Delancey Street Catering & Event Planning

I am very disappointed to have to write this review. I wanted very much to have my small wedding reception there and have been trying for three days now just to get it booked. The first day, I called to the «message only» line for Sabrina in the afternoon but received no response. I waited until around noon the next day but had still not received a call so I called again. I received a return call a few hours later, but Sabrina told me she did not have the calendar in front of her and therefore wanted to call me back the next morning (today). Well, I never got a phone call from her and I definitely don’t appreciate it. My wedding is a bit last minute, in two months, and I want to have my spaces secured ASAP but obviously it wasn’t a priority to her. Wish I could have tried this place, but now I am looking elsewhere.

Excellent food service and prices. Great service. Watch for short menu speacials especially before Giants games. When full menu is served, everything is top notch!

great food at decent price with a view and for a good cause

best business lunch place in sf! $ 4 valet, quiet private room, good food, inexpensive, my new go to. Michael is easy to work with and made me look good. yeah!

The rating says «Woohoo! As good as it gets!» and I’m not kidding, this place is awesome. We had our wedding reception here recently and it was such a wonderful experience.
We had the reception in the Club Room which has a spectacular view of the Bay Bridge, SF Bay, and Treasure Island. It was perfect weather and the wrap around balcony was the perfect place to enjoy the view. Every guest remarked at how lovely the view was and how great the room was.
Rebecca, the event coordinator, did such a wonderful job! She is so warm and friendly and put us at ease immediately. From start to finish, she was on top of things and made the planning completely effortless on my part. She’s that good!
The wait staff was wonderful and I received many compliments about them from my guests. The food was excellent from the appetizers to the entrees. I don’t know what’s in the rice, but it was delicious! I couldn’t have imagined a better experience than the one I had.
Also, a special thanks to the people at Delancey Street Movers who suggested that we have our reception there, it was great advice! Every experience I’ve had with Delancey Street from the movers, to the café and the restaurant has been so postive and I can now add catering to my list! They are truly an outstanding organization.

We’ve hosted a few graduations with them and though the catering is probably smaller than say a wedding, it’s always be top level service. The staff there are amazingly helpful. They held doors, helped to unload some supplies, tied balloons and put up a sign for us. It’s just one of the reasons that we enjoy having our events there so much. Food is always very good as well and students and parents really enjoy the venue as well.

I don’t Unilocal often, but I just got married at Delancey Street Town Hall a few weeks ago and felt compelled to rave about how wonderful the event turned out.
I searched for places in and around SF to throw a 150 — 200 person wedding. Everything was soooooo expensive. I actually stumbled across Delancey Street Catering when I was researching whether their restaurant could accommodate a party that large. The price was great compared to everywhere else I looked and they were great with coming up with ideas to stay within our budget and still look great.
The space itself is lovely– with a lot of windows, high ceilings, and hardwood floors– and is easily accessible. More importantly, the staff was amazing to work with from start to finish. Rebecca, the site coordinator, took care of everything. She totally put me at ease about the evening and was always willing to meet and go over details. She had great ideas and insight into what works and what doesn’t. By the end of planning, I felt like I had made a friend.
The night of the wedding, the entire area was ours. There were no other events going on and no other people milling about. We had the ceremony on the patio near the fountain, took pictures in their beautiful garden, and had places for both the bridal party and groomsmen to get ready. Because of the crazy wind, we had to make a last minute change to move the cocktail hour inside, but the staff handled it seamlessly and no one was even aware that anything had gone «wrong.»
I had a lot of trouble envisioning how the actual wedding was going to look, but when I walked inside the Town Hall on the day of the wedding, I couldn’t have been happier. It was beautiful and perfect. The entire event went off without a hitch. The staff was so friendly and many of my guests commented on how eager to please they were. You can tell that the people working for the foundation really take pride in their work and are doing everything they can to turn their lives around. It’s a good feeling knowing that the money from the wedding is going back into the foundation too.
If you’re planning a big event, you should definitely consider Delancey Street.

The Delancey Street Foundation’s own web page is too modest for the incredible party they helped me host — so three cheers to Unilocal!First of all, Delancey Street’s event manager is dynamite, and she handles everything from space rental to catering to audio/​visual equipment to room set up. Among the variety of venues I could rent at their well-​tended center on the Embarcadero boardwalk, I chose the spectacular Club Room. The photo on their web page shows only the balcony from the outside — wow!, you should see the view from the *inside* overlooking the San Francisco waterfront and the awesome west span of the Bay Bridge! My friends were floored by scenery as well as a most memorable sunset, with light reflecting off Yerba Buena Island.
Our evening program was staffed by a host of gracious and friendly Delancey Street residents who greeted us at the gate and ushered guests up to the Club Room for the evening. The event coordinator had arranged the space so we could easily and comfortably navigate the flow of people picking up name tags, enjoying healthy cocktail food, ordering wine and beer at the bar, or visiting out on the balcony. When it was time for our formal program, the staff had set up a laptop projector and a large screen with a podium and microphone — all situated so that the guests could have clear views from seats around round tables across the room.
For our party, we ordered the healthiest combination of cocktail food on the Delancey Street menu. It was delicious — and abundant. For dessert, we caved into the chocolate cake and gingerbread cake. :-) The Restaurant below had kindly agreed to make a few additional cakes for us even with only a couple day’s notice, and I’m glad we did because it was so good that only a few pieces were left at the end!
During our program, I had invited our event manager to say a few words about their residential center for people who have hit rock bottom and found a way to Delancey Street from a path that otherwise would have led to prison. The guests listened intently as she described their program for helping residents recover, take responsibility for their lives, learn three marketable job skills, and teach other residents around them. It was truly a teachable moment about human potential. People started to put the dots together — Oh, so you are the Delancey Street Movers, too! The spirited applause from the guests was deeply gratifying for the staff, and I was heartened to see friends approaching the residents working the party to ask them more about their experience.
The Delancey Street Foundation supports itself through the many enterprises its residents operate like the movers, the Christmas tree sales, their restaurant — and the catering and space rental business. Though the party wasn’t cheap to host, I don’t think there is any place on the San Francisco waterfront with the same combination of easy access (BART, Muni, CalTrain, bike, and plenty of parking), healthy food prepared at a terrific restaurant, flexible and adaptive floor plans, ready A/​V for music and slide shows, ample staff support, and purposeful profits — all for about $ 35/​person for the whole evening, including tip, tax, drinks, equipment rental, staff, space, the works.
When the program was over, some guests wanted to linger, so I was happy to be able to invite friends to simply join me for a drink at the Delancey Street Restaurant right down stairs — marvelous. I hope someday I get to do it all again, but in the meantime, I highly recommend taking advantage of this amazing venue and the remarkable people whose personal investment in the success of each event makes it all the more magical.