12th Street Catering

12^th Street catered a fundraiser at the Center for Architecture, and we were incredibly happy with them. Though our first contact was relatively unresponsive, Mark at 12^th Street was very accommodating and did whatever he could to make sure our event happened within our budget. He provided expert suggestions for the menu, working with our expectations and requests. We opted for full dinner with two entrees and two sides: grilled chicken, tortellini, roasted veggies, and potato fingerlings. We heard over and over that the food was excellent. There were several trays of food left over, and the staff kindly packed it up for us to take home or distribute amongst volunteers. The staff was very professional and the lead server checked in with us regularly throughout the night. Would definitely use them in the future.

Last night Michelle and her team gave me the best gift for my 50^th birthday party — an INSANE evening. My guests can’t stop raving about the food, drinks and service. I dont have enough kind things to say about Michele — she made my night so special. Michele is more than a caterer — she took care of everything!!! The room looked amazing.
She even let me bring my own alcohol. When she thought we might run out of Vodka, she actually ran out to get more. Seriously — the food stands on its own — unique and delicious. But she is the total package.

12^st catered our wedding of 250 this past June. Genna was incredible. So on point and easy to work with. Food was delicious, certainly a highlight of the wedding. Two words: polenta stack. Two more: Greek quesadilla. One more: sliders. Staff was very courteous and professional. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience. We also looked at a few other places early on and this was by far the most reasonably priced.

Michele and her staff are amazing. Extremely professional, friendly and helpful. Our guests absolutely loved the food and the presentation. If I could rate more than 5 stars, I would. Thank you, Michele, for making our wedding perfect! Love, Carrie and Anthony

As an event planner, I have worked with 12^th Street Catering over 14 years. My organization rents out facilities for weddings, cocktail receptions, fundraisers and conferences in Center City, Philadelphia. I have a strong level of trust with 12^th Street in that I know the event will be perfect: excellent food, exceptional presentation, professional staff and creative décor. The owner, Michele, is very accommodating and pleasant to work with — she goes above and beyond the requirements of the event with large portions of food that are beautifully displayed and even adds additional items to the buffet to fill out the presentations. Guests always rave about the delicious and creative food selections offered. Michele and her staff are very good at planning the layout and timing of events and I trust their judgement to have the evening flow well, including the staff needed to set-​up, serve and clean-​up. Michele works within our budget and consistently delivers fine food and stunning events. When I work with 12^th Street I know the catering will be flawless so I can spend my time focusing on the other details of the event.

Used them for a 70^th birthday party held at the Hamilton Family Center of the Arden theatre. Food very good, service excellent, staff extremely accommodating. Priced very reasonably. Allowed me to bring my own Fruit salad, crudités, wine, and beer so I could save money, and then took care of all of it for me.
Will use them again.

I could not thank Michele and her team at 12^th St. enough for providing our guests with fabulous service at our event. Attendees could not say enough about how helpful the staff was and how delicious the food and beverages were — we even had people posting photos of the food on social media throughout the day.
Everything from helping me conceptualize our layout, creating a signature cocktail, choosing linens and on-​site execution was flawless. I’m looking forward to working with 12^th Street Catering again in the future!

12^th Street Catering just catered a large party at my new apartment. From the moment I began the discussion about the event with Michelle Leff, it was a great experience. Her positive energy and expertise regarding what works in any situation, made me confident from the start that my party would be perfect. She took care of the flowers, all displays and linens. The flowers selected were a work of art. She also surprised me by putting my business logo on all the card label that identified the food.
Job well done! It is rare that that I am TOTALLY happy with anything, but the food, service, atmosphere created could not have been better. The crew worked together seamlessly and unobtrusively, filling food, clearing plates and glasses, and being helpful but not in the way. I felt totally taken care of, and stress free. They did a wonderful job cleaning up as well. I could not have been more pleased in any way and would recommend 12^th Street for any event if you want great food, great atmosphere created, great service and all done with a smile. I will definitely be using them again at my future events.

We had a company holiday party which included a cocktail hour, hors d’oeuvres and buffet dinner for over 30 people. The food was excellent and the service of the staff impeccable — friendly, helpful, professional and to a person, a pleasure to work with. Extremely happy with the results and highly recommend them.

We use 12^th Street Catering for business breakfasts and lunches at my office. They are very nice and have a lot of good foods. They have gluten free and vegan, vegetarian options. The presentation is very clean and professional. We are suppose to have net 30 days terms but, the person from their AP office was calling before the 30 days to get the money for this two day business meeting. I happened to be on vacation and paid the moment I came back. Otherwise, they are easy to work with and mostly on time with deliveries.

I went to a wedding catered by 12^th street yesterday. there were serious pros and cons. pros being that they went completely out of their way to make vegan options. especially great considering the two brides were not even vegan! they did smart things like make pasta and put the cheese AND nuts on the side, they labeled EVERYTHING for allergies, and all the caterers had a great smile and terrific attitude. The highlights for me were: 1) The fruit they brought was extremely high quality, you can tell someone went to great lengths to choose the berries. and 2) the roasted veggies were artfully done and displayed beautifully. the chef chose the most perfect asparagus and roasted the eggplants amazingly. All the other guests RAVED about the omelet station and the non-​vegan food i didn’t try. They did a great brunch and the presentation was on par with the quality. You could tell that CARE and THOUGHT was put into the food.
i had to take stars off because they actually FORGOT to bring the plates. it caused a little bit of an uproar and really *really* stressed the brides out on their special day. i mean all of us attending the wedding didn’t care that we had to wait for the food, it just pained me to see the brides and their mothers running around stressed out and apologizing to everyone…

I’ve had this catering company a lot of times as part of business lunches, and every time it’s been great. The first time I had it, I had a sandwich and it was so good I had to ask where they got the food from.
Today, I had the veggie wrap and it was so good I had to review. When was the last time you could taste mushrooms and individual veggies in a plain-​old, bland catered lunch?! This place is really good if you need to cater an event (from your attendee’s perspective), bottom line.

12^th Street Catering (actually, it’s official 12 Street Catering) catered my rehearsal dinner and my wedding reception in June. They were fantastic. Let me count the ways. From the very first meeting, they understood what we wanted. We wanted to do a lot of things DIY — the reception was in my parents’ backyard — and they were completely on board. They didn’t ever push us to spend more money and they explained why we should want to spend money on certain things — like servers (they were right!). They met with the people at our rehearsal dinner site (we don’t live in Philly, so it was great that they made those connections without us) to discuss what needed to be done and to get permission to cater there. They were open to our menu selections and never made us feel like our taste was questionable.
They were fantastic at getting us to think through what we needed to consider (everything from the moment the guests arrive). At the walk through at my parents’, they helped us realize what we needed to do and they surprised us by being willing to do things that we thought we’d need to get our friends to do. And they did it too! When my parents’ arrived from the ceremony, the servers wanted to be given more to do and they helped set up our origami paper lights and other decorations that we thought were not their responsibility but we were pleased that they were willing to do it.
They took the menu cards that I had made and used the same font and graphics to make cards for the buffet showing what each dish was, creating a sense of continuity through all the things we printed ourselves and making our DIY stuff look much more professional. I had one conversation with one caterer at the reception, and other than that, they didn’t need direction from us. My parents were really happy with them, too. They came on the Monday after the wedding to pick up things they had to leave.
Also, the food was fantastic at both events — a fish and a meat for each dinner and amazing vegetables and macaroni and cheese sides! We got so many compliments on how good it was.
But the thing that makes a caterer deserving of a five is that even when there was an error in the numbers that we thought originated with them, they admitted it and swallowed the cost of correcting it. I don’t think they make errors often because they are obviously seriously professional, but their willingness to take care of it themselves gave us every faith and confidence that we were in good hands and so made the whole weekend just magnificent.

Without a doubt the number one catering company in the Philadelphia area. Would (and have) recommend time and time again!

Yesterday was my 50^th birthday. I wanted to have a special Fiesta with great food but I didn’t want to cook it myself, even though I’m a really good Italian girl who has learned to make delicious Mexican food. I am so glad I was referred to 12^th St. Catering! Genna Viozzi helped me select the food for my party and this really nice man Terry delivered it to my house and set up the buffet for me. I ordered the tequilla lime flank steak, and chicken breast stuffed with spinach and roasted peppers in a delicious spicy tomato-​y sauce. It came with Mexican rice, hand made tortillas, guacamole, freshly made tomato salsa, seasonal roasted vegetables, tortilla chips, biodegradable plates and cutlery and even napkins! Oh my God, and the beautiful green salad with jicama, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, queso fresca and cilantro lime dressing. The food was abundant, beautiful to look at, absolutely delicious and pleasing in every way!
12^th Street Catering exceeded my expectations! I would highly recommend them to cater your next Fiesta!