About this vendor
Ryan Brown Catering New York is a full service event catering company located in Brooklyn, New York. Our event team will work with you to coordinate the menu, staffing, and rentals for your wedding or party. We offer delicious, locally-sourced food, professional staff, and essential planning to help your event come to life. Ryan Brown Catering has been in business over 15 years so we know what it takes to make your wedding a smashing success!
Services Offered
Ryan Brown Catering New York is a full-service catering company who provides catering services throughout the New York City and Connecticut areas. Our events range from weddings, engagement parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, cocktail parties, and intimate dinners to corporate events and holiday parties. Catering services include the following:
Cocktail reception
Buffet style dinners
Family style dinners
Plated dinners
Hors d'oeuvres
Dessert station
Late night snacks
Full service staff
Small plate stations
Tastings
Cuisine
We specialize in farm-to-table new American cuisine made from the best available locally sourced ingredients. Whenever and wherever possible, we purchase local, organic produce, and grass-fed beef, directly from farms.
Venues
We are a preferred caterer at the following venues and are always happy to make recommendations or connections to other event professionals.
26 Bridge
Dumbo Loft
W Loft
Greenpoint Loft
The Green Building
501 Union
The Foundry
The Bordone LIC
620 Loft & Garden
The Bell House
Harold Pratt House
South Farms
Pioneer Farm
Details
Business Attributes
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
Cuisine
- American
- French
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Food & Catering
- Buffet
- Catering Clean Up
- Catering Delivery & Setup
- Chef Stations
- Family Style
- Menu Tastings
Reviews
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5
out of 5.07 reviews
We were really nervous to choose a caterer for our wedding. Food and drinks are very important to us and we have a group of family and friends for whom that is even truer! From the...
get-go, Ryan’s menu piqued our interest with his creative and modern seasonal selections, while still appealing to guests who appreciate more conservative food choices. We were even more impressed at our tasting and it was very obvious that our wedding was in great hands with him and his team! Ryan was highly professional, communicative, and flexible, making sure that we felt comfortable with a menu that was perfectly tailored for our event. When our wedding day came, we were so excited for our guests to try the food and we were so happy (but not at all surprised) to hear everyone’s rave reviews! The rest of his staff were also incredibly nice and professional and did an excellent job. We would obviously recommend Ryan and his team to everyone and we cannot thank him enough for making our wedding so wonderful!
Ryan Brown and his whole team were such a pleasure to work with throughout the entire planning process and during the wedding! The food was so super delicious and our guests are st...
ill raving about the meal. We did family style for a party of 120 people and it worked out perfectly. Our guests loved being able to try everything. Also, the waiters and other staff that work with Ryan were super professional and such a joy to have at our wedding. Ryan and Patty are pros at what they do and they were amazing to work with when choosing a menu and when picking out our rental equipment. Our venue required us to bring almost everything in, but Ryan and Patty made the process super easy and they were beyond flexible with working with us to stay within our budget. Hiring Ryan Brown gave us immediate piece of mind knowing that we were in the best of hands. Ryan, thank you so much for being there for us and for providing us and our guests with the best meal ever! We are so grateful for all of your hard work and dedication to make our wedding so memorable! You're the best!!! -Love Lisa and Peter
My husband and I were so happy with our decision to hire Ryan Brown catering for our 250+ guest wedding. Patty, was absolutely amazing during the planning process. She was always a...
vailable to answer any questions and help us tailor all the menu to all our specific requests. The staff day of were so professional and on their A game. Since my husband and I were going to miss cocktail hour they put together a platter of all the apps and brought them outside to us. They were so delicious! Even picky family members were impressed by the food throughout the evening. Naturally my husband and I spent the evening running around, so I was happy my mom made sure to pop a few dessert bites and late night bites in my mouth each time I passed her. Ryan Brown's team is truly a professional group!
My experience with Ryan and his team was nothing short of amazing. From the food to the service, I cannot thank them enough for the job they did and how fantastic the food was, esp...
ecially that wild mushroom & mascarpone lasagna! The food really made the wedding and the guests were all raving about how great it was :)
We cannot recommend Ryan Brown Catering enough. Ryan took care of everything for us from start to finished and really worked in the manner that felt most comfortable to us. He was ...
responsive, timely and took us through the entire catering process in a seamless and efficient manner. Not to mention, the food was delicious. Everything he prepared felt unique and had heart/soul was put behind it. His service staff was top notch and professional. Ryan also worked closely with us on our budget and advised on ways to be more cost effective while not taking away from the overall wedding experience. If you are unsure of which caterer to go with, let us help you decide, choose Ryan and his team and you won't be disappointed.
Ryan Brown Catering was a Godsend for our wedding. About six months into the planning process, our original caterer (a TV chef... You may know him as a certain dessert "Boss") dro...
pped us due to a TV show that would be taping in their kitchen around the time of our wedding. We freaked and sought out proposals from 20+ catering services. We chose Ryan Brown for many reasons: he was familiar with our unusual venue (The Harold Pratt House), his quote was way more reasonable than any other caterer, and his presentation was professional and appealing (note to other caterers - misspellings on your proposals actually matter, your clients do not want their guests to eat "Lemon Crud Cake").
Booking Ryan was a real turning point in our planning process. We were relieved because he clearly knew how to throw a fabulous party at our space - and the tasting was FANTASTIC. Ryan combined some foods from both of our family traditions and even allowed for a few custom items, like Mint Julep cocktails and mini Chess pies. My southern relatives thought his mint juleps were better than ones they'd had in Texas, and the chess pies disappeared as soon as they came out! Overall, the guests raved about the food, and the wait-staff is top notch professional. Ryan in general is just a pleasure to work with - great sense of humor, responsive to emails, understanding, and again very professional.
We even had a last-minute After Party that Ryan helped us plan. We ordered some h'ors d'oeuvres for an After Party (Ryan effortlessly put a proposal together for that only a few weeks from the wedding), and then we had a minor disaster - during the wedding, we found out the After Party location was off-limits due to a broken elevator. We quickly secured a bar as a new location (during the wedding!!) and RB's team was there on time with the food, as though nothing had ever happened. So in a jam, Ryan will save your butt!
One other detail I appreciated: he allows for online payment. Totally made the process more convenient!
Long story short, Ryan and his team are Stone Cold Pros. If you want DELICIOUS unique food, outstanding service, and an overall stress-free experience, book Ryan Brown. Then breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy one of his top-notch cocktails :-)
Ryan and his team completely saved the day for us when our original caterer went out of business only a few months out from our wedding!! It was a blessing in disguise :) I was rea...
lly distressed when I first contacted Ryan, but he put me completely at ease and answered all of my questions and we loved that our venue, the Harold Pratt House, had worked with and vouched for him because they are very picky about caterers and have a few quirks. We did consider several caterers but Ryan stood out as the best choice, both in terms of quality and value. Food is a really important part of both me and my now-husband's lives, and so taste was really the number one thing we were looking for, and Ryan's food looked amazing and proved to be so during our tasting, which was honestly better than many fancy restaurants we've been to.
During the planning period, Ryan and Patty were super helpful and communicative and went above and beyond in accommodating my (numerous and admittedly very picky!) requests for the menu. For instance, we actually asked him to recreate a Gramercy Tavern dish that we'd recently tried and loved as one of the entree options, and he totally nailed it which was amazing.
On the day of, Rusty and all the staff were so on point and kept everything running so smoothly. We also loved that they assigned one of the staff to us to make sure we actually got to eat the food that we'd been looking forward to for months. The passed hor d'eouvres are really out of the world and my first bite of those after all the pictures was one of the highlights of the day! The tuna crudo and crispy potato cakes are SO GOOD. They also packed a box for us with a bit of everything to take home, as well as the top layer of the cake, which was a lovely morning after treat :)
Ryan, Patty, Rusty and everyone else on the team - thank you so much for making our day as perfect as it could possibly be!! You guys are the best!!!
Contact
294 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Ryan Brown Catering