Renton Pavilion Event Center and Rain City Catering

Rain City Catering is the best! We own a winery and needed help with a food pairing event with our wines. Not only did they hit the mark, they offered options and suggestions. Our guests loved the pairings and raved about the quality of food. Kenny is so easy and flexible, Marsha so patient, loved everything and would recommend them for any event large or small!
Karen
Sol Stone Winery

Great experience overall with Renton Pavilion Center/​Rain City Catering. We used this venue for a 1^st Birthday/​Baptism party for about 150 people. Marsha was our event coordinator and I cannot say enough positive things about her — she even helped us alter parts of the menu to help with our budget — thanks Marsha! Food was great and affordable! For food tastings, they invited customers to come on a scheduled night to taste (there were people from about 6 other events the night we went) — which was great because a buffet was set up for us to sample different choices from their menu.
The venue itself is huge! All of our family and friends were so impressed with the spacious room and high ceilings. Like others have said, the only concern I’d have with the place is parking — luckily the transit center parking garage is a very short walking distant from venue. While the day of our event was hectic in our end, everyone at Renton Pavilion Center helped make it go so smoothly. Their employee, Daniel, really saved us with all the technical issues/​concerns we ran into, and the rest of their team were just really nice.
Thank you all for making our event such a successful one!

Nice venue in the heart of downtown Renton. Good size, large windows. Down side is parking is only available on the streets or the garage which you have to pay and sometimes homeless or weird people wandering around because of the location being next to the transit center.

We attended a Auction Saturday night and this venue was nice! It’s a very large area with high ceilings and windows. The charity auction was on one end and the tables for eat/​drink on the other end. Nice elevated stage and sound system. The catering was done by Rain City Catering and the food was great. They had plenty of staff who were very friendly and helpful. Jeremy and Kenny did a great job!

My wife and I had our post wedding party catered by Rain City in our back yard. Kenny made sure everything was taken care of from the tents (fear of rain) food and service. Everything was great. I would recommend there services to all. BTW the mac & cheese is killer even the kids liked it. LOL

Great place for a party. Was here for a wedding and everything was perfect. Excellent food too. Would be great for a corporate party. Would give 5 stars if in another location.

The Renton Chamber of Commerce holds many events here. Kenny is great to work with, is conscious of budget and the food is delicious. The space is very versatile, the Chamber holds a Business Expo annually during the Fall Festival in the park. The chamber also partners with the Berliner Pub for Renton Oktoberfest, a three day festival in September. The space works great with the garage doors that roll up to the outside. We also have our annual auction and Business excellence awards here. We are very happy with the service, food and atmosphere of the event center and Rain City Catering.

This is a nice event center. It feel like your in an airplane hanger-​high ceiling with industrial woodwork above. Very modern sophisticated look. The downside was on a hot day the air conditioning might not be strong enough. It was warm, stuffy and hardly any breeze. On hot summer days, this place might not be a good choice for an event.

Great big space for events and parties. Attended both a gala auction and a wedding here and the space turns out well. Seems like they give you a blank slate to work out of. They have restrooms and plenty of room

My friends had a wedding here and I really liked this location. The only thing that I could think of that was somewhat bad abut the place was that because of where the center is located, there were a lot of people passing by and sometimes unwanted people would try to interact with the members of our wedding reception. One example was this old woman who happened to hear the music being played inside, looked at me and danced in a way a horny male would, and then proceeded to walk all the way to our entrance where I was standing. I thought she would stop there, but then she ended up entering through the doors and she continued her dancing barrage. It wasn’t that bad and I don’t think anyone felt threatened… I just felt like I was sexually violated so i left to get another shot of vodka.
That aside, the pavilion center was beautiful! The place felt huge, the restrooms were clean and aesthetically appealing, and the air conditioning was great! There’s also like a million parking spots because it’s right next to the transit center (but I’m assuming you have to pay for them). The lighting was perfect and the placement of the windows let enough sunlight in to make the place even prettier. So all in all great place. Just make sure wild people don’t make any type of perverted dance journeys towards you… the image will burn in your head for days.