Scrumptious Occasions Catering in Novato, CA

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Telephone:	+1 415-444-6863
Website:	www.scrumptiousoccasions.com
Address:	Serving Novato and surrounding area
Categories:	Caterers

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Today	7:00 am – 1:00 am Open now
Local time (Novato)	15:24 Sunday, 1 June 2025

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Monday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Tuesday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Wednesday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Thursday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Friday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Saturday	7:00 am – 1:00 am
Sunday	7:00 am – 1:00 am

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Scrumptious Occasions Catering is dedicated to creating personalized events with exquisite food and elegant displays. We provide the very best catering and event planning from a backyard BBQ to full-scale wine country weddings and employee boxed lunches to large corporate meetings. We are committed to excellence at every level, using the highest quality local ingredients and tailoring each menu to suit your taste, style and budget. Please think of us when planning your next event, we’d love to help you make it memorable. ~ Chef Munther Massarweh

History

Established in 2006.

A Bay Area native and current Marin County resident, Restauranteur and Chef Munther Massarweh came from Chicago’s world famous «Pump Room», where he served as the executive chef for five years. Before moving to the mid-west, Munther ran several restaurants in the bay area such as «McCormick & Koleto’s», «Perry’s Restaurant», «The Fillmore Bar & Grill», and «Club Eleven». Munther opened his first restaurant in Hawaii and after several years decided to come back to the bay area were he opened «Tin Pan Asian Bistro» in San Francisco and «The Bistro at Glenn Ellen» to immediate success. His experience with «Lettuce Entertain You Corporation» in Chicago is what makes him one of the region’s best chefs, restaurant operators and most sought after caterer.

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Munther M.

Business Owner

A Bay Area native and current Marin County resident, Restauranteur and Chef Munther came from Chicago’s world famous «Pump Room», where he served as the executive chef for five years. Before moving to the mid-west, Munther ran several restaurants in the bay area such as «McCormick & Koleto’s», «Perry’s Restaurant», «The Fillmore Bar & Grill», and «Club Eleven». Munther opened his first restaurant in Hawaii and after several years decided to come back to the bay area were he opened «Tin Pan Asian Bistro» in San Francisco and «The Bistro at Glenn Ellen» to immediate success. His experience with «Lettuce Entertain You Corporation» in Chicago is what makes him one of the regions best chefs and restaurant operators.

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4 reviews of Scrumptious Occasions Catering

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Kevin B.

Place rating: 5
Mill Valley, CA

One of the best catering companies in Marin!
I recently hired S.O.C. for an event I hosted. It was a Ladies Night Out/Pretty Party at a local salon. 50 attendees; all hungry, sophisticated women & fashionistas.
Although I was working with a very limited budget, Munther and his catering crew accepted the job. And not only did they step up to the plate, they hit it out of the park! The food was a total hit. They provided our group with a tasty assortment of cheeses, crab cakes, chicken skewers, and desserts. And everything was beautifully presented. Everything looked so good, you almost didn’t want to eat. But we did anyway!
Rave reviews all around! I would hire Scrumptious Occasions Catering again in a heartbeat. For an event that was all about mini-makeovers and the like, it’s funny that Scrumptious Occasions Catering was actually the one to make ME look good that night. Thanks again!
:)

Henry P.

Place rating: 5
Yountville, CA

I’m surprised by the other low scoring reviews. We used Scrumptious Occasions at least 3 times at our winery in Napa and the experience was amazing.
I’m not a big fan of Paella, but after trying their Seafood and Meat based Paella, I can honestly say it was the best Paella I have ever tried including the ones I tried in Spain!
We typically tell the chef how many people are attending and what is our price range and let them suggest a menu. Every time we were impressed by the creative menu they came up with and it was always over the top!
I highly recommend them.

Veronica W.

Place rating: 1
San Rafael, CA

This catering company is neither scrumptious nor worthy of serving food for any occasion, so their name is a complete misnomer. Let me explain:
1) I am not entirely sure how, but they manage to mess up salads. I mean, honestly, you get lettuce (of which there are MANY varieties), some other salad items (like tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, beans, etc.) and you mix with a dressing (always with some sort of acid and probably oil). NOT DIFFICULT. And also very easy to execute. Last time, we had some concoction with lentils (which were not cooked through) and bits of frisee. It was odd and not good. It was as if they randomly had lentils (and no use for them), but barely any lettuce and the thought was «shit shit shit what do we do? Hey! We can make unique ‘salad’!» Sorry, but you failed.
2) Chicken breast meat (as Eric L. has pointed out) dries out easily. Good as a healthy food option, but not a wise protein choice if food is going to be sitting on heating devices to keep warm. My boss’s piece was still pink on the inside, indicating that it was not cooked through, yet it was still completely dry and tasteless. How ridiculous is it to risk food poisoning on dried out chicken?
3) They always run out of something. You would think that by now, they would have a better understanding of the number of people there are in this company and how much food they should prepare. Apparently not.
So, having said that, I do feel guilty for perpetuating the already bad reviews. I do. However, I believe that they are being paid for a service. Maybe this will somehow help them.

Eric L.

Place rating: 1
Novato, CA

Scrumptious Occasions catering prepares lunches for our company a few times a month. They take care of setting up and cleaning up, which I’m sure our company fully appreciates. The presentation of the food is nice, the choice of the food is generally safe.
However there are a few things they can work on. I feel like the food tastes a bit worse than some of our other catering companies we use. Due to two specific problems, taste/type of food, and selection of food.
The last 2 times we’ve had Scrumptious Catering do our lunches they’ve made white meat chicken dishes, white chicken dries out really easily. So by the time we eat it, its all dry and the texture turns powdery.
I’d venture to say that having such thick cuts of white meat do bad things for the taste of the food. It just doesn’t taste good no matter how well season it, such thick cuts of meat should be served with generous amounts of gravy, dipping sauce or hot sauce.
This would not be such a problem if Scrumptious Catering provided more variety in the form of another entrée and another choice of salad. Our other catering companies provide alternatives, 2 entrees, 2 types of salad, if one is bad I can get the second one.
Additionally, today they brought in 30 bittersweet chocolate pastries. Our company campus has 300+ on-site employees, even if only 50 showed up for lunch, there were many people unhappy they did not get one of these pastries.
These guys need to raise their game, and by a lot. It’s hard to complain about free lunch, but even our other catering company which I rate fair (3 stars) outperforms Scrumptious Catering in food quantity, taste, and selection.
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3−28−08
I must raise Scrumptious Occasions Catering score 1 star for providing a fabulous fried chicken lunch about a month ago.
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5−30−08
I must deduct a star from Scrumptious once again, for probably the worst catered lunch I’ve ever had.
The main entrée was Tandoori Style Chicken Paella, which was talked about as a curry chicken dish. This was a phenomenal disappointment, there appeared to be absolutely no flavor to this dish, in the rice or in the chicken.
When eating a chicken curry dish, one expects strong flavors and interesting spicy tastes. I felt like I was eating food flavored with yellow #5 food coloring rather than curry. Where did all the spices and flavoring go? I mean the chicken and rice looked yellowish, it looked like there were chopped onions in the rice. Why was it so tasteless?
I am so upset right now, that I’m going to get taco bell.

Scrumptious Occasions Catering

Novato, United States