Birchtree Catering

Birchtree recently catered my wedding at The Powerplant and it was amazing! The planning process was made easy with help from chef Rasa and our coordinator, Annie. When you work with Birchtree, you aren’t picking from some list of limited or formulaic package deals. I felt like the possibilities were endless!
We had so many options and choices with our food and everything was so customizable. Everything from our cocktail hour (a mix of passed appetizers + a cheese board) to our signature cocktails to our family style dinner was great. There was lots of food and it was quality as well as quantity. Birchtree sources from local farms and everything they use is in season. Sustainable & local aren’t just buzzwords. It’s nice to know that you are helping to support local farms and businesses and all produce used is in season for the best flavor. Birchtree also supplies a very helpful bar buying guide and made specific recommendations which came in VERY helpful, especially when it came to knowing which specific wines would go well with the food they were serving. They can also do special meals for those kind of annoying vegan/​gluten-​free/​allergic-​to-​everything friends who can’t just eat normal food.
Getting a wedding coordinator as part of the package deal was extremely helpful. Annie coordinated walk-​throughs with the venue, was in touch with our vendors and kept us on-​deadline.

If you get to have a Birchtree experience consider yourself lucky. Such a talented and passionate group whose execution is spot on. We had them caterer our wedding which was outside in a tent and 185 people and it was seamless. I am still getting rave reviews about the food. The whole team is so easy to work with and Rasa’s calm demeanor is helpful as you go through the crazy wedding planning process. Annie was on top of everything making sure it was done from before the wedding to being a great day of coordinator. Allegra and Jaime worked really hard executing everything on the day. I couldn’t ask for a better team of women to make the day go smooth and the food to be top notch! We are so happy they could be a part of our day and we can’t recommend them enough.

we used birchtree to cater and put together our wedding reception this past weekend at the magic gardens. we looked high and low for a company that would be able to offer fantastic food while also providing rental and décor services. birtchtree did it all. we had an unforgettable event and our guests are still raving about the food and the party.
the staff at birchtree– allegra, chef rasa, annie, jenna, paige are kind, gracious, accommodating, and thoughtful. they pay attention to the details so you don’t have to worry at the last minute.
we could not be happier about the services that birchtree provided. the vision we had for our party– elegant, colorful but low key with amazing food– was brought to fruition 10-​fold. please use them for your parties and weddings and everything else in between!

Just went to my first Supper club and will definitely be going back. The venue and the food were paired so perfectly, the band was playing some amazing ambient jams and everything was so delicious. Every course was amazing and featured locally sourced ingredients. All that and a few glasses of wine leads to a super cool, great time. Rasa and the Birchtree gang were all awesome! Highly recommend that everybody check one of these events out

The team at Birchtree was absolutely amazing. We couldn’t have picked a better vendor to cater our wedding. They made my wedding day flawless and I didn’t have to worry about a single thing. Their team took care of everything.
The food was spectacular! All of our guests were very impressed with the apps, plated dinners and various other snacks that were provided throughout the night. People were raving about the food for days.
The staff is very personable and accommodating. They went far beyond the expectations I had from the start. I highly recommend them.

I had the lovely privilege to attend a Birchtree event and it was ALL worth it.
Allegra and Rasa are personable, attentive, and experts at what they do. They do a superb job from start to finish and with great detail!
Rasa is a genius. Period. She has a great way of explaining each and every dish that was being presented for you to devour. It’s innovative, it’s unique, and it was made for me. Well maybe not specifically for me, but I know I never had it any where else! They use all fresh produce/​meats and they pride themselves with sustainable ingredients from the area. What more can you say about an excellent caterer?
I would definitely book them for any upcoming events to caterer, hands down. It would convert any non-​foodies in a heartbeat. Come willing, come all and love Birchtree!

Birchtree catered our wedding on September 6^th. My husband and I wanted a low-​key, fun and romantic party for our 65 guests. We are mid-​40s New Yorkers, and were initially not considering even marrying, but when we made the decision, we knew we wanted to make it our own. I was specific with Rasa and Jenna about food choice (French Provencal) and some of the basic décor concepts, and they really added to my idea with enthusiasm and professionalism. These guys made bangin’ appetizers and entrees that I am still hearing about from the guests. We chose pies for dessert and my only regret is that I was «brideing around» too much to try a piece. The party was beautiful and fun. I give these guys extra points for their patience and amazing attitudes. We had a unique scenario in which we married on Peter’s parents’ Colonial farmland property and it rained and stormed that night. I don’t even think the guests noticed. It was THAT fun of a party. Even though we live in NYC I am thinking of grabbing some of our buddies and coming to some of their Supper parties. Don’t even bother looking for another caterer. Love you gals!

What can I say about this amazing company! We picked them for my stepdaughter’s wedding and they really delivered! So accommodating and attentive to detail-​very easy to work with! Very professional and experienced owners! Wait staff that works with them was awesome! They even were willing to purchase the tomatoes for the salad from my stepdaughter’s CSA. They take the stress out of wedding planning!

These folks do it all. I have now been to three Birchtree catered events. The food is always spectacular.
They made some kind of white bean purée that was to die for. I need that recipe! Also the braised lamb shank. Falling off the bone and herbacious.
They also do wedding decorations that are whimsical and elegant.
Why mess around? Go for the best. Hire Birchtree for your next event!

I love when clients tell me they are bringing in Birchtree Catering for their events. It means the client will have a great experience and that our venue will be well cared for. Jenna, Allegra, and Rasa are wonderful to work with– very friendly and professional.
Birchtree pops up in my conversations with other venues, vendors, and chefs across the city. I am not alone in being impressed with their involvement in the community, their sustainability goals, and [obviously] their excellent food. Especially with wedding-​planning: Birchtree strikes me as being completely up-​to-​date on what couples want while making each event creative and unique.
I’m sure they can craft many impressive party styles, but their vintage chic style is straight-​out-​of-​Pinterest perfection, and it fits our natural/​historic setting so well. They are on our preferred caterer list, and I enthusiastically recommend them to anyone planning an event here.
— Branda, Facilities Coordinator at Awbury Arboretum

Women owned business, featuring seasonal menus & sustainable event catering, yes! Chef Rasa and event planner Jenna were always quick to respond to emails and calls. While I ultimately decided to go with another company, Birchtree scored solid points in my book.
Tech savvy — with Pinterest pages and lots of beautiful pictures to share — Birchtree puts its best foot forward. In calls Rasa was friendly and professional, going through our proposal and menu point by point.
The buffet style option was the most cost effective at Birchtree, and while competitive with other caterers when it came to per person costs, it wasn’t the style of service I wanted for my wedding.
Based on my limited experience dealing with Birchtree I’d highly recommend reaching out to them. Maybe next time (err, um, special event, not wedding)!

We just had Birchtree Catering do our wedding extravaganza last weekend at my summer camp in the Pocono Mts & we don’t have the words to truly express how amazing they were. From the moment I called them I knew I was in the hands of awesome, hip, smart, loving and creative people. Jenna literally made my wedding pinterest board COME TO LIFE. Even at our tasting she had set up my mini wedding for me and Chef Rasa’s food blew us all away. Every morsel was exsquisite!!! The attention to detail, thought & care they put into everytyhing they do is absolutely unparalleled. On our wedding day, they pulled of an absolutely enchanting vision and paired it with a feast !!! Jenna understood exactly what I was going for and made it happen times a million. The compliments we received on the décor and food are too many to count !!! Everyone, even my friends who are planners and chefs themselves, were completely IN AWE of Birchtree’s work and salivating over Chef Rasa’s food. Ummm bacon cups with molasses beans? I’ll have 10 !! (I think I did) Everyone was fabulous & about a dozen guests couldn’t stop saying ‘It looks like Wes Anderson directed this wedding!!!’ which is excatly what I wanted :). ~~ NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS BETTER THAN BIRCHTREE CATERING!!! Jenna, Chef Rasa & Allegra … Bravo to you all … we are forever in debt to you and are honored to now call you friends. To many happily ever afters to come,
Maria & Terry Latham

What else can I say about this catering company (run by fabulous team of women) that has not already been said. They were truly, truly dream caterers for our rustic elegant garden wedding. Chef Rasa was a delight to work with from the start. She honors your ideas and preferences and churns up food items that are whimsical, sophisticated, and delightful. Her culinary talent impressed many fussy eaters at our wedding. She is the kind of hardworking and talented chef that every bride and groom wishes to have by their side. Her responsiveness, communication, and experience with global food resulted in a delicious family style dinner which everyone is still raving about. Jenna was critical in executing the rustic– elegant décor ideas we had for our wedding… bringing in her own experience and thoughts to tie in the whole look. Together, Allegra, Chef Rasa, and Jenna delivered what we had envisioned for our most important day. They are professional and passionate about what they do. Book them for your wedding and watch 80% of your wedding stress vanish into thin air. For the other 20% you will need an excellent maid-​of-​honor and some really good quality Belgium chocolates ;)

We picked Birchtree to cater our wedding because they were the only caterer whose sample menus made us drool. We ended up with a fun, family-​style meal (with so many compliments that evening!) and it was easy to work with chef Rasa to fit in some of our special requests.
In addition to the incredible food, Jenna and Allegra’s organizing & coordinating experience (rentals, timing, etc. their team even set up lots of our decorations and brought bug spray for our outdoor location, and completely cleaned up our site afterwards) were key. They made the day run so smoothly and we actually had time to kick back and enjoy our wedding reception!
If you’re reading this review, you’re probably just starting to choose sites, caterers, etc. Just know that producing a full-​blown meal in a warehouse or the woods costs a lot. A restaurant reception (where staff fees, rentals, etc. are all included) or food trucks (ditto with those paper places) are 2 options to save significant dollars. But if you choose to go with caterers, we can’t recommend Birchtree enough.

Birchtree seriously made our wedding amazing. When we were first looking for venues and caterers, the venues kept telling us that Birchtree would execute our vision perfectly. And they were all right! I’m not sure how I can explain how great they are to work with, but I’m gonna try.
The food was literally a life changing experience. After having Rasa’s (the head chef) Gazpacho, my wife claims she can never have another. It ruined all lesser Gazpachos! Also, the mushroom seitan sliders opened a whole new world for me. I had no idea what seitan was before our tasting, but now I’m hooked!
And Jenna did a fantastic job with the decorations. Seriously, it looked exactly like we wanted it to. We made our own favors (my wife made jam, and I made biscotti), and Jenna created the cutest presentation for them.
I could go on and on about how great they were, but that would get boring. Planning a wedding is supposed to be extremely stressful, but Birchtree really did make it easy on us. And on our day, they were all there making sure everything went right. And it did!
Thanks ladies, we loved everything!

One of our few encounters with perfection.
To begin with, our daughter, the reason for this essay, is easy to please as long as things are done her way. That is to say, she is somewhat idiosyncratic but simultaneously afraid of committing a faux-​pas that would be devastating in the presence of her friends but completely undetectable to us. Her fiancé was equally challenging.
Not to worry as Rasa, Allegra, and Jenna were prepared for the challenge.
The theme was bicycle-​driven, the food was American Southern and, despite temperatures in the 90s, the party was a grand success.
The Birchtrees arranged for everything and delivered on time, with great skill, and displayed Solomonic wisdom during the planning and the doing.
Dinner for 50 was served at dusk under a tent in our (small) back yard, illuminated with tiny light bulbs suspended between fabric pennants. The effect was magical.
The setup took place on time and the cleanup went flawlessly.
We have a bachelor son and look forward to a repeat experience, a although hopefully on someonelses’s dime.

Birchtree made our wedding an incredible experience for all. They were a pleasure to work with, had an amazing eye for design, made a mean cocktail and best of all — cooked up a delicious menu!
We had several people tell us that they’ve never had such fresh and tasty wedding food. Our menu was Pescetarian, and they didn’t bat an eye coming up delicious with options for all guests.
Best of all, they put my wife’s mind at-​ease, knowing that the wedding of her dreams/​designs would be perfectly executed. They kept the wedding moving like clockwork the day of. We highly recommend Birchtree!

Birchtree Catering’s team of planners, designers & chef worked seamlessly to create a perfect feast for my wedding. They were attentive, creative & extremely professional, yet touchingly personal; Birchtree Catering was invested in producing beautiful results. My wedding bliss was heightened by the fantastic, local «Farmer’s Table», which featured a spread of cheeses, mustards, butters (cauliflower butter!), pickles & smoked meats. How many brides can regale the fromage accoutrements? Thank you Birchtree, our wedding was unforgettable!

Booking Birchtree Catering was a no brainer decision right from the start! I read perfect reviews of their company on Weddingwire, then took one look at their website and it was obvious they had style and creativity, and the food looked amazing. (and, after our Oct 6^th wedding, I can fully attest that it is.)
From the start, Rasa and Allegra were extremely quick to respond to all emails. After we met and had our tasting, I felt like I’d known them for a long time! They’re so personable and down to earth. My fiancé and I were all smiles and happy palates after trying their food and we decided to hire them for our wedding on the spot, even though we didn’t meet with or talk to any other caterers. When you know it’s right, it’s right!
Working on the Menu with Rasa was also fun and I learned a lot about seasonal foods. She has so many good ideas and is very flexible as well. We had the happy realization that we both loved perogies and both had family recipes passed down through generations. When we got to try her *delicious* perogies, they were just like my gramam’s! This kind of unique touch is what sets Rasa and Birchtree apart.
Deciding on the rentals with Allegra, and working out the other details, was also painless and easy. They really know what they’re talking about in all things wedding! From the food to the table clothes.
As for the day of– I had NO stress over any details because everything was taken care of by Rasa and her very helpful and kind coordinator, Jason. They even set up some decorations that we didn’t have time to arrange, and I couldn’t have done it better myself. They also had creative ideas we hadn’t thought of.
I had high expectations for the food, and they were exceeded. :) Many people told me how it was so unique and «not typical wedding food» which is exactly what we wanted. Others said it was the best food they’d had at a wedding. Trying to be objective, I have to completely agree.
Anywho– book Birchtree. It will be your best wedding planning decision!
Thanks again, Rasa, Allegra, Jason, and Jenna!
Beth

Right from the beginning we knew we had found the right caterer in Birchtree. After interviewing several popular Philadelphia area caterers it was refreshing to meet Rasa and Jenna (and later Allegra) — they got our aesthetic right from the start. Both were open and encouraging of our own ideas and had great suggestions that highlighted their expertise and professionalism.
We had several vendors that we chose to work with (a BBQ smoker to complement Birchtree’s entrée options and an ice cream cart for dessert) and Birchtree did a great job not only running point but also bringing everyone together.
Throughout the whole process Birchtree was supportive and flexible — allowing us to DIY aspects to save money and explore our creative vision. Also, email communication was excellent, we always had a reply to any question within a few hours.
We were also pleased with assistance offered to style aspects of the event… pricing out vintage benches and furniture, sourcing butcher paper runners and staking and hanging gorgeous globe string lights.
This was all in addition to the delicious beautiful and local and seasonal food and cocktails Chef Rasa creates. The day of food really was just as good as the tasting. A significant number of our guests have told us it was the best meal they have ever had at a wedding! …and we were happy to give them a taste of some of the great local food from our area.
The actual event was truly magical and executed perfectly… the day of staff was great. I will never hesitate to recommend Birchtree to anyone planning an event, truly a pleasure to work with. Everyone deserves ten stars but Unilocal only lets us give 5:)
— Liz & Joe