Scrape the Plate

Well once again Scott and crew out performed as usual. We had our annual holiday party this past weekend and for the third year in a row, we were lucky enough to have Scott put together an amazing spread! We also had our same favorite crew of helpers, Joe, Quinn, and Michelle who made the evening a huge success!
Their attention to detail and clean up is impeccable.
We look forward to the next event so they can come back.

Weddings are an insane thing in so many facets. You plan it for several months ahead, have guests from all over the country fly in for it, and in the end it’s a frenzied five or six hours, a total blast and one of those moments you need a lot of trustworthy folks around you.
Speaking of trustworthy folks, Scrape the Plate. Go ahead and contact them and come back to this review, I’ll just hang out here. … … Scott and crew were an absolute joy to work with, from step one in the process.
They invited my fiancée and I in for a tasting and a custom fall menu and we were floored from the get-​go. I was so floored that I actually became concerned that this would be well beyond our potential budget for food. They were able to work with us, pull a few items here and there and make it fit the way we wanted. One thing that hooked us was that the ingredients were extremely fresh, many coming from local farms around the city.
Not only is their food of good quality, the presentation and process are extremely professional which is really important.
On the day of the wedding, the caterers rolled their fleet in on time, and while I was enjoying myself and not paying too much attention to the little details, it seemed like they set up quickly and efficiently.
If any Scrape the Plate folk read this, consider it my public apology for one moment of the wedding — my bride and I went to sit down for dinner and we didn’t have dinner, nor chairs! I was suddenly SO pissed off because everyone was looking at us thinking we had a speech, a toast or a blessing to say (um, we didn’t!) and it made for an awkward moment. Anyways, I went to our extremely friendly server and snapped something fierce about where in the holy hell are our chairs, food, etc. and he fixed it right away. The only thing is, he didn’t need to ‘fix it,’ it was our fault. We forgot to set ourselves table placements! I feel terrible for being an ass, it definitely wasn’t their fault.
The food came out well, everyone raved about it and they helped cut our cake for us as well. Loved every part of Scrape the Plate and would use them for ANYTHING going forward — just a great experience all around.

Sometimes you need to feed 150 people. When this happens, might I recommend not doing it yourself and instead hiring a caterer? And while I’m at it, might I recommend the fine people at Scrape the Plate!
In case you hadn’t heard: Weddings are just stupid expensive! Seeing as we were paying for ours all by ourselves, we needed to find a balance between a classy, memorable evening and a cost effective one. Scott at Scrape the Plate made this incredibly easy for us, putting together a proposal for one heck of a spread at a reasonable price.
At our first meeting we met at his office/​kitchen and he had prepared a small variety of his greatest hits. Oh, and he also included ample pours of wine, which is probably the best way ever to gain my affection and loyalty. Fortunately, he also could fall back on the fact that he really wowed us with some delicious bites while whisking away those we didn’t like, as if they had never existed.
Truth be told, after that first meeting we were prepared to go with Scrape the Plate, it was just a matter of hammering out a selection of heavy hors d’oeuvres that would please both us and our party. We ended up with an impressive spread that made the omnivores happy while still throwing a bone (ha!) to the vegetarians/​vegans/​gluten free.
He provided a professional and attractive staff, anticipated a number of needs that I would have overlooked, and made sure that everything went seamlessly. He was easy to contact and quick to respond, and worked well with the baker of our wedding cake and our day-​of coordinator. He’s a fantastic, responsible businessman.
The absolute cherry on top: On the day of the event, we had one heck of a cold snap. Scott calls us up and says that he’s guessing that our guests might enjoy an additional hot option, so he’d like to throw in a 2^nd variety of meatball pops, on the house. Who just gives away delicious food? Awesome people, that’s who!
If you’re hosting an event, and you’re not having Scrape the Plate cater… well, sucks to be you, because they’re the best!

Scrape the Plate has opened my eyes to the awesomeness that is good catering, which is good for other caterers and bad for other caterers. Good because I realize that it’s worth it to pay for the ease of setup/​food at a party if you have the right caterer. Bad because I will most likely always call Scrape first and Scott’s so accommodating that I won’t have to look anywhere else.
The food is Ah. Mazing. I challenge you to read their menu without salivating. My mother still raves about the butternut squash soup we had at our rehearsal dinner… that was five months ago.
Scott is ridiculously even-​keeled, so setup and tear-​down were just simple, streamlined affairs. As a crazy DIY bride at the time, I was amazed at how little I had to do — nothing. It was such a foreign, and beautiful realization!
TL, DR — Memorable mastication; stellar staff; simple set-​up. Worry about the rest of your event while StP takes care of the food.