Vespa Italian Cafe
Description
Authentic Roman cooking, brought to your venue, your rental, or your home. We cater weddings, rehearsal dinners, corporate events, and private dinners across Sedona and the Verde Valley — with the same organic Italian ingredients and 72-hour pinsa dough we serve in our dining room.
The Same Kitchen, Wherever You’re Celebrating
There is a particular kind of relief that comes over a host when the food arrives, and it is unmistakably good. Not adequate. Not “fine for catering.” Actually good — the kind guests interrupt each other to comment on.
That is the whole job, and it is the reason we cater the way we do: the same kitchen, the same Italian flours, the same slow-fermented dough, the same people. Nothing is downgraded because it left the building.
Features
We know how planning an event in Sedona usually goes: you send enquiries to six vendors and spend the next week wondering whether any of them read it. That is not how this works. Send your details and Charles has them immediately.
Matteo Works Your Event
The other thing worth knowing: Matteo Zacchino, who owns Vespa, is on site at your event. Not supervising from the kitchen — carrying trays, running the buffet line, checking that the hot food is hot.
That isn’t a marketing arrangement. It’s how a family restaurant works, and it’s why the same face shows up in nearly every photo on this page.
The team behind them matters too. Annaliese put it better than we could: “Charles, Matteo, and their team took care of my wedding guests like they were their own family.”
This is when we met the owner Matteo. He took the time to sit with us and talk through the mechanics of how we saw the day going, what was most important to us, and who the day-of POCs were. It was so evident that both Matteo and Charles cared so much about not just the food but the experience.
Matteo Works Your Event
The other thing worth knowing: Matteo Zacchino, who owns Vespa, is on site at your event. Not supervising from the kitchen — carrying trays, running the buffet line, checking that the hot food is hot.
That isn’t a marketing arrangement. It’s how a family restaurant works, and it’s why the same face shows up in nearly every photo on this page.
The team behind them matters too. Annaliese put it better than we could: “Charles, Matteo, and their team took care of my wedding guests like they were their own family.”
This is when we met the owner Matteo. He took the time to sit with us and talk through the mechanics of how we saw the day going, what was most important to us, and who the day-of POCs were. It was so evident that both Matteo and Charles cared so much about not just the food but the experience.
