A Movable Feast Catering

I’m sorry to have to write a review here. It has taken me a nearly a year to decide to do so. Michael came so highly recommended through family friends who know food and have many wonderful occasions.
I hired Michael Jones for my wedding based on this alone. We met with michael seemed fun and had already decided on our menu and told us all about the farm to table wonderful apps and entrees at the wedding itself and BBQ the night before. At the time he seemed wild and eccentric but nice and very capable. He told us to trust him and so we did. We did notice all of the bad reviews online– but he told us they were from jealous haters in Carmel. We assumed they were ‘squares’ who didn’t understand food. I wish we had been right. Simply put he did the following…
Did not bring any of the food we had discussed– it seemed thrown together slap dash. The expensive and beautiful wines we brought from the central coast mysteriously disappeared and were replaced by cheap garbage. The chocolates we had made by a master San Francisco chocolatier were also taken.
It gets worse…
He was laughing and dangerously whipping his long Chef’s knife around threatening guests, as a joke?!! When it was time to cut the cake he started stabbing it (shouting and cursing), butchering it and flicking white chocolate roses off of it, before allowing us to cut a piece. During this display he feigned stabbing the photographer, nearly knifed my new husband while grabbing an envelope of gift money and stuffing along with the knife into my grooms pocket. Then the topper– he actually put the knife to my father’s throat (sharp side pressing into his neck). Later I learned he had done the same thing with the dull side at my uncle’s throat. Was he drunk? Insane? Drugged up? I have no idea. I couldn’t make this up. It was a big wedding with a big band and strolling musician in a lovely location, so luckily not many noticed all of this. But those that did all have a story to tell. My stepmom was told to F*@&* off when asking for coffee. He was caught guest rooms ‘looking for something’. His appetizers were a joke. He Definately stole everything not nailed down. Please save yourself the heartache. Believe the reviews.

Tried to set up a family function thru this caterer a while back. It was at a Carmel Valley venue, and we were having entertainment, food and a fair number of guests. There was a long list of things to coordinate-​guest lists, venue, presents, food, entertainment, seating, schedule-​it went on and on. I met with this catering service about 3 – 4 months ahead of time and signed up despite some misgivings when the caterer refused to give a menu-​which was more than a little odd. While checking back in several times over the next several months, I could not get a return call on a timely basis, and when the caterer finally did condescend to call back finally, it was sort of «trust me» or it’s not your business type of attitude.
I finally pulled the plug and was fortunate to be able to find an excellent last minute alternative in the Valley who came thru on a timely basis and were a delight to deal with and at a fair price.
I later found out that we had really missed a bullet-​or as one other reviewer put it about the Moveable Feast-​fried sardines and a sh*$ball attitude.

Michael Jones left us high and dry. He had verbally committed to the event but two weeks before vanished, no call backs or emails. Proceed with extreme
caution.