Rincon Beach Club & Catering

I wish I had a great review for this place. My experience was not however. After much research, I found this place and it looked perfect for what I was looking for. My maid of honor called and made arrangements with Carol to meet there at 3pm. My fiancé and I drove two hours to arrive there and she was not there. She told her our appointment was at 11 am. I checked with my maid of honor and she said she had written down for 3. So she had the other girl walk us around. She did that but we did not feel invited. It seemed very quick and she handed us cookies as she walked us out the door. My fiancé and I both had the feeling we were imposing. So, we did not have our wedding at this location. It was important for us to not have added stress and to feel welcomed by our planners. It was a beautiful location though.

Rincon Catering is absolutely amazing. From start to finish, the professionalism, efficiency, and dedication that this company brings to each and every event is astounding. My organization has used them for multiple events over the years, and they never cease to amaze.
Marc, the owner, is so kind and accommodating. Not only does he listen to your specific requests, he gives great ideas and improves on any suggestions you may have. His experience in this field is very evident! You can rest assured that you are in good hands.
In addition to Marc, the servers, cooks, bussers, etc. are all wonderful. They are all so friendly and constantly have smiles on their faces. Their energy definitely brings an upbeat energy to every event that they are at.
Overall, I definitely recommend Rincon Catering for any event that you want people to thoroughly enjoy ;)

Please disregard any negative reviews below as they could not be more off base with Carol and the team at Rincon. I had such an amazing time and they made the whole experience enjoyable from start to finish. Great food, helpful staff, gorgeous location!

I attended a 40^th birthday at Rincon Beach Club. What a wonderful place!!! Incredible food, beautiful décor, and friendly staff. I wish I could get married all over again and use Rincon. We just loved the place!!!

Rincon Beach Club & Catering recently catered The Carpinteria Chamber of Commerce Communuity Awards Banquet. Carol and her staff did an amazing job assisting with the set up and break down of the event. The food was outstanding. I would recommend them for any event small or large. You will not be disappointed.

This review is long overdue, but more than a year after our July 2014 wedding at Rincon Beach Club, my husband, family and friends are all still raving about this venue. I honestly don’t know what I would have done without the owner Carol and coordinator Caitlin. We planned our wedding from across the country, and she made the whole experience an absolute dream that went off without a hitch.
From the delicious food to the rustic décor, our wedding was special and unique at a fraction of the cost of other Santa Barbara-​area vendors. Carol even handled our flower centerpieces which helped save us hundreds of dollars. One of our wedding guests attended another wedding at RIncon a month alter and remarked how amazed she was at how each wedding seemed completely unique despite being at the exact same venue.
Rincon also catered our rehearsal dinner offsite the night before, and helped us throw an amazing party on a very tight budget.
Thank you to Rincon for throwing a wedding even better than we imagined.

Rincon Catering is incredible to work with. We do all our corporate events using Rincon — and all we have to do is choose the menu, and collect the RSVPs… They do everything else… the sound, the lighting, the décor, the setup, breakdown, service, etc. Very little stress for our staff. I have used them as an event planner as well, and they are fabulous! I coordinated a memorial celebration and the event was so special, beautiful, affordable and memorable. I give them 5 stars! All the staff is impeccable, personable and positively delightful — especially Marc and Sumner!

Working with Rincon was the best decision we made for our wedding. Carol is a pleasure and Marc is charming. We had 160 people at our beach wedding and everyone had the best time! The food is PHONOMINAL. I just can’t say enough about that. We choose stations, which everyone loved. We are Jewish but the most popular station was the pork station, specifically bacon on a stick. You can not go wrong in any way!

I worked closely with Angie at Rincon Catering for my wedding at the Santa Barbara Zoo. They are the mandatory catering company which initially could feel like a compromise in going with the venue but they are actually awesome! I had a family friend who had heard great things and they definitely delivered. Angie was super helpful every step of the way. They did a large tasting event and it was a perfect way to choose appetizers and entrees as well as décor. We heard the food was some of the best most people had ever had at a wedding which is every bride’s dream to hear:) I would highly recommend them!

My company had a luau retirement party at the beach club and it was amazing. Eloise, Sumner and the entire Rincon team were exceptionally easy to deal with and beyond accommodating. No detail was spared. My colleagues are still raving about the food: chef carved prime rib, fresh ahi and shrimp at the Pacific Rim station, cedar plank salmon and of course local delicious wine varietals to accompany. From the planning stage to final execution RBC was fantastic, right down to the leis and mini pineapples! We’ll look no further next time we have an event, and I suggest you don’t either.

Our guests still rave about our wedding!!!
We were married at the Rincon Beach Club back in 2008 and it was, in a word, magical! The day of the event was absolute perfection and still, seven years later, we often get comments from our friends that were there how great it was, how much fun they had, and how good the food was. Not only is the venue itself beautiful, but the staff is just outstanding! From the moment we first toured the facility, throughout the planning process, till the last guest left, the staff members were friendly, attentive, helpful, and professional. They really went above and beyond for us and I highly recommend their services! We are forever grateful.

Carol and the Rincon Beach Club made the day perfect!!!
My daughter said it was the wedding of her dreams!!!

My husband and I got married at Rincon Beach Club a few months ago and were blown away with our entire experience with the venue. They really know what they are doing here. We looked at lots of venues in the Santa Barbara area and this one was the most well run by far. Our wedding was absolutely perfect and we cannot thank them enough for such a flawless night.
Carol is the owner and she is really hands on and on top of everything. She went out of her way to accommodate every little request we had and she made the entire process so much easier on us. She also owns the catering company (which has amazing food) so it was such a weight off our shoulders to have her be able to organize everything for us.
This venue is also very reasonably priced. I have heard lots of stories from friends who have gotten married about their venue’s ripping them off with hidden fees and I never felt that way with Rincon Beach Club. I felt that all of the added on costs were reasonable and actually turned out to be less than I expected!
Night of the wedding ran so smoothly. Everything was timed perfectly, food was served promptly and all of the staff was on top of it. I have a heavy drinking group of guests and the bartender was able to accommodate everyone in a timely manner with a smile on her face.
Can’t say enough good things about this venue. It is really worth every penny! Thank you guys so much!

Extraordinary care & attention to every detail! Superior gourmet food, an amazing supportive team made our wedding the talk of all our guests… for any occasion wouldn’t use anyone else!!!
Ricon did our destination wedding, which required more than usual wedding planning and details… from hotels & transfers for guests, to turning our vision into a complete fairytale!!!

My wife and I just got married here last week. The owners Marc and Carol and the entire staff were amazing. Carol did a great job walking us through the whole process. She helped us pick our décor, table arrangements, what food to chose, and the whole rehearsal process. She even have us great recommendations for a photographer, a dj and a florist.
When one of my groomsmen accidentally destroyed my boutonnière Carol was able to pin it all back together.
I had been to beautiful weddings at this venue before but never as the groom. The extra personal touch that the staff provides really makes you feel like they care about your event as much as you do.
The food was amazing and all our friends and family can’t stop talking about the tri tip with the pomegranate demi glaze.
We had an incredible time and I would highly recommend them to anyone.

The Rincon Beach Club was the PERFECT location for our wedding reception venue. Carol made everything a breeze planning wise. My fiancé and I just had to pick and choose what we wanted the place to look like, and Carol exceeded expectations. The food was amazing, the decorations so beautiful, and the photo booth so much fun! With all of the stress that comes with wedding planning, this venue made it so much easier, it is pretty much like a built in wedding planner. The Beach Club is a great indoor/​outdoor space that offers a gorgeous and intimate setting, where guests really feel at home. All of our family/​friends are still raving about how much fun our wedding was. Thank you so much again Carol, for making it a perfect day.

I wish I could say we had such a great experience with this venue. unfortunately this was not the case as we were not even given the chance to find out. We spoke with Carol after doing multiple searches for inclusive wedding locations to provide service for reception as well ceremony in October 2015. Not only did it take some time to receive any responses to the inquires. Both my fiancée and I emailed the venue, I never received a call back, however my fiancé did. When we did receive the quote there was multiple areas that were incorrect. Looking bad now we shouldn’t have overlooked it, but since this was the place that we had chosen to get married and we were so excited we did. We were told that we would not be able to complete a deposit as we would have to do this in person after we had toured the venue. since we live in Texas we had to arrange to fly out to the venue at the end of this month. We planned to pay the total amounts due at that time while not required. In the past week we’ve been in contact with Carol about menu choices as well as different aspects of the wedding that we wanted to have. As I had said before we we were told that because we were booking an off-​season date it wouldn’t be a problem for the date we picked (October 24 2015) and we moved forward with putting deposits down on photographers, out Florist, hair and make up as well as buying plane tickets for the end of the month to completely book our venue. We had also purchased our save the date photos as well as ordered our save the date postcards with this date. Our cake also been ordered and deposit also paid. You can imagine how excited my fiancé and I both were as to how well everything had been planned and how diligent we were being with making sure everything for wedding had been taking care of since we live out-​of-​state.
What I’m sure you couldn’t imagine is our utter shock and sadness when my fiancé called yesterday to confirm a couple things regarding our cupcakes as well other questions about sunset times etc. and Carol stated «before you go on I need to tell you that this past weekend we had a couple come tour the venue and paid the deposit for the date that you had been planning for your wedding we had previously discussed.»
needless to say the conversation didn’t proceed much more as my fiancé had to make a call to me to letting me know that our wedding wasn’t going to happen on our date even though we had received our quote and asked multiple times about paying the deposit so this wouldn’t happen. we didn’t even receive a courtesy call on Saturday when this is happened to even let us know. my fiancé just happened to by chance have a question that required him to call the venue. I feel like this is the worst type of business Practice as well as customer service. I read so many reviews about making sure that you always get everything in writing and you can’t trust anyone’s word when they give it to you. This could not be any more true in this situation. I want everybody to know our experiences and what a hard lesson we learned and how much stress and sadness we feel over this situation and at a time that is supposed to be the happiest since we are planning our future together, we are scrambling to look for another venue and this is just very sad.

«The best reception I have ever attended»
«OMG the food was great»
«We had soooo much fun!»
«Beautiful venue!»
These were just a few of the comments from our wedding reception on March 14, 2015. We had approximately 90 guests. Everything was PERFECT!!! Carol and her staff are consummate professionals in every way. I highly recommend this gorgeous venue.

We had our wedding at the Santa Barbara Zoo and Angie did an amazing job coordinating everything! Angie helped to make our dream wedding come true. We don’t live in the area so it was very reassuring that she was there to help us. Our guests kept telling us that having our wedding at the zoo was so fun and different and it ended way too soon!
Zoo Catering Services by Rincon also provided us with amazing food! Our guests couldn’t stop telling us that it was some of the best food that they’ve ever had at a wedding. We couldn’t have been any happier with how everything turned out. We highly recommend the Zoo and Zoo Catering Services by Rincon if you want to have a memorable and exciting wedding day!

From the moment we walked in Rincon Beach Club we were greeted by warmth and hospitality. After visiting numerous venues we accidentally came across Rincon Beach Club through Unilocal.Right after dinner we drove there and knew that this was the place for us. We scheduled an appointment and after the first meeting we were in love! Every venue we had visited made us feel like an «appointment» but Carol and Marc made us feel like we were at home. It was all the little things… The way they had a box of desserts as a gift for us (and their desserts are BOMB), or the way they dressed up the venue for a mock wedding for us that brought me to tears. This couple is really such an inspiration because they are doing what they love. Every step of the way they strive to make your event so special. It’s because of this passion they have helped us make our wedding a reality.
Guests could not stop talking about how great the food was and so many people told me they had 2 – 3 plates of food. All our desserts were gone at the end of the night! I love this catering company from the bottom of my heart! They host events at their venue and are also able to cater to the venue of your choice.
Also I LOOOOOVE Carol! She was also our wedding planner and she was so professional and calm throughout the process. We could seriously call her whenever we needed help… that included family problems, venue setup, wedding processional, wedding crashers and emotional issues. I had wedding OCD and she even gave me a time line so I wouldn’t freak out. She was always the deciding factor when my fiancé and I couldn’t make a decision. Rincon Catering MADE our wedding!
I’m so glad we found them! I highly recommend them and if you have any doubts free to personally message me!