New Orleans Catering Company for Private Parties and Events

Food and Event Catering Services in New Orleans

Our event catering services are built around live-fire Gulf seafood, but the format is flexible. We set up wherever the party is — backyards, event venues, historic properties, parking lots, rooftops, courtyards. Our mobile rig is entirely self-contained. We require no electricity, no water, and no kitchen access from your venue. We show up with everything we need and we leave cleaner than we arrived.

This matters more than most people realize. A lot of event catering companies in New Orleans are constrained by your venue's infrastructure. We're not. That means we can work in spaces that other caterers can't — French Quarter courtyards with no loading access, Garden District mansions with narrow entries, historic Warehouse District buildings with no commercial kitchen on-site. If you can get us to the space, we can run a full catering service in it.

That flexibility is what makes us a natural fit for weddings and cocktail hours specifically — a raw bar or chargrilled oyster station works as a passed or stationed element during cocktail hour, then the boil or full spread carries into the reception. One caterer, two parts of the night covered.

We serve parties from 10 to 400-plus guests. Because we stay boutique by design, we limit our bookings to ensure every event gets full attention. We don't double-book. We don't delegate. You get the whole operation every time.

New Orleans Catering Menu Built Around Gulf Seafood

Our catering menu is focused, not bloated. We do a handful of things exceptionally well and we don't pretend otherwise. Every item on our menu is something we've dialed in over dozens of events, refined with feedback from real guests, and built to execute cleanly under the pressure of a live event. There's no filler. Nothing that's on the menu because it's easy — everything is there because it's worth eating.

Current menu offerings include:

• Crawfish boils built on our family bayou blend — Louisiana crawfish, corn, red potatoes, and andouille sausage, seasoned to your spice preference from medium to deathwish

• Raw oyster bar, shucked to order, with house mignonettes, lemon, and hot sauce

• Chargrilled oysters with garlic herb butter, roasted over open flame — a New Orleans specialty done right

• Gulf shrimp boils and blue crab feasts with our signature Louisiana seasoning

• New Orleans staples done well — gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and other Louisiana classics made from scratch, not out of a bag

• Caviar service for guests who want to elevate the raw bar experience

• Cocktail hour service — oyster shooters passed tableside (The Bayou, Champagne Mignonette, or Bloody Mary), or a stationed raw bar guests can graze all night

• Custom builds on request. Ask us what we can do. We bet we can.

We bring the rig, the product, and the craft. That's the deal. We stay in our lane because staying in our lane is how we do it better than anyone else.

Rougarou Shuckers is a boutique New Orleans catering company built around Gulf seafood, live fire, and zero shortcuts. We handle crawfish boils, raw oyster bars, and chargrilled oyster stations for private parties, corporate functions, weddings, cocktail hours, and everything in between. From a dozen people in a backyard to 400-plus guests at a venue, we bring the food and the energy, you handle the guest list.

We are not a catering company that mails you a quote and sends a crew you've never met. When you book Rougarou Shuckers, you get Clayton and Shahi, the founders, on-site, behind the pot, and personally accountable for every bite. That's the difference between a generic catering service and a catering experience that people actually remember.

We started this company because we believed New Orleans deserved boutique seafood catering that took the food as seriously as the city does. New Orleans has the best food culture in the country. It deserves a catering company that respects that. We're not here to do the minimum, we're here to do it right.

Catering for Private Parties of Any Size

Whether you're planning a small party catering setup for 15 people in a backyard or a large private event catering spread for 400-plus guests at a rented venue, we scale without cutting corners. The crawfish are the same quality. The oysters are the same boutique quality. The presentation is the same quality. Headcount changes the quantity, not the standard.

Private party catering in New Orleans is what we were built for. Birthday parties, anniversary dinners, engagement celebrations, rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, baby showers, graduation parties, family reunions, holiday gatherings — any private occasion worth celebrating is worth doing right. We treat every event like it's the most important one on the calendar. Because to the people throwing it, it is.

We also handle small event catering for non-personal occasions — neighborhood association events, school fundraisers, club gatherings, and pop-up dinners. If it involves a group of people who want to eat well, we're in.

New Orleans Catering Services That Cover the Metro Area

We serve Orleans Parish and the surrounding Greater New Orleans metro. Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard, the North Shore — if you're in the area and you want New Orleans catering that actually cares about the food, call us and we'll confirm we can get to you.

We are fully licensed and insured. We handle permits when required. We arrive at your event with everything pre-staged and ready to run. Load-in is clean, setup is fast, and breakdown is thorough. You won't be cleaning up after us.

How to Book New Orleans Catering with Rougarou Shuckers

Booking is simple. Hit the BOOK IT button on the site, or call and text Clayton directly at (504) 666-2527. We'll talk through your event date, location, headcount, menu preferences, and any dietary needs. Because we stay boutique, you'll actually talk to us, not a booking coordinator who's never touched a crawfish.

We ask for a deposit to lock your date. Crawfish season is short and our calendar fills fast, especially in spring. If you're planning a March, April, or May event, reach out early. Fall events in October and November also book quickly. The sooner you call, the better your chances of getting the date you want.

New Orleans has no shortage of catering companies. It has a shortage of catering companies that actually care about the food. That's the gap we're filling. Book Rougarou Shuckers and find out what the difference feels like.