McCalls Catering & Events

My husband and I got married at the Asian Art Museum in August 2015. Choosing McCalls as our caterer was one of the BEST planning decisions we made.
We met with a lot of caterers, but we felt the best about McCalls for a few reasons:
— McCalls is able to handle events big and small. We wanted to work with a caterer experienced enough to handle a high volume and a wide range of events to ensure we would be working with a team of seasoned professionals.
— McCalls is the in-​house caterer at the venue – which we took as a good thing as they are familiar with the kitchen and the space.
— McCalls would be able to provide the food, beverages, rentals, florals and even provided recommendations for lighting, sound and drapery. In addition, our main point of contact, Anna, would be there on our wedding day and would be able to act as our day of coordinator.
First off, Anna is INCREDIBLE. Anna is kind, funny, easy going and professional. When we met her, we knew we would be in good hands.
We met with several caterers, and we were blown away by McCalls from even the first email contact. Out of everyone, McCalls was the most transparent about estimated costs, which we appreciated as weddings are a huge investment. The deposit was also reasonable compared to some of the other top caterers in the city.
Before deciding to go with McCalls, Anna offered to have us visit one of the events she was planning to help us get a sense of how they work (like a well oiled machine) and taste their food (delicious).
Throughout the entire process, Anna was there to help answer any questions (of which we had many), allowed us to see yet another event held at our venue to help us choose the lighting, and offered any additional help she could to ensure the planning process would be painless. What’s more, she gave us so many good ideas and advice about the timeline to ensure the day would run smoothly.
== Rentals: 5 stars ==
McCalls owns a lot of high quality flatware, plates, linens and décor items, which helped ease the pain of decision making. In addition, we didn’t have to work with any additional vendors.
== Food & Beverage: 5 stars ==
Prior to our official tasting we worked with Anna and the chef to choose a menu with classic flavors. EVERYTHING was delicious both at the tasting and on the day of. In addition, they were very accommodating with our food requests and allergies.
Appetizers: Spanakopita, corn soup, duck pillows, beef crostini, caponata on toast
Salad: Butter lettuce, shaved vegetables, feta and grapefruit dressing
Mains: Beef short rib, sea bass with chermoula, vegetarian ravioli
== Staff: 5 stars ==
All of the staff was cordial, attentive, and professional. Cocktail hour and dinner service went without a hitch. Our guests were able to get enough food at cocktail hour, didn’t have to wait long to get a drink, and were able to make any last minute food switches as needed. As the bride and groom, we had a «butler» — I use quotes because he was more like an absolute lifesaver. He was there to ensure that we had everything that we needed: food, water, personal space, bandaids!, and was also there to help us when we took some of our portraits in front of City Hall.
== Flowers: 5 stars ==
Miguel and Mercedes are AMAZING. When planning our wedding, we had an idea of the overall aesthetic of what we wanted. We met with a few florists, and we were told that what we wanted would be far outside our budget (almost double).
We decided to go with McCalls as they came closest to our ideal floral plans within our budget and have a lot of experience with the museum’s strict rules.
At our design meeting, we were blown away by what they put together. They created both a tall and a short centerpiece for us to view. In addition, we were able to use their gold candelabras at no additional cost as they own them.
On the day of, all of our personal flowers and the centerpieces took our breath away and far exceeded any of our expectations. It is still hard for us to believe that these were our wedding flowers. They added the necessary pop of color and gave our wedding the classic, elegant and romantic feel that we were going for.

My husband and I can’t even say enough good things and reiterate what a great decision it was to hire McCalls to cater our wedding at the De young museum earlier this month. From the get go, Hannah was the one that answered our questions and worked with us along the way and I can’t even mention how at ease she made us feel throughout the whole process. She reminded me of myself, which allowed my husband and I to put our faith in her as she was the most organized, responsive, open to provide guidance, recommendations and suggestions.
It also helped that McCalls is the recommended in house caterer for our venue as they already know all the policies, restrictions, and we didn’t have to worry about load in/​out procedures as they were already familiar with everything which lessened the stress load. From the planning of our décor to our food tasting, the whole setup and food exactly depicted the way it would be on our wedding day which gave us no doubts and got us so excited for all of our guests during the wedding day, since everything was pretty much perfect and tasted fantastic. Up until the week of needing to make changes, Hannah was always there to answer us and make changes immediately even if she was out of the office. She helped us coordinate and work with vendors in terms of ensuring delivery details were shared and everyone was looped in along the way.
On the day of our wedding, I can’t thank Rene, Gloria, and the rest of the McCalls team enough for making everything run so smoothly. My husband and I are still impressed at how helpful the McCalls staff was, how delicious the food and drinks were, and our guests cannot stop raving at how amazing the food and service was. Thank you for making our special day the best day ever! I highly recommend contacting McCalls for your next event!

All it took was looking at their website to know that McCalls was going to be top notch. Cyrus was the perfect person to partner with on our 1,000 person event at Exploratorium. He went above and beyond to meet our budget needs and blow my mind with the entire event experience. A week later I am still being stopped in the halls with people raving about the food, especially the Mini Donuts. Cyrus was able to incorporate all the personal touches I like to add to the events that I plan. I am excited to know that the next time I have to plan something in the San Francisco area, I will not have anything to worry about… I will just call McCalls and know it will be another 5 star party.

I wouldn’t expect any less from Lucas.
Everything from the food to the service is excellent.
He is such a perfectionist every plate that comes out of that kitchen looks exquisite and is cooked to perfection.
I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting some of the staff and they’re all hard working a lot of great people.

Hannah and her team did an amazing job for our wedding at the Legion of Honor! I was not the easy bride who knew exactly what she wanted and Hannah was patient and made me feel at ease. I felt like I had a fairy god-​planner to help me along the way. The service, food, décor were impeccable and people are still raving about the results! I cannot express enough my gratitude for the McCalls Team and their grand production!

I wanted to thank McCall’s and Hannah for doing such an amazing job at our wedding at City Hall last Saturday! I could not have asked for a better team to cater– the food was impeccable, the service was excellent and the care and attentiveness we received from Hannah was above and beyond!
Hannah was very patient from the very beginning and believe me, there were many changes along the way and she was happy to accommodate them in a calm and timely manner. She was also aggressively responsive in emails which I was thrilled about. Planning a wedding is so stressful and she made the process very smooth and well controlled form the very beginning.
The day of the wedding went off without a hitch! It was everything i could have imagined and more. McCalls NEVER ran out of food and they worked like a well oiled machine. I highly recommend McCalls and their team, you will NOT be disappointed!

We got married at the deYoung, and they provided a list of caterers they permitted for events. I contacted everyone on the list, with a very specific (non-​traditional) wedding menu idea. Hannah at McCalls, from the very beginning, was responsive, excited, and just generally great to work with. Even though they were slightly more money, I liked Hannah’s attitude so much, I decided to go with McCalls. And I am so happy I did!
Throughout the whole process, she was so sweet and fun to work with. The food was delicious! Chicken & waffles, mac & cheese bar, sliders, tacos, sweet potato tater tots… our homestyle comfort food small plates were deemed «The best wedding food ever» by all our guests! The McCalls staff was professional, attentive, and everyone had such a great attitude.
I would highly recommend McCalls, and Hannah especially, for any event. She truly made the wedding process stress free, and to be honest, I’m a little sad it’s all over and I won’t be working with her anymore!

We recently had our wedding at the de Young museum, and upon planning we had to pick a catering company out of a list which is approved by the museum.
We contacted each catering company, and surprisingly some did’t reply, others did but with an attitude, or just with a crazy estimate. However when Hannah from McCalls got back to us, we knew we wanted to work with her not just because they had the most reasonable estimate, but because she was genuinely kind and very professional.
Obviously a wedding is not something that you plan on a regular basis, and we had no clue where to start, but Hannah was SO helpful and she made sure EVERYTHING was taken care of from the moment we started planning and especially on the day of the wedding.
We didn’t think our wedding could be so perfect (this sounds very cheesy but it was just so perfect…) and we know Hannah and the staff from McCalls contributed so much in making this happen.
Their chefs are also amazing and the food was SO good. (I want them to have a restaurant…)
If you’re planning a wedding and needing a catering company, we highly recommend talking to Hannah. She is AWESOME.

My wedding was two weekends ago and people are still talking about the duck pillows and the food presentation. I had the joy of tasting the food months earlier during our tasting, but on our wedding day, I could barely eat due to the tightness of my wedding dress and constant moving around. I did take few bites of our beef and sips of mini-​milkshakes and they were what I remembered! The presentation of the whole evening was an exact copy of another wedding I had seen McCalls do at the Asian Art Museum and it was exactly what I had imagined and wanted. It’s hard to go into a space like the Asian Art Museum during the day and see what it will look like at night with the lighting and drapes and florals (done by Miguel), but when I showed up that night for my wedding, I thought «Wow this is exactly what I had imagined.» Anna from McCalls led this charge and I could not be more grateful or indebted to someone for helping execute my dreams as close to my budget as she did. One of my friends said to me «It’s like I walked onto a movie set that is capturing your imagination» I nodded and smiled, but knew that without such great help from Anna, Miguel, Robin (Make It Happen!), Lorraine/​Minda (AAM) and their teams, it would not have looked as beautifully or gone as seamlessly as it did. We had what I imagined was a tight turn around, but McCalls said that they were used to doing it all the time. We couldn’t enter the venue until 5:15p, and guests were arriving at 6:30p and then there was only an hour to turn around the room during cocktail hour, and they did it and were ahead of schedule. It was miraculous, but more impressive was how beautifully Samsung Hall looked. I live in Los Angeles so most of the planning was done through emails and around 3 phone calls altogether in the course of 8 months and it turned out exactly what I thought it would look like. Without question, the entire staff the people assigned to helping us throughout the evening were the nicest people I’ve ever met. No one was ever left without a drink in hand or without being tended to, it was really an experience of a lifetime for my family (they are used to Chinese Banquet Weddings). We had asian fusion, with a bao/​dim sum station along with other chinese/​asian themed foods during cocktail hour, and then for dinner we had Asian Braised Beef with veggies and Mushroom Risotto for the vegetarians. For dessert we had 3 different types of wedding cakes along with a luxurious dessert bar that did not disappoint the sweets lovers in the house. My main concern to Anna was that people would be hungry and she assured me everyone would have more than enough to eat, and people did! I would hire McCalls again to serve all my meals if I could! They had amazing food and were just plain amazing. There’s a reason they have been doing this for over 20 years, they know what they are doing! They will work with your budget and get it right, don’t be afraid to ask or use them!

I worked with McCall ‘s Catering & Events many years ago and had the pleasure of doing so again this past year, when I hired them to cater a very high end event in Silicon Valley for top financial portoflio performers. Sergio led his very professional team seamlessly throughout set– up, food preparation (DELICIOUS), wine tasting, dessert and break down. The service staff was flexible and extremely professional and worked very well with our singing performers and improvisational acts. The best company to hire for any large event! You can let them do what they do best, and focus on your guests!

Hannah was so great to work with for the past year, she and the team at McCalls made our big day simply wonderful and stress-​free. Hannah was very patient, answered all of our questions (sometimes asked twice, sry hannah!), extremely responsive with great attention to detail. Everything a bride and a groom to be could ask for and more! I don’t know how she handles all the catering details (and put up with brides) with such ease! The food was great, services was pleasant, no complaints!
Miguel, McCall’s in-​house florist, handled the flowers. We had some minor hiccups with samples, but after a few phone calls talking through what I envisioned, Miguel and her team put together beautiful center pieces and delivered personal flowers on time.
Thank you Hannah, Miguel and McCalls for making our dream wedding come true!

We used McCalls to cater our wedding at the de Young Museum! If you are looking for an event coordinator, Hannah is the one you are looking for! She was extremely patient with us in the pre-​planning process and handled all the hiccups that happen on the day of expertly and gracefully! Couldn’t ask for a better person for the job! Thank you Hannah.

Anna Anna Anna Anna. We cannot thank you enough for the AMAZING event you put together for our wedding. We could not have imagined the professionalism, organization and making it a worry free day and cannot thank you enough. We have had so many people tell us this is the best food at a wedding they have ever had. I didn’t call it «wedding food» on purpose. The staff was amazing and we were never without glasses of champ and our guests were all well taken care of.

When planning an event, many things must be considered and chosen, not of least importance is the CATERER. Catering is so much more than food, precious. Fortune has selected me as a player on a exciting events team; one bullet point on our agenda this year — Our West Coast Annual Holiday Party.
Our event bragged almost 450 guests; we required spectacular food and unrivaled service for our extended family and friends. We knew there was only one option: McCalls. McCalls has a reputation for excellence and is well known around the bay area as the absolute best. We had to have them.
Now I introduce you to McCall’s Arkenstone: Cyrus. To say Cyrus is simply professional and distinguished is like saying smoking jackets should only be worn when cigar smoking. Cyrus has the swagger of a seasoned pro and wields his knowledge like the Sword of Aragorn.
Cyrus was beyond patient with our inquires and requirements (when I said we were an exciting events team, I also meant particular and perfection driven) and helped make all of our dreams come true. He helped us alter our menu, decide on staffing demands, assisted with our décor decisions and seating plan, contracted vendors, worked with our budget, and never made us doubt picking McCalls.
When he visited our venue the night of our event, event planning passions aligned as he shared in the joy of our creation. «Julia, look at it — you got everything you wanted!» he exclaimed, and he couldn’t have been more right. The event was beautiful, the food was beyond delectable (innumerable guests are still spouting praise), the service magnificent.
So, a beginner or a novice be, choose McCalls and ask for Cyrus. You’re welcome.

We used McCalls to cater our wedding at the Legion of Honor and I am so thrilled we did. We had a difficult time deciding between McCalls and a more pricey and highly recommended caterer. I can’t tell you how happy I am we went with McCalls. Our 150 guests loved the food, so much so they still rave about it and want to know what event we will have next so they can cater.
They are extremely responsive and take care of you. I worked with Hannah for catering and Miguel for flowers and both exceeded my expectations. The flowers were beyond beautiful and incorporated not only my ideas but my husband and mother’s as well (which is no easy feat).
They made the bar easy and let us bring our own wine. They even stored it for us in the months before. We had someone waiting on us all the time (you get to eat!) and our guests could not be more happy with the service.
We had a unique situation where the fire alarm went off during the wedding, but they handled it great when we had to evacuate the building they stayed longer than contracted and made sure the guests were taken care of.
Love you all!

McCall’s catered our recent wedding and they did such a fabulous job, I simply can’t say enough good things about them and have already referred multiple people to them. They were the best price per plate (and the BEST bar prices) that we found after shopping around lots in SF and they use some local, organic ingredients. They were also very flexible with pricing on alcohol, which was important to use because our cousin is a winemaker and we wanted to bring our own.
Hannah Tiblier-​Weiss was our contact there and she is literally one of the most responsive people I have ever met. She returns emails within seconds (and believe me, I sent her PLENTY) and phone calls very quickly as well. She is genuine, positive, and it basically felt like I was planning my wedding with one of my girlfriends… she is SO AWESOME! Hannah basically worked with us on our catering order to make sure it was exactly what we wanted, coached us through the whole process of what it’s like to have a wedding at the de Young museum, including all the small details we need to think about, and just kept us organized and calm during all of the planning (and the day of!). Once we selected our menu (YES, a company that let’s you choose your menu, not one set template that you have to use like a lot of the hotels we looked at as potential reception locations) she arranged the most fabulous tasting for us in their office. We tasted multiple appetizers, starters, salads, main courses, wine and cake. EVERYTHING was fabulous and we felt so spoiled and well taken care of.
They even have an in-​house florist, Miguel Torres, that made the most gorgeous table arrangements and bouquets for us. He was very easy to work with, responsive, sent us photos of his vision for the flowers beforehand so we knew what to expect, and was punctual the day of. The day of the wedding I had a friend tell me the flowers arrangements looked like something out of a style/​wedding magazine.
Hannah really went above and beyond to make sure every small detail was perfect. Wedding guests raved about the food and the friendly staff, and the quick bartender. If you choose McCall’s for your wedding you will be so well taken care of and pleased with the results.

One expression for McCalls — «OMG»!!!
I am a wedding coordinator and had the utmost pleasure and privilege to work with McCalls at the Legion of Honor for a wedding on 9÷8÷12. Hannah and her team was stellar in every single way!
From the very beginning, Hannah and I had a long string of email conversations to ensure the bride was satisfied and her emails were constantly peppy and full of positive news. You can tell Hannah loved her job b/​c it exuded through her emails and phone calls. When I finally met Hannah, it was nothing short of enthusiastic. I knew she would be great to work with on the big day.
Lo and behold, at the event, she was a joy to partner up with. Her team was so courteous, swift, attentive, and a strong force that assured every detail was perfect. They would repeatedly ask if I needed extra assistance in any way (lifting boxes, placing name cards, turning centerpieces a certain way, promptly laying out linens, etc… and even asking me over half a dozen times if I needed water or a beverage – so awesome!)
The vendors had the privilege to enjoy the same food as the guests and again — «OMG»!! Talk about succulent filet mignon and mushroom risotto. I just about died and it warmed up my stomach so nicely, especially being so busy for 10 hours already. It gave me the perfect recharge of energy to continue working the rest of the night. The other vendors were raving how delicious their dishes were as well.
At the end, Hannah and her team magically made everything clean and precise with continued enthusiasm. When staff members had to switch positions, they’d formally introduce themselves to me so I would be aware of who I’d need to call on. Very professional! Hannah even stayed til the very end with me (past midnight) to send off the last of the guests, and the bride and groom. Now THAT’S customer service!
I’ve done many weddings and no catering company has impressed me like McCalls. Food is definitely outstanding beyond belief. But being a vendor myself, it’s truly a blessing to work alongside with someone who has the same vision as yours – promising to deliver the best of the best efforts for that very special occasion to very important clients.
Cheers to Hannah! and double Cheers to McCalls! I love this company!

I was at Oracle Appreciation Concert last night. MacCalls catered the event. Even though there were over 20,000 people in attendance, the food flow and the bar service were smooth and really well done. As a caterer myself, I know how hard it is to maintain such quality with so many guests, yet they succeeded. It was my second time at this event and I tip my hat to them.

OMG I love McCalls!!! They catered our wedding and provided décor etc. Amazing job!!! Food was great; everything was prepared with amazing fresh ingredients and presentation was amazing! Everyone ranted and raved about everything they had done for us. The staff were soo attentive, they know what you want before you do! Anna is a doll to work with and made everything so simple on the day of. Everything ran smooth. I cannot rave enough about this company. If anyone wants to see photo’s or references, let me know!

They were catering food at 2010 Black and White Ball.
They had all kinds of food and they were nothing more than generous with their servings of dim sum, lamb, fancy hot dogs and then sashimi. And they kept the food coming…
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The dim sum kept coming that I had to get creative in how to get as many of them before the other drunk folks beat me to them.
Use a chopstick and poke and snatch as many of them in one go as fast as possible. I was able to get at least six in one pass.
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