Tastings Caterers — Local services in Framingham

We have had Tastings cater our family events over the past ten years, ranging from our older three childrens' Bat and Bar Mitzvah's, two high school graduation parties, our 20th medical school reunion party at our house, a dinner for my large office in our home, my brother's children's two Bar Mitzvah's, and my cousins and friends events as well. As you can see, we have had Tastings in our lives for many, many years and they have done a fantastic job making the food and environment of our events very special indeed.

Sue always meets with families prior to the events and goes over the menu carefully. We also went to one of her tasting afternoons with each of our children and tried out foods for their special event. All of my children looked forward to their turn sampling the choices, giving us the opportunity to try new items to come closer to deciding what would be on our menu.

At the events themselves, Sue always had the food beautifully arranged and tastefully presented, labelling the various foods and making the tables look very festive and inviting. At one of my cousin's events, one of her children is lactose intolerant, another has a gluten allergy and the third has a peanut allergy. Despite all the challenges involved in preparing foods without milk, wheat or peanuts, Sue had a wonderful dessert display, labelling each item and giving these children with allergies a chance to enjoy their family celebration!

Sue has also been very kind to my family and extended family and friends. She listens to what the customer wants and produces the food that is desired. She uses very fresh produce, seasonal vegetables and fruit and her husband John barbecues and cooks so much of the main dishes right there at the events. The variety of desserts that she prepares is also very impressive and delicious!

The staff at Tastings is also extremely polite and thoughtful, working hard to make the events as organized and seamless as possible.

We have had or gone to over twenty events catered by Tastings and I always feel very grateful to Sue, John, their two children and the staff for taking their job so seriously and creating such a wonderful...

We had an AMAZING experience with Tastings Catering. Sue the owner, Mat our banquet manager, and all of the rest of their staff were friendly, kind, attentive, and went above and beyond for our micro-wedding 2 months ago. Since we had a small COVID wedding, food was the main focal point of the affair, and Sue was able to take the difficult guidelines we gave her (a menu that celebrated our mixed Chinese/Haitian/Dominican backgrounds and had a homey/down to earth feel) and came up with an outstanding menu to fit this perfectly. She was understanding and sensitive about adjusting the menu to fit our budget, and she kindly gave us a very thorough tasting and made adjustments based on our feedback. She also offered to let us borrow numerous candles and decorations free of charge, which saved us an enormous amount of money and waste, which was ideal for us since we were trying to be as sustainable as possible. The day of our wedding, the Tastings staff did an impeccable job of setting up everything like we planned, the decorations they provided were gorgeous, everything was done exactly as planned and on time, and the food was absolutely delicious. The staff was very thoughtful about making sure that my husband and I were fed. They made sure to set aside food for us during the cocktail hour, which we mostly missed due to photography time. We received a lot of compliments on the food from our guests: my Haitian father-in-law was impressed by the Haitian meatballs, which is NOT something most American catering companies can easily do, and the jerk chicken was rated as "authentic" by our Caribbean guests.

Months later, I still have dreams about the gorgeous and tasty holiday-themed cookies Sue baked for us: my husband has promised me that we will buy cookies from Tastings again the next time we are in Massachusetts again. In short, we can't recommend Tastings enough for your wedding celebration: they were a key part of making our wedding a success. We hope to use them again for a larger anniversary party, whenever the...

Tastings catered our wedding four years ago this October at the Codman Estate in Lincoln, MA. We had a very tight budget but still wanted a delicious, fun menu available to our guests. Meeting at Sue's house to first discuss options, the menu sampling formal event later on at the Lyman Estate, and the wedding day itself were all dreams. The food is fantastic, so much variety, and they worked with our budget wonderfully. You would never have guessed we aren't millionaires based off how exceptional the food was and the variety of desserts we had. Mini cheesecakes and tres leches cakes in addition to our wedding cake. The quality is incredible at Tastings. And the staff arranged everything so smoothly, the servers were speedy and professional, I recommend Tastings to my friends that get engaged. We were supposed to have the ceremony outside, but due to early morning rain, the ground was too muddy. I never had to worry for a second though, as they had a set of Plans B and C for whatever came up. The ceremony was beautifully set up inside by the staff, and honestly, I've forgotten we ever meant for it to be outside. Everything was so gorgeous. They then seamlessly disassembled the ceremony seating and rearranged for the dance floor, while guests and wedding party went into the big tent for cocktail hour. They are incredibly professional, and I as the bride was never stressed about anything. I felt complete confidence in the caterers and their staff from the day we met Sue at her home. Tastings even helped us find the DJ we hired, as our original plans fell apart last minute and we started to panic. The DJ was professional, energetic, overall beyond amazing, and I thank Tastings for referring us to DJ Red! Thank you for making our wedding...