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A long table set for a Southern Spoon wedding dinner
Smyrna · Rutherford County · Middle Tennessee

Southern comfort, cooked with a little nerve.

Chef-led catering since 2008, for weddings, offices and anybody who wants a thirty-foot kitchen to pull into their driveway.

Cooking since
2008
Weddings from
$25 a head
The truck
Jarvis, 30 feet
Based in
Smyrna, TN
Who cooks it

Chef Adam Barnes has been at this since 2008.

Southern Spoon started as a catering kitchen and grew into a family business, with a rib on the menu named after the man who cooks it.

The food is Southern first. Collard greens turn up in an eggroll, the cauliflower gets the Nashville hot treatment, and the banana pudding arrives as a beignet. It reads familiar on the page and lands as something people ask you about afterwards.

Chef Adam Barnes at work
Off the current menu

A few things people remember

Adam's Rib

Country-style boneless pork rib, wrapped in bacon, glazed with spicy BBQ sauce.

Southern Collard Green Eggrolls

Pepper vinegar syrup.

Chicken & Waffle Bites

Fried Springer Mountain chicken breast, sweet potato Belgian waffle, Vermont maple syrup.

Campfire Mousse

Graham cracker crumbs, hot cocoa mousse, chocolate sauce, smoked marshmallow whipped cream.

See all three menus
Also on offer

Smaller, and just as considered

Boxed lunches

Boxed lunches

Individually packaged, sandwich, chips and a drink. Counted, labelled and delivered on time.

From $15 per box
Grazing tables

Grazing tables

Free-form appetizer tables of cured meats, cheeses, vegetables, fruit, jams, dips, nuts and breads.

From $15 per person
Private chef

Private chef

Dinner for you and a few friends, in your own kitchen. We shop, cook, serve and clean up.

From $75 per person
Recent work

Tables we have set this year

The long table
The long table
Grazing table
Grazing table
Smoked brisket
Smoked brisket
Plated by hand
Plated by hand
Clementine Hall
Clementine Hall
Collard green eggrolls
Collard green eggrolls
Corporate spread
Corporate spread
Dessert service
Dessert service
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Also ours

Need a bar as well as the food?

Classic Taps is our mobile bar, a 1966 GMC named Magnolia. Book the food and the bar in one conversation, on one date, with one deposit.

See Classic Taps