Barrister Gardens Banquet Center

24225 Harper Ave, St. Clair Shores - 48080
98 reviews
Venues & Event Spaces Caterers
(586) 773-4040

Very beautiful place, Management should be care about customer service, table and chairs Setup was not ready perfectly,but thank you

First time I created an event there Rita and Staff was very nice service was awesome House'e of Audrey Events can't wait to go back and create I'm sharing some of my work I hope you all enjoy I'm avaliable for booking if you're looking to book decor ?????

Service was great! The halls are beautiful, food came out hot and delicious! Would highly recommend to anybody looking for a venue for any event, banquet or wedding!

I had my wedding ceremony & reception this past summer at barrister gardens. Firstly I would like to say that it is a beautiful venue which was the main reason I chose this place.I booked my date dec 2020. At the time I had the only event booked that day. I wanted the larger room so I had to have a minimum of 200. $45 pp is NOT cheap. They knew beforehand that my event would need a lot of hands on deck. ESPECIALLY considering I would be having my ceremony and reception within the same space. Which meant we would have to flip the room. Typically the floor manager would be present for the rehearsal . Considering that’s his job to make sure things would run smoothly, negative. Fast forward to the morning of my wedding, the venue contacts my father and tellsHim that they don’t have enough chairs to accommodate my party. Why? Because they fully booked the entire venue EVEN THOUGH I booked way in advance and they knew my total count and the fact that I wanted chairs for my ceremony and reception, they wanted to profit more . Which i understand the business aspect BUT they couldn’t handle it. So when it came down to flipping the room, they didn’t have enough man power so MY OWN GUESTS ended up moving the chairs from the ceremony to the reception side. So basically when the ceremony ended we all had to file into the hallway. And what do you know, just as we’re coming out, another wedding party and their guests were filing out as well. Therefore we could barely take our pictures . Everyone was mixed in. It was chaos. When we finally made it back inside of the room, it took them forever to bring out the food. We didn’t get served until almost 9:30pm. It was maybe 4 people including the boss’ daughter serving 25 tables. We paid for family style but because they were so short staffed and running behind, they plated the food and brung out two plates at a time . Never again would I book a large party with them. I understand the pandemic caused stress for us all, but why take on that big of a commitment if you can’t pull it off professionally?

Nice clean place

Food was good. Servers were good. Beer was warm early but colder as night went on. Overall a good experience

I had my wedding ceremony & reception this past summer at barrister gardens. Firstly I would like to say that it is a beautiful venue which was the main reason I chose this place. I booked my date dec 2020. At the time I had the only event booked that day. I wanted the larger room so I had to have a minimum of 200. $45 pp is NOT cheap. They knew beforehand that my event would need a lot of hands on deck. ESPECIALLY considering I would be having my ceremony and reception within the same space. Which meant we would have to flip the room. Typically the floor manager would be present for the rehearsal . Considering that’s his job to make sure things would run smoothly, negative. Fast forward to the morning of my wedding, the venue contacts my father and tells Him that they don’t have enough chairs to accommodate my party. Why? Because they fully booked the entire venue EVEN THOUGH I booked way in advance and they knew my total count and the fact that I wanted chairs for my ceremony and reception, they wanted to profit more . Which i understand the business aspect BUT they couldn’t handle it. So when it came down to flipping the room, they didn’t have enough man power so MY OWN GUESTS ended up moving the chairs from the ceremony to the reception side. So basically when the ceremony ended we all had to file into the hallway. And what do you know, just as we’re coming out, another wedding party and their guests were filing out as well. Therefore we could barely take our pictures . Everyone was mixed in. It was chaos. When we finally made it back inside of the room, it took them forever to bring out the food. We didn’t get served until almost 9:30pm. It was maybe 4 people including the boss’ daughter serving 25 tables. We paid for family style but because they were so short staffed and running behind, they plated the food and brung out two plates at a time . Never again would I book a large party with them. I understand the pandemic caused stress for us all, but why take on that big of a commitment if you can’t pull it off professionally?

The food here is not good for the price. It's always them same frid chicken and the spaghetti ?. You guys need to work on that. Also better coffee please

The atmosphere was perfect, the air conditioning perfect. The food amazing!

This was one of the worst banquet centers I have ever been too. My sister was one of the many brides who unfortunately had to wait on her special day due to covid. You would think that they would want to do everthing possible to help the bride and groom feel comfortable on there special day. Instead they were a bit stressed. Staff and owners wer very unprofessional from the begining all the way to the end, expect for the bar tender.The office staff said they would allow her to come in at 9:00am to setup and we where waiting on them along with vendors. They didn't show up till 9:30am. The man who was available in the building had no idea where chairs where? He was clueless to all of our questions that needed to be answered. They appeared not to even care about my sisters special day. We had one bartender and had to wait a very long time to get drinks.As our bridal party was getting ready for the day we mentioned that our wedding was at this venue and everyone said “ oh my gosh that place was awful”. I hope the owner takes this review as constructive criticism, reevaluates how to run a business such as this so no other family’s have to put up with such a careless staff.This place used to be great about 6 years ago. But they must of gotten new ownership.