Harvest On Hudson

DO NOT - I repeat do NOT book your event at this venue. HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE I’m not even sure where to begin with how horrific an experience I had from start to finish. For starters- the “event coordinator” Danielle Marci was incompetent from the very start. I blame myself for ignoring the red flags and booking this venue. My mother originally reached out to inquire about a small party for my wedding celebration. Danielle responded to my mothers email with information, soon after my mother cc’d me and let Danielle know that she would be coordinating with ME moving forward. Even though I was emailing Danielle directly with questions - she would continue to respond to my questions by sending the information to my mother, NOT to my email. I had to practically beg this women to please stop emailing my mother, and only email ME. Again, this coordinator is so incompetent that she responded to my questions via email and sent the responses to my mother MULTIPLE times, leaving me OFF the email chain. Moving forward - Danielle sent me a “party package” with multiple options for food and open bar. My screenshot is attached of the beer and wine option that her and I agreed upon MULTIPLE times. She assured me it would be open bar beer and wine for my guests “upon consumption” which is what the contract said - matching what the document said. Upon the day of the event I arrived at the restaurant - none of the management or front desk workers seem to know what was going on. I asked and Confirmed with multiple people including the blonde women at the front desk that I had “2 hour open bar beer and wine” the women at the front desk proceeded to tell me yes - so I let my guests know they could order beer and wine. To my surprise when it cane time to pay, the restaurant charged me for every single beer and wine my guests drank. I was behind furious/disgusted/ fed up at this point - I argued for about 15 minutes with the management, the only thing they had to say for themselves was “that’s the contract you signed” repeating this statement multiple times even after I showed them what Danielle sent me - and what her and I agreed upon. A short white male who claimed to be a manager got into my husbands face and pushed him (beyond unprofessional). The blonde women at the front desk who told me “yes” it was open bar then claimed that she “didn’t actually know what my contract said”. We paid and left - I sent a very long email to Danielle and guess what? No response - no apology - the incompetence of this “high end” restaurant is comical - an apple bees probably would’ve provided better service. I wish I had listened to the other bad reviews but I thought the River view was nice and went ahead with one of the worst mistakes of my life. I highly recommend looking into other riverfront restaurants such as 3 westerly in Ossining, factoria in Peekskill, or any of the riverfront restaurants in Tarrytown. Save yourself time/money/frustration .

Our actually wedding day ended up being beautiful. The ceremony was set up in the garden and was beautiful and the reception was wonderful as well. The service was great, they were very attentive. The food was decent (the fish and chicken were a bit dry) but the salad, antipasto, penne Vodka was perfect. Our main concern was speaking with the wedding coordinator. It was challenging to be “allowed” to have our wedding reception held out doors due to covid. Our guests did not feel save eating in doors in a small room with 45 people. We had to go through great lengths to get permission to have everyone seated outdoors safely. It also ended up costing us more money that we weren’t anticipating at the last minute to have our ceremony in the garden and to have the reception outside instead of inside. Overall, we really enjoyed our wedding day at the Harvest but the days leading up to it was stressful since we were worried we were going to have to find another venue to better accommodate our guests 2 weeks before our wedding date.

We used Harvest on the Hudson for our Rehearsal Dinner in October. The location is amazing as our party was wowed by the gorgeous sunset. The restaurant and dinner itself was outstanding, our friends are still raving about the Chiocciole! Aside from one minor issue the night was perfect, highly recommend!

We were married at Harvest on June 21st. The food was amazing, the surroundings just beautiful and the staff, for the most part, was wonderful. The one difficulty was the events coordinator, Regina. It was extremely difficult to get any responses, aside from a "yes" or "no", to any questions, which was very stressful. The result was my husband and I spent our wedding dinner with our backs to our guests due to table organization which was different from that requested. Not the end of the world, but it could have been avoided and the planning could have been easier.