I second the pig roast. BBQ is great piping hot or lukewarm. Can do great southern sides buffet style or plated.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing food for 180 will not happen if it is being plated and served. I see this working only in a buffet style dinner. And you have to make sure that your spread is amazing!!

I don't think amazing food is possible in a buffet style dinner.

It absolutely is. It just has to be the right stuff.

Maybe stations set around like a carving station for beef or duck, a seafood bar set on ice, etc. But the one big long table with sternos burning and everyone standing around holding their plates, no thanks.

Multiple tables and the food replicated on each. Crowd management and ample seating is also the name of the game.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing food for 180 will not happen if it is being plated and served. I see this working only in a buffet style dinner. And you have to make sure that your spread is amazing!!

I don't think amazing food is possible in a buffet style dinner.

It absolutely is. It just has to be the right stuff.

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The right menu, the best ingredients, cooked to perfection, served at the right temperature. I love it. I hate when I am given a fixed plate and told to pick one from choice A or B. What is I want to eat choice A, B, C and D? I am never satisfied at a plated dinner. Even when I go to restaurants, I don't mind ordering many dishes and then taking leftovers home.

For me as a guest, weddings are for indulging in the best of food and the best of drinks. No cash bars, no dried up entree on a plate. I want lots and lots of choices for every thing.

That’s a pretty standard # of people for a wedding. Just get a good caterer.

The best food I’ve ever had at a wedding was a southern style barbecue reception held in a barn out in the country. Delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing food for 180 will not happen if it is being plated and served. I see this working only in a buffet style dinner. And you have to make sure that your spread is amazing!!

I don't think amazing food is possible in a buffet style dinner.

It absolutely is. It just has to be the right stuff.

Maybe stations set around like a carving station for beef or duck, a seafood bar set on ice, etc. But the one big long table with sternos burning and everyone standing around holding their plates, no thanks.

Anonymous wrote:Hold the event at a restaurant. Find one with a garden space for the ceremony. Food was important to me. Ours was at 2941 early on when it was getting a lot of press. We did wedding "research" by having meals at various locations. Less decorating is necessary too.

This is a good idea. I've been to several 300k+ weddings where food has been made a priority but with no on site kitchen it's been a total shitshow between timing (6pm wedding and no food til 9:45 when they kick you out at 10) and that everything arrives cold. Sort of ironic because it was clearly a priority but at a certain point mist guests would have taken a rubbery piece of chicken.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing food for 180 will not happen if it is being plated and served. I see this working only in a buffet style dinner. And you have to make sure that your spread is amazing!!

I don't think amazing food is possible in a buffet style dinner.

It absolutely is. It just has to be the right stuff.

Anonymous wrote:I can throw money at the problem but I don't understand how that spares you from sous vide steak or rubbery lobster tail, or a long wait for the last people to be served, whatever. Is it more waitstaff, a better kitchen, etc? What must be sacrificed? And does this automatically exclude a Ritz or Four Seasons or any other in-house required food?

It gets you more people. More people in the kitchen. More waitstaff. Etc. Getting good food to come out at the same time for that many people is difficult, but it is less so if you have more people to handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:Barbecue. We had a pig roast and it was delicious. You’re welcome.

Ewwww. This would be so off putting and the opposite of elegant.

It was tongue in cheek, but honestly; elegant and delicious and well plated hot wedding food for 180 isn’t going to happen. Unless it’s coming from 18 different kitchens at the same time .

Yet other pps had helpful comments and even a caterer rec.

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Anonymous wrote:Barbecue. We had a pig roast and it was delicious. You’re welcome.

Ewwww. This would be so off putting and the opposite of elegant.

It was tongue in cheek, but honestly; elegant and delicious and well plated hot wedding food for 180 isn’t going to happen. Unless it’s coming from 18 different kitchens at the same time .

Anonymous wrote:Barbecue. We had a pig roast and it was delicious. You’re welcome.

Ewwww. This would be so off putting and the opposite of elegant.

Anonymous wrote:Barbecue. We had a pig roast and it was delicious. You’re welcome.

Gross. Good-bye.

Barbecue. We had a pig roast and it was delicious. You’re welcome.

Hold the event at a restaurant. Find one with a garden space for the ceremony. Food was important to me. Ours was at 2941 early on when it was getting a lot of press. We did wedding "research" by having meals at various locations. Less decorating is necessary too.