D and R Market — Local services in Lafayette

Here’s an honest review of our catering experience with Patrick and D&R market. After quoting 100 meals for our wedding a year in advance, we changed the number to 150 4 months before the wedding and got confirmation, quote, the whole nine yards from D&R. The first issue was that confirmation and info was not for our wedding, they’d put our name on some other girls day for 450 people and her name on our 150 person wedding. Got that fixed and emails made it seem like they had it figured out and they told us “confirm a final count the week of the wedding.” Deal. Monday comes, wedding is Saturday, we say 150 is perfect. Patrick the owner, manger,? Not sure his title but he was running the show confirms 150. They confirmed water, tea, lemonade, condiments, and a vegan meal. Day of the wedding, caterers show up after people are already seated in the reception, luckily the receiving line and photos made it seem like they were on time when in reality they were 2+ hours late. That’s not the good part, the good part is halfway through the guests eating, foods gone, there never actually was any water, the whole 2 gallons of lemonade they brought was obviously gone, along with the tea gallon. Plates and silverware were gone around person 90 so people literally used the metal serving trays (we have photos). Long story short after all the back and forth and confirming and double checking, they showed up with food for 100 at best, no water because they didn’t have any in stock for this 100 degree outdoor wedding, all the tea and lemonade they had (3 gallons of liquid total) for 150 people. Let the excuses begin, for starters when the catering workers were questioned they were rude, offensive and when they went to the restroom said some not so nice words about my now wife and in front of guests. Sorry for calling out your mistakes? After a month of waiting I finally called them to get a bill even though I shouldn’t have paid anything for this display of ineptitude. They’d lost our paperwork for everything and hadn’t found it according to Patrick. The bill comes and they fully expected us to cover everything they brought even though it wasn’t close to what was ordered. We negotiate come to terms and that part wasn’t terrible, but the way they excused their mistake made it pretty obvious they have a system built to mess up weddings and caterings. We agree on an exact price, the wife shows up to pay, the bills wrong because they forgot some items.....of course!!!! The wife says no this is what we agreed on. Patrick throws out that he can’t control how much our guests were eating? Is this a joke to you? You openly admit to bringing 50 meals less than ordered and still want to defend yourself in that kind of manner? Disturbingly unprofessional. He tells my wife “pay whatever you want then.” For fear a legal fight I would’ve cut a check for $5 just because the portion of food that did actually show up was good. He ended our last emails, calls, and payment with “I hope there’s no hard feelings?” Of course not, y’all just showed up late, talked bad about my wife on her wedding day, didn’t feed half my guests, and tried to make me pay for stuff you said you’d bring but didn’t.

In summary: I wouldn’t recommend catering from D&R for an event you want to be stress free and fully provided. The food that shows up will taste good, but if you want the guests to be fed after the wedding party, get a party sub or 2 on standby. This review based on...

Came in a couple days ago and picked up $120 worth of meat. From NY Strip steaks to thick a** butterfly chops. They had me covered! As well as the fantastic meats, the service was superb!!! Patrick made me feel welcome and answered all my questions. From my experience this is a top notch business run by a man that cares more about the customers and community than any big top store claims. For that alone, D & R is my new go to for meat.

For all those that want to say this butcher was intentionally giving bad product to customers, I call bs! Can’t stand how people always want to try and bring down someone else’s good, hard earned reputation. Idc what anyone says, if you go to Walmart, pay-less, or even fresh thyme, D & R blows them all out of the water. Probably bc Patrick refuses to bring in or inject his meats with water. Again, he cares! How many times can anyone say they went to Walmart to buy groceries and felt like Walmart cared about anything other than how much they make?

This place is where it’s at if you want good quality food at reasonable prices. As well as education on what you’re getting and how to prepare it! They care about it all. From start to finish! People need to stop crapping on a small business that is succeeding! We need more businesses and people like Patrick and D & R! I’ll be seeing...

I went yesterday to buy a slab of ribs. A TOTAL WASTE OF MY MONEY!!! My first clue to pass them up was when I called and was told they didn't have any ribs to sell, then they said they would call me back and they did and told me I could pick them up in 30 minutes. I thought that was strange to have them ready so fast from saying they didn't have any. I went to pick them up and from the way they were hitting the bottom of the box as hard as it did I knew then they were hard as a rock and I should have gone right back inside that D&R but I didn't. I got home, opened the box cut a piece and as suspected, dry, hard as a rock!!! I cut into the center to get a bone from there, hard, dry and I knew I was eating ribs from 2 to 3 days old!!! If I could have given it zero stars I would have!!! These people should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES for selling this days old meat for...