offered and helped with non-catering issues that we were dealing with during our tough time. The feedback we got from our guests was amazing. Him and his staff were very professional and welcoming to all our vendors and guests. I would absolutely love to work with Emanuele again and he would be great for any occasion. From the second you book his services he is constantly making sure that you have an amazing experience and We couldn’t be more grateful for him and his team.
We hired Crateful for our Wedding after being recommended by the event manager at AWA OASIA.
Doing culinary experiments myself, I am very specific with the experiences and intentio...
ns conveyed through cooking and preparing food. We didn't have time to go through tasting and approving the different dishes. I scheduled a conversation with Emanuele to understand what cooking and sharing the joy of his craft represented for him and how his part is a big one for the event :-).
Emanuele and the team at Crateful delivered and some ...
Every guest we have spoke to after the wedding raved about the quality and flavors of the food.
We didn't have time to eat much during the event and I ended up having some of the food closer to the end and ... Wow !
Thank you Emanuel and team at Crateful ! You contribution was quintessential to the magic that unfolded that weekend of May 14th, 2014.
Amazing!!! Not only was the food extremely delicious but the service of the staff absolutely exceeded my expectations. I had so many people come up to me after the wedding to ask w...
here we catered from and I couldn’t be happier about our decision. Don’t even bother looking elsewhere! Emanuele and his team are the best around!
The Crateful Catering team has been amazing to work with over the last three years. Their chef's are top notch. Their team are always attentive with a eye for detail. Thank you for...
all that you do!
Everything was magical! The food was delicious, and the staff was wonderful- SO professional, helpful, kind. My coordinators, family and guests all noted they were great and really...
awesome to work with. I could not agree more. The Crateful planning team was quick in responsiveness from start to finish. They were happy to accommodate (most deliciously, I might add) all of our dietary needs- Yummy GF and Vegan options, nut free too!
I hired Crateful to cater my sister’s wedding after being referred to them by a good friend of mine. The whole process from our first chat over the phone to the execution of the ev...
ent was smooth and all of her guests loved the menu that the Crateful team put together for us. I would totally recommend them to anyone I love for their big day! 5 stars!!
I've been to my best friend's wedding and I was completely amazed by the food. It was so delicious I decided to call Carteful for my wedding as well.
I would recommend it to whoev...
er is planning an event!
Italian cuisine is definitely the most popular above all others in today's world. Everyone truly love the ingredients as well as the vast assortment of recipes but the Italian exp...
erience is in my opinion what it counts the most when it comes down to have homemade food catered at your special event. Crateful is the ultimate Italian experience, they are not just able to bring a sophisticated taste of Italy in their recipes, with an extraordinary attention to their ingredients but their food is an element of connection between cultures, a seductive mechanism that create harmony between your palate and your heart. They have been catering all my events since my wedding
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