Crafting Your Perfect Day, From initial planning to serving your guests
Stress-free wedding catering and flawless coordination and execution of events across the San Francisco Bay Area
“A completely stress-free wedding experience. True full-service catering from start to finish. From our very first consultation to the moment our last guest departed, the team managed every single logistic with grace and absolute precision.”
The Wedding Journey: How We Work Together
We believe elite wedding catering is about selling a flawless, stress-free process—not just a menu. A great meal is memorable, but a seamlessly executed production is what allows you to actually enjoy it. Here is the roadmap of how we bring your unique vision to life over the months leading up to your big day.
🗓️ The first step: Consultation & Custom Vision
- What We Do: We begin with an initial, deep-dive consultation and a detailed discovery session. Rather than handing you a generic pamphlet, we work to understand your needs and vision and the desires of your family and guests. We dive deep into your dietary needs—expertly designing menus and flavor profiles for gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, halal, and kosher requirements to ensure every guest is accommodated beautifully without feeling like an afterthought. We provide options for all styles of service: Buffet dinner, Family Style meal or Plated Meal. We provide information and selections for all necessary rentals for your events including flatware, glassware, linens, tables, chairs. We also provide information on Bar services, including alcohol packages, cocktail ideas, necessary amount of bartenders and set up. Lastly we provide information on the serving team needed, the amount of servers, onsite Chef and more.
- Our Goals are to: a) Create a customized initial menu based on your desires or theme
b) Provide a budget friendly quote – an estimate tailored explicitly to your needs and the logistical layout of your chosen wedding venue.
🗓️ The second step: The Private Tasting
- What We Do: We welcome you to our Redwood City location for an exclusive private tasting. Far from a simple food sampling, this is an immersive private dinner and discussion session. Here, you will taste and finalize your custom menu, view elegant set ups and plating styles through our photos archive of past events, and preview your possible table setups. The Head Chef conducts the tasting and can answer all questions you have on the Menu, pairings and event wine and beer pairings as well as bar service logistical questions like quantities needed and more. He will also take notes on your personal flavor preferences.
- Our Goal is to: Fine-tune flavors to your exact preferences, discuss and advise you on menu pairings, appetizers presentation, flavors and quantities, table presentation for your chosen dinner styles (elegant plated service, bountiful buffet service, or intimate family-style service), and finalize your custom selections.
🗓️ The 1-Month to 15 days Mark: Walkthrough & Logistics Alignment
- What We Do: We conduct a final, comprehensive walkthrough at your venue—whether it is a historic estate in Livermore, a sprawling vineyard in Sonoma, or an urban loft space in San Francisco. We coordinate directly with your wedding planner and venue manager to map out load-in zones, power availability, and kitchen staging areas.
- Our Goal: Lock in your final guest count, verify seating layouts, establish a minute-by-minute service timeline, and finalize all rental details (including coordinating tables, chairs, linens, silverware, and matching glassware).
⏱️ The Day-Of Countdown
- 2-3 Hours Before: On-site preparation and load-in begins. Our culinary team sets up our high-end staging equipment, while our dedicated event captain coordinates directly with your on-site coordinator to ensure a smooth setup.
- Dinner & Reception: Flawless dinner execution, professional bar service led by polite, RBS-certified bartenders, and meticulous dessert management if that has been chosen. We pacing each course to align perfectly with your toasts, dances, and sunset photos.
- After the Sparklers: Complete cleanup, breakdown, and optional trash hauling. We leave your venue pristine, ensuring your deposit is fully protected while you head off to your afterparty.
What’s Included: Full-Service Wedding Production
We handle all the heavy lifting behind the scenes so you can focus entirely on making memories. Our all-inclusive wedding packages feature:
- The Menu: Beautifully styled Buffets, high end Family-Style dining, formal Plated Meals, dramatic grazing tables, or interactive culinary Action Stations like Paella, carving stations and more.
- The Bar: Highly professional, RBS-certified bartenders, comprehensive bar kits, premium ice, custom garnishes, and stylish beverage tubs.
- The Rentals: High-quality round tables, elegant chairs, premium linens in your choice of color, and high-end silverware and glassware.
- The Staff: Dedicated event captains who oversee the service and entire timeline and execution, dedicated Chef that preps appetizers, salads and cooks onsite as needed, attentive servers in uniforms, and professional lively bartenders.
- The Logistics: Complete on-site setup, seamless timing coordination, thorough breakdown, and optional post-event waste/trash hauling.
Real Couple Review
“The team made the event feel effortless. Luxury-level service with incredible attention to detail from the first tasting to the final cleanup. Our guests are still talking about the farm-to-table food and how accommodated they felt.”
— Madison & Shawn, Blanco Urban Venue
Our capacity and service area we cover
Kitchenina has handled weddings of 40 people all the way to 400 people. We offer tiered pricing and the average wedding we cater to is between 100 – 130 guests. We travel anywhere in the extended San Francisco Bay area, from Half moon Bay to Brentwood to Livermore and from Gilroy and Santa Cruz to Fairfield, Napa, Sonoma and Petaluma and every city in between those