My now husband and I held our lunch reception at Maggiano's Little Italy in Bellevue. I don't even know where to begin, they were more than amazing for our reception. The food as always was fantastic. My family is Italian so we have very high standards for our Italian food. My grandpa was most excited when the waiters came and asked if they would like to take home the leftovers! They boxed up left overs for all of our 160 guests! Every one at our wedding agreed that was the best wedding favor they've ever gotten to take home.
As for meeting our needs and keeping everything running smoothly I couldn't have been happier, if anything went wrong I never found out (to this day), and I never noticed. I even had a bridesmaid with strict allergies to gluten and dairy, the head waiter came and asked me which bridesmaid I pointe her out and they took her order and made her a 4 course gluten, and dairy free meal, of which she said was the best one she'd ever had at a restaurant (all at no charge)!
Our banquet room was so beautiful, it was very old world Italian, American which made my grandparents so happy. The feel of the whole experience was just amazing. My husband and I go back there whenever we feel like a romantic night out and we still get the same level of attention and service from the waiters.
It's a beautiful venue, with a very unique feel, and for us with the lunch menu more financially reasonable than even we could have imagined especially for 160 guests. If you go with Maggiano's you will not regret it at all!

Our 185 person wedding reception was held in the Maggiano's banquet room. The dinner was served family style, and any food that wasn't served was packed for us to take home. We really appreciated this since the food was so delicious!

Maggiano's had many servers available to circulate the banquet room to ensure all guests were well taken care of. They worked will with our cake vendor and decorator to make sure they had ample time to prepare the room long before the guests arrived. There isn't a single thing we would change about the execution of the event.

The reason why we gave responsiveness four stars is because the banquet coordinator changed three times during the eight months of planning. Despite this, however, all information was passed from one coordinator to the next flawlessly. We highly recommend Maggiano's for any reception of banquet events.