About this vendor
Our event staff is here to provide exquisite & unique options for your wedding day needs. We are a chef-driven restaurant that strive to create a diverse menu of American cuisine with the freshest ingredients possible. We offer different packages as well as individually tailored options to fit every price range.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cuisine
- American
- French
- Indian
- Italian
- Middle Eastern
- Seafood
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
- Kosher
- Vegetarian
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
Reviews
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4.9
out of 5.09 reviews
Baxters American Grille catered my wedding on August 30, 2025. They were phenomenal. From the very beginning they were responsive, professional, and reliable. The day of the weddin...
g was seamless, the servers were great, and the food was beyond delicious. I cannot recommend them enough!
We worked with the Champaign IL location for our wedding. Paige, the director of catering and events, was a superstar – responsive and willing to work with us on everything. Our ta...
sting experience was good: we had a private tasting of entrées and appetizers that we pre-selected. We opted for 3 entrée options: a beef, a salmon, and a vegetarian. Paige scouted our venue location a week before because Baxters had never done an event there. The food was excellent and well-priced. Baxters was accommodating to food allergies. The staff was professional and well-dressed. Everything went so smoothly. Highly recommend!
We had our wedding in Eureka, IL and hired Baxter's for catering both our dinner and our cocktail hour. We worked with Amber and throughout the whole process leading up to our date...
, was incredibly helpful and responsive in getting everything set up.
Baxter's was very accommodating with our tasting, providing many options we wanted to try in order for us to make the best decisions for us and our guests.
While we weren't able to partake in the appetizers during the cocktail hour, we heard many glowing reviews from our guests. We had gotten stuffed mushrooms, hummus trio, crabcakes, potstickers, and toasted ravioli. Baxter's was on site to set up with plenty of time and everything went smoothly.
Our dinner meal was absolutely delicious and once again we heard great reviews from our guests. We went with a buffet-style and chose the stuffed pork loin, smothered chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, and green beans. The set up was great and easy to follow, and the food was of course incredible.
The Baxter's staff was also great helping with refilling of water for our guests as well as clearing tables.
My wife and I would absolutely recommend using Baxter's for your catering if your wedding is in the Central Illinois area.
We had our small wedding and reception their this past weekend and Natalie and her staff were outstanding. She went above and beyond our expectations at every turn. Anyone lookin...
g to have a small intimate Wedding should have it here. Thank you to Natalie and the Baxter's staff for making our day something to remember! Thank You!
I cannot express how happy we were with our small wedding at Baxters! This fact has become even more obvious while attempting to work with other venues for our larger celebration/r...
eception in St. Louis. Natalie and Ashley went above and beyond; always willing and prepared to answer questions quickly and willing to offer up what they thought would work best in their opinions but always willing to listen and adjust to our liking as well. Their responses were always very timely, often in the same day. We held a small private ceremony on the patio (in the middle of winter) and then a family style sit down dinner reception in the back room. After dinner we opened up the space for a place to mingle with local friends that wanted to drop by for drinks. The food is amazing, everyone was impressed and stuffed! My spouse and I are rather picky and all of our requests were met with understanding and quickly customized to meet our needs. The wait staff the day of our event was the perfect balance of attentive and respectful of our privacy. We wish every venue was as great as Baxters! Thank you so much for truly making it the best day ever,
Alex & Diana Thomas
We came to Baxter's Catering with only two months left until our wedding after struggling with a different caterer. We wanted to do something different and had appetizer stations s...
et up around the reception. We received so many compliments on the food!
Natalie and Ashley, the event coordinators were always extremely prepared, willing to answer questions, suggested different ideas, set up personalized tastings, and worked amazingly well with our wedding planner and the venue coordinator so that I didn't have to.
The food was amazing and they actually brought a chef out to the venue to prepare the food there. The cost was extremely reasonable and comparable to other catering companies but the quality could not be better.
I would highly recommend Baxter's for any event and am extremely happy with our decision.
Everything was great.. There was only a few concerns.. A lot of guests didn't like the green beans they were hard and crunchy.. Also I guest of mine was offered another pork dinner...
on top of his chicken dinner why wasn't I asked about this first( not happy with that) he had also asked for his wedding cake to be put in a to go box and had another piece of cake added.. Not sure why..??? I just think if that is going to be offered bride and groom should have been asked first.. Maybe wanted family to have extras not boyfriend of a guest..bride and groom should have been offered left overs from guest plates that didn't come to wedding... Thanks
The event staff was very easy to work with. The food was excellent and the bar service was exactly what we asked for. Excellent shrimp cocktail and gooey butter cake to die for!
There was a wide selection to choose from as to how you wanted your dinner. They put us in a private dining room with our own wait staff. They worked with us on our centerpieces ...
as well as providing us with a projection screen. The service was spectacular as well as the food!
Contact
100 Trade Center Drive, Champaign, IL | Champaign, Bloomington, Central Illinois
Baxters American Grille