1601 Payne St,Evanston,Illinois
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Feast and Imbibe was our incredible caterer for our wedding in May. They navigated all of the COVID Wedding Struggles beautifully, were always quick to answer our questions, helped us make decisions, and most importantly- the food was amazing!!! All of our guests commented on how great it was and thanked us for not having chicken and green beans (ha!). Every guest had a different favorite food- it was all so incredible. Thank you to the chefs, staff, and Sarah for making our day beautiful and delicious! Here are a few food photos from our photographer, Lisa Kathan.
Booked a wedding before covid and were treated like utter garbage. Kept changing the contract, wouldn’t be reasoned with. Sarah is a terrible business woman and should not be trusted to keep her contract or word. Tried to enact a phantom “abuse clause” because she’s a bad business woman, lied about it with witnesses and refused to refund a down payment based on said lie. Go to anyone else for your wedding. She’s a liar and cheat. If I couldn’t give her zero stars, I would. Awful business.
Do not hire Feast & Imbibe. Due to turnover at the company, my fiancée and I had to set up all portions of the planning process. We were contacted within a month of our wedding on a Friday night by Feast & Imbibe stating the cost of catering would increase. At this point, our contract had been signed and feast & imbibe refused to honor it. We were not able to find a new caterer the month of our wedding and instead had to pay feast & imbibe SIGNIFICANTLY more than our contract. We were able to negotiate the charges to be approximately 10%, which we had not budgeted for, considering we had a signed contract. Additionally, the event coordinator who we were communicating with was not at our event, after she told us multiple times she would be. Planning a wedding is stressful enough, do not let feast & imbibe make it more stressful with their last minute price increases, lack of honoring a contract, and flakey staff.
WHAT A TEAM! Everyone did such an incredible job. Guests were impressed both by the quality (who says steak can't be good at a wedding!?) as well as the presentation (seriously, take a look at their website if you don't know what I'm talking about). We had some oddball requests, but Feast and Imbibe were more than up to the challenge and I can't recommend them highly enough if you plan to do anything outside of "traditional" for your wedding. Service was on point as well, with our wedding planner making specific note about how with most caterers she is the one making sure that every single napkin is in the right place - not with F&I, who were absolute professionals in what was, being honest, a bit of a stressful room flip.
We hired Feast & Imbibe for my daughter's wedding on September 17, 2021. They were recommended by the venue. Sarah informed us via email on September 3, 2021, at 5:30 on a holiday weekend (exactly 14 days before the wedding), that they were increasing our food and staffing charges by 25% and rentals by 20%. WE HAD A SIGNED CONTRACT FOR THIS EVENT DATED 12/19/2020, THAT HAD NO PROVISION FOR A PRICE INCREASE. They had us in duress in the final hour and they knew it. After several discussions with my attorney, we chose to try to negotiate the increase, due to timing. We did negotiate the increase down a bit, but they insisted on cutting some of the services they agreed to on the contract. Sarah wanted to turn it into a "passed food, hors d'oeuvre" wedding, to cut her costs. We negotiated to a "buffet" service, instead of a "manned station" service, again to cut costs on their end. THIS WAS THE WORST BUSINESS PRACTICE I HAVE EVER SEEN. Sarah kept passing the blame to "the owner", but I was unable to have a discussion with the owner, as he/she was protected by Sarah. DO NOT EVER GET INTO A CONTRACT WITH THIS COMPANY, AS THERE WILL BE A BREACH OF CONTRACT TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO YOUR EVENT! My apologies to the cook and wait staff for the decreased gratuities...you may want to talk to your employer about sharing some of the increased profits from this event.