Evening buffet

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We want to make the evening buffet special 1/ we love food 2/ everyone will have just eaten a set menu 3/ those joining just for the evening deserve something special 4/ we want to offer variety for all of the above

So if you could choose anything what would you go for

We had pakora, proper ones, all different types 😋

We had curry and rice, burgers and chips and something else but I forget 😂
I didn't eat any of it as I was 7 weeks pregnant with horrendous morning sickness but it looked good 🙈

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Personally, I'd love an old school buffet. Sometimes you just need cheese and pineapple hedgehogs.

Yup. Same here.

Ice cream, cheese and biscuits

Old school buffet all the way. Nobody likes hog roasts, it's one of these things you think you should like but in reality your heart sinks. Absolute shite. Everyone loves a sausage roll and a variety of sandwiches.

70s style buffet , sandwiches , cheese and pineapple hedgehog, bread sticks cheese straws , vol-au-vents >>chicken and mushroom, egg, tuna, mayo . Trifle

Posher buffet
Good quality soft , hard and blue cheese and crackers , pickles, 3 or 4 chutneys , salmon , pakora, paté, salad , olives, stuffed peppers, salami ,

Hot food ,
curry one mild one hot ,rice ,nan ,chutney, lime pickle
Hot pot pies red cabbage , pickles and brown sauce

Pizza , the big advantage with pizza is you can cater for lots of different tastes easily the only thing I would suggest with this you don't ask people what kind of pizza they want go to your local pizza place and ask them for a variety of their most popular ones obviously include a couple of vegetarian spicy spicy non spicy and with and without pineapple if you start asking people what type they want will get very pinickity

If you are going to fo burgers or sausage barricades make sure the filling is very good quality and plenty of it , nobody wants a barmcake with just one sausage cut in half in it .

I'm sure there is a lot more stuff that I would like but I can't think of it right now my brain is going to sleep 💤

Sausage Barricades
I didn't know they made sausages big enough for them to become Barricades !
barm cakes

We did a massive cheese buffet, lots of crackers, chutneys, pickles, some accompanying salad bits to accompany like little tomatoes and grapes, picked onions I think? Fresh crusty bread, lots of different kinds. Big bowls of various salads - posh potato salad and coleslaw etc and the wedding cake cut up on a separate table. It was DIY apart from the caterers making the salads and was a really good cheap option. It did get a bit messy with the cutting of cheese. It was great and went down very well. In hindsight there weren’t great options for vegans but we didn’t know many at the time. I am now vegan so would be a bit more considerate now!

At our wedding we had street food 'stalls' and the main one in the evening did a ploughman's based on our cake of cheeses with ham, hand raised game pie, fruit and salads with breads and pickles.
It was served rather than 'help yourself' but people selected what they wanted and it was sliced/carved for them. It was very popular. There was also a 'stall' of mini desserts, enough for everyone to have at least three different ones.
I think anything goes as long as there is something for everyone and it's good quality.

@bjonesreborn

We had sausage baps and chips in a cone. They were demolished !

Sausage/bacon butties & chips is my favourite wedding evening food. First time I had it was at a really beautiful old hotel with the most amazing meal. The hot sandwiches were just perfect and a lovely contrast to the lunch

We are having butties at 12 (to soak up all the alcohol 🤣)

I don’t eat cheese so yes I am that weirdo!! And no to a hog roast neither of us really like pork

We like the idea of food being walked round with also an added table of meats/cheeses/dips/bread/salads so basically a hot/cold buffet.

Thanks for all your help it’s good to see peoples ideas/recommendations

We had hot beef in gravy baps with roast potatoes (probs a no go if you are doing baps later though)

I like the food truck idea!

In Lancashire any evening event can become a 'pie and pea supper'.

You could make it a bit posher with different pies and maybe chips

Depending on the venue and the time of year you could do picnic baskets / boxes / hampers either to eat outside or a hamper per table.

If you have money to burn buy in from Fortnum's, if not you can make your own and obviously there are option in between.

If you did your own you can tailor them to different guests.

Just in case anyone is interested we have agreed a street food selection (2 hot options) along with a cold buffet of cheese, meats, breads,dips, salads and seafood and 4 different big roaming canapés.

Then at 12pm it’s either build your own butties or a ploughman’s not decided yet.

That sounds lovely.
Just one comment: not sure I'd want a ploughman's when there has been cheese on the earlier buffet. Probably because I love a midnight bacon/sausage butty at weddings! But seriously, if you go with ploughman's, maybe take the cheese out of the buffet?

We are serving sausage/ veggie sausage sandwiches with some sauces/ salad bits, and the wedding cake.