Forno wood-fired Catering Reviews
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Gillian Sent on 11/07/2023Amazing, Delicious & the best staff!
I cannot rave more about Forno! We had the absolute best staff working w/ us from the beginning of our wedding planning during our tasting to the bartenders we hired through them at our reception! I never had an empty hand that night & they were BEYOND kind to all of our guests. This doesn't even touch on how delicious our food was as well. Everyone was super impressed w/ our grazing table & entrees! Highly recommend to anyone!Forno wood-fired Catering's reply:
Thank you so much for your kind words! We’re absolutely thrilled to hear that you had such a positive experience with Forno throughout your wedding journey. It was an honor to be part of your special day, and we’re so glad that everything from the grazing table to the bartending staff exceeded your expectations. We strive to make every moment memorable, and it’s wonderful to hear that your guests enjoyed the food and service as much as you did. Thank you again for your recommendation – wishing you both all the happiness in the world!
Warm regards,
The Forno Team -
Abby Sent on 11/25/2020
Delicious Food, Great Service!
Forno Wood-Fired Catering did an AMAZING job at our wedding! We had five courses: the antipasto and pepperoni bread for appetizers, salad, tomato cream pasta, and pizza. Everything was delicious and they were very accommodating to what we wanted for our big day. They were all super nice and helpful. We hired servers/bussers through them as well and they were so kind! We were so impressed with how helpful they were and how smoothly they helped the dinner hour go. The food was incredibly tasty and we were happy that they put some leftovers to the side for us. Our guests went on and on about how amazing the food was and how they thought that the wood-fire oven was cool. We would highly recommend Forno to anyone, and we will definitely keep them in mind for any future catered events we may have. -
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Nadine Sent on 10/01/2019
“The best wedding food I’ve ever had!!” the comment from every guest
If I could give this caterer ten stars I would! Absolutely phenomenal food! Gorgeous looking spread and it tasted even better! There is not one bad thing I could say about my experience! Joe was amazing to work with and answered all of my questions in a timely manner! Thank you so much Forno for helping make my wedding day so memorable! I only have a picture of the appetizer spread (which is beautiful) but I will add more once I get real pics back from my photographer! -
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Danielle Sent on 11/16/2016I'm so glad that we hired Matt and his crew to cater our October wedding at Patterson's Fruit Farm. We wanted something out of the box that wasn't your traditional dried wedding chicken, soggy veggies and frozen rolls. When we went to Forno for our tasting, it was just my husband and I, and Matt made us 4 pizzas, a huge salad and their amazing pepperoni rolls to try. It was a delicious feast and we booked with him on the spot. We got rave reviews at the wedding - we had over 10 types of pizzas (including gluten-free and vegan to accommodate guests), salad, pepperoni rolls, two types of pasta, plus their incredible anti-pasta display and bacon-wrapped scallops for cocktail hour. If you want to impress your guests and do something out of the box, definitely book Matt & Forno! -
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Athena Sent on 09/30/2023Absolutely delicious and felt like family
Forno wood fired catering was exactly what we wanted and more for our wedding day. We cares about making sure that we had good food at our wedding!! And it was absolutely delicious. The grazing table and pepperoni breads were such a hit along with the pizza buffet and other choices. We picked the lemon chicken and vodka pasta and people loved it! People are still talking to us about how good the food was. They left us the leftover food and also left a pizza table of all the leftover pizza which was so popular during the rest of the night while dancing.
Planning a wedding is stressful and I wanted to make sure everything was in order well in advance. If you are ok with just waiting until a week or two before to settle everything, then working with them will be / and was a breeze for that reason.
Finally, Joe and the staff were so incredibly nice and I think just genuinely care about their customers. After all is the most important day and you vendors you can trust.Forno wood-fired Catering's reply:
Dear Athena,
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience with Forno wood fired catering. We are truly honored to have been a part of your special day and are elated to hear that our food was a hit among your guests. Our team takes great pride in delivering not just delicious meals, but also in creating a memorable experience for our customers. We understand the importance of trust and reliability, especially for such a significant occasion, and we’re pleased to know we met your expectations. We wish you a lifetime of happiness and joy, and we hope to serve you again in the future.
Warm regards,
Kathy
Forno Wood Fired Catering Team -
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Rebecca Sent on 10/05/2026I would have gone with a more traditional caterer had I known I was trading taste for general professionalism
I've had a difficult time figuring out how I want to review Forno.
Pros: Food was delicious, communication beforehand was normal, they'd worked with our venue before and assured us of their ability to handle the event.
Cons: Staff on the wedding day seemed generally unvetted and uninclined to represent Forno well, wanted to wrap things up quickly, and appeared to have scheduled a pick-up order during our wedding.
I booked Forno's catering services for my wedding on September 19th 2026 after my venue recommended them. As someone who worked with my family's business in catering for nearly a decade, I knew I wanted a meal that people enjoyed and could eat plenty of rather than just a standardized pre-plated dinner. We did a tasting in November of 2025 and put down a deposit that same day. The food was amazing, the concept of having pizza made on site was really interesting, we loved working with another family owned business, and they were willing to work with about a dozen guests with dietary/allergy restrictions.
Over the course of the next nine months, I worked with Forno so that I could ensure everything ran smoothly on the wedding day: They sent their menu so I could print nice labels for the buffet line, I collected choices from those with allergies and dietary restrictions so we could clearly mark these in advance and place them in a separate location, I made Forno aware the day's timeline so they could work themselves into it, and I asked that they charge us for an additional staff member/busser so that things could run as smoothly as possible.
I just wish the professionalism reflected what I'd seen and expected from meeting with the owner. While the food was exactly as delicious as it was when we went to our tasting, there was a great amount of unecessary stress that I was hoping to avoid on my wedding day.
It started with the cocktail hour: We'd arranged for charcuterie to be done by another trusted caterer we'd worked with before, but were told by Forno that the "pizza bread" they served could be set out during this time as a sort of appetizer as well. I don't know why, but the pizza bread was simply set out with the rest of the food later. No skin off of my back, maybe I misunderstood, but it's not exactly a harbinger of good news to have miscommunication that early on.
The next part was simply baffling - in the middle of my *wedding* cocktail hour a few people walked through the middle of our event in jeans and tshirts, picked up a few pizzas (already packed into boxes), and walked out... mind you this was off-site catering. After discussing with friends and family; no one had ANY clue who these people were. I don't know how these pizzas were arranged and paid for; but considering we were about 2 hours from Forno's home location, I didn't expect to have to worry about them conducting their regular pick up and delivery schedules during my formal event. Much less that these customers would walk through the center of the wedding as though it were a normal pizza order.
The rest of the evening followed the same strange pattern of Forno not seeming to know what the outline of their work was. Because they never set anything out during cocktail hour we weren't sure if they were simply behind on their schedule. But they'd supposedly worked with our venue multiple times in the past, so we focused on trying to enjoy our evening. My mother, the day of contact and the owner of the aforementioned catering business, let the staff know when dinner was planned and checked in to ensure all was running smoothly. All guests were seated at 5:00, with the expectation that they would be dismissed by table to get food during the dances - but the person dismissing tables had to seek out Forno's staff by 5:15 to see if/when they would be putting out the food. Setting our whole schedule back.
So now we're about half way through. I should clarify that bartenders were amazing (extra staff was hired in a similar fashion to Forno so that no one was overwhelmed), charcuterie went over very well, string trio was on time and departed according to schedule, photographer/ videographer/ every other element was working as expected at a wedding.
When staff finally began putting out the pizzas, no tent cards were in sight. They'd been handed the pre-printed labels and they *just didn't* use them. Which wouldn't have been that big of an issue, had we not had people with genuine and serious allergies. My mother had to stop the staff and work with them to "figure out" which of the pizzas were safe so that those with celiacs and dairy ALLERGIES (not intolerances but hospital-style-anaphylactic-shock allergies) could eat the food they'd made selections for in advance. My mom then put out the labels for those so at the very least people could see that they were not going to have to be sent to the emergency room. Having supervised hundreds of events, the both of us were frankly appalled at this mishandling.
As if this were not frustrating enough, Forno's staff then approached us (the bride and groom), and pulled us away from speaking with guests to tell us they were going to begin closing down. Again, this wouldn't have been that great of an issue, except for the fact that multiple tables had not even been dismissed yet. We had to request that they wait at least 10 more minutes for us to finish and make a quick announcement to guests that they could go up for seconds before they cleaned up.
Some of the remaining pizza was put in boxes, but the majority was thrown onto paper plates unappatizingly and mixed up so that we were left with no choice to discard it ourselves later on in the night. We tipped the bussers (we tried to clarify gratuity expectations in advance so no one was stiffed but we were not given a clear answer) and they left.
I am a very Type A person. As such, I had a long running email chain with the company in an effort to clarify all necessary details leading up to the wedding. After catering for years and working with dozens of caterers in the past, I know that an event like mine should not have been mishandled the way that it was. I don't know where or how things went wrong with Forno speficifically, as they never asked for greater clarification, but I liked speaking/working with the owner.
I hate to review a local business so poorly, but it was my wedding day and I would have gone with a more traditional caterer had I known I was trading taste for general professionalism. -
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Kayla Sent on 09/24/2020Good food but horrible business practices
I was so excited to book Forno. The tasting was amazing and the food was really good. We were excited to have something different for our wedding day.
We booked them and paid the 500 deposit through the mail. We had extensive correspondence via email about the deposit.
1. We never received a receipt.
2. There was nothing in our email correspondence about the deposit being nonrefundable.
3. We received an invoice. Nothing on there about the deposit being nonrefundable.
4. There was no verbal statement at the time of tasting about the deposit being nonrefundable, either.
Covid happened and my fiancé and I had to reschedule. Our wedding was in May and Ohio was in a quarantine.
Forno only had Fridays. Our venue only had Fridays. So originally we reserved for a Friday in September. A day or two later we were told by our parents that the day we rescheduled for with our venue and caterer wasn’t ok because they would be in Mexico. So we rescheduled again literally two days later. There wasn’t a huge gap in time.
Finally we were scheduled for 9/11. Then we had to cancel our venue altogether because Covid was still a prominent issue and there were so many restrictions to weddings we decided to do a Saturday at our parents home and also had to cut our guest list in half. Forno informed is they would not do our 9/12 wedding on a Saturday because it wasn’t over 100 people. I asked again to be sure because we wanted to give them our business. I understood their reasoning so I relented.
Fast forward a month later I emailed them requesting our deposit and was ignored. I emailed again and was again ignored. I was cordial and polite in both emails.
So I messaged their Facebook page the same thing so I could see if the message was seen. They saw my message that morning. Since I understand people get busy I waited until 5 that day. At that time I let them know I could see they saw my message and if they preferred a phone call I would be happy to schedule a time to do that instead.
They replied with only “sorry, no refunds”
No apology for ignoring my emails or messages. Once I rebutted with the fact that was never stated and a receipt was never given they said it was a verbal commitment. That also never happened. Every correspondence in regards to a refund were done via email. And I have all of the emails.
The owner Joe was nasty. He was unrelenting and unwilling to give us our refund. It’s a shame because he has great food but has no clue how to run a business in the correct way.
If you book them make sure you get a contract or at the least a receipt for any money you give.
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