Chez Alice Catering Company

The value for my catering was excellent. Everything was perfect! Thank you!

Chez Alice was the perfect choice for the wedding my husband and I had in mind. They were very quick to respond to our initial request for information and that excellent customer service continued even after the event was finished. Since the wedding, family and friends constantly tell us how delicious the food was. The beef stew and chicken pot pie are not usual choice for a large gathering, but were both the shining stars of the night. I would definitely recommend both for any event! The chutneys and different spreads that went along with the turkey and roast pork complimented the meats perfectly. Our appetizers were fresh and consistently replenished to the guests delight. Quite simply put, the food was delectable and perfect in every way.
Jean and the staff of the day of the event were helpful, polite and excited which really set the tone for the night. I was not worried or concerned, because Jean and her team were so on top of everything. In fact, she would remind me of things that I had forgotten and take care of them immediately. I really felt like we weren't just another couple getting married, but that we were special and that Chez Alice wanted to make sure we had the wedding of our dreams.
Chez Alice was worth every penny and I will recommend Chez Alice to anyone looking for food & service that is beyond exceptional.

Chez Alice Catering was great! So helpful in the planning process with all the details on the food side and event side. They really helped make our wedding the perfect day! Everything went very smoothly and food was great! They also made sure we were taken care of that day, which was so nice since the day flew by. And they seemed just as excited about our wedding in the planning process and just as happy that day as we were! Highly recommend

We had a thoroughly enjoyable experience with Chez Alice catering. The people were very nice and easy to communicate with, and the food was terrific, from the appetizers to the dessert. I was the father of the bride and many people commented to me how much they enjoyed the food at the wedding. the wait staff were pleasant and very professional. I would strongly recommend them to our friends.

Everything about Chez Alice was WONDERFUL. Kelly and Jean did an amazing job for us and were incredible throughout the entire process. Throughout the 8-9 months of planning they listened to every thought/idea/desire we had and pulled all the stops for us. They were flexible with our budget and really understood what we wanted/needed. The food was delicious and everything was on time, on point, and lovely. Jean was so attentive the day of and I think I'm one of the few brides who can say that I actually got to eat a good deal on my wedding day. I can't begin to thank them enough for everything -- all of our guests have been raving about the food, the service, and the raw bar. Highly, highly recommended from us and I very rarely give out 5 stars!!!

Kelly and her company is amazing. She was able to accomodate our change in date and venue - & worked with us to develop a menu within our price range. She made our small backyard wedding barbeque a hit with superb appetizers: grilled shrimp skewers, guacamole platter (which got rave reviews), and brie/strawberry tartlets. She provided delicous food, and s'more pit that was loved by everyone!

The staff working the wedding were very professional and accomodating - & always willing to help if needed. They were even concerned about ensuring I was ready for my walk down the aisle.

Chez Alice provides a personal touch for any bride of any budget. Highly recommend.

My wife and I selected Chez Alice Catering to caterer our wedding party at the Princeton Elks Lodge in Blawenburg, NJ. The food provided by Kelly and her staff was fantastic, and the support/wait staff who served us throughout the afternoon were personable, professional and extremely accommodating. We would highly recommend Chez Alice and will use them for future events.

First I need to say that planning a wedding is a daunting process and eventually all of the effort and organization finally culminates into this momentous event. No matter whether you are the Bride, Mother of the Bride, etc. at a certain point during this day, you will have to pass the torch of responsibility to someone. I am writing this review so that I can attest how incredibly grateful I am that I had Chez-Alice to depend upon for my daughter’s wedding day.

Kelly and Jean clearly understand how important this day is to the families and I believe that they take this responsibility very personally. Through the initial “tasting” of the menu to the actual “dinner” being served, Kelly was always professional, patient and responsive to all of our concerns. Kelly is very calm and soothing individual to have working in your corner. The same is to be said for Jean in regard to the planning of the rentals of the tables, linens, etc through the excellent communication and coordination with all of the different “vendors” involved. The day of the wedding, both Kelly and Jean worked all day too make sure that everything went according to our requested schedule.

After actually witnessing their coordinated efforts, I believe it would be very difficult to find a better working combination of Kelly and Jean. They are simply outstanding.

The staff which assisted Kelly and Jean during the wedding were all respectful cheerful, and helpful. I had numerous people tell me how incredibly awesome the bartenders were throughout the evening.

The food that came from Kelly’s kitchen and grill was simply the best; in fact many friends have requested “recipes” of the food items served. Most important the Wedding Cake was not only beautiful but delicious and memorable.

The end result was my daughter’s Wedding Day was absolutely exquisite. And to top it off many of the attendees, told us that this was the best party they have ever been too.

It was a crazy, beautiful day and looking back upon it I am so impressed how Chez Alice took the torch of responsibility and did everything to perfection.

WELL DONE and a BIG THANK YOU from the Sutton-Heisey Families!!!!

It's not often that one is able to host an event and have no regrets afterwards. Such is the case with our daughter's wedding, catered by Chez Alice. Everything was wonderful. This was due, in large part, to Kelly's ability to translate the bride's wishes into reality. From the moment we first spoke with Kelly, we knew we were in good hands. She recognized immediately the wedding the bride had envisioned and with her helpful insight was able to make this a reality. The food was delicious and the wait staff was very professional and attentive. We had a wide range of dishes to accommodate vegetarian and non-vegetarian appetites and people are still raving about the food. Kelly's attention to detail and her relaxed persona, even in the midst of a blizzard, made our daughter's wedding a huge success. We very much appreciated personal kindnesses she extended to the bride and her family. It's unusual to find such a level of professional service. The bride said that "everything was perfect, I wouldn't have changed a thing. It was everything I hoped for." That says it all. Thank you, Kelly and staff, for your expertise, quality of service, fantastic food and responsiveness. Anyone planning a wedding knows that flexibility and a good sense of humor are required for success. Kelly brought this and more to our daughter's wedding and we are very grateful for the wonderful memories she helped us create. Thank you Chez Alice! We'll see you in June as you cater our son's wedding!

I am going to struggle to find words that express just how competent, kind, delicious, helpful, and exceptional Chez Alice was! Kelly and the Chez Alice Catering Company helped to make my wedding the most amazingly beautiful, memorable day of my life so far. When a blizzard postponed my wedding by a day Kelly was THE voice of reason--the calming presence among the chaos. From start to finish, she made the impossibly confusing task of coordinating food, rentals, decorations seem effortless, and allowed us to feel like guests at our own wedding-- imagine that! She EVEN personally painted decorative vases to have around the wedding, knowing that we share an affinity for winter. I cannot thank her-- and the Chez Alice staff- enough.

Kelly, Jean, and all the servers were absolutely wonderful to work with. Many of my guests commented on the attentive service. Everyone was very professional and all the details were handled flawlessly. I did not even realize there was an issue with some of the rental equipment til after the fact, as Jean handled the issue discreetly. I would highly recommend Chez Alice Catering Co. to anyone!

We used Chez Alice for a two day wedding event (yes! 2 different cakes for 2 different receptions!). The cakes were beautifully decorated and DELICIOUS. We enjoyed the tasting, and the service was exceptional. I would highly recommend this vendor for a wedding cake.

There are not enough adjectives in the dictionary to fully describe how wonderful, professional, helpful, responsible, flexible, accomodating, compassionate, friendly, organized, efficient, cheerful and thoughtful everyone at Chez Alice was. My daughter was a very busy bride-to-be, attending school full-time until a week before the wedding day and without the support, understanding and friendship of Kelly and Jean the reception would never have turned out to be as perfectly beautiful as it did. The tables were set beautifully. The food was just OUTSTANDING -- all our guests were raving about it, and the cake was spectacular: beautiful and delicious. We are still getting thankyous from friends and everyone without fail mentions how wonderful the food was.

There aren't enough superlatives in the English language to describe the professionalism and service provided by Chez Alice Catering Company. Kelly Hamdan and Jean Butcher are the best of the best: efficient, attentive, patient, kind, accomodating, flexible, sensitive, supportive, responsive, and utterly professional. They attend to every last detail with the utmost care, easing the bride's mind, because they truly care about their clients. The food was outstanding: the guests at our wedding couldn't stop raving about how delicious it was. The cake was incredible: beautiful and fabulously tasty! The venue looked beautiful, thanks to Kelly and Jean's amazing attention to detail: they really understood what I had envisioned my wedding to be and executed it flawlessly. On a personal level, you would be hard-pressed to find two more kind, patient, and supportive wedding professionals: Kelly and Jean will walk you through every step of the process, supporting you when you need to be supported and advising you when advice is needed, ultimately resulting in a seamless wedding day that you will remember for the rest of your life. My wedding would not have been half as amazing as it was without the incredible hard work and dedication of Kelly, Jean, Janice, and the rest of the wonderful Chez Alice staff. Five stars!!!!! Any bride searching for outstanding and elegant wedding service - look no further! It doesn't get any better than Chez Alice!

Chez Alice did an AMAZING job on my wedding...everything was perfect....they were very accommodating to me adding my own touches and supplies...the food was amazing and we couldn't ask for anything more then what we received!
Thanks!

I couldn't have been happier with Kelly and her staff at Chez Alice's catering for our 10/9/99 tent wedding. She also helped us coordinate with Brillman's Rental Barn and Monday Morning Florists, both of which we were happy with, and it was good to have them recommended by our trusted caterer. It was like having the benefit of a wedding planner with a decorator's eye rolled into the catering job. They took care of a challenging 3-locale event, with ceremony inside the house, appetizers outside, while the ceremony chairs were being whisked down to the tent for dinner!

All the food looked and tasted wonderful. The cake was gorgeous and delicious - even the frozen part we ate a year later!!! It was a truly memorable wedding and Chez Alice was a HUGE part of that. You get what you pay for, and I'd recommend them without hesitation to any future brides. - KP from Princeton Jct NJ

Chez Alice exceeded all of my expectations for the catering at my wedding reception at Prallsville Mills. Every bit of food was amazingly scrumptious. For the cocktail hour, they prepared a stunning spread of BBQ’ed clams, shrimp, chicken and passed appetizers including lobster rolls, quiche, and deviled eggs. For dinner, there was a buffet of roast beef, chicken and eggplant rollatini with fresh vegetables, orzo and garlic mashed potatoes to accompany it. Our guests gave the food nothing but rave reviews. We received compliment after compliment about how delicious the food was and how our guests thoroughly enjoyed every bit of what they ate. And, even beyond the food, Kelly Hamden and Jean Butcher at Chez Alice were tremendously helpful in the months prior to the wedding. They had valuable insight and advice on many aspects of the ceremony and reception. Kelly and Jean are truly masters at their trade. They thoughtfully listened to my concerns and were constantly helping me brainstorm and strategize on how to make it the most enjoyable and beautiful day possible. After the wedding and reception, I marveled to myself about how I so successfully planned an event that so many different people genuinely enjoyed. I really was giving myself too much credit, though. The real truth is that Chez Alice perfectly orchestrated my “big day”—with just a little bit of input from me. They were so wonderful to work with and are such talented caterers—I enthusiastically recommend their services.

I loved the services provided by Chez Alice, beginning with our meeting with Kelly in her Princeton cafe, to the meeting with her at Brillman's, to the excellent tasting where I met Jean, to the FABULOUS appetizers, dinner and desserts! Everyone loved the food- I was given compliments all night by my guests! Our favorite appetizers were the strawberry soup (which my husband was skeptical about- but boy did he change his mind once he tasted it), the brie and fruit tartletts and the salmon spoon. Apparently the create your own mu-shu was a serious hit because it was all gone by the time we made it to cocktail hour! We also loved the beef wellington- which my husband specifically wanted and I tried for the first time- Fantastic! And last but certainly not least- the gorgeous wedding cake! We served some the next morning to the guests that stayed over at the Marriott! I can't wait until our first anniversary when we can finish the cake top! I want to especially thank Kelly and Jean for working so hard on the night of our wedding! Kelly- you were there super late making sure everything was perfect, and Jean, you were so attentive to making sure my husband and I got anything and everything we needed- you really made us feel like V.I.P's!!! Thank you to you and all of your staff! We had a fabulous wedding!!! Love, Kate and Jon Godin <3

Jean and Kelly were wonderful to work with! They couldn't have been more accommodating and helpful - (in contrast to the owners of the Inn where the reception was held) - They saved the day! Would love to work with them again.

I was throughly pleased with my decision to hire Chez Alice for a post wedding brunch that I was hosting in Skillman, NJ. Kelly Hamdan handled all of the specifics for me and was even there to supervise the event. Chef Christoph did a wonderful job. His made-to-order omeletes, hot off the griddle waffles, and assortment of fruits, muffins and pasteries were delicious. The servers were both pleasant and efficient and my guests raved about the brunch from start to finish. I wouldn't hesitate in hiring Chez Alice again in the future.

Three years later, our friends and family still tell us our wedding was the best - thanks in great part to Kelly, Dawn and others at Chez Alice. From our delisious, personalized tasting with the chef to countless phone consultations with our planner, Dawn, we felt comfortable and well cared for. Our hot, mid-summer reception at Mountain Lakes House was a blast! The food was delicious, the cake beautifully decorated and the bartender even accomodated us with our own signature cocktail - yum! We were very, very happey with everything!!

First - the food was great! We wanted to have a Mediterranean menu for a cocktail-style party (no sit-down). They worked with us to create a great menu. Also, Dawn, who was our planner was awesome! She knows what she is doing! She helped us pick out all the tables, chairs, plates, and all that stuff. And on the wedding day she was so amazing. She brought us water when we looked hot and just took care of everything. I had no worries at all on my wedding day. And the cake was delish!!!!!

Chez Alice made seven different wedding cakes for our wedding desert buffet. Not only did the cakes look beautiful, they were the best tasting wedding cakes most of the guests have ever tasted. I remember getting congratulated for getting married and asked so many times where did the wedding cakes come from.
Since our wedding almost nine years ago, we enjoy Chez Alice cakes for our dinner parties, birthday parties, and the holidays.

Kelly and Jean, thank you so much for an outstanding event! Our guests told us it was the best rehearsal dinner they had ever attended! The food was delicious - from the terrific pulled pork and chicken (loved the sauces) and the side dishes too (my mom loved the fresh tomatoes especially). Best of all was the amazing cake (we are still enjoying the leftover pieces!). Your servers were perfectly professional and, and the set-up inside and on the terraces was truly beautiful. Working with you was such a pleasure, and it made a truly wonderful night for our kids. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

As mother of the bride, I was very impressed by how much the staff cared and took the time to make our daughter special day so wonderful!

kelly and jean were very helpful all along. only problem was that no one brough a challah to this jewish wedding. other than that, they were great and took us though the whole process with ease. we only had 3 months from the time we booked them until the actual wedding but they made it easy!

Kelly and Jean were wonderful and incredibly accommodating. The food was tasty and the guests raved about the delicious wedding cake. My husband and I are incredibly pleased with the level of service Chez Alice provided to us and our guests. It was a pleasure working with them!! Thank you for helping to making our wedding day so perfect.

Chez Alice Catering Company made my wedding a hit. My entire guest told me the food was mouth watering and my cake was the newest modern looking cake you can find. I knew from the beginning that I wanted Chez Alice to cater my wedding. I seen how professional they are and I have tasted there food from other events and just by stopping by their cafe. They made my wedding a dream come true.

If you want great service, excellent food, and newest ideas in wedding planning then call Chez Alice Catering Company. They made my wedding a success; imagine what they can do for you!

Thank you Chez Alice!

Professional; personal approach, great food, high responsability, easy to contactl flexible and accomodoting for our needs

We received truly professional service from Chez Alice on our wedding day. I really have to single out Jean, their wedding coordinator. I casually mentioned in an e-mail that the groom and I were going to be at the venue one day and she called up the venue manager to find out what time we'd be there just so she could have an impromptu meeting with us. And it turned out to be a very important meeting, clearing up previous misunderstandings and working out new details. And when the day arrived, everything was exactly as we wanted it. Our own appetites were somewhat limited due to wedding excitement, but our guests tell us the food was good and the cake was excellent.

Chez alice provided excellent service and fabulous food and great servers.
The menu was perfect and the cake delicious and beautiful..
There were no leftovers.
\everything came promptly and the servers were professional and excellent.

We love working with Chez Alice Catering. Kelly and her staff offer a wide variety of options to couples in a variety of styles, menu and costs, allowing couples to find a balance that's right for them without compromising on great taste!

Chez Alice is one of the finest caterers around. The food is wonderful and the staff is friendly and professional. Anyone looking for a caterer should call here first.

We've been doing business with Kelly and Chez Alice for a number of years. They provide excellent Catering and we have had many very happy mutual clients past and present.

Chez Alice does an excellent job. They hold an Open House at Mountain Lakes House every year in March.

Kelly and her staff have been providing catering services to the Princeton area for years. I can't say enough about their work ethic not to mention the taste of their fantastic food. They are truly a pleasure to work with.