Zacki is an amazing person to work with and provides good food, a high level of professionalism, and consistent communication throughout the process of my catering needs. I truly value her business and am happy that she helped to make my baby shower a huge hit!

Not sure how her food is. She wanted to charge a fee to come and look at our kitchen. We did not use her for our catering needs.

Zacki Murphy and her team surpassed my highest expectations. We had a party of 50+ from all corners of the world & 8 families. Zacki listened and delivered the perfect combination of exquisite finger food to make this party a roaring success. From open face salmon sandwiches, to mini crab cakes, shrimp, prosciutto wrapped asparagus, not to mention her incredible juleps, this party had it all for a very special group of world travelers. I won't ever look to another firm for my catering needs in the Durham area. The largest error to be made is to not contract with Zacki for your unique event.

Zacki and team delivered an amazing experience for our guests during our holiday party. This was my first time hiring a caterer and was so thrilled! The food looked amazing and tasted even better! Zacki was very helpful and patient in trying to help us balance variety, quantity and expenses. Great experience!

My husband and I were extremely disappointed with the service and food we got after hiring Zacki. We had hired Zacki for an informal rehearsal dinner in our backyard for 28 guests (we had several cancel so we ended up having closer to 23-24 guests - some of whom were children and others who do not drink, this is important later). Where to begin? Zacki required us to purchase sparkling wine (which is fine b/c of NC laws), in her contract she stated we needed to purchase 3 bottles to make a cocktail for our guests. I bought 4 bottles just in case we needed an extra. The day she arrived at our home, I showed her the bottles and then she spoke down to me like a child for only providing 4 bottles. She said something along the lines of "4 bottles? really? for 25 guests?" I told her I purchased the number she requested in her contract, but said she asked for more in our emails - she didn't. So we had to send a guest to pick up more sparkling. The sparkling probably wasn't enough because a guest had informed us after they made the cocktails, Zacki and her assistants were drinking the cocktail she made for us in our home. Then, she asked where the red wine was that she could use for cooking. I told her she never requested red wine in the contract or in our emails. She said she did request it. I looked through our emails and contract - there was no mention of red wine at all. Again, I had to send someone out to purchase red wine for us to use. Zacki wanted to know if we had additional tables to use for food and plating to set up - we had two large tables that we set up in the backyard. Once they were set up, she was upset and in a very pretentious and exaggerated way she exclaimed "What is this!? What is this!?" as she gestured towards the table set up. My guests who help put up the tables were confused and didn't understand why she was upset after we put up the tables as requested. We felt like we, and our guests, were bossed around a lot during the entire event. While I don't mind placing a table, or finding plates, trays, extra to use for an event like this, I don't appreciate being spoken down to. There's no reason to act like you're better than the guests or the people paying for your service. She kept asking for more and more, for someone who has supposedly catered for so long, I felt like she could have asked for all the things she wanted prior to coming in to my home. I had multiple pitchers, plates, trays even 2 disposable chafing pans for her to use, and felt like it still wasn't enough. I had found every piece she wanted, and more, but it wasn't enough for her. On to the actual food - I had wanted the dinner to start at 6pm, Zacki and her assistants arrived around 4, but we didn't have the apps ready until close to 7, and the dinner wasn't served until a little after 8pm. The main course I requested was disappointing, and rather bland. The side of potatoes she made was good and everyone seemed to enjoy them but she didn't make enough. We had given her the final number of people attending, some guests had to cancel and others didn't eat at all - but somehow she didn't make enough of the side. Overall we felt bossed around during the actual event, she spoke down to us when asking us questions, she was very demanding during the set up to everyone there. We followed her contract and claimed she asked for more of the sparkling and red wine - when she didn't actually state that anywhere at all in our communications. To top everything off - two days after the event we discovered that one of our own bottles of sparkling wine (one that we did not give her permission to use) had been opened and used. This was particularly upsetting because I had purchased this bottle at a Wegman's in Virginia (which we don't have here), the bottle had some special meaning to me and my now husband. This bottle had special meaning to us, as the name of this bottle of sparkling would be my future last name. I had planned to open the bottle after our wedding day and enjoy it with my now husband. The bottle of sparkling was relatively cheap, less than $20, I don't care about being refunded for it - my plan to enjoy that bottle of sparkling after our wedding, which had our last name on it, was ruined. I would not recommend, this was an overpriced & stressful event for mediocre food. Don't hire unless you already have commercial sized tools in your own home. She won't bring her own. **In response to Zacki's comment below: 1) I sent multiple pictures of my kitchen and backyard to Zacki, they knew what they were going in to. 2) The stove wasn't malfunctioning, there was some granite damage to the area surrounding the stove, but nothing about the stove was malfunctioning itself. 3) She never apologized for using a reserved bottle of sparkling at my house. 4) We eventually put our dog upstairs. 5) I grabbed all the things she wanted in our exchanged emails, and I expected her to actually bring her own tools to cook with, since I can't cook for 25 people myself. That's why I hired a cater, to cater for 25 people. 6) She never responded to my last email where I sent her a screenshot image of the last contract she sent me that showed she never asked for.