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Planning an event isn't easy but we can help ease your stress by taking care of your catering needs. Bollywood Bistro is a renowned contemporary North Indian Cuisine restaurant located in the heart of Fairfax, VA. The extensive catering menu offers wide array of choices for our valued customers including customizing dishes to your specific needs.

From the formal to the informal; from small luncheons to elegant affairs; from corporate events to more personal private parties-we cater every event. Our goal is to create an unforgettable event for each and every customer of ours and to achieve 100% customer satisfaction through our dedication.

formal; from small luncheons to elegant affairs; from corporate events to more personal private parties-we cater every event. Our goal is to create an unforgettable event for each and every customer of ours and to achieve 100% customer satisfaction through our dedication.

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Bollywood Bistro is an outstanding Indian wedding caterer serving delicious, authentic dishes that stayed high-quality even in large batches. They offer a wide variety, including traditional Marathi items, and are organized, responsive, and helpful with tastings and on‑day logistics. Highly recommended for weddings.

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Bollywood Bistro is an outstanding Indian wedding caterer serving delicious, authentic dishes that stayed high-quality even in large batches. They offer a wide variety, including traditional Marathi items, and are organized, responsive, and helpful with tastings and on‑day logistics. Highly recommended for weddings.

Reed
Reed Sent on 06/14/2026
5 out of 5 rating

Highly recommend Bollywood Bistro!

Bollywood Bistro is the best Indian caterer for your wedding or event!!! We used them for our wedding in April 2026, after they catered another family wedding in 2018. Pankaj and his entire team are exceptional – they will work with you on ensuring not only a fantastic menu with a range of flavors, but also making sure that the operations and logistics on the day are organized so that your guests are well served. Pankaj attended the walkthrough with us to advise on stationed and passed apps, the number of servers, and ensure that the buffet set up was organized well so that guests didn’t wait too long for food. At our tasting, he spoke with us about the different dishes so that we made sure to showcase a variety of flavors and worked with us to incorporate traditional items that were important to our family. We love working with Pankaj and team, and cannot recommend enough!
Raj
Raj Sent on 09/15/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Unbelievably great food, service, staff, and overall experience

We took Bollywood Bistro Catering for our Mehndi, Wedding Ceremony lunch, and reception dinner. We could not have asked for a better experience. Here is the email we sent to Pankaj Sharma (owner).

With great pleasure and gratitude, we are writing to you. You and your staff, including Vimal, made our daughter's wedding a phenomenal success with the amazingly tasty food. All our guests mentioned this countless times. Please convey our sincere thanks to your chefs and the entire serving staff-everyone was friendly and courteous.

Many of our guests were of Maharashtrian origin and truly appreciated the Marathi dishes. Everyone especially loved the taro leaves patal bhaji, potato bhaji, varan, cucumber koshimbir, and shrikhand. The pav bhaji was also a huge hit. In fact, every dish was enjoyed, and we are very grateful for that.
Maya
Maya Sent on 08/23/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Incredible Food 1000% recommend

We went with Bollywood Bistro for our wedding Reception and it was honestly the one of the best decisions we made. The food was absolutely delicious and all of our guests raved about every single dish that was provided on Sunday. We were able to grab a plate with our dinner items at the reception, and we must say, the dishes were absolutely amazing, probably the best we've ever had. The food already tasted amazing during the tastings and somehow all the food tasted better during the wedding reception, which is incredibly rare since we were expecting a drop in quality because of the bulk, but the food made in bulk was incredible.

We also really appreciate the hospitality and kindness, Mr. Sharma, and the rest of the Bollywood Bistro team provided to our families during the food tastings. They were incredibly kind and Mr. Sharma dropped by many times to talk casually and made conversation, which made us feel incredibly welcomed.

Would 1000% recommend for any wedding.
Angela
Angela Sent on 07/04/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Everyone loved the food

We had a complicated catering situation. We hired two caterers for our Indian-fusion wedding, and Bollywood Bistro provided the Indian food. We loved the matar paneer, apps, and desserts. Our guests were so happy with the food. Pankaj was very responsive to the groom's father, who was in charge of coordination with Bollywood. They also worked well with our main caterer, Zeffert & Gold. We highly recommend!
Tanaya
Tanaya Sent on 10/16/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Great experience

We catered Bollywood Bistro for our wedding- cocktail hour and reception. Pankaj was very professional and has so much experience with weddings. He knew exactly how to operate in a venue which he had never done a wedding in. We even had a tasting prior to the wedding which most other catering vendors didn't allow. The food was delicious and we got many compliments by choosing Bollywood Bistro. We would definitely recommend them again for any event.
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Adam Sent on 05/22/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Bollywood Bistro is amazing -- highly recommend!

We had many, many guests comment on how awesome the food was at our wedding -- it was absolutely delicious. Bollywood Bistro catered both our Sangeet/Mehndi and the wedding, with the first night being Indo-Chinese food and the wedding was Indian food. Our only regret was not eating more appetizers! Simply put, it was extremely high-quality food at a reasonable price -- excellent value. Pankaj and the team at Bollywood Bistro are also extremely easy to work with, professional, and very responsive, which we greatly appreciated (as wedding planning is stressful, but this was a vendor we did not need to worry about). We had a fusion wedding, and the groom's side (who are not Indian) all loved the food as well. There was a really good mix of spicey and less-spicey options. Overall, we cannot recommend Bollywood Bistro enough!
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Ranjani Sent on 12/29/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Bollywood Bistro was fantastic!

Bollywood Bistro catered for my daughter's wedding. The food was flavorful and delicious. Guests were raving about the masala chai. BB staff was professional and made sure everything went smoothly. Thank you, BB!!
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Karthik Sent on 11/12/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Wedding Catering

Exceptional.

Pankaj and his team at Bollywood Bistro did everything possible to provide a unique experience for our wedding events, with both classic items, as well as modern twists. The process throughout was incredibly fun, as we visited his restaurant in Fairfax a few too many times :) to sample and create new items with him. We challenged him with a number of "off-menu" requests that he recreated with flying colors. Guests at our wedding raved about both the uniqueness and quality of the food, and Pankaj's team went out of the way to make sure that the bride and groom were fed (noting that this sometimes doesn't happen for couples on their wedding day given the hectic nature of what is going on).

The team is incredibly professional, manages expectations appropriately, is honest about what will and won't work, and extremely flexible to tailor catering for your event exactly the way you envision.

HIGHLY recommend to anyone looking for event catering in the area (or just for a meal as well).

You certainly won't be disappointed, and we will certainly be back to eat more of the delicious food.
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Stephanie Sent on 09/15/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Raving reviews from all engagement party guests who tasted this food

Pankaj Sharma and Bollywood Bistro graciously caterered an impeccable spread of indian and indo-Chinese items for our engagement party. A week removed and we are still receiving compliments from guests for the unmatched flavors and unique nature of appetizers and entrees.

From a warm welcome and delicious food tasting, to fantastic responsiveness, fair pricing and great event-day service you deserve Bollywood Bistro for your event. You and your guests will be glad you did!
Roger
Roger Sent on 05/06/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing food and very professional

Bollywood Bistro did a lunch and dimmer for my sangeet night. The stations were set up so well and everyone complemented the food. Their INdian food is great but they did other cuisines as well which were delicious. I would most definitely recommend and use them again.
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