Dish Food & Events - Long Island City, New York

Sara C. G.

Dish was absolutely the perfect choice for our wedding. Evalyn and Kayla were absolutely wonderful, from the first email in January to the wedding in November. They both made the process such a joy and handled everything with such calmness and assurance. We knew that everything would come together perfectly. Our guests were so impressed with the food and the catering staff were fantastic- so professional and so prepared to help with anything. We are grateful for Dish for helping create the wedding of our dreams!

Hanna M.

Dish wowed guests with food that was, “not just good wedding food, but good food, period!” We were thrilled to hear this compliment multiple times over, good food being a shared passion of ours as a couple and our top priority for our wedding.

Dish impressed us from the get-go with a thorough proposal and descriptions of fun and delicious add-ons tailored to us as a couple, such as a pierogi bar for happy hour and a buffet of pies: we ultimately forewent a cake in favor of pastry chef Bianca’s delicious pies!

Chef AJ was enthusiastic about sampling the fish courses for us at our tasting: the bride is allergic to red meat, and it seemed cooking fish was as much a breath of fresh air for the caterer as it was for us as diners! And the food held up so well in transit between their Long Island City kitchen and our venue in Gowanus: all that wild striped bass was still beautifully moist when it was served!

Other guest favorites included the roast chicken, the tenderness of which was complimented many times over, and the polenta with mushrooms, which charmed everyone with its pitch-perfect execution. The staff Dish brought with them were so hardworking and kind, everything moved without a hitch thanks to their experience and professionalism.

Catering was by far our greatest investments in planning our wedding. There were a few hiccups during the planning process (as is natural), but the Dish team always bounced back with presence and attention, and inarguably delivered the delicious, elevated dining experience we’d hoped for our guests on the big day.

If you guys could just… maybe… share the recipe for the polenta? And the bass? …and the pie crust? I don’t know how we’ll live when the leftovers are gone.

Alexandra G.

Dish is AMAZING. They catered our wedding celebration in May 2024, and we are absolutely overjoyed that we chose them - and specifically that we got to work with Julianna and Michael! My husband and I eloped, and planned this celebration a year later for 80 friends. Dish understood our "vision" of the night from the start - we wanted a relaxed and fun evening, with all of our favorite people and things. They made our favorite foods as the mains (tacos and pasta), with delicious and beautiful hors d'oeuvres, and sooo many incredible sides (the adorable cups of Caesar salad were a huge hit!). The food was absolutely perfect - we had so many unprompted compliments from our guests about the food throughout the night. Including our Nova Scotian friends absolutely loving the lobster rolls, and they would have been the harshest critics! Everything was somehow even more delicious than it was at the tasting. We also had a few gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free guests, and Dish had no problem either adapting or adding options to the dishes to ensure that there would be enough to eat for all the dietary preferences we threw at them! Julianna even made gorgeous signs (to match our wedding website!) that accompanied each food item to ensure no dietary mishaps.

We heard rave reviews from our guests about the bartenders and servers, and all the staff were so happy and personable. We have no idea how they managed to pull off so much behind the scenes while literally everyone seemed so cheerful, calm, and professional all night long. My husband and I were truly free to enjoy ourselves and be with our friends without a single thought to logistics, and there are no words for how much that meant to us. Extra thanks to Stella as well, our amazing night-of captain!

Beyond the delicious food, the entire experience working with Dish was full of incredible surprises that show just how thoughtful, prepared, and seriously GREAT AT THIS they are. From the moment we walked into the tasting (January 2024) and they had set up the Lobster and Rose cart as an extra surprise, until the very end of the event when they presented us with a tote bag full of thoughtfully and carefully packed containers with some of almost every single dish. They knew, even before we did, that leftovers are one of the best ways to relive the magic!

Julianna was truly a godsend every step of the way - menu choices; floor planning; advice on everything - rentals, furniture, DJ; brainstorming ways to make our poutine dreams come true; never forgetting a single detail mentioned in any interaction; and so, so much more. More than that - she did it all with SO much support and thoughtfulness. Dish felt like so much more than a caterer, they were genuinely partners in planning the wedding celebration of our dreams. We sincerely hope that there will be an opportunity to work with Julianna and Michael in the future - thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

Laila A.

Dish was referred to us by a very close friend to take part in our first annual gala to raise money for my son, Zayne's foundation. It was an emotionally difficult thing to plan, but the minute I engaged with Michael + Juliana, I knew they were the right choice to make this event extra special. The ease of the planning, the staff, the absolute wonder the food was, the drinks, and its presentation in my home made it extra special. My hope is that Dish can cater all events we host in the future to honor Zayne's legacy 🙂

Nakita T.

Michael and his team at Dish were incredible from start to finish. We are both big foodies and really wanted our guests to be able to enjoy the food at our wedding and Dish did not disappoint. In our first tasting Michael made us feel so at ease, wedding planning didn’t feel like a chore, we were able to enjoy the experience and have fun. We were accompanied to pick out our rentals and the team made us feel like we were supported throughout. The day after our wedding, so many of our guests made a point of calling out how delicious the food was. We are in awe of how Dish pulls off events on such a large scale without compromising on flavor. We could not recommend Dish as a vendor enough. They were also kind enough to recommend a wedding planner in Arch Events who could not have done a better job. If you want amazing food at your wedding and to work with the kindest team, pick Dish!

Victoria H.

We had an excellent experience working with Dish Food & Events for our wedding. Heather Levine was our Day of Coordinator and helped us plan everything. From our very first phone conversation to the day of the wedding, she was always incredibly helpful, responsive, and went out of her way to make sure we were happy with everything. Due to the pandemic, we had to have our first tasting delivered to our home. Despite having to heat up the food ourselves, we were blown away by how delicious the food was. Luckily we were able to have our second tasting in person and had a great experience.

On the wedding day, the Dish staff did an amazing job with the setup and catering service (cocktail hour, plated dinner, cake, and passed desserts). Many of our guests commented on how delicious the food was and how the whole event flowed seamlessly. We attribute a huge part of our successful wedding to Dish and our wonderful Day of Coordinator, Heather. Highly recommend!

Sarah F.

Wow. I am still so in awe of Dish from decision making to the process to the event to clean up. I called multiple caterers for our wedding in prospect park at the Picnic House and no one treated our phone call as personal and important as Heather from Dish. She wanted to know what foods were important to us and what kind of menu would bring us joy and nostalgia. I knew right away that Dish was the only caterer for us. The tasting was absolutely phenomenal- we were so well taken care of and throughout the planning process Heather was always there to support and recommend a way forward with calm expertise. I couldn’t recommend them more.

Andrea L.

The one thing my now-husband and I agreed on fairly quickly in the wedding planning process is that food was our top priority. We both come from different backgrounds and wanted a vendor that could blend our cultures and provide elevated food that reflected us. Dish happened at the most perfect time – we were at our very first venue open house with nothing planned thus far and met with Evalyn during the peak of the pandemic (July 2020). She was so warm and engaging and the food at the open house looked amazing (we had to take it home because, pandemic). We came home, warmed everything up and were BLOWN AWAY by how good everything was! We’ve been to many weddings over the years and wedding food is always so mediocre, so to meet the very first vendor that totally upends the stereotype was mind blowing to us. We kept Evalyn in mind as we made some other major wedding decisions (mostly our venue and planner) before getting back to her. Our planner has worked with Dish and Evalyn, so we knew we were in good hands. From our very first tasting of our custom fusion menu, we knew Dish was our caterer. We met with Evalyn and Ryan and were totally blown away by both the food and hospitality! We planned our wedding over the course of two years and Evalyn always graciously answered our questions even when our wedding seemed so far off. When the time came to make rental and food decisions, Evalyn was an expert at curating everything for us based on our tastes and making the whole process as easy as possible. When we asked for another tasting before making our final decisions, she made sure we were able to come in to make our decisions two weeks out. The day of the wedding, everything was beyond perfect! As soon as our ceremony was over, Evalyn had our signature cocktails ready for us. All of our guests were raving about the food, from cocktail hour to dinner, and the service. I am seriously not kidding, we are still getting people raving about the food weeks later. This was exactly what we wanted! A custom, fusion menu that reflected us as a couple but was also delicious and was not “typical” wedding food. More importantly, Evalyn and the Dish team were there for every minute of the journey and were BEYOND all of our expectations. I hope we have many more occasions in our futures where we can cater with Dish! We are so lucky to have worked with Dish and to have them knock out one of the most important elements of our wedding day.