Three Tomatoes Catering

My Partner and I used Three Tomatoes this past weekend for our wedding, and we would give more stars if possible! From our first meeting with Abby we were made to feel welcome and special and it continued through to the big day. Abby coordinated with all of the rentals we wanted, and there was never a problem with communication on any subject. The food was beyond reproach and all of our guests commented on how good everything tasted. The appetizers were the beginning of an incredible meal, and Dale, the site coordinator made sure everything ran smoothly. The staff was incredibly professional and never blinked an eye if we asked for anything. We also had our cake from Three Tomatoes and it was beautiful and tasted better than it looked if possible! We can not recommend this catering company more highly.
Jeff Coen and Rod DeFoe

I used Three Tomatoes catering for my wedding in September. I researched a ton of caterers and sampled menus at a few different places before deciding on Three Tomatoes. My event coordinator, Donnah went above and beyond with everything from the initial discussion to the day of the ceremony. I highly recommend working with Donnah if you chose Three Tomatoes; she is a natural for working in the service industry.
The price point was very good for the quality of food and when I went with some of my family members to sample the menu, you they provided us the full menu with the items I had selected and swaped out anything we weren’t huge on after sampling it. Donnah listens extremely well to feedback and makes adjustments accordingly. She helped me decide on a menu that was well balanced and tasted awesome.
Donnah helped with waaaay more than her job required. She came to the venue the day of my final walk-​through to make sure everything was perfect. She helped me with the floor layout for the tables, down to the colors of the linens. I decided to have all the food served family-​style and it was important to me that the timing was perfect; I hate going to weddings where half the guests are eating and the other half are standing around waiting. The timing on our food was perfect and everything came out perfect.
I was very pleased with Three Tomatoes and loved working with Donnah!!!

Just attended an event they catered. With about 5 tables out of 14 left — they ran out of food! I mean every single food item — not just one dish! When asked they just shrugged their shoulders. How about call the boss — get more food delivered? Order pizzas — something. People pay big money for catering — they expect their guests to get food. These guys are apparently NOT experts. SHAME — on them! With so many great caters out there why risk it!

We decided to use Three Tomatoes for our wedding since they seemed to have a great understanding of how best to execute different food stations. Unfortunately, as many others have mentioned, they struggled with communication and do not know how to take responsibility for their mistakes.
After we paid our deposit, responses to our questions would sometimes take weeks and we had to follow up multiple times to get simple changes reflected in our event order.
The biggest issue we had was that they did not bring enough food and their response was that it must have been because the first half of the group took too much. I don’t buy it. Supplying and controlling inventory during a buffet should be second nature to a company that has been around for as long as they have. They told me «it’s a very popular dish» — well it stands to reason, they should know how much to provide for X number of people. They charged us per person per item. It would be one thing if a table or two didn’t get to taste it, but it was HALF of my guests that walked up a an empty station. Also, one of my guests was told that the staff had miss proportioned the servings so they ran out sooner than they anticipated. When I brought this up to my contact, her response was «your guest must have misunderstood.» At no point did they take any responsibility for what happened, but offered an insulting 10% off the subtotal of food.
Two stars — only because the food was very good. However, running out of food during the middle of dinner services is unacceptable.

I am so disappointed to write this update. We’ve used Three Tomatoes for 5 years running to cater parties using their previously reliable and (we thought) fantastic «to go» option. Their customer service has been outstanding in the past (see prior five star review). For our party this year, we ordered caramel popcorn, as we’ve ordered for several years running — generally a huge (if messy) hit with kids and adults alike. This year, I tore off the plastic moments before guests arrived to discover that the caramel corn was soggy and vaguely slimy. No way I could serve it, and it caused a bit of panic in my hostessy heart, which is not a great way to kick off a party. Then I turned to the mini cupcakes — we’ve ordered these for approximately 4 years running — I always send pictures from prior years to remind the pastry chef and staff what they looked like (previously — amazing — 3D fondant ghosts covering a chocolate buttercream filling, tiny hand-​piped vampire teeth and lips over dark chcocolate ganache poured over buttercream, etc). They are extraordinarily expensive at $ 2.50 per piece for a less-​than-​bite-​sized cupcake (the cake itself is average), but I’ve been willing to pay this mark-​up based on the true artistry in the decoration. This year, I found totally average, basic cupcake decoration — white buttercream, in shapes of flat ghosts and skulls with some black detail, piped pumpkins. Perfectly fine, but nowhere near the absolutely extraordinary cupcake décor we’d loved in prior years, and certainly not in keeping with the price. This is a party for all our friends with kids and I’ve had tons of compliments and inquiries from years past on the gorgeous cupcakes. Definitely not the case this year. I immediately emailed my Three Tomatoes planner to let her know the caramel corn was a total loss and that the cupcakes were far simpler than past years. To her credit, they agreed to refund the popcorn in full — apparently they were trying a new recipe, which was a failure. She emailed me and called me re: the cupcakes, but did not offer the partial refund I requested, While I appreciate the outreach, the resolution was not satisfactory. Her position was that the cupcakes they provided were beautiful and the far-​more-​fancy cupcakes they’d provided in years past were now «outdated.» I guess I didn’t realize there were major trends in Halloween cupcake decoration? I’ve been a very loyal customer for 5+ years and I really expected more from Three Tomatoes in terms of customer service and dealing with a disappointed client. Again, I am very sorry and sad to provide this update, since I have really loved their concept and food in the past. We will likely be seeking out new catering options in the future, and I am very disheartened to have to provide this negative review.

For my wedding, Three Tomatoes Catering was great to work with. They have event planners to help with all the wedding coordination and help design a menu that fits your tastes. They make delicious food and can also make beautiful wedding cakes! They are always quick to respond to emails and offer tastings so the food can be sampled before the big event.

We used Three Tomatoes for our wedding on 10/​02/​2015. We worked closely with Sarah and she could not have been a more perfect match. We told her that we were looking for a fun menu with some sort of beer flare. She selected a variety of passed apps, a Street Taco Station and a BBQ Station with beer inspired BBQ sauces. We wanted to do something out of the ordinary as far as dessert was concerned– we wanted donuts! We got a fun dessert station with different dipping sauces with Italian-​style donuts sprinkled with edible glitter! The menu could not be more spot on with our foodie lifestyle. We didn’t change a single thing to the menu she had created for us, and our guests absolutely loved it!!! Thank you so much Three Tomatoes for killing it at our wedding!!!

It was a great pleasure working with this company through the entire process of planning a wedding, however, the management team here does not know how to take negative feedback or how to compensate for it.
We had a dish served at our wedding that simply was not executed in the way it was presented to us at tasting. We realize this dish was made en mass, however, it was completely different than what we agreed to. The version we got was boring, bland, and hardly anyone ate it.
When we brought this to the attention of management, we were told «the chef says there was not a problem with the dish» and offered us 10% off the dish (roughly $ 16). Purely an insult rather than a remedy.
It was such a pleasure to work with them throughout the process that it was surprising the response to feedback was defensive and in the form of 16 bucks.

I want to thank Abby Schissler for planning and coordinating a fabulous pool party for my son’s bar mitzvah! The cowtown bbq was delicious and the staff onsite was professional, courteous, and fun! A special shoutout to Dale Gibson, Justin Wheelock, Leslie Friie and Paul Niemiec for executing Abby’s plan flawlessly!

Three Tomatoes just catered a conference I attended for three days and the food was great. The lunch boxes each had six items each day: sandwich, grain salad (my favorite), pickle, chips, dessert, and one additional item. High quality delicious sandwiches that are huge improvements over typical boxed lunches.

I used Three Tomatoes to cater my wedding at the Denver Clock Tower in April and I couldn’t have been happier with the results. Abby, our event coordinator, was excellent to work with. Starting with creating the initial menu and suggesting different options, to coordinating the rentals (e.g table linens, glassware), to suggesting décor and layout options. She is great to work with and goes out of her way to make sure you are satisfied.
Day of, all the food was presented beautifully and was placed exactly where we discussed. (If your unfamiliar with the D&F Clock Tower, there are 5 floors you have the option of using for a reception. This means food is typically spread throughout the venue as a «progressive style» of eating.) Although my husband and I weren’t able to enjoy much of the food day of, we did receive several compliments from our guests on the taste of the food.
If your looking for a catering company and an exceptional event coordinator, look no further than Abby & Three Tomatoes.

We used Three Tomatoes for our daughter’s wedding three weeks ago. They were an absolute pleasure to work with. The food was delicious, the presentation lovely, and the staff wonderfully accommodating.
Best yet was our event coordinator, Donnah Phipps. Donnah was exceptional — working with us every step of the process to ensure that all our needs and expectations were met. Donnah even helped with issues not related to catering. We were completely happy with Three Tomatoes and would recommend them without hesitation.

I am so impressed with this company and the fantastic representative Abby.
I had to find a company to cater a funeral reception in a short amount of time. I called one company and spoke to a person who promised to get back to me, and she did not. Luckily, I had called Three Toms and left a message. since my call was over a weekend. First thing Monday Abby called me and we were able to get all set up for the reception which was in less than 48 hours. The price was great, the delivery arrived on time, the food was good and because I asked for additional time, they were able to push the pick-​up time back to accommodate us.
I had a call from Abby to make sure all was ok. (it was) and a really nice sympathy note from her later .
I highly recommend this company and if you are lucky, maybe Abby will help you too.

After a long selection process, my fiancé and her mother (Jackie B.) decided to go with Three Tomatoes for our April wedding. I didn’t become involved until the tasting, which was amazing! I should also note that Abbey was great to work with. She was extremely accommodating and thought of everything. I know that the wedding and reception wouldn’t have gone so extremely well without her help. The food got nothing but rave reviews from our guests (which is rare for wedding food, in my experience). I cannot recommend them enough!

Three Tomatoes catered my daughter’s wedding reception. The food, service, rentals and coordination was great. Working with Abbey was a pleasure. We had such a beautiful evening, thanks for making it so special.

After many emails with Shannon to set up a tasting for our wedding, we were told we’d have cheese and a yummy beverage when we come in to meet with them. When we arrived, we were offered water, not that big of a deal, but not a good start to deliver on what they say they will do.
We then met with Shannon for over 2 hours to create our menu for our wedding, we were told that we’d have a proposal by the end of the week. Two weeks went by with no word, so I emailed back and she said, «So sorry, I thought I sent it, I’ll have that to you in a few days.» I never got anything. We waited again, and never heard back from this person. Literally, that was it.
I was very disappointed with the lack of communication, and they completely wasted our time. It was very unprofessional. I then got emails from another sales person a month later asking if I was still looking for a caterer, she had no idea I guess that we’d already met with someone from their team. Complete lack of communication between them, and very frustrating situation for us. I would not recommend their services… looks like this happened before with Shannon as I read below. Not ok.

Three tomatoes provided us with delicious passed hors d’oeuvres and a great dessert bar for our wedding. On the other hand, all of the food served on our dinner buffet was very disappointing. The chicken was dry and tasteless (but was moist and flavorful at our tasting), and our tortellini with vodka cream sauce (also amazingly delicious at our tasting) was horrible and had no cream in the sauce. It tasted as though cans of plain crushed tomatoes had been poured over soggy tortellini — they did not even use similar ingredients as those that were used at the tasting. Our service captain was also wonderful and attentive. However, our catering coordinator (Donnah) was very disappointing. We also hired Donnah as our day-​of coordinator, since she seemed nice, take charge, and we thought it would be an advantage that she was also our catering coordinator. She didn’t listen to many things we asked for, was rude to my mother and made an inappropriate comment to her about my mother’s battle with cancer. Donnah began snapping at us and forgetting details about two weeks prior to the wedding. She also yelled at myself, my mother and my new husband on our wedding day (in front of our guests) when she made a huge mistake when it came to the gluten free food we ordered for several celiac guests (including my mother). Donnah even charged us for an entire hour (as our day-​of coordinator) that only took half an hour. This meeting was mostly about the special needs food and nothing we discussed got accomplished. Not to mention that I went to three tomatoes for this meeting and she was on the clock there as well. Donnah and our dinner food were the only two disappointing things about our wedding. Although our day was still beautiful (thanks to many other AMAZING vendors) we wanted others to know so that educated decisions could be made when choosing their own wedding caterer and coordinator.

2012 Review #343:
A work holiday party was catered by Three Tomatoes this year. Although I understand wanting to have a holiday party at a nice venue, and bring in a caterer, I’ve never had catering food that stood up to quality restaurant food, and this was no exception.
The pluses, at least, were plentiful: the staff was excellent. They were everywhere always with food, drinks, empty trays for finished items. They sometimes took this too far; they tried, and successfully did, take a glass with about 3 oz of bourbon in it. This looks like very little liquid so they thought it was the last sip of something, and we kept trying to shield it from bussers’ hands, but they finally took it after the fourth or fifth try. Is it that rare for people to drink bourbon neat? That was the only negative to the staff, honestly they really made the experience very nice.
Most of the food was good, though the passed hors d’oeuvres were the best. The lamb sliders were just like little gyros, the duck and rice cakes had nice texture and weren’t dry, the polenta was pretty good though sort of plain, and the deviled quail egg was the perfect bite. The shrimp were worth passing on, so one employee just kept wandering around with a half-​eaten plate of shrimp for over 10 minutes, which was a little weird. The «main course» food was mixed; the chopped chicken salad served in chinese to-​go boxes was cute and packed a good punch of spice. My friend said the deconstructed beef wellington was good, and the «Flatbreads» though made on puff pastry, were good, along with the crab cakes. But, all of the last three items were ice cold. Beef wellington should not be cold. There was a sushi station, but it was all premade and the combinations, save a california roll that in no way resembled a California roll, were very odd. The rice wasn’t very fresh either, and after people had eaten most of the offerings we realized the sushi as presented on a glass table. No plates, so the sushi was just on the table, which again, was really weird. There were several dumpling offerings, but they, along with the sushi, were not labeled very well so it was impossible to distinguish the vegetarian offerings. The dumpling flavors were good, though the vegetarian dumplings had the texture of ground meat, which was off-​putting. But, the dumplings had absolutely no sear on the bottom, and as such, fell apart due to all the steam.
Luckily, the staff again was awesome and kept the beverages flowing so no one seemed to mind. THe only real plus on food was the dessert sauces; there was a salted caramel that accompanied some overly-​sugared donut holes, but that salted caramel sauce was divine. Actually salty, very interesting and helped with the sugary donuts. I wouldn’t shy away from this caterer but i would make sure prices are on the low side if I considered them for an event.

Wow — really, really disappointed in this company. Non-​communicative, unresponsive, and NOT getting our business.
My fiancé and I contacted this company at the recommendation of our venue and others, and at first, I was pleased by the professionalism of Shannon. She took the time to call me and talk at length with me about what we were looking for in our wedding reception and what type of menu we wanted to offer our guests. Before we hung up, she read back the items we had talked about, including our budget. About a week later, we received a proposal that was: (1) way over budget, (2) included much more food than we discussed, and (3) included both some unimaginative dishes and some yummy dishes. After my fiancé and I reviewed the proposal, I emailed Shannon with some questions and a request to change a couple of things about the menu… very low maintenance, easy fixes. Shannon responded that she was busy that day but would reply to our questions by the following evening and get a revised proposal to us within a few days.
Then…crickets. We never heard another peep out of her or Three Tomatoes. Ever.
She never answered our questions and never sent another proposal. Two weeks later, I called and left a message for Shannon. Then, not knowing if email was a better way to reach her, I immediately followed up with an email asking if she had any questions or needed any additional information from us in order to pull together the revised proposal. CRICKETS. Never responded to my email or my voice mail. That was over a month ago.
I guess this company gets enough business that they do not care about repelling potential clients, unless they have an unlimited budget. I am very disappointed and plan to pass along our experience to anyone looking for a wedding caterer, as well as my venue, who recommended the company. There are too many options out there to deal with crappy customer service.

Our company has tried a few caterers and I have to say that Three Tomatoes has the most flavorful food. They also have an extensive menu. From their Beef Roulade to their baked Brie, everything tastes good. I’m craving their the spinach, cranberry and roasted pumpkin seed salad as we speak.
Delivery has always been prompt for us and the staff are very personable. Love the way they present their food. I’m looking forward to the next time we order from them.