About this vendor
We are an independent restaurant and wedding catering service. We offer full service and china and flatware rentals. Our food is made to order of the freshest ingredients available. Our Chef /Owner trained at the CIA in upstate NY, and has been in the restaurant business ever since. Our Catering Manager is an artist and knows how important it is that the food not only be good but look great! We have been catering large weddings since 2010, on farms, and in lots of different venues. Our service area is 30 miles in any direction from Peru Il.
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Cuisine
- American
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Vegetarian
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Catering Clean Up
- Catering Delivery & Setup
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
- Menu Tastings
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4.9
out of 5.07 reviews
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We chose MarkAllen's to cater our October 2021 wedding at the Barn at Hornbaker Gardens. The food was incredible and Ann was amazing to work with! My husband and I were nervous finding a caterer our guests would enjoy. We were looking to shy away from boring and bland and lean more into comfort food with a twist. Ann invited us to the restaurant for our tasting and every bite was perfection. After liking it all, the hardest part was narrowing down our menu! Our wedding appetizers were hot and served both passed and plated. During dinner, her staff quickly and professionally helped move our 200+ guests through the buffet line. Would 10/10 recommend!
ATTENION BRIDES: We had Mark Allens cater our wedding and it was one of the best decisions we made.
Ann (the owner and main contact) is wonderful – she’s friendly and warm and is very prompt answering emails or questions or calls. On a personal note, Ann was kind and understanding when we had to move our wedding date back a year due to COVID…you will not be just a number when you are their client, they treat you like family.
For our initial tasting, they did not skimp out on serving sizes and everything was DELICIOUS.
For our wedding, the staff was attentive and friendly and the food was just as excellent as our tasting – warm, delicious and consistent. I highly recommend getting the salad with balsamic vinaigrette, the chicken stuffed with bacon, swiss and mushrooms and their chocolate covered strawberries!
Mark Allen’s catered an amazing brunch for our daughter's wedding reception held at The Barn at Hornbaker’s. The food not only tasted amazing, but it was also presented so beautifully.
The owners of Mark Allen’s are the perfect dynamic duo. Ann creates the best menu imaginable and cares for her clients with kindness, humor, and professionalism. She is an artist in her own right: immensely creative in visual arts and likewise with her menus and food presentation. Mark is an incredible chef. The brunch he prepared was the best I’ve had. Our guests commented on it over and over.
If you are looking for a caterer that is guaranteed to make your event a success, hire Mark Allen’s American Kitchen!
This food was FANTASTIC! Our guests could not stop raving about how delicious it all was - especially the chicken and waffles! We did a "Wedding Ball"-style wedding; MarkAllen served gourmet hors d'oeuvre style foods all night. Our guests had more than enough to eat. The coordinator, Ann, was so very helpful and wonderful to work with. Our initial tasting session with her was not only delicious but very thought out and above what we expected - she made it a wonderful experience. Love her and love all of the staff that helped during our day!
From start to finish my experience with MarkAllen’s was amazing! Ann was absolutely wonderful to work with and was also flexible! Ann made the tasting very accommodating and the food on my wedding day tasted just as good, if not better! My guests keep saying how delicious the carved roast beef and horseradish sauce was!
Wedding guests still talk about our food at our wedding to this day! I can’t say enough good things about them, truthfully! Ann was so great to work with and was so kind to us. Would recommend to anyone!
I would give them a 4.5, but it would not let me. Of course we had a few complaints, nothing is perfect to everyone. However, we would use them over and over and recommend them to anyone looking for a top notch all around vendor to cater.
Contact
1402 Peoria Street, Peru, IL
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