Mintahoe Catering & Events

I was very pleased with Steve and Mintahoe Catering. Excellent service and easy to work with. I appreciated how Steve worked with me to plan a great event that fit our budget.

Julie was fast and efficient with the decision making and ordering for my event.
The food was great — I loved that they came and set up timely before event.
Very professional and quality of service from start to finish REMARKABLE!!!
I will use Julie and Team for all my catering needs.

I have continued using Mintahoe Catering for all of our events, retirement parties and quarterly lunches and meetings for the last six years. Every time I order from them we order something different. I will always give them a 5 star rating. From the people I talk to as far as ordering, to the setting up all of the food, the food itself, they make everything so easy for me. The food is always fabulous! The delivery drivers are always so professional and they always do such a great job setting everything up. We always look forward to our next lunch/​meeting, we know the food will always be good. We recently had a retirement party for 90 people. Everyone loved the food and could not say enough good things about how good the food was.

Had an awesome experience working with Mintahoe for the catering of our wedding reception! We worked with Joy and she was amazing! I have no idea how many millions of times we contacted her along the way to customize our menu, but we never had any trouble. She was always willing to make changes to our plan, was easy to reach, and worked everything to our very inflexible budget. We did an appetizer based set-​up with a completely vegetarian menu and couldn’t have been happier with how it turned out! The highlight probably being the Mashed Martini Bar which was mashed potatoes with all the fixings (you choose your own toppings) all served up in a martini glass. So fun! We would highly recommend them (especially Joy!!)

Mintahoe catered a recent work event. I can’t speak to dealing with them as a vendor– ease of setting up a menu or any of that vital event planning stuff. I can speak to the quality of the food, which missed the mark. The food was supposed to have an Indian flair, but it was more like Minndian. It wasn’t really Indian and it didn’t really fall into any category. A lot of meat cubes on sticks (lamb, chicken and beef) and a random falafel patty on a stick. Some pita bread masquerading as naan. There were a few okay items (some samosas, hot chai tea and mango lassi) but there was a lot of cold items (that were supposed to be hot) and spinach dip as riata. Perhaps more of a traditional buffet would be their element.

We worked with Mintahoe Catering, the official caterer for the Minneapolis Public Library, for our wedding. We did most of our coordinating and planning over email, since my husband and I live in Washington, DC. Our coordinator at Mintahoe was very good at keeping in touch and was really helpful in arranging to set up meetings during the limited times that we were able to fly in for visits.
The food available at Mintahoe was really good, and they were happy to tailor the food to our specific interests — for example, they created a Walleye appetizer to be served during the cocktail hour, because we wanted our out-​of-​town guests to be able to try this local dish. I also appreciated their integrity — we asked about doing Walleye as a main course, but they were worried about maintaining quality since the Library doesn’t have a kitchen and Walleye can be a delicate fish. I was really happy that they were straightforward about that issue, since it’s something I couldn’t possibly have known otherwise. (We ended up choosing to do the appetizer instead, which allowed them to ensure high quality.)
The coordinator that worked with us in the months leading up to the wedding, Lisa, was also there the day-​of, which was really nice. She had been great in providing us with information and advice as we put together all of the details of the wedding. Also, since she knew a lot about the plan, she was able to anticipate issues and move things along. She coordinated with all of our other vendors to ensure they had the information they needed about the venue and that everything (deliveries, set-​ups, etc.) went smoothly. Overall, we were very happy with how well the whole event went!

I recently attended a two day conference catered by Mintahoe and left the conference full of food and fairly content. The selection consists of the fairly standard conference buffet fair: taco buffets, donuts and fruit, coffee, etc.
The first lunch consisted of wild rice soup and sandwiches… all solid choices, but the soup had olives and just seemed a little off (although I ate an entire bowl… sigh). Overall, all of the items were filling and decent. I would work with them again (and eat their food again :)

I was victim to Mintahoe’s «Surf and Turf» lunch entrée on a recent Paddleford Boat ride for work. Mintahoe is Paddleford’s exclusive caterer.
First course, a delicious mixed greens salad with blue cheese crumbles, pears, and candied walnuts. Main entrée: a dried out piece of salmon that also looked to have freezer-​burn, drizzled with BBQ sauce, two slices of lean and tender meat, drizzled with a dark brown gravy, a few dried out carrots, potatoes.
As suspect as the salmon looked I took a few bites, came up with a few bones in my mouth and then quit while I was ahead. And then BBQ sauce on the top? What? I don’t even know what the charge was for this meal but I’m guessing it was outrageous. Maybe I caught them on a bad day?