Backyard Drop-Off
We smoke it, you serve it.
$18/ guest
20 guest minimum · 1 meat · 2 sides
- Hot delivery in insulated chafers
- Serving utensils & disposables
- House sauce trio
- Pickles, onions & white bread
Post oak · Central Texas · Since 2009
Know what yourbarbecue costsbefore you call anyone.
Ember & Oak caters weddings, company parties and backyard blowouts across Texas. Build your menu below and we'll show you the whole invoice — meats, staffing, mileage, tax and deposit — in about ninety seconds.
- Starting at
- $18/guest
- Events catered
- 1,400+
- Free travel
- 25 mi
- Quote holds
- 30 days
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How it works
Three steps, no sales call, no waiting on a Tuesday email.
Most caterers make you fill out a form and wait. We put the same pricing sheet our pitmaster uses right in your hands.
01Tell us the headcount
Guest count, date and where you're putting the tables. Thirty seconds of typing.
02Build the plate
Pick a service style, choose your meats and sides, stack on the extras you want.
03See the real number
Line-by-line pricing with travel, staffing, tax and deposit — no callback required.
Average quote time
90 sec
Service styles
Pick how it shows up.
Pitmaster Buffet
A staffed buffet line built for a crowd.
$27/ guest
30 guest minimum · 2 meats · 3 sides
- Staffed buffet line for 2.5 hours
- Linens, chafers & serving stations
- Compostable plates, cutlery & napkins
- House sauce trio + pickle bar
Full-Service Live Fire
The offset smoker rolls up and becomes the show.
$42/ guest
50 guest minimum · 3 meats · 4 sides
- On-site offset smoker & live-fire cooking
- Chef-attended carving station
- Full front-of-house team for 4 hours
- China, glassware & linen napkins
Off the pit
Everything smokes overnight. Nothing gets rushed.
Browse all sides & extras
Central Texas Brisket
PremiumPrime packer brisket, salt-and-pepper crust, 14 hours over post oak. Sliced to order, fatty or lean.
14 hr smoke+$7.50 /guest
Carolina Pulled Pork
Whole hog shoulder smoked over hickory for 12 hours, hand-pulled and tossed in vinegar mop.
12 hr smoke+$4.50 /guest
St. Louis Spare Ribs
PremiumTrimmed St. Louis cut, dry-rubbed and glazed with our black-strap molasses sauce in the last hour.
6 hr smoke+$6.50 /guest
Smoked Half Chicken
Brined 24 hours, smoked over pecan, finished hot for crackling skin. Served with alabama white sauce.
3 hr smoke+$3.50 /guest
Jalapeño Cheddar Hot Links
Coarse-ground beef and pork sausage stuffed in-house with jalapeño and sharp cheddar. Snappy casing.
2 hr smoke+$4.00 /guest
Smoked Turkey Breast
Butter-injected turkey breast smoked over cherry wood. The one that wins over the non-BBQ crowd.
4 hr smoke+$5.00 /guest
Travel, spelled out
First 25 miles are on us. After that it's a flat $3.25 a mile — shown on your quote, not sprung on your invoice.
Staffing that scales
Buffet and full-service packages price crew per guest, so a 40-person party never pays for a 200-person team.
Honest date pricing
Fridays and Sundays run 5% more, Saturdays 10%. Weekdays never carry a surcharge.
Volume works for you
75 guests takes 3% off, 150 takes 5%, and 250+ takes 7% — applied automatically as you type.
Fed & happy
They asked for seconds.
We got the estimate in about ninety seconds and it landed within forty dollars of the final invoice. The brisket had a line the whole night and my father-in-law still talks about the burnt end beans.
Marisol Reyes
Wedding · Dripping Springs, TX · 140 guests
I had to justify the spend to finance before I could book anything. Being able to print a line-by-line breakdown with the travel fee and staffing broken out made that meeting take five minutes.
Devon Marsh
Company Picnic · Round Rock, TX · 320 guests
Three other caterers wanted a phone call before they would give me a number. This one just told me. Drop-off package, sixty people, done from my kitchen table on a Tuesday night.
Priya Nandakumar
Graduation Party · Austin, TX · 60 guests
Your number is ninety seconds away.
Build it, save it, share it with whoever signs the check. Every quote gets a reference code you can pull back up any time.