PREFERRED CATERING LIST
AUSTIN CATERING
Austin Catering is a full-service boutique catering company offering custom menu design and personalized event planning services. Our passion for seasonal quality ingredients, artistic presentation, and focus on flawless event execution is what sets us apart and is the core of what creates the Austin Catering experience. Menus beginning at $18 per person. Full service event catering including event staff, plates, glassware, flatware, and table linens ranging rom $55-$75 per person for buffet service and $75-$110 per person for family-style and plated service.
Catering with a Twist
Our Twist is that you get the best of both worlds, phenomenal fresh-seasonal-local cuisine that we call Third Coast Fusion, to the design and artistic element brought to life with the displays-team-attire. We specialize in artistic plating techniques, stylized food displays (buffet) and interactive creative Stations. Our culinary team have mastered the art of Third Coast Fusion, by highlighting the bold flavors native to Texas. When you think of Texas cuisine, you think - BBQ, Southern Comfort and Tex-Mex, now envision these flavors "with a Twist". Our catering team has mastered elevating these traditional flavors by applying techniques like smoking, brining, marinating and braising.
Our Menu pricing starts out at $18 per person for our “Pure Essentials” menu, this does not include appetizers, however is an easy addition with our Twisted Party Platters or our “Pure Essentials” appetizer displays starting at $5.50.
Contigo Catering
Contigo Catering brings the best of Contigo restaurant to your event. We're proud to offer rustic yet refined presentations, warm and gracious service, and a welcoming atmosphere. Our creative seasonal menus reflect our signature style while always being thoughtfully tailored to your taste and preferences. Menus starting at $35 per person.
Crave Catering
Family values and unparalleled expertise are the cornerstone of the fine menus that Crave Catering culinary professionals custom design for your event. Relying on decades of experience, this talented team presents tasteful food in exquisite ways that compliment and accentuate your event at Mercury Hall. Menus starting at $22 per guest.
Dagar’s Catering
Dagar’s Catering is a family-owned Austin staple that has served the Texas Hill Country area for over 65 years, backed by a reputation of dependability, quality food, and the utmost in customer service. Dagar's offers full-service catering, comprehensive bar packages, and a diverse menu sure to suit your needs—whether you have a taste for regional cuisine or more adventurous fare!
Though our rates may vary depending on the needs of your event, our base menus start at $13.95 per person and service packages start at $13/per person before taxes and service fees.
El Chile Group
The El Chile Restaurant Group offers both full and limited service catering from all of our restaurant concepts. We have everything from a casual street taco buffets from El Chilito to a fully seated formal dinner menu from our coastal concept Alcomar. Our extensive hors d'oeuvres menu from El Alma is ideal for cocktail hour and passed appetizers and El Chile’s fresh squeezed lime and agave margaritas are perfect for events in the Texas heat.
Menus starting at $15 per person.
Maguire Moorman Hospitality
Our full-service catering brings the beloved details from each of our locations to events of any size, all over Texas! We’d love to be a part of your special occasion. Box Lunches starting at $15pp, Lunches starting at $35pp, Cocktail Events starting at $30pp, and Dinners starting at $45pp
The Peached Tortilla
The Peached Tortilla specializes in off-site catering and can offer plated meal, family style, buffet and food truck service. Their menus featured unique but familiar flavor profiles from family style Korean braised short ribs, ginger salmon and bacon jam Brussels sprouts to street food tacos and sliders served from the award winning food trucks. Peached Tortilla offers full bar packages, which include alcohol, craft cocktails and bartenders. They also offer the ability to carefully curate vegan and vegetarian catering menus.
Menus starting at $21/person
PEJ Events
PEJ Events was launched in 2017 as the new face of Pok-e-Jo’s catering division, creating a full service solution for our clients with event needs beyond catering. PEJ is good food as casual or as upscale as you’d like for it to be, but doesn’t put you out of house or home. PEJ tends to work around a client’s budget as best they can understanding that every couple’s vision for their wedding or event is different ,as well as how much they are hoping to spend. Our full service catering minimum is $3000 with menus starting at $21.95/person.
Pink Avocado Catering
Pink Avocado Catering was created in 2006 out of a passion for amazing food and service. We believe that using the freshest ingredients produces the best results. We are tireless in staying abreast of the latest food trends. And we are obsessed with creating customized menus and culinary masterpieces for our clients! Our custom proposal process begins with finding out what the client is looking for - their favorite foods, restaurants, and the theme/vision for the evening so that our chefs can create their dream menu - this part of the process is one of our favorite parts!
Menus starting at $25/person
Primizie Catering
Primizie Catering is a full service custom catering company. Our menus and events are curated to help our clients shine by taking their inspiration and infusing it with the food, service style and décor of the events we produce. We pride our selves on providing a stellar service and culinary team for each event. Menus range from Classic Americana to Old World Italian, from Pan Asian to Tex-Mex and start in the $25 range and go up form there for full service events. Delivery menu's begin in the $16 range depending on selections.
Royal Fig Catering
Simple, Seasonal, Fresh – Royal Fig Catering is a scratch kitchen creating upscale American comfort food using fresh, local ingredients from organic and sustainable farms throughout the Austin area. Each menu is created with seasonality in mind, so your guests will be eating food at the peak of freshness.
Menu Ranges
Plated - $50-60
Family Style $40-55
Stations $35-55
Buffet $25-45
Drop off platters and/or boxed lunches $12-25
The Salt Lick
The Salt Lick has been serving the Hill Country and Austin area mouthwatering barbeque for generations. Our unique flavor dates back to 1967 when Thurman Roberts and his sons built the legendary BBQ pit, which still stands in our Driftwood Restaurant today. Since then, we have catered to events both large and small, all over the country. While we love serving our regulars at the restaurant, there is something special about bringing our world-renowned BBQ to a private event. Indulge your guests in our nontraditional BBQ sauce and treat them to some of the best barbeque Texas has to offer.
Two meat, three side buffets start at $22.95/person with plentiful hors d’ oeuvres , dessert, vegetarian and staffing options available.
Vanilla Orchid Catering
Vanilla Orchid specializes in upscale southern comfort providing full-service catering to our partners with decades of chef and culinary experience. We love creating for large-scale events, cocktail parties, weddings and corporate events of all shapes and sizes. We perfect each and every opportunity to cater the special events in your life. Our custom crafted menus from our executive chefs will make your event incredibly memorable.
Event Specialists at The Vanilla Orchid are trained and experienced in matching your vision to your budget. We understand the challenges of getting the most out of your budget and will work to provide you with the best options to bring you the most value. We are not the cheapest caterer in town but we strongly believe we provide the most value. Our starting menu options range from $12-$20 depending on portion size, service style, rentals, staffing requirements, food costs, and complexity.
Walton’s Fancy & Staple
Walton’s provides a wide variety of meat, seafood and vegetarian options! Passed appetizers, family style dinners and buffet catering are all offered. Walton’s has what we would call a modern touch of fine southern cooking. Customizable menus are also welcomed. We also have an amazing pastry staff who create beautiful wedding cakes and desserts as well as an in-house florist. Cake, flowers, catering food and staff are all located within the same walls!
Menu pricing starts at $24/person
More information coming soon...
Don’t see a caterer that fits your style or budget? Let us know! You can also work with Austin’s Elite Staffing or DNA Events to make any local Austin restaurant a full service catering company. See below for more details:
Austin's Elite is the premiere, top notch event staffing, coordination and rental company here in Austin, TX and surrounding areas. We provide a level of service to each and every client that is specific to their needs, wants and desires. I want to ensure you we put our hearts into every thing we put our hands on. Our servers, bartenders, chefs, coordinators, brand ambassadors and entire team of event service staff has years of experience in the industry. Our portfolio demonstrates a range of talents, clients and various caliber of events throughout our 13 years in business. We look forward to making magic happen for you!
Bartenders $30-$35/hr
Servers $30/hr
Kitchen Attendants $30/hr
Event Managers $45-$50/hr
Day of Coordinators $75/hr
Beyond these we have DJs, door men/women, general helpers, private chefs, a fleet of vehicles from trailers to box trucks, and margarita machines. If there is any aspects, human, gear to your event you need facilitated, we have done it all!
DNA Events
Be unique and eat unique with dna events, a full-service caterer that works closely with local restaurants and specialty food providers to deliver specially curated menus that suit our client’s individual tastes and styles. In addition to our catering service packages and menu management services, dna events also offers full bar set-up packages, floral services, and assistance in securing other third-party event services. Our service packages start at $13 per person before taking into account your food provider, menu choices, taxes and service fees.