Chowgirls

My fiancé and I chose Chowgirls as our caterer for our October wedding and couldn’t be happier! We wanted to do a buffet style but also decided to have salad and bread on the tables so people wouldn’t get too hungry while waiting for their table to be dismissed. We chose some seasonal fall dishes as our mains that were warm comfort food dishes and less traditional than most weddings. Chowgirls food is not only delicious but creative, they worked with us to accommodate food allergies so easily!
Kari was wonderful to work with and made the process fun and easy from start to finish including making last minute adjustments as we got closer to the day. Not only did she make sure to ask all the right questions at our first and second food tasting (all the food was so good it was hard to decide!), she followed up with questions that we hadn’t thought about yet. The days leading up to the wedding were hectic and having Chowgirls professional staff there made our buffet run smoothly and the food turned out perfectly! Although we didn’t have a cake (we chose pumpkin and apple pie) and didn’t want to do a traditional «cake cutting» they turned one of the pumpkin pies into a «Bride and Groom» pumpkin pie that was beautiful, all of the little things like this add up. I can’t say enough how glad we are with our decision to trust Chowgirls with our big day! Thank you!

Chowgirls is the best in the business! We worked with Leah over the better part of a year to plan our wedding. She could not have been more amazing — patient, creative, easy to get a hold of, fun, and so cool. Leah immediately understood our vision and worked hard to bring it to life. The food and bar was the HIGHLIGHT of the wedding. People have been raving about it ever since. If you want to have extremely high quality food, service, and overall experience BOOK CHOWGIRLS! WE LOVE YOU, LEAH!!!

We had Chowgirls cater our wedding on October 3 and it was the best! From our very first meeting to the actual event Meghan les is in the right direction. She made us feel confident about our venue choice and ensures us we would love it there! She was right! She also welcomed some of our family to the tasting and made great recommendations. She was very open to our ideas and woul suggest ways we could improve on those ideas. Always so quick to respond to emails.
The entire team nailed it on our wedding day. Everything went as planned and the compliments about the food still roll in! Many guests raved, «the best wedding food ever!» Thank you to the ENTIRE team, you were all so great to work with. Thanks to Meghan, we loved everything!
Geoff and Amy

We used Chowgirls for our son’s backyard wedding in June. We had never done a large, catered party before so this was nervewracking. From the beginning, the people at Chowgirls were easy to work with and very reassuring for us. The tasting session was fun, and it was easy for the newlyweds to pick out great meals. Meat, chicken, and veggie entrees, along with assorted appetizers and pie-​bar for dessert all worked great. The food was better than most restaurants and did not taste like mass produced meals. They staged the food prep in our garage, and table service was flawless, as was clean-​up. All in all, we are super pleased and would use them again if the need arises.

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Epicurean delight with a great staff that goes the extra mile .
Stephen Sugarman
Gallery13
Art and Events Space

Amazing, amazing, amazing! Service, quality, and flexibility could not be beat!
Chowgirls made planning a wedding remotely so much easier.
The food: We requested many items from the menu, as well as a few tweaks to make our vision of a gourmet mini burger bar come together. They whipped up the most amazing versions of the burger combos we had in mind — 2 different themes and one classic. We also had roasted veggies, a salad, and tater tots. Guests flipped (pun intended) over the burgers, and I ate 3 myself (the bride!). The presentation of both appetizers and dinner buffet were beautiful. They give you the perfect combination of creativity and high quality food.
The service: Megan and her team were a pleasure to work with. They travelled 2 hours outside Minneapolis for this wedding, and made the smaller kitchen work easily. She accommodated a vegan guest, and brought us (bride and groom) a second round of burgers just in case we didn’t have a chance to get more. Everyone loved their bartender as well — extremely friendly guy.
I would highly recommend Chowgirls Killer Catering for any event. Thank you for making our wedding that much more amazing!

They catered a party for some wonderful friends of ours. There were 100+ guest. The food was great, but the buffet line was poorly planned. Only a single food line. So an B+ for food. An F for planning. These guys are pros and should have advised our friends that this was not a good idea. We did not actually sit down to eat until well after 9:30 which can turn some exceptionally delightful people into bears. I saw it happen. I was one of them.

Color me impressed with an operation like Chowgirls, and on my first trip to Minnesota no less! They came to cater my friend’s graduation party and were a class act from start to finish — from the very start, even, since I got the down low from my friend who worked with them.
The woman who helped her to set up the day was professional, kind and helpful, and crafted a menu with all of the different dietary needs of our group with care and creativity. The meal they arrived at was not readily identifiable as largely vegan or gluten free, but filled both of those needs in spades.
I think my friend may have over-​ordered, which was fine by us, since we got to sample (at the start) and (eventually) stuff our faces with delicacies such as grilled veggies with spiced aioli, red curry with seasoned rice, perfectly grilled chicken and beef skewers, polenta cakes with goat cheese and mushroom pâté on crostini. Everything I tried was perfect, and I kept going back for more.
And Chowgirls made it easy by coming to do set up before the party and arriving the next day to collect all of the dishes (we didn’t even have to wash them!) All in all, a fantastic job. I’d recommend them to anyone hosting an event in the area. Top notch, for sure.

Chowgirls is by far the best catering crew I have ever come across! They are friendly, considerate, accommodating, and just plain wonderful. Plus their food is amazing. I wouldn’t use any other catering company in Mpls.

Phenomenal food and wonderful staff! After our taste testing for our wedding we wanted so badly to hire them. However, the price was a bit to high for our backyard wedding budget. It was very hard to make the decision to look for another caterer. I love every wedding I’ve been to with Chowgirls catering. They truly do an amazing job!

Having been thoroughly wowed with The Nick and Elise S. Wedding, I had made a note that I wanted Chowgirls for my Wedding someday.
Turns out, that’s exactly what I got. It was difficult finding the perfect place they were allowed to serve at, but after settling that detail, the rest was a breeze.
I started emailing them about 2 weeks after my engagement and they were always willing to chat and change ideas. We wanted a Crêpe Bar, and Chowgirls had never done something quite like that. But after discussions, tastings, more discussions, and independent epiphanies on both sides, we came up with the perfect arrangement.
Throughout the process, Leah was always willing to help plan, change plans, remind us, warn us, etc. about the decisions we were making. As this was the first party either of us had held for 125ish people, it was quite welcome.
It is a local and organic caterer, so you have to be mindful of that– but as it was such good food and a good ethos, I had no problem paying for something that I wanted as opposed to the lame, sears-​wedding fair of meat, potatoes, and green beans.
The food was a big hit and I still have been getting complements on the rumaki and the crepes. Fantastic.

We did end up getting in touch with Chowgirls, just before we almost gave up. It sounds like perhaps there were some wires crossed, but who knows. We had a great tasting, and the food was delicious and interesting and right up our alley. We really liked Maari and had a good experience with her. In the end, we decided to go with Brasa, who we felt was more fun and fit into our budget better. But I do have a friend who’s booked them for her wedding this summer, and I look forward to eating their food at that!

I have been to a couple of events these ladies have catered, and it is always delicious!

Part of my job is to assemble the various pieces needed for rockin’ parties from time to time. When my boss said she wanted a caterer for her family’s birthday party, the Chowgirls immediately sprung to mind.
For such a last minute request, the Chowgirls were total pros from start to finish. Caitlin put together a tasty menu, rented dishes and linens, and even had a driver available to set up and tear down — on the holiday this past Monday.
Seriously, you need your event catered, you call the Chowgirls. You won’t be disappointed.

Chowgirls you have ruined me for the ordinary! I only wish they could cater my everyday life. I’ve been to two events catered by Chowgirls and confess I mostly looked forward to going because of the food.
Everything they use is eco friendly, reasonably priced, & they compost everything that would be thrown out.
They have a large menu to choose from including fresh squeezed limeade, smoked salmon, Indian curry, and cheesecake (which obviously don’t go together unless you’re pregnant)
I only wish they would open a restaurant.

FANTASTIC! My fiancé (now husband) googled MN caterers and came across Chowgirls. He was curious based on their logo. After meeting with them and having a tasting, we chose Chowgirls immediately for our wedding. We didn’t even bother with anyone else… they were so wonderful… we didn’t find it necessary to get any other catering estimate. The options they provided us were simple, yet so tasty. I loved that they were organic and local. We definitely wanted good food for our small, intimate (80ish guests) wedding. They were very professional. Many of our guests complimented us on our caterer — the food was amazing! We had extra food, not a lot, but enough that our friends and I ate it the next day and it was just as tasty as on the wedding day. We would highly recommend them to anyone… for weddings, special occasions, office parties, etc.

There have been at least 4 or five events that i went to where chowgirls was catering, and I look forward to it everytime. They have great little appetizers and sanwhiches, and they use all eco friendly products including napkins cups and utencils. And they compost!

Upon deciding to get married, most reasonable people would probably start thinking about a venue. My wife and I (both gourmands through and through) started with the catering, and for us there was really no other choice but Chowgirls.
Throughout the process, Heidi and the rest of the Chowgirls gang were absolutely wonderful to deal with. Their menu was extensive and varied, with a strong emphasis on local and organic ingredients but otherwise encompassing everything from shepherd’s pie to spring rolls. They were willing (nay, enthusiastic) about tweaking dishes or trying to whip something up that they hadn’t before. They were also full of great suggestions on venues, glassware, and all those other wedding details that we had no clue about.
At the reception itself, our guests raved about the food and service. We did a cocktail style reception and they did a great job of setting up little stations all around the venue and occasionally taking a big plate of something around to people. They even packed up all of our leftovers!
Whether you’re catering a reception or something smaller (we had them do an office lunch once with equally delicious results), I can’t recommend Chowgirls enough.

Chowgirls (Heidi) catered our recent farm wedding, and it was phenomenal. Seriously – the food was SO good that even those relatives who were probably eager to roll their eyes at our «local, organic» fare, couldn’t stop talking about the food. It was excellent, and it looked beautiful too. It couldn’t have been easy to negotiate our whole set-​up– since we had hired a couple local waiters that they didn’t know in advance, and the farm kitchen was probably a little rustic – but it was no match for these guys.
The ONLY problem we had, which I didn’t learn about until later, is that we ran out of the chicken and salmon selections before the last few tables had gone. I felt bad knowing that– obviously it’s a major party foul. But Chowgirls has encouraged me to call them to work something out (discount?) – we’ll see how it goes. And I’m sure they’ll adjust their food/​people ratio so that it doesn’t happen again.

We had these folks cater our all-​vegan wedding reception. They did a fabulous job! A large majority of our guests are omnivores but they had uniformly terrific things to say about the Chowgirls’ dishes. Note that the Chowgirls do offer meaty catering as well, but they were very helpful with our meal planning, and had lots of creative suggestions. The price was right too. We didn’t have them fully staff our reception but they were prompt in delivery and setup.