Dante Club Of Fresno

Ok here is my final review. The Dante Club is a beautiful location, but I would choose not to do future events here. The management team is NOT pleasant to work with. Mike thinks he knows best and is NOT open to new ideas for set up. When my mom and family was setting up/​decorating the place before the wedding, HE WAS RUDE AND HARD TO WORK WITH. Mike had A LOT OF ATTITUDE. He did a lot of eye rolling. His speech was harsh and he does not hide the fact that he is IRRITATED OR ANNOYED — because again, he thinks he knows best. He gave my family a very hard time from the beginning of the day, which in turned ruined most of the rest of their day even though they tried their best to enjoy themselves despite his rudeness. Fortunately, he left after the ceremony BUT his bartender was also VERY RUDE IN HIS PLACE. All in all, it’s a beautiful place, but it’s not worth working with a rude staff who will muffle beneath their breath, call you stupid out loud (not to your face, but to to the other staff members) and basically ruin your wedding day because of their negative and mean personalities. They don’t care about customer service or your happiness. They just want your money. I’m only giving it 3 stars because the location is well put together and well maintenance. Mike is not pleasant to work with. Neither is his male bartender.

It was disappointing setting up on morning of our 25^th Anniversary Reception as my Aunt, Mother & Husband had extremely unprofessional disrespectful experience with Frank the President of Dante Club he became very argumentative and nasty with my kind Aunt helping with setup, speaking for me to have 6 chairs per table as I instructed hominem from day after deposit was made. Frank was arguing, cursing my husband had to step outside to avoid problem on our day of our 25^th anniversary reception. Also «Linda» the supervisor of staff at 9 PM while we were dancing, told my caterer to leave take all tea, water, coffee and leave at 9 PM. We had nothing to drink. Linda told her own Dante Club staff to clear all tables, my guests drink glasses, my guests anniversary favors, picture sharing cards in the trash. 11 PM was our contractual end time and Frank’s sell was you have it for 7 hours 4 – 11 PM he stated won’t start clearing tables till 11:01PM. I came back in to get a drink of tea and everything was gone staff threw away all drink cups I was angry & upset, it was a sign for my guests to leave early which they started doing. My parents were trying to stop staff from them throwing away last of party favors while I was trying to salvage any favors in boxes at garbage all of us in our formal wear clothes. Buyer Beware you don’t get what you pay for. Linda gave us three different Totals owed at end we were to be refunded from deposit and beer. After ruining two hours of reception. her tactics of advantage over people under influence of drink, didn’t work with us, she even called Frank at home disrupting his sleep. Never again would i have an event here. Completely unprofessional and I should get a refund for 9PM-​11PM contract time we were cut short on our contract. Linda needs to be retrained or replaced, Frank needs to have staff supervisor follow his contract times & law. Be respectful people spent a lot of time, money on their special day, don’t ruin it. I would sue for two hours if I didn’t have surgeries to go through.

I have been to a couple of weddings here now and both times everything was organized and very decorated. It is very romantic and is good for small to 150 guests.

I’ve been here on numerous occasions while growing up in the area for various parties and just recently to celebrate my brother’s 21^st birthday.
This club isn’t in the most appealing location. It’s near the 99 freeway off of a busy road and a few housing tracts but it’s spacious and the staff is accomodating.
We had a great time celebrating a milestone in my brother’s life and I’m sure we’ll be back for other parties.