First off, the food and presentation is phenomenal. We used S+H to cater my rehearsal dinner, which had several foodie/chef guests invited. They all complemented on the food and the presentation was just lovely!

Second, Olivia's professionalism, creativity and flexibility really made booking S+H a dream. One of the things they don't tell you when you become a bride is that no one will call you back. Olivia was prompt, offered great advice and suggestions for our menu and was able to deliver it all to our venue in Santa Cruz for a moderate delivery fee.

I would HIGHLY recommend booking S+H!!

My wife and I chose Salt and Honey to cater our wedding reception at our in-laws' house a year before the event. We initially met with the owner, Olivia, and her confidence in off-site events reassured us. We were also wooed by their menu, thoughtfulness, and overall ethos. But leading up to and during our wedding, we ran into issues that caused this less than favorable review.

First and most importantly, let's talk about the food. While we loved the menu and some of the appetizers, on the day of our wedding, much of the food was served cold that should have been hot, including the main entrees of meat and fish. Several guests commented on this. While many of the passed appetizers were delicious, some, like the sliders, were cold and left virtually untouched. This was absolutely unacceptable and Salt and Honey honored this as a fault, offering a substantial refund on the food.

Secondly, communication. The owner of the restaurant had obvious lack of coordination with her staff in terms of understanding of the event space, rentals, and day-of plans. This led to many back-and-forth email chains a week before the wedding to get details straight, causing my wife much undue stress. A week before the wedding, we ended up being forced to add hundreds of dollars in extra rentals previously overlooked by her team (even after a 2 hour walkthrough during our initial tasting in which the coordinator took copious notes). The lack of coordination may have also caused the cold food due to an oversight into how to use the event space in order to heat the food.

Lastly, professionalism. Olivia, the owner of Salt and Honey, appeared very professional during our initial meeting. However, leading up to the wedding she missed crucial meetings she'd made with our planner and argued many details that showed she had obviously not coordinated with her team. She also came to our reception and told our planner she'd serve our main course, then never did. Finally, our planner relayed that she had been rude to her assistant, shutting a door in her face, which made us feel very uncomfortable.

Overall, I would not recommend this company to a friend due to the quality of the food, communication internally and externally, and the owner's professionalism during our wedding.

We were really hopeful about Salt and Honey for our wedding of 68 in my parents’ backyard. From the first meeting Olivia (the owner) answered all our questions and created a menu that was farm to table with local fresh ingredients which we wanted. She ensured us that her and her team had ample experience with receptions in private homes. After we signed the contract with Olivia things changed - our first “tasting” (granted, during COVID) was food delivered in to go containers that had been sitting on a hot plate and portable fridge in a van on a hot day for over 2 hours while her FOH manager toured my parents’ house first. Nothing was hot or cold enough so it was difficult to figure out how the food would be for our wedding. When we asked to have a complete repeat tasting by Olivia she declined, only offering to redo specific items and said we could come to a location closer to her if we wanted the items hot. To her defense, the food was delicious when we tasted it at a park 15 minutes from her kitchen. We were really excited to move forward with her.

A few months before the wedding we had another in person meeting with the new FOH manager at my parents’ property, Jessica (who we love.) Unfortunately she didn’t have a lot of the correct information from Olivia on what the company could and couldn’t provide.

A week before the wedding, there were numerous email threads where Olivia had no idea about items needed for the wedding, such as asking for a tent rental for BOH and talking about flipping the ceremony and reception space cocktail hour items when there was only 1 location. She also asked for hundreds of dollars more in event rentals days before the wedding (which we ended up not needing most of it) and stood up our planner for meetings. It was an incredible amount of undue stress days before the wedding for us, my parents, and our wedding planner.

The day of, none of the food was served hot. When we told Jessica (as Olivia wouldn’t speak to us directly), she said that she was sorry and dishes could be reheated.

Olivia showed up to the wedding the day of and told our planner she wanted to give my husband and I our meals separately (never did) and also got into an argument with my planner and her assistant over the service. This resulted in her shutting the door in my wedding assistant’s face. I do not understand how someone providing a service could be so blatantly disrespectful.

Following the day, Olivia ended up apologizing via email and giving us money back for the food which was greatly appreciated. That said, it really doesn’t make up for the fact that our wedding was significantly negatively impacted because of the food and service, including so much unnecessary stress for us, my family, and our planner. Based on our experience, I would never recommend this company for your event.