Albanese Catering

I would give a zero star if I could. They catered my wedding and what a mess it was. They were an hour late, I paid for full service and had to carry/set up my own food. I had no plates, napkins, utensils drinks, dessert. My fruit plate looked like a five year old put it together. I paid for 40 guests of food and got enough for 15. My family left my wedding hungry. The hot was cold and the cold was hot. The salmon was rock hard, the london broil cold and tough. This caterer promised a refund and now they will not answer my calls. DO NOT USE THEM FOR ANYTHING IF YOU WANT YOUR GUESTS TO BE FED.

Had Theresa and Mike cater our wedding. 1st the food was late. We paid $100 for the "full service" (set up, serve the food to the guests and clean up). One person showed up to do all of it. Rightfully so she didn't even attempt to serve the guests,but she did set up and remove leftovers. We were supposed to have 3 sides with our 3 entrees and only 1 side arrived. Obviously one would expect a refund for the missing sides. The day after the wedding I got in touch with Theresa and she assured me I would get a credit back(refund) for the missing items. Now 3 weeks later she will not return a phone call or text message from me. Essentially they are stealing my money. I paid them for something I didn't get. Also,the food was mediocre at best. We were supposed to get chicken and steak kabobs on skewers the SKEWERS were literally TOOTHPICKS. The meat was so bland. The "pulled pork" was nothing but a ton of BBQ sauce and a little bit of pork. The chicken parmesan and pasta had no flavor at all. We ended up throwing away at least 65 to 75% of the food. It was the worst catering experience ever. I implore you to consider all of this when dealing with these thieves. If you look at Google reviews it appears we aren't the only ones to have had an experience like this in the last few months.

Hired for a New Years Party for 6 hours of appetizers for 100 people and we only had 37 people show up to the party .... they showed up an hour late and ran out of food an hour and a half later. Stuffed potato wedges were under cooked and over half of them were not stuffed. Fruit Skewers were sour and hard unripened fruit. Hot foods were barely warm

Albanese Catering did such an amazing job catering for my small intimate wedding. I was definitely worried with never having done an event like this before, how it would turn out. Plenty of Food for everyone! The staff was the sweetest young lady and I wish I could remember her name because she did an astounding job handling all of the food setup, the hungry guests, and even getting everything wrapped up for me. At one point, She Asked Me If She Could Serve Me A Plate. I was so taken aback by her gesture that in the midst of me forgetting to eat, she offered to make a plate for me. I appreciated her gesture so much. I’d recommend Albanese Catering to anyone in the Tampa area with confidence that you’d be satisfied. We were able to feed my entire wedding and had enough left overs to donate the food to a homeless shelter. I couldn’t have asked for a better catering company to cater my wedding than Albanese Catering. Thank you guys so much! Please make sure to tell the young lady who worked was staffed at my reception that she was so wonderful!

I would definitely recommend this service to friends. They did a wonderful job for my husband's party.