Southern Style

Budget: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que serves down-home barbecue that won’t break the bank. For $15.50 a head, they’ll prepare chopped barbecue chicken, Memphis-style pulled pork, coleslaw, beans, and corn bread, plus chocolate chip cookies and brownies.Mid-Price: For $42.50 a person, Avents Catering and Special Events will provide fried chicken and all the fixins’, including tomato cucumber salad, mini ham-and-cheese biscuits, macaroni and cheese, and Georgia peach cobbler for dessert. Wash it all down with specialty Southern drinks like sweet tea and Lynchburg lemonades.

Splurge: For an all-out barbecue buffet, Danny Meyer’s Hudson Yards Catering can bring food from his restaurant Blue Smoke. Start off your event with four passed hors d’oeuvres, such as deviled eggs and barbecued chicken skewers, plus a station of mini pulled pork and vegetable sliders. Buffet- or family-style entrées include St. Louis spareribs and sliced Texas beef brisket with collard greens and baked beans. If guests have room, there’s bourbon pecan pie and chocolate layer cake—all for $51 a person.