About this vendor
West Bay Catering LLC is a business based out of Traverse City, MI, that offers catering services for weddings and other special occasions. Owner and executive chef Steven Peltier heads this team of culinary professionals to create customized menus for dining. You can call on this team to make your dream wedding dishes a reality.
Steve has over 20 years of culinary experience, having honed his skills in numerous local restaurants. His personal ethos is to consistently create top-quality food. In 2016, Steve and his team opened Nepalese Have Another food truck, later rebranding to West Bay Catering. The goal of this team is to create menus that are fully-customized for each client and their event.
West Bay Catering offers a variety of wedding catering services, ready to create menus and cover the delivery, preparation, serving, and cleanup of your meal. Steve and his team will work with you to craft a menu that fits your wedding, selecting from an array of cuisines and serving styles. Whether in family-style platters, bountiful buffets, seated meals, or chef stations, your wedding fare is sure to delight you and your loved ones.
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Cuisine
- American
- BBQ
- Chinese
- Eastern European
- French
- Fusion
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Halal
- Kosher
- Nut Free
- Organic
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Catering Clean Up
- Catering Delivery & Setup
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
- Menu Tastings
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1.8
out of 5.09 reviews
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I am disappointed to see that his reviews have went so south since our wedding on August 7th. While those were not my experiences, I can see how they could have happened. Initial conversation with the Owner Steven P. was great about a year before our wedding. He was responsive, the food at the tasting was amazing, and his pricing was the reasonable. We had breakfast sandwiches and fruit with a coffee bar and OJ for the morning of the wedding, He forgot about the steak, egg, and cheese sandwiches for the guys, but brought enough of the sausage, egg, and cheese so that everyone had enough to eat. Charcuterie board with fruit, bacon wrapped shrimp, and spinach artichoke dip for cocktail hour, which our guests raved about, and a prime rib carving station and herb crusted chicken with amazing sides for dinner. One of the biggest compliments we received was how good the food was. We also had parfaits and breakfast tacos, with coffee and OJ for breakfast the next morning. Steven was only about 20 minutes late each morning, but was on time for the wedding. His communication was sub par and hard to get ahold of, but once he informed me that he had a new number it was much easier to speak to him. I also was disappointed about how much I had to stay on emailing him, but the food quality was so great, I was not devastated by anything.
Was pleasantly surprised by how great West Bay was. After not being able to get any other vendors to answer, I went with West Bay a little hesitantly since I couldn't do a tasting and at the time of booking they didn't have a ton of reviews. But the day of our wedding was great, Steve and his crew showed up on time, got right to work setting up, filling water glasses and prepping for cocktail hour. Throughout dinner service, the servers were attentive and always on top of things. The brussels sprouts and the pasta were literally to die for and we got tons of compliments from our guests! We had quite a few no shows, so Steve boxed every thing up and we had lots of leftovers for the next day. I would certainly recommended West Bay!
Absconded with our deposit and has not replied ever since. Steven Peltier has a history of criminal activity and I could not regret more choosing him for my rehearsal dinner.
Thankfully it was only my rehearsal and not my wedding as I've read from others across Google, Facebook and more where I'm now seeing that he doesn't show up with the food or enough staff, and he's quite literally caused wedding guests to go unfed despite being paid and contracted. AVOID THIS VENDOR LIKE THE PLAGUE.
The owner, Steve Peltier is not to be trusted. He promised he would not double book events on the night of our daughter’s wedding. He promised to be on time and to have enough staff. Instead he showed up late without enough staff because he was spread too thin, dinner service was delayed and our own guests had to help in the kitchen. We cut the cake ourselves, cleared our own tables, no one to fill water glasses, etc. DO NOT do business with West Bay if you care about your event.
Arrived late with half the food ordered. Extremely unprofessional. Guests had to help prepare for them so that people could eat. Choose anywhere else to cater for you.
EVERYTHING WRONG!
After multiple calls and no response, 2 employees arrived at our wedding venue 2 hours late! They arrived with half the food ordered and not prepared for serving! Guests help cut up the hors d’oeuvres! Truly felt like fast food delivery you’d drive back to get corrected!
The local restaurants and businesses jumped to help! Real professionals!
We are still waiting for a call back from this “caterer”!
Is there a 0/5 star option? To the reader: DO NOT PUT YOURSELF THROUGH THIS. This caterer was and remains incredibly unprofessional. My brother and sister in law were married and had all things squared away (with a lot of effort on their part I may add due to the owner, Steve Peltiers lack of communication!) the bill was paid in half prior to the event and all contracts were signed. His staff showed up over 2 hours after the agreed upon time. Not only that- no communication was made nor would he answer any calls indicating a delay. When his two staff members arrived, the food was not even assembled or prepped. Guests that should have been enjoying the wedding- were cubing cheese, assembling sandwiches and setting up charcuterie boards. Not only that- the amount of food to feed the guests was also not delivered. Approximately 1/3 of the paid for and agreed upon amount was delivered. There was no platter or serving tray provided and the sandwiches we displayed on the table cloths. PEOPLE- DO NOT HIRE THIS MAN. He has yet to call to apologize or explain these actions. They are incredibly unreliable and honestly, he should have his catering license pulled. I am so sorry to the staff that has to work under this poorly organized and disrespectful owner.
I would NOT recommend this caterer. He sent his staff to our reception over 2 hours late, with nothing assembled nor the amount of food that was ordered. Two of our guests had to jump in to help the two kids set up.
The food was not brought in on trays, therefore the sliders had to be set up on the table. The cheese for the charcuterie boards had to be cut up by our guests as well. They had to pretty much do everything when they should have been enjoying our day. There was nothing to put the silverware in, so that to had to be rounded up.
They were supposed to stay and replenish food and clean up. Since there wasn't even enough food to feed all our guest including the Bride and Groom, there wasn't anything to replenish with. Our bar tenders were amazing and stepped up to clean up what was this caterers responsibility.
What should have been a beautiful flawless day that was planned out for months, this catering company dropped the ball and caused stress, cost us more money to buy more food from local businesses and was an embarrassment to us.
I don't know how ANYONE could do this to someone, especially on their special day. Apparently he took on another wedding that day and didn't bother to answer any calls, texts or emails when he was an apparent no show. I felt bad for the two kids he sent into a horrible situation. They acted like they had no idea what to do or how to handle a very uncomfortable situation.
Steve Peltier, you should be ashamed of yourself! You haven't even had enough decency to contact us to apologize or explain yourself, which there really isn't an excuse!
I hope this review keeps anyone looking for a caterer for their special day from making the same mistake we did in trusting in you. We should have known when you wouldn't return calls or emails for very long periods of time and would not let us have any tastings.
Where to begin...How about Total Dissatisfaction! What a stressful experience with West Bay Catering! Food arrived to venue 2hrs late. They did not bring enough food to feed 90 guests. The food was poorly put together, no elegance or specialness and it tasted average at best. It was NOT what the Bride & Groom ordered. The guests had to help set up the food and hordevours. The catering staff left quickly and were suppose to stay, set up and replenish. We Ran Out Of Food! The Venue owner called owner of West Bay Catering over and over with NO return calls. Mother of the Bride called owner of West Bay Catering over and over with NO return calls. The high point was Owner Willowbrook Mill Northport Mi rallied all the local restaurants who were standing by ready to bring food if West Bay Catering was a no show. Northport Businesses We Love You for your support! Please do NOT use West Bay Catering. We do not want you to deal with the stress, worry and unprofessionalism we had to. Find another vendor to make your Wedding Day special! West Bay Catering YOU need to make it right with this family!
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767 duell rd suite a, Traverse City, MI | northwestern lower peninsula Michigan
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