Meeting and banquet facilities are large rooms that can be used for formal events, meetings or annual functions. The facility provides tables, chairs, a stage, a sound system and sometimes food. The renters are allowed to decorate the space. Knowing what questions to ask can help you get the best facility for your needs. ...read more
To throw a successful company event you will need to provide entertainment. You could hire a band or a DJ, provide dinner and drinks and it would be an enjoyable evening. However creating a theme for your party and entertainment can guarantee a popular company event that will keep people talking. ...read more
A wedding is supposed to be a fairytale; a dream come true. Don’t let it become a nightmare by making budget-busting mistakes. The average wedding costs $27,800 according to The Knot. Have an elegant affair without breaking the bank. When planning on the cheap, take a scalpel to those areas notorious for costing too much, such as food and drink. Then chisel away on those nice-but-not-necessary amenities brides dote on. ...read more
Many local hotels and conference centers have meeting rooms for businesses and other groups to utilize. These rooms are multi-functional, meaning that there are many different ways that you can use these types of rooms. The number of uses is only limited by your imagination. ...read more
When setting up a bridal reception, you will need to determine where you will be seating the bride and groom as well as all the guests. You will also need to think about where the disc jockey or band will set up, where the gift table will go and where the food tables will be placed. Having enough help and being organized will make the set up go smoothly. ...read more
By Ally December 20, 2010
Everything that I ate was delicious and completely fresh. The garlic bread was to die for. The salad was delicious and I'm not sure what was in the dressing but I simply can not seem to recreate it no matter how hard I try! Then I got my steak.It was perfection. It was perfectly seasoned and completely juicy and tender. The lasagna that I ordered as a side dish was a perfect complement to the steak. For desert I had the spumoni. When it came out as a pink ice cream I was quite surprised, but the waitress informed me that it was a Villa Capri exclusive recipe that was could not be found anywhere else in the world! I found it to be a perfect ending to an absolutely delectable meal. On our way out I gave my compliments to the woman that sat us. It turns out she was the owner of the restaurant and she was simply wonderful! I will be back very soon! ...read more
By Soprano at Citysearch August 09, 2009
So after growing up eating at the Villa Capri as a child and having the best Italian dinner's time and time again, I decided to give it another try even though I was warned against it by people who said they would never eat there again. I had visited the Casa Calabria earlier in the week and had the most amazing steak just as I've remembered the Villa Capri to have. i was excited to share this steak with my wife for our last meal here. Knowing that they were the same family and the recipes were passed down a generation, I opted to visit the Villa Capri which was closer to my hotel. Bad mistake! To my dismay, we ordered a bottle of Cabernet, a sizzling shrimp entree, a pound of the steak sizzler, and and extra garlic bread. The waitress seemed like she had just started there and had difficulty explaining the meal and a little nervous. The bottle of wine was served without the attempt to smell the twist top and taste the wine. It was simply placed on the table with two emptly glassses that accompanied it. The salad was iceberg, wilted and drowned in the "house" dressing (vinegar and oil). Then the long awaited steak that I've been raving about came with the non sizzling shrimp. The entree's were served on plain white plates with no garnish and slabs of butter atop the two steaks. I would have excepted this had the entree been priced more resonably (overpriced to say the least). So far the expreriece is mediocre. As I attempted to saw through my medium rare streak, my wife watching in horror, I had to relocate to another spot on the steak to penetrate the meat. The meat that was not sizzling was hard, rubbery with many fatty tendons. Okay, I thought.... It's just a bad cut of meat. I continued to try to enjoy the meal, but there came a point where I could not pretend that it was edible. We sent 90% of it back explaining our dismay. We decided to order the famous spumoni to disguise the fact that our dinner was ruined. The spumoni came out with the check and the waitress constantly clearing our napkins no matter how we asked for more. Have I mentioned that that spomoni is usually green, this was red. The check showed that nothing had been taken off, no percentage or even a portion of the steak that had not been eaten. We asked to talk to management. We even suggested that we paid for the smaller portion. We have dined in many restaurants from great deals to five star dining and NEVER, I mean NEVER have I had this type of policy enforced in the way that it was here at the Villa Capri. Usually there is some type of consideration when a meal is sent back intact, an apology, a different menu item or a discount. In this case NOTHING was offered. A disconcerned look is what we got. Just like when your mother was say to you, "Eat your dinner and you will like it". Although in that case, you wouldn't be paying top dollar for your meal. She had mentioned that the meat was fresh and disregarding our claims that it was JUST a bad cut of meat. She even said that the kitchen crew ate the rest of the meat and thought it was perfect. Now, I thought that alone was strange! Not to mention that she involved other customers to prove a point (bad management, no class, how embarrasing for her). The only thing she had to say was to not come back and to go to Casa Calabria. She single handedly ruined my otherwise wonderful visit to Marquette, Michigan. I am writing this review to WARN EVERYONE to take her suggestion to heart. Please do not dine there, please go to the Casa Calabria. You will never ever be sorry you set foot into that establishment. I've never been so inspired to write a review before. Still I feel ill from the food there. Maybe because everything had to be doused in butter in order to have any flavor. ...read more
By bigjimmy007 at Citysearch December 28, 2008
Over the years, I have had a chance to eat at a great many Italian restaurants. Some have been great, some fair, and then there's the bottom, inhabited by the likes of Villa Capri. \t\n\t\nWe were traveling in Marquette at the end of this past June. After eating at The Virling in downtown Marquette (if you get a chance, it's a must-visit), we tried something different the last night. Unfortunately, we ended up at Villa Capri.\t\n\t\nFor starters, the decor seemed to be black and red with lots of dim light. It was a caricature of Italian restaurants. We waited for ten minutes before our waitress arrived with menus, then didn't come back for another twenty minutes to take our order. Once the food came (45 minutes after we ordered, and the place was less than a third-full), they managed to bring the wrong type of pasta for our son and all of our dishes were barely lukewarm. The red sauce on my wife's dish was on par with Spaghettios, completely lacking a true tomato flavor. My lasagna was dull and lifeless, tasting only of institutional-level pasta, artificial tomato sauce, and the blandest ricotta cheese ever made. It made Stouffer's lasagna seem like gourmet in comparison.\t\n\t\nOur waitress never came back during our entire meal to check on us, and we had to flag down a different waitress in order to get our waters refilled. In all, we spent almost two hours trying to order and eat food that tasted worse than a 99-cent Budget Gourmet meal from the supermarket freezer case.\t\n\t\nIf you ever get a chance, avoid Villa Capri unless it's the last food available on Earth. ...read more