Olympia Catering & Events

Olympia Catering & Events provided catering for my 1.14.12 wedding at the Museum of Fine Arts downtown St. Petersburg. My fiance and I met with Darren numerous times prior to the big day to discuss logistics. Not only did Olympia provide catering services, they also provided tables, chairs, table settings, servers, etc. I did want chiavari chairs, and Olympia provided those as well. We did a tasting a few months before the wedding, and everything we tried was delicious. We did stations rather than a typical buffet, or seated service. The stations allowed for more variety and gave people a chance to get up and mingle. We had a pasta station, NY strip station, potato station, salad station and coffee station. The night of my wedding I actually ate all my dinner....it was DELICIOUS.I continue to receive compliments on how wonderful the food was. Olympia did an amazing job with everything. Their servers were by my side throughout the night refreshing my champagne glass too :-)I suggest you check out Olympia!

We used Debbie at Olympia for our cake and it turned out beautiful! I emailed her our invite to match the color for the cake. She went above and beyond and actually added identical scrolls from the invite to our cake. Everyone said how beautiful it looked and how great it tasted! You won't be disappointed!

Great food and great service. Everyone was so helpful. When my venue let me down, Olympia was there to help me find the solutions I needed. They proposed the perfect menu and our server was fantastic. She worked so hard and was so attentive. They saved the day! Thank you Olympia!

The food was great amd the staff went above and beyond to make my day

They were great went above and beyond to make my day special

I would definitely recommend Olympia. They have excellent food and a wonderful presentation. Sherri was very accommodating and helpful.

Olympia definitely makes amazing cakes! Our's tasted great & looked amazing! They were great to work with over the months & always quick to answer whatever questions I had. I only has a small issue - we had a 3-tiered, square cake, & the tiers were supposed to be staggered (kind of like the bottom was straight, then the next was placed like a diamond & then the top was straight again). Well, when the cake arrived - all the tiers were straight...not a really big deal, it still looked amazing & I'm the only one that knew it was not right. We got so many compliments on the cake - I would still highly recommend Olympia to anyone! :)

Olympia Catering and Events made the cake for my wedding. Every experience that I had with them was a pleasant one. My cake turned out to be exactly what I wanted and it was DELICIOUS. We went with the orange cream and the lemon cream. My husband also chose his wedding cake from Olympia. I was concerned with the design that he picked because it is very detailed, but I will tell you, it truned out AMAZING! I would highly recommend Olympia Catering to anyone looking for a great wedding cake.

Olympia's pricing seems high at first, but when you look at everything they include, you can actually save money by booking with them, and the quality of service and food us exceptional.

Darren Diaz is fantastic and very professional. I would HIGHLY recommend him to cater your event. Many of our guests said this was the BEST wedding reception food they have ever had! We weren't even going to have chicken as a dish and after tasting Olympia's signature chicken, we couldn't have our menu without it. The variety of menu options and the quality of every dish that we tasted and chose for our reception was truly exceptional! THANK YOU!

I highly recommend Olympia Catering. We used them for our wedding reception and they did a wonderful job. We worked with Darren Diaz and he was very professional and attentive to detail. The food and wedding cake were fantastic! Their prices are very reasonable as well. We had an excellent experience with them!

The company has been in buisness for a long time and it shows. They have the right people in place that pay attention to detail . We had no problems. We plan to use them for our next two daughters weddings when the time comes. Sherrie had all the answers. The staff at the wedding got the horderves out in a timely fashion and very professional. All the food and horderves were outstanding. The event was set on time and ready to go inspite of the weather that came thru befor the wedding great job.

My husband and I were so pleased with everything they had to offer. We received so many complements from our guest about the food. It was fantastic. Sherri and her team were wonderful to work with.

Sherri and Olympia Catering did an incredible job with our wedding!! Sherri was amazing--on top of every detail, able to answer any question we asked of her, and totally organized. She was able to do anything we asked of her, something other caterers were not. My now husband is Cuban, and we really wanted to have Cuban food for our wedding. Olympia was able to do this for us, no questions asked. In fact, even all of his Cuban relatives told us the food was delicious--and they are tough critics when it comes to their food! We also got our cake from them and it was both beautiful and delicious. I even added a groom's cake at the last minute, and they did a wonderful job with it. There was barely any cake left over when the night was done! They also did all of our centerpieces and table linens, and everything turned out exactly like I had pictured. It was incredibly beautiful. In addition, they had an hour to turn the room over from ceremony to reception and they were so efficient, they were done before the hour was even up. Just the fact that they were able to do so much for us (food, centerpieces, cakes, table linens), which allowed us to limit the number of vendors we had to hire, was a huge bonus. My husband and I did all the planning while we were in medical school, so we loved anything that made our life easier. Sherri and Olympia certainly did that for us. I highly recommend Olympia to anyone looking for a caterer in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area. They did a great job for us and I'm sure will do the same for you! The only negtative was that sometimes Sherri took a little while to get back to me. However, I always was able to eventually get a hold of her, so this really did not detract from my experience at all. I would use them again, no question.

We had our reception at the Museum of Fine Arts, so Olympia Catering was chosen for us and I'm very glad that they were. We worked with Darren for our wedding and they were extremely accomodating to a detail-oriented bride and mother-in-law. The food was excellent. I highly reccommend their Signature Chicken, as all of our guests that got the chicken said how good it was and some have even been experimenting with duplicating the recipe. The appetizers were a big hit with our crowd... we had 3 passed and an antipasto station. And the cake was amazing! All of our guests said that they had plenty of variety and went home full.But I think even better than the quality of the meal (which was incredible) was the quality of the service. Darren and his team have obviously done this many times and you should feel comfortable that they know exactly what he's doing to make your event run smoothly. He has a very professional and sophisticated sense of weddings... definitely ask him for his opinion (which he will only share if you ask) because he knows what makes a great wedding reception.Also, I have to say that the managers at the Museum of Fine Arts Cafe are very top-notch as well. THey were also extremely accomodating to us and I would reccommend them to anyone.The ONLY thing that I would tell anyone ahead of booking Olympia is that they are obviously very talented and very busy. You won't get a reply immediately from them but that doesn't mean that they've forgotten about your event. Any time that I did have to wait on a response, I always received favorable news back from them, so it made the waiting worth it. Thanks again especially to Darren and the entire Olympia Staff.

Olympia did all my food, linens and some of the decoration. They were very good, the food was delicious and the place looked awesome with all the linens. The cake was impressive, not only the look, but it was very tasty.The servers were very attentative, and very professional.The only issue was trying to get fast responses. I would recommend that if you go with Olympia to be prepared for slow responses to e-mail and messages.Other than that I was very pleased with them.

WE were extremely happy with Olympia's service. Our wedding was held at our house and the next day you never would have known we had had an event for 150 people. Everything was returned to place outside exactly like before and all trash was removed from the premises. I highly recommend this catering company

Beverly, What a tremendous job you and your staff did for our daughter's wedding reception with the food, the cakes, the food setup presentation and service. We also hired our bartender and setup through you, who did an awesome job! Your entire staff was professional and so pleasant ... always cheerful and smiling and ready to take care of our needs. The master baker did an awesome job on both the wedding cake, which was absolutely beautiful, as well as, the groom's cake! Both were just divine to the taste buds! Debbie did a fantastic job working on the design with us! The Hors D'oeuvres and main course was simply delicious as well! We received so many compliments on all the food. Thank you so much and I hope all who read this will contact you for their catering needs, and we assure them they won't be disappointed! Sincerely, Bill and Carol (Crystal & Daniel's 3/6/2011 Wedding)

The food and cake were great! I got lots of compliments on how good the food was. And the cake was beautiful! One of my favorite things about the whole wedding. I just gave Darren a picture of what I wanted and he executed it beautifully. The only downside is that i didn't get to eat any of it. After we cut the cake, the caterers were no where to be found. so it took a while to get the cake out to everyone.Darren did a great job decorating the ceremony site, setting up our favors and other random jobs that I asked of him. The only downside was his lack of responsiveness.

The food was wonderful!!! All our guests loved the food and kept saying it was the best wedding food they had ever tasted. They matched exactly what we wanted and even made an extra appetizer on the spot for us when we ran out of one of them. However they were not responsive at all. It was so hard to get a hold of them for anything, even to pay them. It was very frustrating on that front.Food was GREAT, but beware that you will be chasing after them.They also did my cake...it was flawless!!! Getting a hold of the cake department wasn't a problem at all...Debbie was great!