Elaine Bell Catering

Elaine Bell has the most amazing food and presentation! I am so glad I hired them to cater our wedding. Everyone raved about it and some even said that it was the best steak they had ever had. I would highly recommend them!!

Food and cocktails were amazing. Our guests could not believe how good it was! They were very professional and well organized staff that made our wedding reception and cocktail hour flawless. At the end of the night, they even gave us a little picnic basket with snacks...so thoughtful!

Elaine Bell's food is amazing, I would rate them a 4.5 out of 5 for food (the tasting was slightly better than the food at our wedding, though creating mass amounts of food is obviously harder than a small tasting amount). I had a few issues with their customer service and their responsiveness.
Our sales person, Emily, was an extraordinarily sweet girl, very enthusiastic and made a great impression on us in our tasting. Her responsiveness made planning a wedding very difficult. Sometimes she would respond within a day, but most of the time it would take 2 weeks or more. I even had to get on the phone with Elaine Bell at one point to request a different sales person because I couldn't be waiting 2 weeks for a reply. They insisted I stay with Emily and her responsiveness improved slightly, but not drastically.
My other complaint would be around the pricing. We kept changing things within our contract and somehow magically the total price would never change, regardless of whether we removed things, the price never budged. Lastly, we did not receive the full equipment we requested, and again, the price still remained the same.
The quality of the servers and the professionalism during the event was superb, I would rate that a 5, but my day to day planning service was disappointing at times.

My CatererElaine Bell Catering

Professional & delicious posted 11/9/2010
My fiance and I met each other in Culinary School in San Francisco, & I am a catering chef! So needless to say, the caterer was our most important decision. We shopped around and narrowed it down to 3 caterers. Elaine Bell's proposal though was exactly what we were looking for and the best value. They are a large catering company located in the Napa Valley with 30 years of experience. We were truely won over when we visted their facility for our tasting. We were greeted warmly by our Event Sales Manager Susan and were treated to a 4 person tasting of our entire menu (5 passed apps, 2 meat entrees, 3 side dishes). Elaine (the owner) also stepped out of the kitchen to meet with us, and then offered us a tour of her facility. Their Kitchen is Amazing! Our reception was held at a private residence that we rented, so Elaine Bell provided all the dishes, glassware, flateware, service staff, bar tenders, etc. They also brought all of their own kitchen equipment to cook everything on site, and this made all the difference in the quality of the food. We had passed apps during our cocktail hour (highly reccomend the cauliflower panna cotta), and then a family style meal. The most important thing to us was that the menu was local & seasonal, giving our guests the true experience of Bay Area cuisine. We had the Beet Salad, Chestnut Quinoa, Ratatouille, Mohogany Cedar Salmon, and the Braised Short Rib - all were exceptional (especially the slow smoked Short Rib). Many guests told me it was the best meal they have ever had at a wedding. The service staff was very professional and courteous. We highly reccomend Elaine Bell Catering!

Initially, Elaine Bell was the in house caterer for our venue. However, we later discovered that our venue would no longer use Elaine Bell on the date of our wedding. So based only on the reviews and awards that Elaine Bell Catering has acquired, we changed our wedding date.

THE BEST THING WE DID. The food at the wedding was exactly as presented to us during our tasting. Even better, the food tasted just as we expected from the tasting. The food was the quality and taste of a five star upscale restaurant. In addition to the taste of the food, the presentation was amazing. Everything was perfectly placed as if a piece of art on a plate. The appetizers were rich with taste and perfection as well.

During the planning process, Elaine Bell was helpful, attentive, responsive and highly professional. During the wedding, Elaine Bell and her staff made sure the entire progression of the wedding went smoothly and just as we had planned.

We would highly recommend Elaine Bell Catering to anyone planning a wedding or special event. We always felt like important customers.

Excellent food and great service. Guests were very enthusiastic about the food (unusual for a wedding!). Elaine Bell also helped us coordinate all the rentals for our wedding and gave us tips on purchasing alcohol/mixers.

Thee food was the best ever! People still talk about how great the food was at our wedding :)

Elaine Bell catering was fantastic! They listened to our requests and worked with us to create a wonderful, unique and incredibly delicious wedding menu. All our guests commented on the professionalism of the servers and the beautiful presentation, as well as the great taste, of the food. When we ran out of chocolate dessert, they made a substitute that was so good everyone wanted the recipe. They even made a special plate for a guest who had allergies to some of their dishes. I would highly recommend them to anyone.

The Elaine Bell Catering staff was amazing at my Napa wedding! They were extremely attentive and accommodating during the months leading up to our big day; their service and professionalism was outstanding! We had one guest that has severe gluten allergies and I asked them to let me know which dishes she could eat from. Instead, they prepared her an entire gluten-free meal, at no extra charge! They also had their servers bring passed appetizers to the wedding party during the picture taking, since we were missing the cocktail reception. The meal was incredible, and the guests couldn't stop raving (especially about the butternut squash ravioli!!!!)! At the end of the night they even made a to-go bag for my new husband and I, filled with the gourmet cheeses, cake, etc. When we got home we opened the bag to find out it contained entire picnic supplies, forks, plates, glasses, etc. They were truly above and beyond and I would recommend them to anyone getting married in San Francisco or the Wine country!!!

The Elaine Bell Catering staff was amazing at my Napa wedding! They were extremely attentive and accommodating during the months leading up to our big day; their service and professionalism was outstanding! We had one guest that has severe gluten allergies and I asked them to let me know which dishes she could eat from. Instead, they prepared her an entire gluten-free meal, at no extra charge! They also had their servers bring passed appetizers to the wedding party during the picture taking, since we were missing the cocktail reception. The meal was incredible, and the guests couldn't stop raving (especially about the butternut squash ravioli!!!!)! At the end of the night they even made a to-go bag for my new husband and I, filled with the gourmet cheeses, cake, etc. When we got home we opened the bag to find out it contained entire picnic supplies, forks, plates, glasses, etc. They were truly above and beyond and I would recommend them to anyone getting married in San Francisco or the Wine country!!!

The Food and Service from Elaine Bell was exceptional! Everyone commented on how great the food was at the wedding. I highly recommend them!

They are the best in Napa Valley hands down there food not only is delicious but beautiful presentation. THey have great customer service I worked with Karli Napp and was very impressed with the constant communication and keeping me in the loop as I was an out of town bride. They were a one stop shop with rentals and food. I would highly recommend this caterer! T

Elaine Bell did a fantastic job catering our wedding. The food was amazing and the service was excellent. No one at our party wanted for anything. Highly recommended!!

StoneTree provides a beautiful backdrop for any wedding! The grounds are flawless and they provided many options for set up and catering. They were very helpful in making our wedding day amazing!

This venue was more than I could have ever hoped for. They worked with me on ways to reduce teh per head cost which really helped. Not to mention that the location is gorgoeous with plenty of room for a small or large wedding. My guests were very impressed and the puctures turned out amazing! Our coordinator was so responsive and we didnt even have one complaint at the end of it all. If you want your wedding to look like it cost $30K but you want to spent more like $5K....this is the place to be...OH and they DIDNT have a F&B minimum!

Excellent! FIVE STAR! No bad comments are needed to be written in my point of view.

If you want excellent outside the box amazing, over the top delicious, then hire Elaine Bell Catering for your next event! My company, A Dream Wedding, use them for our weddings in the Sonoma and Napa Valley's and always love the feedback from our clients. They are the "foodies" caterer!
Robbin Montero
Owner of A Dream Wedding

Always professional, always delicious. Elaine Bell is at the top of our catering list and a joy to work with.

Always a pleasure working with Elaine Bell Catering! The presentation is always so clean, creative and refreshing. So thankful for all of the wonderful weddings that we've worked together!

elaine Bell is by far one of the best - if not the best catering company in the bay area!! the presentation & taste is alway impectable! her staff are friendly and it is always a delight to be working with them. angie silvy- photography