Mr. Pankaj Sharma and the Bollywood Bistro team did an outstanding job catering for my wife and my wedding weekend. We had a roughly 300 person South Asian wedding in venues in DC and Arlington, VA. The Bollywood Bistro team provided heavy appetizers and bar service for our welcome party, welcome drinks (chai, lassi) for our ceremony, appetizers for our cocktail hour, and a buffet dinner and desserts. This food catered equally to a more vegetarian Indian audience as well as a non-vegetarian Pakistani audience. Several of these services including live stations (chaat, pani puri, jalebi, etc.). The food was excellent; many of our guests came up to our families and us to let us know how much they loved it. On top of this, Pankaj and his team were highly professional, timely, and presented all the food appropriately for our venues.

I strongly recommend Bollywood Bistro's catering services for a large South Asian wedding and would absolutely work with them again.

We don’t have enough words to explain how thankful we are for Mr. Pankaj Sharma and his team at Bollywood Bistro!! Our guests still talk about how delicious the food was at our wedding! As a “mixed” couple, it was really important to us to work with a caterer who could thoughtfully bridge both Indian and American palettes, and Bollywood Bistro certainly exceeded every expectation. The food was beautifully balanced with something for everyone. Throughout the planning process, Mr. Sharma was intentional with his feedback and helped us curate a menu that worked for everyone. Even during the venue walkthrough, it was evident that his mindset was more on the lines of “how do we make the most of what we have” rather than “how do we add more.” That approach made a huge difference in helping us stay within our budget and also feel excited about it. Additionally, WE LOVED how the bartenders (Fabio and Allen) kept the party going and brought so much life to our celebration! The food and bar was the most stress-free part of our wedding celebration thanks to this team. We are so thankful to Mr. Sharma and the Bollywood Bistro team for being such an important part of our day, and we would highly recommend them to anyone looking for wedding catering!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!!

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.