Camelot Banquets

We had two weddings for our daughters here. Both were beautiful! The polish cuisine is delicious. The venue is very elegant. Nice gathering space, large dance floor, beautiful head table set up, and fun stairway for the wedding party to emerge from at introductions. The staff was very accommodating. They filled our every need with kindness and professionalism. Prices can’t be beat!

My last reviev was removed. So I not recommended this place for two reason it’s expensive and diners aren’t good as they say.

I came here for a welcome party for a baby and was pleasantly surprised. The interior is beautiful, with multiple rooms that seem to be able to be converted from smaller to larger banquet areas. It’s nicely decorated with elegant, modern chandeliers, and updated bathroom and good condition to the carpet and walls.
We had a family style lunch, with soup and salad to start. I was impressed at how hot all the hot foods actually were. The cream soup was good, salad was mostly iceberg which was super disappointing, and the family style meal was ok. There was beef with gravy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, mostacioli and mixed veggies.
The fried chicken was super hot and crispy, but the insides were a little dry. Overall OK. The beef was drier than the Sahara dessert, and bland. I did not enjoy this. The mostacioli was decent, the noodles starting to have the slight edge of mushiness, and the mixed veggies were vibrant and good. Overall, edible but nothing memorable. Service was really wonderful though throughout the whole lunch with many servers available to us and bringing things out quickly.
A-​ok event.

So, I cannot submit a review on the actual Camelot location because all I did was cater food from the banquet hall for Christmas. I just have to say this is the 2^nd time I’ve had catered food from Camelot and again I was not disappointed at all. The food is delicious, I honestly can’t think of anything bad to say. I’d definitely cater again.

The wedding cordinater/​owner is completely unprofessional. I came in with a wedding today and not only was the woman irrational, rude but vulgar! There was no need to use profanity or to yell at people in the hall. Your establishment should be embarrassed and I will never recommend this banquet hall!
Only reason I gave 1 star was to post

Let’s face it, banquet hall food can leave something to be desired, we can agree on this, right? Before I go further, I graded up to 4 stars and it was more 3.5, but way better than expected.
Sometimes with food at event spaces that cater to a large party, and this was 250+ people, the food can be good, but the texture gummy or rubbery because of how they heat/​make it. So I was pleasantly surprised! It was another family style dinner with favorites like homemade dumplings drizzled in butter and breadcrumbs, roasted new potato, breaded chicken breast, pork cutlet and some vegetables but who has room for that when you just ate 10 dumplings? I exaggerate, maybe it was 8 dumplings, but it was very flavorful! Texture was decent too.
The space was also decorated with attention to detail which made for a really pretty setting, with candle light and fairy lights adding to the festive ambiance. Again, the food was very tasty. Only drawback here was the parking. They have 2 lots, and still with a large party they could not accommodate so you were left with street parking, and a walk.

Just went for another funeral dinner for my sister in laws mother and everything went smoothly and the food was awesome! Of course the funeral director took a count of people at the church and called it in to Camelot ahead of time, so there would be no problems! That is key! Love this place!

Who calls the police because they cannot handle criticism about their waitstaffs’s insensitivity and lack of class during a funeral luncheon? Joanne Naughton, the owner of Camelot banquets, thats who.
This simple situation which occured July 18^th 2015 had an easy solution and didn’t have to escalate to the fiasco that it did if the owner of Camelot Banquets had the first clue as to what customer service was about.
It’s so offensive that grieving guests and family members are told to «find a chair or leave» when they arrive for a funeral luncheon. All that needed to happen was for another table to be added for addtional attendees but the staff at Camelot Banquets had to get ignorant and create drama when it was completely avoidable. It’s not like our group wasn’t planning on paying for our additional people. You would think Camelot would have appreciated the opportunity to serve more people than planned for our party and they really could have showed us how accomadating they could be and shined bright for all but they choose to see our party as more of a burden. How unfortunate for everyone involved.
Shame on you Joanne Naughton and Camelot Banquets!

I have never been so disappointed in a banquet hall in my life!!! I went there with my husband for a funeral lunch in and could not find an empty seat for the two of us. I was told by an employee to sit down or leave the banquet hall. I was shocked! The widow explained the situation to the manager and the manager stated «well you only told us 40 people will be attending» Who would know??? At a funeral lunch in I’m sorry you can’t RSVP!!! The manager was upset that more attended then were expected and instead of thanking the widow for the extra business she stated to the widow she should be thanking the kitchen staff! The banquet hall is in the business of hosting and catering to weddings, showers, and funeral lunch ins they should be able to cater to an additional 20 people. The widow was crying about the situation and instead of apologizing about the situation she made it worse by stating «get out of my office or I’ll call the police «needless to say the police were called and the whole incident was a complete mess!!! I would never ever recommend anyone to have any sort of function there!!! I found out the manager I was speaking about was actually the owner Joanne Naughton which makes the situation even worse!

I was here for my step dad’s funeral luncheon. When I walked in I thought the place was beautiful. Family and friends came in and went to the banquet hall to the left. We were seated in a large room. There was another luncheon going on in the other corner and then us on the other side. We didn’t have enough seating so we told the staff we needed more tables.
As 5 family members were standing between 6 – 8 minutes after asking a second time for more seats to set up a bus boy said to them «sit somewhere or leave».
This was a wake and even if it was a birthday it shouldn’t have been said.
Sadly after my mom who was grieving her husbands death had to deal with this and spoke with Joanne Naughton (who didn’t want to give her last name but we now know is the owner) told my mom that we should be thanking the kitchen staff rather than complaining about what was said. Joanne was not helpful or apologetic at all.
So, we would definitely not recommend The Camelot for anything. If you want excellent Polish food then go to the Belvedere Château in Palos Hills which we sadly didn’t choose.
The staff was ok.
Food was bland.
Owner Joanne Naughton very unprofessional and rude and not a sensitive bone to be found.

I feel horrible for recomending this place to my mother for her husband’s funeral luncheon. I had been here in the past with no issues. What happened yesterday 7.19.2015.(I’ll keep it brief). 35 seats were reserved and for our group. We had more than expected show up. The staff set up 1 addtl table but of the guests asked for another table so they could sit down. The waiter told her that if she doesn’t find an open seat, she could leave. They were obviously mad that we had 20 additional guests ahow up… The guest decided she was going to leave which upset my mom and learned of what the guest was told. We asked for management and the widow was then rudely treated also… approx 1 hr after burying her husband. We made room at a couple of the tables for the addtl guests and dealt with it for now. After the luncheon, my mom went to speak to the owner who defended her employee as if we made up the story and told her to leave. She then called the police on our remaining guests because we didn’t immediately leave, as some family was assisting an elderly family member toward the exit. Overall, the food was substandard other than the chicken, which was very good. The place has recently been nicely remodeled after a fire burned the place down 2 yrs ago.

We where having good party with family and friends when some guy started a arguing with people outside that was not party of any party in the facility, he started arguing and throwing fit against 20 of my guest standing outside, some lady part of the the staff called caps, and since Guy that was starting the fight already left, she pointed at our group, we had to spend another with cops half an hourly explaining what has happened, this is my last time in this place and i would not recommend anybody; anybody to do parties in this pace do to incompetent stuff that does not know what a big problem they caused and that they made my celebration day end up with big disappointment :(bad bad day