jkhatfield7
Wedding: 10/17/2009
Reviews:
4
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Fusions Cuisine was above and beyond what we could ever hope for in a catering company. The food was absolutely phenomenal...we are still getting rave reviews and compliments for having the best wedding food anyone had ever eaten. We had specific foods we were looking for to have at our reception and Jim was able to put together an amazing menu for us that had everything we wanted and more. Jim and Blaise were so easy to work with and were so helpful. The staff that accompanied Fusions at our reception were amazing. Everyone was so professional, polite, friendly, patient, helpful. Every single member of the waitstaff and the bartenders were absolutely fantastic.
I would recommend Fusions to anyone. The value, the service, the food...it is all amazing. I cannot say enough good things about Fusions Cuisine. They definitely made our wedding perfect and there was not one hungry guest after our wedding!
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Reviewed On:
11/18/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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lucywang
Wedding: 08/15/2009
Reviews:
1
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During our first meeting with Fusions Cuisine, Blaise handled the business side and Jim was the chef providing us with delicious dips, a sample of appetizers (the seared scallops on a watermelon and in some cilantro sauce were delicious), and a sample of the main course. The dishes were full of flavor, unlike other big name caterers in the area and showed Jim's excitement and passion for his craft. Blaise and Jim were both helpful in consulting with us to create a customized menu that would work best for us as well as our family and friends. Also, since we had a set budget, they were really flexible and came up with creative ways to help us stay within our budget. During the caterer walkthrough, Blaise made the experience an easy one by helping us select our table linens, napkins, and silverware that fit with the style and color of the ball room. She was easy to work with and extremely accomodating and professional throughout the whole process. During the wedding, the staff provided were professional and efficient. In addition to the two bars and bartenders, they had waiters walk around with trays full of wine and beer to serve to our guests. We thought this was a nice classy touch and had our guest feeling special. Overall, Fusions Cuisine was a joy to work with and provided a professional service that is accomodating to their customers, while also serving delicious food that made the wedding feel special. We would highly recommend you to use them!
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Reviewed On:
11/04/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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Heidi and Ben
Wedding: 07/03/2009
Reviews:
6
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Blaise and Jim of Fusions Cuisine are wonderful at what they do. Blaise is warm and caring and on point with business side of catering. She is timely and professional with quotes and pricing and will work with you to help you get what you want and within budget. Jim is creative with his food and not only does it look good is also tasty. They are flexible and kind and I would recommend them to anyone.
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Reviewed On:
07/21/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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Lisa
Wedding: 07/03/2009
Reviews:
7
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Fusions is the best "bang for your buck" here in the DC area. When we first met with them for our tasting, we fell in love not only with their unique food and amazing tastes, but also with the owners of the company, Jim and Blaise. They are so relaxed and easy to work with, and present such an amazing product at the end of the day. You end up wanting to just hang out with them! Our guests were absolutely floored with the food, particularly the passed appetizers during cocktail hour. The unique presentations and combinations of flavors blew everyone away, and gave that high class taste that we were looking for at an incredibly reasonable budget. I can't imagine that any other caterer in the DC area can offer the assortment of unique tastes combined with the incredible people.
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Reviewed On:
07/13/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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Stephanie
Wedding: 05/09/2009
Reviews:
1
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The very best compliment I can give Fusions Cuisine (and I can give a lot), is that 6 months after our wedding, people are STILL saying: "The food at your wedding was the BEST food." and then they always say "It was NOT 'wedding food'!" Anyone who has ever been to several weddings and always had the same "chicken with weird white sauce" will appreciate that Fusions Cuisine provides hands down the most creative, delicious, and above all UNIQUE event food you'll ever encounter.
*Our wedding:*
We had a casual but festive event with 100 guests at the Torpedo Factory Art Center Old Town Alexandria, VA (www.torpedofactory.org). We didn't want any partially hydrogenated/high-fructose corn syrup, etc., and it was important that our food was fresh and unique. We wanted something different and not boring. Fusions absolutely transformed our venue into a cool, beautiful place. We wanted pre-ceremony appetizers, buffet with mediterranean-style food, a relaxed atmosphere, a full-service bar, and a scotch tasting bar. The service was so so great and the food was amazing! This is honestly a fantastic choice for a caterer.
*Food:*
Jim is a wonderful chef and just a great guy. For our first meeting, they invited us to their home and we sampled several dishes, including risotto with white truffle oil. The fizzy non-alcoholic ginger drink they make is awesome and was a perfect choice to go with our pre-ceremony appetizers.
As I said before, people are STILL complimenting us on the food! hah it will come out of nowhere. People we haven't seen since the wedding will bring it up!
Seriously it was like having a chef from a really nice restaurant come to your party and make you amazing food. Blaise made sure that the leftovers were packed up for us nicely so we got to nosh the next day.
*Service:*
Blaise and Jim are very nice and accommodating, but what sets Fusions apart is that EVERYONE we met -- including the servers at our wedding -- were so nice! Just so pleasant and an absolute pleasure to work with. People at the wedding made comments about how great the service was.
We had a very tight timeline because of our venue, and the entire staff made an amazing transformation in a short amount of time.
*Style:*
Blaise helped us pick out table cloths, dinner ware, etc., and she has excellent taste. For NOT a lot of money, we were able to have a very stylish, artsy, posh wedding. She totally got that we didn't want "matchy-matchy" and helped us pull off a wonderful mix of colors and textures.
*Extras:*
One of the best parts about working with Fusions was that we actually learned a lot about the food they were making. Because we were interested, Jim explained not only what might go into, say, the ratatouille, but where he gets his vegetables, how he choses them, where the spices originate from, etc. etc. -- it was fascinating. (By the way, they also do cooking classes for small groups and I can see why they are so popular!)
Another thing I wanted to mention is that we also had several of our friends helping with the wedding (e.g., my sister made signs for the scotch tasting bar, my aunt made the wedding cake), and Blaise et al. were VERY accommodating. My friend who made the centerpieces kind of commandeered one of their tables for about an hour or so before the wedding -- Blaise and the crew didn't complain and were extremely helpful. This is part of why our wedding was so successful, because it all had a wonderful happy feel and just ran so smoothly.
*Price:*
Fusions Cuisine is reasonably priced considering the high quality that you get. Other caterers that we met with simply brushed us off with a brochure when they discovered our price range OR came close but couldn't offer the little extras we wanted (and gave us a non-personalized, hard-to-pronounce menu).
*Tips for working with them:*
Blaise is who organizes the event and handles the payments, etc. Make sure that you tell them exactly what you want and a pretty solid timetable. It will make the process go much more smoothly for everyone. For example, we described what we wanted at our first meeting, and they quoted us a price, but it wasn't until later in the process that we realized we hadn't included an important part of our event (the scotch bar). So we had to go back and rework the price. Blaise was very accommodating throughout, however, and worked with us patiently the whole way.
Also for the menu, don't be afraid to go out of your comfort zone. Jim welcomes a challenge and can alter the food any way you wish after the final tasting. For example, we requested Moroccan lamb, which he said he had never tried before. When we tasted it we said we'd like the spiciness bumped up, and at the wedding it was perfect.
This is a long review, but that's what happens when you are a very happy customer -- you can't help but share!!
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Reviewed On:
11/07/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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Elizabeth and Nick
Wedding: 04/25/2009
Reviews:
10
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The food Fusions provided for our April 2009 wedding was fantastic! We received so many compliments!
Blaise and Jim did a great job with everything. They were incredibly responsive, and worked with us to create an ecletic international menu that was truly representative of who we are. Jim (the chef) was more than game to try new recipes and cuisines (mini Chicago deep dish pizzas, Ethiopian lentils).
Blaise was incredibly patient with all of our questions and requests, and was a calm presence throughout the wedding day. She was incredibly respectful of our homemade touches (diy cake stands, brownies instead of wedding cake, very informal service), which was refreshing! I felt like a lot of the caterers we talked to expected all weddings to be formal affairs with a white fondant cake, and they would look down their noses at us when we said we wanted something different. But not Blaise!
As a bonus, Fusions (and our venue) allowed us to bring our own alcohol, which saved us a ton of money. They also let us bring our own dessert (a friend baked us a spread of brownies).
I highly, highly recommend Fusions, and would hire them again in a heartbeat.
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Reviewed On:
04/27/2009
Services Used:
Catering
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Brandy
Wedding: 09/20/2008
Reviews:
2
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Many guests raved about the food - it was absolutely wonderful! Ask about ordering extra because your guests will want to go back for seconds. Blaise helped me a lot with planning details other than just food and rentals.
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Reviewed On:
10/15/2008
Services Used:
Catering, Event Rentals
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Lindsay
Wedding: 06/21/2008
Reviews:
2
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Fusions Cuisine was more than just your traditional caterer for our wedding, they pretty much became our counselors, wedding coordinators, and friends. The food was amazing and above and beyond anything that we could have wished for. The menu was innovative, exciting, and fun. How often do you get to say that about wedding food! Plus they catered to our needs, allergies, and personal preferences. In addition to offering the amazing food, which people are still talking about, they were extremely helpful in linking us up with area venders and gave us excellent recommendations on items such as flowers, decorations, and alcohol. I relied on them a lot and trusted their judgement and they never let me down. The staff especially was amazing and extremely polite, professional, and again fun, during the actual reception. I couldn't say enough about how much I enjoyed working with everyone, honestly everyone, at Fusions.
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Reviewed On:
11/16/2008
Services Used:
Catering
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bluefawn42
Wedding: 06/07/2008
Reviews:
5
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Absolutely amazing!!! The staff and their white glove service was superb and the food was a high point of the event. Every guest was raving about the delicious meal and it's unique FUSION of flavors.
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Reviewed On:
06/20/2008
Services Used:
Catering, Event Rentals
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purky
Wedding: 05/18/2008
Reviews:
1
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We are a multi-ethnic couple- Indian(he), Jewish(she).
For the wedding, we wanted to create a cuisine that would reflect both cultures. But how do you mix spicy Indian with Eastern European Jewish?!!
Enter, Jimmy and Blaise from Fusion Cuisines. Jimmy, who has many years experience in fine dining, prepared a meal for us blending both Indian and Jewish themes. One bite and we knew we had found our caterer.
With Jimmy's fantastic creativity and Blaise's aesthetics, attention to detail and understanding of atmosphere and weddings, we were in good hands! It was also on Blaise's advice that we finally found our wedding venue.
The big day was a blast! The guests loved the old-world ambiance of the Thomas Birkby house. The menu was an experience worth remembering. Ah! the hors d'oeuvres with the ginger lemonade. And finally the main course: chicken, salmon, rice, vegetables cooked in Jimmy's inimitable style. Both of our families were happy!
But what touched our hearts is that Blaise happily worked to provide these fantastic services within our modest budget. Two, no four thumbs up for Fusion Cuisines!
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Reviewed On:
06/25/2008
Services Used:
Catering
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zeewalt
Wedding: 05/04/2008
Reviews:
8
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We came across Fusions Cuisine from a recommendation from a friend of ours that also used them for her wedding. We were looking for an all vegetarian cuisine that was unique and very classy. We met with Jim and Blaise for a tasting the first time we met with them and we were hooked. Jim is a creative, unique and wonderful chef ,and also a great person so it was very easy to work with him on menu selections and getting the menu to be exactly what we hoped for. We had six different hors d'oeuvre, a delicious beet salad with goat cheese (I'm generally not a beet fanatic either), white mushroom and white corn roulade and finishing off with a delicious dessert flight. Our second tasting with Fusions included every item that was going to be at the wedding. Some caterers do not do this and we really liked the fact they did. Blaise worked on providing us everything else aside from the food aspect for all the rentals and cost. She worked wonderfully with our wedding coordinator and made the tables look beautiful at the wedding.
I highly recommend Fusions Cuisine if you want excellent food at your wedding!!!!
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Reviewed On:
05/10/2008
Services Used:
Catering
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Meghan
Wedding: 09/22/2007
Reviews:
5
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We picked Fusions because we thought it was a far better deal than some of the bigger caterers in the area (Ridgewells, Occassions), they were recommended by our planner, we wanted personal attention, and the food tasted fantastic. Blaise and Jim were very easy to work with and Jim's food is fantastic. The tasting was great, we liked our linen choices a lot, and overall everything went very, very well.
There were a couple of issues the day of, in terms of following through on the contract. I would classify these issues as minor but still annoying.
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Reviewed On:
10/15/2007
Services Used:
Catering
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Melissa
Wedding: 09/17/2006
Reviews:
5
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James Thompson, the chef and owner of Fusions Cuisine, is an unbelievable artist. Not only is his food of exceptional taste and quality, it is presented like a beautiful work of art. All of my guests are still raving about the food almost four months after the wedding.
Fusion's cuisine gives its clients the utmost in personalized attention. They are happy to work within the confines of your budget and create a menu especially for you. This is not your average cookie-cutter catering company where you are given a list of food items from which to create your menu, working with Fusions is like having your own personal chef for your wedding day!
Fusions will also handle all of your event rentals for the day. The event manager, Blaise Thompson, is a complete genius. She has unparalleled experience in event planning industry that will ensure your wedding day is perfection.
If you want delicious tasting, restaurant quality food, first class service, and the peace of mind of knowing your wedding is in the hands of complete professionals, hire Fusions Cuisine!
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Reviewed On:
01/03/2007
Services Used:
Catering
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erinash815
Wedding: 09/05/1008
Reviews:
5
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Fusions Cuisine not only has the best food I've tasted (not just catering food, but even better than most restaraunts) they are flexible, accommodating, patient, and helpful. I would use them again for anything else that comes up. In fact, we enjoyed their food so much at the tastings, we used them for our rehearsal dinner as well! Highly recommended!!!
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Reviewed On:
09/20/2008
Services Used:
Catering
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4.9/5.0
