Aviyah has an infectious passion for cooking. She is very personable and easy to work with. We…read moreutilized Aviyah for my mother-in law's milestone birthday. For this intimate (three-person event), she was diligent and flexible to make this very special. During our two-hour cooking session, we had a great learning experience with a delicious meal outcome. The meal was a three-course menu - Italian wedding soup, chicken marsala entrée with side dishes and mixed berry cobbler. If you are having an intimate or large event my family and I would highly recommend Aviyah services. Thanks again Aviyah for a great meal and experience!

Aviyah posses that unique combination of talent in the kitchen and talent working with children. In…read morethe 4 years Aviyah has worked with my family she has been invaluable in so many ways, from helping cater diners and parties to basic meal prep. She also has done an incredible job at introducing and teaching cooking and baking to my two young sons. My 4 year old loves nothing more than to bake with Aviyah - thanks to her patient tutelage he can measure ingredients, break eggs, mix and scoop. Thanks to Aviyah, my children have been introduced to a variety of cuisines from different cultures, all of which come with a focus on healthy eating. Aviyah is a true gem!

I attended my niece's baby shower over the weekend. When I walked into the venue, the first thing…read moreI noticed was the beautiful layout of food for the guests. The selection was very diverse with gyoza, cucumber salad, hush puppies, jerk chicken skewers, shrimp po boy sandwiches, caprese croissant sandwiches and some other tasty foods. The amount of food was more than ample and the flavors were outstanding. As we were leaving, I saw the cater come in and efficiently take down the beautiful presentation and package up the remaining food. Quick and efficient. The next time I need a catering company DayoSense will be at the top of my list

Not impressed. Food was bland. A taco bar that consists of more than likely prepackaged food that…read morewas just dumped into pans. Nothing tasted homemade or fresh. Lettuce was brown. Churros were very soggy. Taco meat was burnt and not greatly seasoned. And tortilla wraps were still cold.

I am very disappointed with the service we received from Herban Feast. In the end, the wedding was…read morebeautiful and that is the only reason I am not leaving 1 star. The venue I got married at required us to rent all of the equipment and HF had been to the venue multiple times and said they would take care of the rental contract with the rental company. We got a sample contract and went over it with them and changed things to suit us then HF would make the changes with the rental company. Months later I went to the rental company to see the place settings in person and they pulled our contract and none of the updates had been made and many of our selections were no longer available so we had to make the changes ourselves. Something HF said they would take care of. Among the many things that had to be changed was glassware. We requested 200 small steins to be added on May 19th. On May 29th, HF confirmed the had updated equipment adds. We got the rental order straight from the rental company on June 24th and there was only 125 on the contract and they didn't have anymore available (photo attached). HF said they would charge us the rates they were paying for rentals plus a % service charge. The rental company sent us a copy of the contract created by HF and everything was cheaper than it was on our contract with HF. So we were paying a ~12% markup AND the service charge. Honestly, we wouldn't have cared about the extra cost had HF actually done what we asked with the rental company. Our coordinator was switched twice. When the changes happened, We had to start from square one each time, sending info we'd already sent. Often HF would only acknowledge one part of an email and we'd have to ask again. We were promised an updated quote by Friday, by Monday we didn't have it and followed up and were assured we would have it by the end of this week. Well, 6 weeks later we finally had the updated quote and it was missing changes (photo attached). They said they were busy with other weddings. The time wouldn't have been a big deal if they were clear about when we would have it. I know they were busy but to be frank, I don't care about the other weddings, I just wanted them to do what they said. Our main coordinator, BJ, seemed arrogant. At our tasting the salmon was raw, like totally translucent and cold. Other than that, the salmon was delicious so we requested it to be fully cooked. BJ told us the salmon was 'northwest style' and no one has ever complained about how it was cooked before, but that they could "overcook it" if that's what we wanted. I've had plenty of salmon and me, not the internet have ever heard of NW style. BJ acted as if we were the uninformed/ignorant ones but I think they made up northwest style to justify raw food. When we finally got the updated quote it was a completely different salmon dish. Changing this took way too many emails but we eventually figured it out. On the day of, everyone is waiting for food and my mom goes to check on it and the salmon is raw. Something we reiterated probably 10 times before the wedding. Now dinner is delayed 45 minutes. We also decided to add a 3rd side. Originally we had 2 sides with 200 servings each. When the 3rd was added, 200 servings were added, total 600 servings. I asked BJ if we needed an additional 200 servings for the same amount of people. He explained that when there's more options, people eat more. Feels like they're just trying to get us to spend more, but makes sense I guess. I then said "You can understand why this doesn't really make sense to me though right?" and he replied that he had no idea why it didn't make sense and he didn't know why I couldn't grasp it. It was very arrogant and condescending. We hired HF because we thought it would save us work but in the end it was much harder and more expensive. On the topic of money, HF was never clear how much we owed them. We had an original payment plan but so many changes were made to the contract so it wasn't accurate. After the event, they reached out and said we still owed a huge amount of money. This was super annoying because we had been asking them how much we owed. We were able to reduce this $ due to the issues explained. And now, for the first time, we received an apology. The apology seemed sincere which was greatly appreciated but it didn't come until after. Day of, the only real issue was dinner being late. Everything else was great. HF pulled it together so I'll give them credit for that. Despite the wonderful day, I would never use HF again because of how difficult they were to work with. HF is extremely expensive and I expected service of the same caliber. I am surprised by the lack of poor reviews for HF so hopefully my event was fluke. I hope my extensive review provides insight to both HF and those looking to hire them about their shortcomings.

My fiance and I had booked Herban Feast/ Sodo Park for our wedding... guess what didn't get to…read morehappen this year?? The entire staff at Herban Feast from Mary to BJ and everyone in between could not have been better to work with! The food, oooh the food, IS SO DAMN GOOD! The manchego butter sauce on the beef tenderloin is something dreams are made of. The tasting we did get to do has been a highlight of the year! Chef Suzie was so nice and helped us create a great menu that our guests would have been sure to enjoy. I am sad we didn't get to go through with everything this year, but we will be using Herban Feast for every event possible in the future! Thanks for everything guys!

We had a private cooking class with Chef Daniel Wingate tonight and we all had a wonderful time, he…read morewas very informative and helpful. His recipes and ideas were fun and interesting and he's a great guy too! If you're in the mood for a fun evening with some friends, hire a personal chef for a class...Good Times!

To me, the concept is great . . . organic, "gourmet" food delivered right to your door?! AWESOME!…read moreMy husband was telling me that all the celebs are into this type of stuff right now (well, those who can't afford personal chefs), so I do indeed feel haute couture! The menu selection isn't the lengthiest, though it does seem like they have weekly specials (correction, one weekly special) to change the menu a little bit. All the frozen entrees were mostly burritos, so we decided to pass on that. We ended up going with the fresh entrees - beef w/ soba noodles, pork loin, turkey meatballs, cioppino, and a side of Waldorf chicken salad and hummus. Everything was packaged nicely and I LOVED how everything they used were either recyclable or compostable! We prepared our meals in the oven as directed (15-20min) and found that it took a lot longer than that to get it warm enough. We ended up sticking it in there for about 30min to get it warm (not even hot!) . . . maybe other people like to eat their food lukewarm?? I dunno! I just got a new oven (one with lovely red knobs), so it's not like my oven was ghetto or whatnot. The best of the bunch was definitely the cioppino - the savory wine sauce was perfect with some toasted French bread (probably throws off their delicate food portions and balancing, but I wasn't about to waste good sauce)! The pork was a little tough, but it could be due to the fact that we had to put it in for so long to get it warm enough. It came with some cornbread that was just a little odd-tasting. Must be the whole gluten-free biz. The turkey meatballs were okay, and the beef w/ soba had tiny chunks of beef and the soba was not very good at all. You'll be shocked at how small the containers are (you'll think, what?! I paid $13 for that?), but it's surprising that you'll actually find yourself full - again, must be that protein-carb-veggie ratio that they got going on. The chicken salad was yummy (but small - I think it only contained like 6 bites, not even enough for a sandwich and it was $4) and the hummus tasted really fresh. I think overall it's a cool idea but the fact that it's so pricey and the food isn't super (I guess you should never expect gourmet from a microwave dinner) really brings me down. I would consider trying it again if there was a special or a discount, but for now, it's back to organic groceries and roll-up the sleeves cooking for me!

Sadly I think this service has shut down their service. They had good food and good delivery. It…read morewas expensive but delicious.