Epicurean Group

Working with Epicurean was fantastic! They completely customized our menu to be exactly what we envisioned and the food looked and tasted fantastic. All of our guests have been commenting on how wonderful the food was at our wedding!

Epicurean did a fantastic job! The staff was so proactive in asking how they could help, gladly adjusted and even added enhancements without me even asking. Also, the food was fantastic! Thanks for making this a fantastic event for our guests!

I am overwhelmed with the amazing job that epicurean did on my wedding a few days ago.
Everything was perfect, and I am so impressed with how thoughtful that girl was. She made sure there were pretzels for us, and water, and she was just so on top of it. There were lots of compliments from my guests on the food (people said it was the best food they have ever eaten) and the exceptional service!
I could not be happier to have picked Epicurean. Everything looked adorable, and we were so well taken care of.
If you are looking for a caterer, PICK EPICUREAN. they had this cute little food truck pull right up to my venue, and the meals were out super quickly. They worked perfectly with all of my other vendors, and Jessica was always answering my crazy tons of emails. I honestly could not have imagined anything better!!!

Jessica and Jeff and the rest of the team were incredibly kind, helpful and supportive. We are immensely grateful to them and the Epicurean team for helping to make our day so pleasant and memorable!

Jessica and her team were amazing. Especially prior to the event she was great helping pick out the proper food/​drink, event layout, as well as incorporating our network’s logo. The event was flawless. The staff were professional, attentive, polished, and overall positive. We will absolutely use Jessica, and Epicurean, again for our next event.

I am a corporate event planner, and have been working with Epicurean since 2004. In 10+ years of using Epicurean on the average 5 – 10 times a year, I have never had an issue with their food quality, service or timing. They are consistently top notch. We have produced everything from 10 person executive dinners, to 3000 person high end events and I have NEVER been disappointed!
Larry DiPasquale, Wesley Guzman, Jenna Johansen and the entire Epicurean team are always very hands on, and never let anything slip through the cracks!
I have many events on the books with Epi this year, and will continue to use them and recommend them to my colleagues and friends for a long time to come!

Wesley is the absolute BEST! We felt very well taken care of from the very start of the planning process to the day of and during the wedding. The food was out of this world and the service was impeccable. We cannot say enough good things about Epicurean. Thank you for helping to make our day so memorable.

Very accommodating with lots of attention to detail. We were busy with the photographer during most of the cocktail hour so Jessica brought us a few of each of the passed hors d’oeuvres. Delicious food! We had nothing but compliments from our guests. Thank you!!!

Lauren rocked it! Tim made great pizzas! Joel kept everyone’s drinks full! Great team!!!

Everything from start to finish from my experience with Epicurean was above and beyond. I remember emailing them (along with a few other caterers to compare pricing) and Jessica called me back within 10 minutes with so much kind energy and was so helpful. I immediately got a good feeling about working with her and everyone on the team and never looked back. Jessica very quickly understood my style, vision and taste and I trusted her suggestions completely. Planning our Wedding menu was never a task, it was always enjoyable. I think Jessica is the most organized, considerate, professional lady ever, and we couldn’t have been luckier to have her on our side. During the wedding, guests were coming up to me about how incredible the food was. Not just delicious but the presentation people were impressed with too. The biggest compliment I can say is that my mom was SO impressed. My mom doubted from the beginning how it would be possible to feed 150+ people in the middle of an open Colorado field, without a real kitchen, and I know she thought it was just perfect. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Our wedding even got featured on Martha Stewart Weddings, and we couldn’t have done it without Epicurean. Everyone involved was amazing, and Jessica deserves a week off for all her love and care!!! I highly recommend.

Outrageous service charges. Lots of hidden costs that weren’t disclosed upfront. We had high hopes based on the food we sampled but due to the lack of professionalism of the event planning staff, we decided to move to a different vendor. If you’re planning a small wedding, please stay away from them. There are plenty of restaurants that will offer much better prices and service for a meal!

I could not have been more pleased with these guys! Matt was the coordinator for my event. He was so helpful and professional. We only had a week to plan out the event and he did such a great job putting together a proposal and having it out within only a few days.
At the event, Jeff was the captain and also did a splendid job. Of course by Murphy’s Law we were having a blizzard the day of the event so many of my guests couldn’t come. Jeff made all of our guests that did make it feel welcome and at home in a somewhat awkward situation.
The food was delicious! My favorite: Grapes with chèvre, pistachios, and truffle salt. omg I can taste it now! Lamb chops were amazing as well as the phyllo wrapped figs. Everything was over-​the-​top delicious.

Epicurean was a huge disappointment at our wedding. We chose them because of their reputation as the «best» and because we had big, exciting plans for our wedding dinner. We had an $ 11,000 food budget for 80 guests. The cost was so high because we had such high food presentation standards, and because we were hiring a literal army of staff to plate seated dinner to our guests simultaneously. 8 waiters placing 8 plates in front of 8 guests at the same time. That detail, and so many others, were in fact completely ignored by Epicurean the night of the wedding while my husband and I sat there in shock and disappointment during our wedding dinner rather than enjoying ourselves. Some of the food on our menu was completely wrong (& they were clear on what we wanted after 4 tastings) & their chicken was awful. Inedible. Sawdust. So upsetting because it had been delicious in our tastings. We’re sharing this honest yet negative review because Epicurean refuses to offer any remedy to the fact we paid dearly for services they did not provide. Take caution when hiring the «best.» They may in fact just be resting on an outdated reputation that is no longer deserved.

Upfront and initial interactions in the planning stage were professional and led me to think they were the right choice for our wedding…
Then they failed miserably on execution, showing up 3 HOURS LATE for the reception. Our guest didn’t have food for a while, it was cold when it came out and they somehow failed to plug in coffee makers, thus serving cold coffee to guest.
Instead of dealing with their failure in a professional manner they dodged the issue for weeks on end, circling the wagons and in the end seemed reluctant to compensate for their failure.
My advice, try somewhere else.

their food truck was at the USA Pro Challenge food court. they had a terrific black bean grinder, which i was really glad to find since nothing else around was close to vegan-​friendly. their fresh lemonade was super good, too.

I’ve received so many compliments about the food served at our wedding reception. And, I mean, I should because I spent all morning on the day of my wedding slaving away in the kitchen.
Yes, of course, I’m kidding.
I only have Epicurean to thank for the delicious food!
As the husband and I are big fans of brunch, we thought it’d be fun to have our wedding reception revolve around our favorite meal. We had biscuits with sausage gravy, french toast stuffed with whipped cream cheese, piperade with vegetables, beignets, bacon, potatoes and yum and yum and yum.
On the day of our wedding, Epicurean executed everything, everything from set up to the cocktail hour to the brunch, perfectly. They arrived at the wedding venue not just on time, but 30 minutes early. By the time I arrived, all of the chairs and tables were set up and dressed beautifully. They coordinated all of the rentals (chairs, linens, etc) and all of the liquor for the bar and they handled all of the event set up and breakdown. I didn’t have to lift a finger!
We worked with Wesley (Senior Event Designer) in planning our big day and he was a pleasure to work with — one of the most personable people I’ve ever done business with. Admittedly, there were a few times during our planning that I got a little nervous that something may get forgotten, but my worry was pointless because Epicurean was all over every last little detail.
So pleased with both the food and the presentation!

Epicurean did the catering for my husband’s work recent holiday party. They occupy the Clyfford Still museum, which is definitely an interesting, modern and slightly intimidating space to work in. As mentioned in the review for the museum, it was made explicit in the design for this museum that it could not contain a restaurant. Whether it can contain the kitchen, I do not know, but Epicurean sure made up for any lack in the facility is by providing great food during our event.
Given the layout of the museum, they came up with several stations throughout the museum with different types of food. They had a street taco station along with paella sliders and blackbean sliders. The al pastor and fish tacos were both excellent with spicy slaw and cotija cheese. In the other corner they had an Asian fusion style station, where they set small plates into the nooks and crannies of bookshelves. Very difficult to see, they mentioned that they were trying to get extra lighting, and it fell through at the last minute. Some of the dishes on this side lacked proper labeling, with lots of mysterious looking chips dips, without any labeling, and also several signs without actually going into any detail. For example, there was something called an Asian bruschetta, which contained no cheese no tomato no basil and no bread. Not really a bruschetta at all, but tasty all the same. They did a savory take on cake pops, with basically meat wrapped cheeses in a fake wheatgrass presentation. Many people loved these, though I thought the idea of eating a cubic inch of cheese off a stick at a party was a little overwhelming, especially if you wanted to try one of each. That is a lot of cheese.
There was a dessert station as well, and honestly this was just not worth it. Flavors were not described, things were overly sweet, and things are not labeled. One dish that looked like it would taste something like a snickerdoodle, ended up tasting like eggnog, which is not a flavor that is easy to prepare oneself for when one is not expecting it. The event was definitely helped by the use of the Epicurean food truck, which provided freshly fried donut holes, sweet potato fries, and regular fries in wooden little cones. This was very much appreciated for those of us were heavily imbibing, and definitely a fun way to get outside of the Museum and out into the real world if only for a moment. They did run out of the food truck items however which is a little strange me considering it’s just potatoes and dough. On the other hand, none of the other food ran out.
I did wish for some appetizers out in the main area, or passed appetizers or at least someone pointing guests in the direction of food, because we only found the stations by literally stumbling across it early in the evening. Although some of the dishes were a little mystifying, Epicurean clearly showed that they can make more than one type of food in an evening for a large crowd, and keep the food coming to help keep everyone satisfied.

Epicurean did the catering for our wedding on December 22, 2010. Their creativity, professionalism, and palette pleasing food was a hit. I am so pleased with them. We did a dessert reception with a s’more station, bananas foster station, and tons of other fun and creative desserts. They took in to consideration every detail and made our night perfect. Their staff was really friendly and would HIGHLY recommend them to anyone who is ever doing an event that requires catering. Our guests are still talking about the food a couple of weeks later. Thanks again, Epicurean!