The venue that my wife and I got married at listed Culinary Eye as one of their preferred vendors.
We met with John and expressed to him what our vision was for the wedding, rustic chic, garden chic, casual and he put together a menu that fit our theme.

Not only did John prepare a menu that my wife and I agreed on, he was able to work within our budget which was most important. Because our budget was on the lower side, I feel that we didn't compromise on quality.

Once we agreed on our menu we were invited to a tasting. We had to pay for the dinner tasting but it was applied to our overall bill at the end. John and his team try and source local ingredients that are seasonal at the time of our wedding which we liked. We made minor tweaks to our menu but for the most part our menu stayed in tact.

After a few months we're we're invited back to John's showroom to pick out our linens, stemware, and dinnerware.

At this time John really comforted us as both my wife and I started to feel the pressures of the wedding planning. He made us feel at ease.

The dinner tasted fabulous from what I remember. We were so busy mingling with our guests that we really didn't finish our dinner HOWEVER our guests raved about the dinner and mentioned how the food tasted so good!!!

Even during the wedding John checked up on us from time to time. Overall I would recommend John and Culinary Eyes in a heartbeat! O would recommend them any day of the week and twice on Sunday!!
I forgot to mention that we got married during Labor weekend which was one of the hottest days on record! So despite the triple digit temperature l, John and his team did an AMAZING job!!!

Attached are some photos that our guests shared with us.

Culinary Eye Catering catered our wedding reception cocktail and dinner. They were amazing! John Silva and his team are awesome. The food was phenomenal. The service top notch. Everything about the process from start to the actual event was great. Their food and presentation was one the things we were most excited about for our wedding and it all lived up to the excitement. We received lots of compliments about the food from our guests and you could tell it was a highlight. I very highly recommend Culinary Eye.

John and the team at Culinary Eye are truly incredible. From the first time we met with John, we instantly kicked with his laid back, mellow demeanor. He was excited to do something different with us and played into my request of adding family tradition with our menu. John is so much fun to work with! Everyone couldn't stop talking about how delicious the food was, and food was very important to us. The farmer's market salad, salmon, polenta, winter squash, braised short rib, and build your own ice cream sandwich bar was all just beyond perfection. John himself even came out to serve us dinner and we had our own tray of appetizers waiting for us after the ceremony. We felt like true celebrities! Can't recommend John and the Culinary Eye team enough, and I am already looking forward to the next event we can hire them!

John Silva and his team at Culinary Eye prepared and served an amazing feast for our outdoor wedding of 150. Countless guests commented on the food being some of the best they had ever had at any catered event. John and his staff were as committed to creating something amazing as we were. Culinary Eye was responsive, professional, and an absolute joy to work with. After one meeting, John and Collins felt like friends, teammates, and partners. If you appreciate good food and are looking for a partner to work with to help prepare an unforgettable culinary experience for your guests, hire Culinary Eye immediately. My wife is a Northern California foodie. Meals are a cultural experience. Salads are works of art. Meat and fish must be perfectly prepared. Flavors must be fresh and powerful. We sought a caterer who shared these values. After one phone call with John, we knew we had found our caterer. John and Collins are passionate about their food, but were open to our suggestions and preferences. When we had an idea that just didn’t make sense, they told us, and they told us why. They were invested in creating an amazing experience for our guests, and incorporated and elaborated upon our feedback. John arrived at 10 a.m. on the wedding day for a ceremony that would not begin until 5:00. Why 10 a.m.? Because that’s who John is. John worked seamlessly with our wedding coordinator and our vendors. At the wedding, guests were served bite-sized morsels to whet their appetites for the main event. They were flavorful and beautiful. The main course was wild fresh salmon and tri-tip for 150. Perfectly done. You think polenta is boring? Not the way they do it. You want a caterer who gets there at 10 am just in case, and who holds the quartet’s umbrella because the music must go on. You want John and Culinary Eye on your team.

John and his team are fantastic. Since our wedding, two of our pairs of friends have hired the Culinary Eye guys to cater their weddings, and we still hear from guests about how we had the best wedding food of all time. We agree!

When planning, good food was our #1 requirement. We would have gotten married in a parking lot, as long as the meal was great. Fortunately, we got married somewhere stunning AND the meal was great.

We had a family style dinner, with several seasonal salads and entrees sent out to each table for people to share. My favorite dish was the paella, which John subbed shrimp into at my request. Yum! We also had their signature ice cream bar, which friends have raved about (and which photographs really well.)

The team also helped out with some of our event design, shepherding us through the rentals experience and helping think through what to get and how to organize the space. It was really helpful. They made the whole evening go super smoothly, even delivering leftover wine and food back to us.

We had two catering finalists when making our final choice, and we're sure we chose right. Our other vendor option was less costly, but significantly less sophisticated. From the first time we chatted with John, we felt he understood our vision and plans and had great ideas. We wanted our wedding meal to be truly special and Culinary Eye made it so!

John was fabulous! When we first started wedding planning, I originally thought I would do my own flowers for the table decorations. As we got closer, I realized I really needed help! My wedding coordinator, Christy Daly Matthew of Allure Consulting, recommended John and we were so lucky he was available. He is very easy to work with – organized, responsive and talented! My bouquet, the bridesmaids’ bouquets, the boutonnieres, corsages, and all the flowers throughout the wedding day were absolutely beautiful. I told John my color scheme and shared a few photos but really left it to him to decide what would look best. And I’m so glad I did! Everything was beautiful and elegant.

Absolutely awesome vendors. John and Collins created a fantastic meal and did every else along the way in our wedding experience to make the event a smash. I know that five-star reviews can tend to be a bit questionable (seriously, there had to be something a little off, right??), but in this case, I can only rave about our experience. We realize we were fairly lucky with our wedding (only one or two not-so-great business partners involved), but even so, these guys stood out from the crowd.

Expect fantastic food, great service, and two wonderful guys at the helm of the ship. Culinary Eye: simply the best.

You know that feeling you get when the event you've been planning for months (maybe even a year or two) turned out to be the most perfect day you've ever ever hoped for? Book Culinary Eye with John and Collins. That feeling will never go away. My husband and I are pretty obsessed with food. So needless to say, it was the most important part of our wedding. I could have walked down the aisle in a potato sack as long as the food was killer. And oh yes, it was. I'm Cajun, and my husband is Italian. This makes for huge flavors and an insane amount of food. John, Collins, and their staff ROCKED it! From the Tartiflette du Reblochon to the Bacon Jam Biscuits and the Little Gem salad, every ridiculously tasty plate was unique and totally us. They listened to our ideas and gave us new ones to compliment everything we wanted and so much more.

Now let's talk about those guys and their team. Working with them was a DREAM! John and Collins were so much more than our caterers. They were our friends and our unofficial counselors. The first time we met John was at a diner in the Outer Richmond. It was full of great conversation and a delightful display of ideas. We knew we really liked this guy and we wanted to take him along for the ride. We met Collins at their office shortly after, and it was love at first bite. My husband and I don't remember the last time we shared such amazing ideas and hilarious banter with two people we'd just met.

The day of was everything we hoped for and a hundred times more. I'll never forget John bringing us a plateful of goodies as my husband and I pranced around in the Redwood trees for a photo shoot. They also handled the SF Parks and Permits beautifully as the Department came at us with all kinds of obstacles. They had our backs the whole time, from day one. They hit every. Single. Detail. We cannot explain how much love we have for Culinary Eye. Book them. Right now. To John and Collins - thanks for making our day absolutely unbelievable.

Culinary Eye catered our outdoor wedding in Templeton, CA, in September. They make absolutely amazing food, but what really makes them really stand out from other caterers is the professionalism and preparedness they bring to your event. I planned an extremely complicated wedding in a non-venue location and Culinary Eye was one of the only vendors I had 100% confidence in with regards to following my elaborate plans to the detail. I got a ton of comments from our guests that this was the best wedding food they're ever had: "...and it was even hot!" - what a concept! :) John, Collins and staff are awesome!

Culinary Eye was amazing. These guys are so much fun to work with and out guests are still talking about the food!