Food catering 🙄☹️

Im keeping it casual and doing brats and burgers and hotdogs

We're doing bacon burger sliders, carnitas tacos, green chili mac and cheese, salad, and roasted brussel sprouts

It's heavy food, but the venue is a bar/restaurant so 🤷‍♀️

We are doing traditional wedding food; chicken, beef, potatoes, veggies, salad & rolls; we also added a pasta bar!

I’m doing a little bit of everything sushi, paella, turkey, lamb, pad thai, etc I wanted to have options for everyone

BBQ. Pulled pork, smoked brisket, salad, and cheesy potatoes

I'm having Chinese with some Caribbean choices!! Think fried snapper, jerk pork, rice and peas, general Tao chicken, fried chicken wings, spicy fried shrimp, vegetable fried rice/lo mein. Things like that! Super reasonable in price too!

We did dinner that anyone could eat.

Baked 🍗, Roast Beef, 🍚 with Brown Gravy, Green Beans, Costco Rolls (36 ct for $5), 🍋ade, Tea, Water, and Wine.

We’re open to just about anything. I think what we’ll go for if it fits our budget is a mac n cheese bar for cocktail hour, and either a chili and baked potato bar (we’re getting married in November so very comforting) or roasted chicken with mashed potatoes for dinner.

View Quoted Comment Roasted 🍗 and Mashed 🥔es sounds good.

What “soulful” items did you have in mind? Would the party food be for appetizers?

You can never go wrong with Italian or BBQ! I've had lots of different kinds of chicken and pastas at weddings, as they are cheap and tasty!

Our Menu was...
Entrees: Cajun Chicken with Mango Salsa & Beef in Au Jus
Sides: Peas & Onion, Parsley Buttered Red Potatoes, Mostaccioli, House Salad, Bread & Butter

We did a buffet style and it was pretty nice. Not too heavy, food was delish. I think that's all I really cared about was taste and what I could consume, as I'm lactose intolerant. I had them tweak a few things on my menu to make it more inclusive to people with dairy allergies (mostly because I don't wanna be waiting on my own food while everyone else eats) and I had a couple that was Vegan that my venue accommodated with Vegan Mediterranean pasta and they were able to choose from the salad (it had no cheese in it, on the side only) and the veggies (cooked in margarine).

At our tasting they had all of their menu's because it was a large tasting and if we wouldn't have gone with the package we had -- we definitely would have gone BBQ/ Fried Chicken as they're known for the chicken & I just like BBQ.

We'll be doing a mac and cheese bar for dinner. Toppings will include choice of chicken, brisket, or bacon with various veggies, sauces, bread crumbs, and more cheese.