Bryant Z.
Yelp
Event review. Please keep that in mind if you're reading this for anything other than a 50+ person event. If you're reading for food reviews, go about halfway down.
I had relatively short notice (1 month) to put together a corporate event for a group of 40, so I worked with Wildfire after making sure they were able to accommodate:
* pescatarian
* vegetarian (not vegan)
I picked their executive club supper and narrowed down the dishes to just the ones that worked with their list above. Clayton and Kailee worked with us pretty closely to make everything happen, including a room change (from wine/club to a combination of rooms inside the center of the restaurant) when we ended up needing to exceed capacity less than a week til the event. There was some confusion around the minimums which originally would've made me give 4 stars (3400 for wine/club, but I was originally told 2700 for the date in question), but they kept the minimum unchanged with the room change when we accommodated more people, which helped us mitigate the risk of inviting more and possibly having more no-shows.
Anyway, the food part.
While I don't have reviews for each thing everyone ate, I can account for what I ate plus what I heard.
All the apps, salads, sides, and desserts were served family style, one plate of each per table with each table having 6-7 people. Everything was enough or beyond enough for everyone (I can say by the time everyone was full, a lot of the dessert went uneaten despite being exceptional).
The baked goat cheese and flatbread were both great options for everyone we had present, and the kale salad was definitely the more varied and interesting of the two salad options we picked (I kept Caesar for the picky eaters among us, and it was helpful with our group). The filet had a 90% hit rate on doneness and enjoyment (i.e 3 people thought theirs were over or undercooked to their liking, but none so far as to return the plate). Everyone who had the salmon and penne enjoyed what they got.
We swapped out mashed potatoes for fries as a side dish a day before the event, recognizing this is something the venue absolutely didn't need to accommodate, but they did it and it was definitely the right choice for our crowd. The broccolini was also a good healthy option, and portions were sufficient for the largest tables, though only just.
Lastly, as wonderful as our dessert options were, a lot of it wasn't eaten because of how large the prior courses were, and they were plated as slices of cake family style (not absurdly big restaurant slices but portions you'd expect when you'd go to a wedding). Keep the potential for wasted dessert in mind if you're planning anything, I'd encourage you to box what's left if you're a cake fiend, or explore whether they can deliver the cakes or desserts a different way to preserve more of it, but there was otherwise nothing wrong with the plating; we were all just full.
Also, yes they brought out cornbread for everyone, which is probably why we couldn't eat the desserts. And while they only brought out single rounds of the individual courses, the cornbread was available to literally anyone who asked on demand.
4 stars overall. Plus 1 for the exceptionally accommodating team supporting our event. If we didn't have a need to change our room the week before the event or make menu changes the day before or the day of, it probably would've still been 4 stars. But they bent over backwards to make it happen even while I was on vacation.
Also, that cornbread.