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    Leah L. Sent on 04/01/2023
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    Amazing Food and Service

    I can't say enough about the fabulous job that Caffe Luna did catering my daughter's wedding. Darcey was so professional, organized, and competent from the first meeting to the end of the event. The food was plentiful and delicious. Our guests left full and happy. I recommend using them for any event. So happy with their services.
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    Amila K. Sent on 12/09/2022
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    Beautiful Venue! Couldn't be happier with our special day!

    My husband and I got married at Caffe Luna this November and we were so happy with the venue! We had both the ceremony and reception at Caffe Luna. It was great to have it on a Sunday as the restaurant was closed and we had the whole place.

    Darcey was super helpful throughout the planning process, always happy to answer questions and replying quickly. The day of the wedding, the staff helped with the setup of the centerpieces, served the food and helped cut and serve our cake. And not to mention the food was delicious! Everything went so smoothly and we were able to just have fun and enjoy the day with our loved ones.

    Thank you so much Darcey and staff at Caffe Luna, we are so grateful for your support before and on the day of and couldn't have picked a better place for our special day!!! A&J
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    Sarah M. Sent on 09/22/2022
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    Rehearsal Dinner of my dreams

    My husband and I had our rehearsal dinner here over Labor Day weekend, and it was perfect! Darcey was so friendly and easy to work with, responding very timely to emails and phone calls. All the food was amazing (we went with the Ravioli and the white cream pasta dish as our pasta choices, the latter being a huge hit); people said it was probably one of the best rehearsal dinners they have had! It was so easy to just have an open bar of wine and beer. The staff was very attentive, and spaced out the courses perfectly. Both dessert options were delicious. We had a couple people who had to eat gluten free, and the staff was able to use high-quality GF pasta for those people. We had 37 people in our group which felt like the right amount of people; if we had the max amount of people allowed (50), it probably would've felt too crowded and too loud. The room/decor felt very classic and elegant without feeling stuffy. We invited our guests to the speakeasy (Watts & Ward) below the restaurant, which was a huge hit with our guests! Overall, I would 100% recommend this establishment for anyone looking to host a rehearsal dinner or a large party. My husband, my in-laws, and I could not imagine picking anywhere else!
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    Meghan M. Sent on 08/16/2022
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    Blown away!

    We had our wedding reception at Caffe Luna at the beginning of August (our ceremony was at JC Raulston Arboretum). I mainly chose Caffe Luna for the price because we were trying to have a "cheaper" wedding. It is incredibly reasonable and it makes it so easy that food + alcohol + venue + service is all included. Cost effectiveness aside, I was absolutely blown away by Caffe Luna as a wedding reception venue! Darcey, the catering manager is such a joy to work with. Not only is she nicest person ever, but she is so quick to respond and so flexible. Caffe Luna staff helps with setting up & breaking down & they also serve the alcohol. They helped my reception run so smoothly and were so great to work with. I highly recommend having your reception here if it is on the smaller side (room fits about 80 people with room for the dance floor). You will love the food & the staff! Also we took some amazing pictures outside super close to Caffe Luna (see attached).
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    Hailey Q. Sent on 11/08/2021
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    Great food! Great staff! 1 price for food & alcohol

    Cafe Luna catered our wedding at the Cannon Room on 10/23/21 and we couldn't be happier! I'm vegetarian and their normal buffet has a lot of meat on it, but they were very willing to work with us and make sure it was a delicious, largely vegetarian menu. We got lots of compliments on the food!

    The staff on the day of the event were wonderful, joyful, and helpful all night and Darcey is a legit pleasure to work with! She was very helpful during our planning process, quick to respond to questions and generally wonderful to work with.

    Other things we appreciated: they were open to serving desserts from anywhere and would also serve alcohol we brought in at no additional fee. Another big plus for us was that their is one price per guest that includes food and alcohol. This helped us avoid surprise bills at the end of the event, which was important to us. They also had real plates, glasses, silverware, and linens available as part of the cost.
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    Courtney B. Sent on 01/15/2022
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    Amazing Food, Amazing Service

    Caffe Luna was one of the preferred vendors for The Stockroom at 230, and we are so glad that they were! They were affordable (comparatively speaking), the food was delicious, and the service was amazing. Darcey was an absolute dream to work with! We had to postpone our wedding due to COVID and Darcey kept in touch with us the entire time. Even when I had to make several adjustments to what we needed, Darcey worked with us to make sure we were able to stay within our budget and still get what we wanted. I highly recommend Caffe Luna for anyone looking for an amazing, delicious, and affordable service!
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    Diana G. Sent on 12/05/2021
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    Perfect Venue with AMAZING Food!

    What a beautiful venue. The food was amazing (as it always is) and the staff was wonderful. Darcey was committed to making our day special. She was so organized and efficient. This is probably the best value you will get for your money. The buffet price includes wine and beer!
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    Tamika B. Sent on 11/22/2021
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    Absolutely wonderful!!

    Caffe Luna was very quaint, yet such an elegant experience. Not a lot of decor needed. The food was delicious and the staff was professional and very helpful with all aspects of my wedding from beginning to end.
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    Eleni C. Sent on 10/08/2020
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    Awesome venue

    We were originally planning to have a 150 person wedding, but 4 weeks out we had to cancel at our original venue due to COVID. We ended up having a smaller wedding and moved it to Caffe Luna - it was incredible! The team (namely, Darcey) is AWESOME- very accommodating, flexible, responsive, kind, and helpful. Although re-planning a wedding 4 weeks out was stressful, they made it as easy for me as possible. Food is amazing- good variety of meat, seafood, and vegetarian options. They even let you have a DJ! Highly recommend for baby showers, rehearsal dinner, and weddings. Can't thank them enough for helping make our wedding day so special!
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    Jennifer S. Sent on 02/15/2021
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    Excellent Service!

    We used Caffe Luna for catering for our micro wedding. We worked closely with Darcey to build our perfect menu. Darcey went above and beyond to make our catering experience perfect! The food was amazing and reasonably priced. I highly recommend Caffe Luna for your catering needs.
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    Julie Z. Sent on 11/17/2020
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    Amazing intimate venue

    We had our wedding ceremony and reception here. Had eaten here before so we knew the food would be top notch. Darcey will be your saving grace! She was always very responsive and very flexible. She made planning everything so easy! Our whole day went smoothly because of her and the amazing staff. Great value and delicious food. Wine and beer included! It really is a beautiful space for any occasion and our wedding was definitely a wonderful day for us and our guests. Look no further, you won't be disappointed!
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    Anne-Lyne Sent on 08/13/2020
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    Impeccable service and food!

    Darcey and the owner Parker were amazing! The service and food was impeccable. It is a gorgeous venue in the middle of downtown.
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    Rosa R. Sent on 01/19/2020
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    Excellent food/reasonably priced


    We booked one of their private rooms for a wedding rehearsal dinner for our son’s wedding in November, for 40 guests. The food was excellent and the service was outstanding. Our guests were very complimentary about the food and service.
    My Italian-Canadian family members who grew up with homemade Italian cooking all enjoyed the food..The catering manager, Darcy Tinga was very responsive and accommodating during the planning. There were several options of meals to choose from, and you can’t beat the price for a sit-down, high quality meal, inclusive of wine. I highly recommend Caffe Luna for private events as well as for dining.
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    Amanda Sent on 11/10/2019
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    Darcey will be your saving grace!

    People are still talking about how much they loved the food at my wedding, but what I can't stop talking about is how appreciative I am of all of Darcey's hard work. She made the planning and execution of my wedding stress-free and I couldn't imagine working with anyone else.

    Thank you, Darcey, for all of your efforts to ensure that the happy couple enjoyed the day. You are the absolute best!
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    Arlie Sent on 08/07/2019
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    Eat, drink, and be married!

    We cannot say enough wonderful things about our experience at Caffe Luna. From the incredible food to the outstanding location, Darcey and her team went above and beyond to make our 100 person wedding reception a success. Everything was included-- the meal, the linens, the alcohol, and more-- which made the wedding planning process that much easier. Darcey was so easy to work with throughout our wedding prep, and offered helpful feedback and advice immediately whenever we had questions. And the food... oh my stars! The consensus among our guests has been "best wedding meal ever," and we have to agree!! We are so grateful to Caffe Luna for making our big day one for the books.
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    Ash V. Sent on 05/23/2019
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    Fabulous, Fun, Fantastic!

    Our wedding reception was such a blast here! We sat 80 people comfortably. It is a dazzling, enchanting, beautiful gem in the heart of downtown Raleigh. What you get for your money is a delicious buffet of some of the tastiest dishes the restaurant has to offer, unlimited wine and beer with a bar tender, linens (we used our own), silver and glass wear, breathtaking atmosphere, and a kind and friendly staff. They also have a private room where the buffet is held where my husband and I got to chill, sip some beer and nibble on our own plates of appetizers made specially for us before we were introduced. That certainly calmed the nerves and took the edge off! Darcy was a pleasure to work with and was very professional and thorough will the whole process. She helped us out immensely and is very good at what she does! Parker, the owner, is also fantastic! He is very personable and got involved with us, making my mom laugh several times as he has en excellent sense of humor! We very much appreciated this venue and everybody who helped make our day truly magical! I would HIGHLY recommend to anybody!! Pictures coming soon!
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    Kony Sent on 03/19/2019
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    Caffe Luna is the best place to have a wedding

    I have to start by saying that I looked at a bunch of options, and some places had a great location but limited catering, others had good catering but not the best location, until I realized that I'm going about it all wrong and I need to have my wedding at a restaurant. That's when I called Caffe Luna and from the get go the pricing was great, the owner was so responsive and accommodating, and I finally felt that I had found the perfect place for me.

    Now, I have to mention Darcey. SHE. IS. ABSOLUTELY. AMAZING. She was so responsive, answered all my questions promptly, knew so much about weddings, and was so organized and helpful that I wouldn't have been able to do it without her. I didn't even need a wedding coordinator because between her and me, we were able to execute everything to a T. Thank you so much.

    Next comes the location, and honestly Caffe Luna is so beautiful that you really don't need to even decorate it that much.

    The food was absolutely delicious - some guests told me it was better than the food they had at their own wedding. They had so much variety in the buffet, there was an adequate amount of food for everyone, and they even made accomodations for gluten free guests. I'm a vegetarian myself and still found that the menu was not limiting in any way whatsoever. For me the most important thing was that the food should be good, and the guests should have enough of it, and these two things were true for Caffe Luna. We also got so many boxes of leftovers - it is well appreciated. Plus, let's not forget the unlimited drinks!

    Finally, the staff at Caffe Luna were excellent and helped setup everything, cleanup afterwards and were so sweet to me the entire time - even when initially I was a little frazzled by everything. I want to thank the entire staff again for making it the best day of my life and for everything going so smoothly!
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    Amanda Sent on 09/27/2018
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    I would HIGHLY recommend Caffe Luna! Darcey was wonderful to work with - very responsive and accommodating. Having the 20 or so years of experience coordinating numerous weddings, Darcey has it down pat. She knows what works, what hasn't worked well in the past, how to plan out the timeline for the event to make it flow smoothly, and provided great recommendations for vendors.

    The venue is so nicely decorated that it requires little in additional decor aside from centerpieces, which helps save some cost. And I literally can't explain how amazing and plentiful the food is! Everyone had rave reviews for the food, including us as b&g. The beer and wine options were also wonderful and we had it on our budget to offer an additional few wines and local microbrewery options.

    Absolutely amazing evening and I can't say enough great things about Caffe Luna!
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    Kelsey Sent on 06/25/2018
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    Darcey is phenomenol. I could not have asked for a better person to head up the Caffe Luna team and run the weddings there! She was SO responsive to messages and open to all my ideas. She responded to every question I had email after email which kindness, professionalism, and openness. We loved having our wedding with you all June 2018 and will never forget that day! Thank you so much!
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    Laura Sent on 05/31/2018
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    Our wedding experience with Caffe Luna was amazing. Darcy was so accommodating, she listened to everything I wanted, and found a way to make it happen, while still giving her professional opinion. She worked with my wedding planner and vendors to make sure everything ran so smoothly. The whole staff made the whole experience incredible. Let's not forget the food! It was incredible all of my guest loaded their plates and there was still plenty of leftovers. Multiple people came up and told us how good the food was. The fact that we didn't have to worry about tables, chairs, or linens made it so we had one less wedding stress to worry about.

    I was worried about the space for our 100 person party, and the fact some people would have to eat in the separate room, but everyone fit comfortably and those that don't dance enjoyed the fact there was the separate room that they could sit and talk without the noise of the DJ. There was definitely plenty of room for people to bust a move! The space, the food, the staff, and the price made Caffe Luna the perfect place to get married.
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    Diane Sent on 07/02/2018
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    Our daughter and son-in-law had their rehearsal dinner at Caffe' Luna in May and it was one of the best experiences we ever could have hoped for! We had a private room (and were allowed to bring in centerpieces and personal photographs for one of the tables earlier in the day), the limited choice menu offered something for everyone (and we had great guidance on those selections), the bar was well-stocked and well-managed, the food was wonderful and appropriately served, the service was world class (we had two servers dedicated to us and they could not have been more accommodating), Daniel even helped us load our car after the event. Would highly recommend this restaurant for any occasion --- in fact, I just recommended it to a friend yesterday!
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    Megan Sent on 05/09/2018
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    I got married at cafe Luna May 6th, 2018 and it was wonderful. Darcey was amazing! She helped me with the itinerary, making sure everyone was on the same page, and not pushing to go past any budgets we were on the same page that less was more and that with the venue itself you didn’t need a bunch of decor it was simple and beautiful on its own it didn’t need flowers draped everywhere or on every table it was just everything I wanted. The buffet style was incredible all the different options of food and leftovers galore! The food was delicious, the fruit was fresh! There was plenty of room for guests. It exceeded expectations. I 100% recommend. I have such high praises nothing went wrong the entire time.
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    Monique Sent on 01/22/2018
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    My wedding was just late week but I had to share my wonderful experience with Caffe Luna. First Darcey was the best, she promptly answered every phone call and email. She reassured my husband and I throughout the whole process. She explained everything in great detail. We dropped off our decorations the day before and both the owner and Darcey greeted us, and also reassured my mother-in-law that everything would go smoothly. They were also very accommodating to my family's dietary needs. We did use chair covers and our own napkins, but the space is so beautiful and has such a great view you can really transform the space to your personal style. The staff was so friendly the day of the reception. All of my guest loved the space. We chose the buffet and it was delicious. Everyone raved about the food. There was so much food we had guest that purchased coolers to take food home with them! I would recommend Caffa Luna to anyone looking for a great wedding venue.
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    Jamie Sent on 11/28/2017
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    Caffe Luna was the perfect venue for my daughter's Bridesmaid Luncheon. We held it the day before her wedding and included many special ladies in her life. Darcey was a joy to work with throughout the process. She and her staff are top notch and go above and beyond to make sure everything is just right. We had the luncheon in the Palm Room with 36 guests. The food, service, and setting were all spectacular. Having searched the Triangle for just the right venue, I am overjoyed that we chose Caffe Luna and had the opportunity to work with Darcey.
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    Sarah Sent on 10/30/2017
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    Darcey & her team were absolutely fantastic for our wedding!!! For the past year of planning she made everything so easy! They are so friendly and made us feel so special! The food was outstanding!! We received so many compliments that it was the best food our guests ever had at a wedding! You need to book Caffe Luna right now if you are planning a wedding!! Absolutely amazing!! I wish I could give 10 stars!!
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