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Mediterranean Deli, Bakery and Catering Reviews

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery and Catering

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery and Catering

Chapel Hill, NC
4.7 out of 5 rating, 18 Reviews
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    Sarah Sent on 04/28/2024
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    Wonderful experience with Med Deli

    Med Deli was great to work with from the tasting through our wedding day. The food was delicious and there were so many great options. Everyone had great things to say. The service at the event was great.
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    Lauren G. Sent on 05/27/2022
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    Delicious and so easy!

    Our guests loved the vegetarian, vegan and carnivore options Med Deli provided. Their catering staff was extremely easy to work with, the food was beautifully displayed and got rave reviews. Delightful!
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    Lindsay Sent on 09/09/2018
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    Food was my top priority for my wedding and Med Deli came through with flying colors. Med Deli was my favorite spot to eat while in grad school at UNC and I was so happy to include them in my special day. When I first contacted them, my husband and I got to go and literally taste every item in the restaurant in order to select what to include for our menu. They worked with us to create a varied menu that appealed to everyone from kids to adults from vegetarians to meat eaters. My favorite items were the lamb kabobs and the fennel and orange salad. The catering staff was attentive and professional and they even helped us box up all the leftovers.
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    Erin Sent on 04/04/2018
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    My husband and I picked Med Deli as our future wedding caterer before we were even engaged because it is our favorite restaurant in Chapel Hill. We currently live abroad and I arranged everything without a wedding planner. Everyone was amazing to work with and did a great job of answering my many question via email. Nabil was our catering captain and was an absolute champion - he and the crew helped with moving our chairs from ceremony to reception, bartending services, dinner direction for the buffet, and clean up at the end of the night. My mom couldn't say enough about how helpful they were. The food was excellent (just like we knew it would be!) and our guests were well informed about allergens, etc by the signage. We cannot recommend Med Deli enough!
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    Liz Sent on 12/19/2016
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    Med Deli is amazing!! We wanted something unique instead of traditional wedding food--- and that's exactly what we got. They were very reasonably priced, easy to work with, very professional, and absolutely delicious. They also have many vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, which was a huge bonus for us. We had multiple people tell us it was the best wedding food they ever had! And there was SO MUCH food. We had so much leftover at the end that we were able to donate to a local shelter. I absolutely recommend Mediterranean Deli!
  • User2322912 Sent on 09/18/2015
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    The Mediterranean Deli provided excellent food and excellent service. Multiple people at my wedding made the comment that this was the best food they have ever eaten at a wedding. (I think a lot of them didn't even notice that my entire event was vegetarian!) Even more impressive was the staff. They seamlessly incorporated items that my family provided (drinking glasses, wedding cake, beer, and wine) alongside their own food, and made everything look beautiful. They provided bar tending and cake cutting services, and very discretely moved around throughout the evening and gathered all used glasses and plates to keep the place clean and uncluttered. They did an expert job of making the event run smoothly, and, at the end, everything was organized and packaged and ready for transport home. They even packed the leftover food into "to go" containers. I cannot say enough good things about them. (Not to mention, going to their location in Chapel Hill to select the spread for our wedding was the most fun and delicious afternoon I can recall!) Choose them. Trust them. Relax and enjoy!
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    My husband and I are from Chapel Hill, and Med Deli had been one of our favorite restaurants for years. We initially contacted them to cater our rehearsal dinner, but their coordinator was so much more responsive than the reception caterer we had initially chosen, and we knew the food was going to be delicious, so we chose to have them cater the wedding reception instead. Also, the amount of free food we got at the consultation was crazy :)
    We had poached salmon, Moroccan chicken, fennel salad, hearts of palm salad, fatayers, hummus, pita, grape leaves, and falafel on the menu. The food was phenomenal, and the wait staff (including the bartender) was great as well. They took care of everything, including saving my husband and I some food, setting up the bar, and setting up and cleaning up our plate/utensil/glasses rentals (we rented those from our tent rental company, though Med Deli offered dinnerware rentals as well). All in all the best value we could've imagined from a caterer!
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    Maryann Sent on 02/14/2014
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    They catered our wedding and everything was amazing! The food, the servers, the price, EVERYTHING! I highly recommend them for catering your wedding!
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    Stacey Sent on 06/01/2010
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    My wife and I are UNC alum and have always enjoyed eating at Med Deli. We know the owner not only for his excellent food, but as a very generous and active member of our local community. When we decided to get married in Chapel Hill we asked Jamil (the owner) to cater our May 2010 wedding and had an excellent experience! Jamil's team was very responsive to our needs before and during our event - they made themselves available to answer questions and adjust our the menu to meet our financial goals. Additionally, Med Deli uses compostable plateware and cutlery to lessen the weddings environmental impact. We cannot say enough great things about the food and the servic - we are customers for life!!
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    Mariya Sent on 05/30/2023
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    Great food and service for our wedding

    We were looking for the food that would be different from what is typically offered for wedding receptions, so we went with Med Deli.
    They offered us a tasting where we had so many options it was even hard to choose, but you can find something for every taste (or food restriction). We had a buffet-style reception and everything went very smoothly. The staff was very professional and attentive to details. All the guests I spoke to complemented our food, and we loved it too. It even looks good on photos too.
    One of the best decisions for our wedding.
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    Riley P. Sent on 09/06/2019
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    Amazing food

    You know the classic overcooked chicken and steak with some random veggies you get at a wedding? This was not that. Med Deli was the first place we did a tasting at and we had no idea what to expect as we aren't from Chapel Hill, and we were sold from the very first meeting. They set us up with a table full of ALL of their food, and let us try everything, and then take home all of the leftovers! They had very reasonable pricing as well and have great choices for all diets (gluten free, vegan, vegetarian). They were very punctual for set up on the day of, and the only complaint I have is the delivery man didn't speak English at all and it made it very difficult to communicate where we wanted everything, especially since we were a very do it yourself wedding with a delivery time very close to the ceremony time. It ended up okay and the food was as delicious on the day of as it was on our food tasting!
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    Ivy Sent on 03/26/2018
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    My husband picked Med Deli for our off site caterer. They have so many different options, handle a variety of dietary restrictions with ease, and their pricing was super reasonable. They also provided staffing at the reception which included set-up, serving food, and clean-up. The manager of my reception venue said Nabil and his staff were wonderful to work with. Most of my dealings with Med Deli was through my wedding planner. She has worked with them numerous times so she knew what to expect and what they needed. Pre-wedding communication from what little I dealt directly with Med Deli was confusing and a bit disorganized. We struggled with getting a detailed invoice prior to the wedding so we could know expect our final bill to be. Without my planner I think I would have certainly been more stressed. But the day of the wedding everything went smoothly and the final invoice was correct.
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    Kay Sent on 06/07/2017
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    We loved using Mediterranean Deli for catering our wedding reception! They were so flexible: from dairy and gluten free options to organizing the china/flatware/napkin rentals to letting us bring in some Southern food my mom made as well. They are just such great people to work with. Nabil was great. Couldn't be happier! All our guests raved about the food!
  • User1127066 Sent on 04/05/2013
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    This caterer came highly recommended by everyone we mentioned it to, and for good reason. The setting was beautiful, the staff was wonderful, and the management was professional. Not to mention the delicious food! They are a little pricey, particularly when there were $2000 of miscellaneous expenses in the end, but you get what you pay for.
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    Susan Sent on 10/14/2013
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    Anyone who has been to Med Deli knows that the food is yummy, inexpensive, and simple. We really enjoyed having them cater our wedding. The food was delicious and I think guests really enjoyed having a non-traditional option (we did a buffet with different salad options, chicken, spanikopita, pita, and dips). The staff at Med Deli was really helpful as we went through many iterations of the menu. It probably would have been a bit easier to have worked with just one person instead of the 3-4 different folks who work on the catering side. It did take some back and forth with different people to get everything completely worked out (they initially had the wrong date for the event and we had been told a few different prices by different folks). However, everyone we worked with was VERY nice and easy to work with. It was also a great deal! They went out of their way to make everything affordable and even changed their staffing to try to cut down the final bill. Ultimately, we were happy with how everything turned out. Thanks Med Deli!
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    Jared W. Sent on 11/09/2018
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    Amazing Food, Average Communication

    We couldn't be happier with how the food turned out on our wedding day from Med Deli. Multiple guests complimented the food, we loved it, and the service was excellent. Our only complaints would be with the communication during the planning process. They would be a little slow to respond at times, which wasn't a big issue, but two things worried us as we prepared for the wedding. First, Med Deli would only price out the entire menu for us without being transparent what certain items cost or what would be good to replace them for an equal or less budget, etc. Second, they called the day before the wedding to "confirm" a lot of information and had some wrong including the time off by 3 hours. This was not ultimately a problem since they did call and got the facts right, but it had us very worried that they weren't fully prepared the day before the wedding. Despite these small worries, the end result was perfect - amazing food, great service, and a decent value on our wedding day.
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    Beverly Sent on 11/03/2014
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    We were very impressed with the hospitality shown by Med Deli on our initial consultation- they gave me and my bridesmaid so much food to try that we ended up taking 7 full clamshells of leftovers. Their food is delicious, attractive, reasonably priced, and feels fun and festive; in my opinion, perfect for a wedding! The only negative thing was that we signed a contract with them a year in advance, then a month in advance, we called to confirm, and at first they couldn't find any record of our contract! Not what you want to hear! But after 20 minutes, they found it and everything turned out fine, so that was just a minor hiccup. Still, be sure to make that confirmation call!
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    David L. Sent on 09/25/2022
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    Getting the food was easy eating it was a different story

    Nothing resembles real Mediterranean food. The falfel was more bread than chickpeas, no spices and no taste. The Humus was awful, again nothing like it should be. Every dish that included chicken was overcooked and dry. The tahini was watery and and so on. Would not recommend this place to anyone.
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