The entire team at Elks was amazing especially Veronica and Gloria who were…read more Warm, talented and very helpful. They made set up really easy and gave us really great options when we wanted something changed! Thanks Elks team!

Had my event there and it was beyond expectations! Staff was great, food was fantastic, and…read moreeveryone had a good time! I would highly recommend this space to anyone!

Carissa is a pleasure to work with - detailed, responsive, going above and beyond, great people…read moreskills and make my event planning much more smooth and she minimizes the stress. For anything I suggest, she volunteered to help reach out to vendors and get them done. Our San Jose downtown treasure hunt is challenging, mind-bending and "wicked" even. Our comedy improv has brought people so much laughter and fun, as well as great memory. I did a post-event survey and 75% are very satisfied and 25% are satisfied; and 100% of them would like to attend the similar fun event again. Besides Carissa, I really enjoyed our MC, who was funny, humorous and professional. Our Adventure assistant helps out so much to keep everybody "honesty in check." Comedy improve team is cracking up everybody. Thank you, Carissa. We'll go back to your team and your great work again, soon.

Great way to take the stress off of coordinating a team building event: Leave it to Absolute…read moreAdventures! Response times via Yelp, email, phone and text was on point and professional. The website and Yelp was a great way to research the company and all that they do. Believe they customized our photo hunt to accommodate our location, time constraints, and need to get everyone to dinner directly after. Carissa was great with sending over details, contracts, was on time, and patient when we weren't! She had a great vibe, explained everything and gave us time to get to know more about each other before and after the hunt. LOVED the 3 min video she sent following our event. They even provided prizes, but welcomed adding your own. Loved how she/they made it easy for us to have fun and learn about each other and the surrounding area. I would and already have recommended!

Chris always comes through while providing excellent and consistent customer service. I'd recommend…read moreAmazing Events for all of your event needs! Always happy to be able to work with Chris. Use this company!

I've used Amazing Events for our Company Picnic for many years. Chris and his crew are....AMAZING!…read more They do it all - catering, decor, beverages, games, rides, ice cream - you name it, they do it and it's first class all the way. If you're looking for someone to handle ALL of the details, be creative and flexible so you can stick within your budget, and make sure that EVERY attendee has an absolute BLAST, I highly recommend Amazing Events. Whether you're planning your first ever event or you've done this hundreds of times, Chris is your man. He'll bring new, fresh ideas to you event planning veterans. And for you newbies, you can relax and rest assured that Chris won't steer you wrong.

I was solicited by Culture.Fun via email and I decided to bite as I plan a ton of events for work,…read morebut had never moved into the virtual realm with COVID-19. This pandemic has completely flipped over the world of event planning. I worked closely with Leo. He is AMAZING. We did the trivia event. This is done through Zoom, but my teams and I wanted to view the animations and scoreboard on Kahoot (trivia platform), so we viewed Leo's Kahoot screen via Zoom, and chatted w/ our own teams via Cisco Webex. My team got dead last but we had so much fun testing our knowledge of General, San Francisco, Animals, and some company questions too! Leo was so accommodating with the million demos I wanted to run to ensure this virtual event would be successful. Thankfully, it was. I was flooded with messages from my team afterward that they had so much fun. I'm already looking forward to see what else Culture.Fun can help me out with in the virtual world of event planning now. THANK YOU LEO! YOU ROCK!

I've hired Culture.Fun for party planning and support while doing events at two different…read morecompanies. I've had wonderful experiences each time and highly recommend. On my last project, I enlisted Josh and his team to support a major event with a short timeline and challenging constraints. I had high expectations for the event and was so impressed with how flawlessly it was executed. His team is creative, resourceful, professional, and very communicative. They are my go to resource and would recommend them hands down.

Hosted a company team building activity with Cultivate Culinary at it was amazing! The staff were…read moreso helpful and friendly, and the food was amazing! My team can't stop raving about it. Will definitely be coming here for their date night cooking classes and booking future team events.

This venue specializes in interactive culinary experiences for all ages, making it an ideal…read morelocation for small team gatherings and delicious food. We recently visited to celebrate the completion of a project with a group of about ten people, and it proved to be a perfect setting for our celebration. The venue offers various team-building programs, such as the bake-off challenge, which we chose. With wine and other beverages available, the experience culminates in enjoying a full meal together. I particularly enjoyed the bake-off challenge, as it emphasized teamwork rather than individual effort, and was well-organized. At the end of the challenge, the chef judged the results and selected a winner, making the experience both interesting and fun. I highly recommend this place for anyone looking to engage in small team-building activities followed by a meal.

Don't waste your time with this company. Had a terrible experience working with Luis. He was 10…read moreminutes late to our first meeting with no heads up. I had to email him that we were waiting for him to start the zoom. I let this slide the first time because things happen. But when we had a second meeting with him he was 15 minutes late AGAIN with no heads up and I had to email him again that we were waiting for him to start the zoom. He tried to shrug it off and made the excuse that things run late. At this stage we still had questions about the proposal that he really only half answered. We were really confused with the proposal. He explained to us they work by estimating the cost of all the components of your event and that's what you pay them plus an exorbitant fee. Like if we're paying $4K for lounge furniture, they won't give you details on what exactly you're getting before you pay them. After we asked for an updated proposal with our asks, he emailed back that our date was booked and they couldn't help with our event. The audacity. (Mind you, we were about to shell out $20K for a 40 person picnic for 4 hours.) He gave us zero warning or heads up that our date could have been booked or was not on hold for us. This was a huge waste of time and left us back at square one with only 3 weeks left to plan our company event. The way Luis have conducted himself was extremely unprofessional. I would expect for someone who is the founder of the company to have sound business practices and better client management skills.

Luis helped me plan our team's offsite for about 25 people. Luis was very easy to work with and was…read moreprompt to respond over email/phone when needed. He helped us plan an outdoor activity with breakfast, archery tag, bubble soccer in short notice (15 days) and even added trophies for the winning team which was a great photo prop. Definitely recommend Blue Barley if you are looking for an event planner.

Breakthrough sushi was invited by our company's property management to teach a class. Ken showed us…read morehow to make 2 rolls (salmon and spicy tuna) all from scratch and then taught us the technique to make a hand roll. Then he rung a bell and dismissed us to go and try on our own. They walked around to make sure we were doing alright and to fix our mistakes. In the end, there was still a lot of fish left, so he allowed us to make more rolls to bring home. He also sliced some sashimi for us too. The fish was very fresh and tasted so good on its own as well as inside our roll. Breakthrough sushi is a great place to learn the basics of making sushi and the owners and staff are very friendly and really want to share their craft with others. Overall a great experience with some great food.

For my wife's birthday I wanted to have sushi prepared at our house for 15 people. After talking…read moreto several sushi restaurants about services to contact, someone recommended Breakthrough. I contacted Kaz and discussed what I wanted; he listened and made some recommendations which I had not thought of. Kaz and Hito arrived 3 hours before the party to prepare the fish and appetizers. They provided plates, chopsticks and everything else needed. Once they were set up, they changed into fresh clothes. They treated me and all our guests with respect and kindness. The food was fabulous. I strongly recommend Kaz and his team to anyone wanting a great sushi restaurant experience at home. Payment was made up front and I tipped at the end of the evening.

We had the Natural Mixologist cater an intimate corporate event for us in Sun Valley, California…read morejust last night. From the moment we reached out to them, they were extremely responsive. We gave them some of the details about the event and they brainstormed with us about HOW we could pull off some of our ideas with such short notice. The day of the event was AMAZING! The staff was EXTREMELY knowledgeable and clearly passionate about the processes that were taking place at their stations and they were are smiles the entire night. The owner stayed onsite to ensure all elements were in order and that our clients were enjoying themselves and the interactive experiences. There is no better company for mixology and that's coming from a 175 year old event company! Thank you The Natural Mixologist for one heck of a night!!! #nohangovers

Marsha did such a amazing job. We were a bachelorette party so I'm sure we were a difficult bunch…read morebut she was very professional and knowledgeable. The bride had wanted to work on finding a specialty cocktail for the wedding. She likes Pisco Sours and Marsha crafted the class around that.