The Farm to Catering
Experience
Farm to Catering means supporting the farmers and ranchers we partner with to provide the best local and sustainable ingredients at your event. These wholesome ingredients are the foundation of our recipes.
What We Offer
Hill Country Catering Company is the vision of Executive Chef Shannon Van Dorn. Years spent working in some of Austin’s top restaurants and event kitchens inspired HCCC and a desire to bring restaurant-quality food and thoughtful hospitality beyond the walls of a restaurant.
Today, that vision takes many forms, from chef curated dinner parties and tasting menus to corporate gatherings, milestone celebrations, craft services, production catering and select weddings. Chef Van Dorn has brought together her A-Team of event chefs, front of house staff and bartenders to create experiences that feel personal, polished and rooted in really good food.
We star farm fresh, local ingredients by partnering with ranchers and farmers from Central Texas to the Gulf Coast. This seasonal, sustainable approach keeps our menus connected to the place and time in which they are served.
Our passion is bringing people together around the table. Let us share our joy with you!
Private Dining & Celebrations
From chef curated dinner parties and tasting menus to milestone celebrations and select weddings, we create seasonal menus that feel personal to the people gathered around the table. Intimate or grand, every experience is shaped around the occasion.
Corporate & Brand Events
From executive dinners and client gatherings to galas, launches and company celebrations, we bring restaurant-quality food and thoughtful hospitality to the corporate table. Menus and service are tailored to reflect the occasion, the guests and the brand behind it.
Craft Services & Production Catering
Long production days deserve food that works as hard as the crew. From early call times and grab-and-go snacks to full meals, canapés and wrap, we build flexible service around the pace of your production while keeping quality at the center.
Our Services
From intimate dinners to large-scale events, we offer a range of service styles designed around the way you want your guests to gather.
Our services include:
Bar Services
Cocktail Receptions & Passed Appetizers
Grazing Tables
Roaming Buffets
Buffets & Interactive Culinary Experiences
Family Style Dining
Plated Dinners
Craft Services
Production Catering
Drop-Off & Limited Service Catering
Our team can also provide bartenders, servers, event staff and rentals to bring the experience together.
Cocktail Reception
A little movement makes for a lively room. Passed bites, roaming offerings and thoughtfully crafted cocktails invite guests to mingle, taste and let the evening find its rhythm.
Interactive Culinary Experiences
Bring the kitchen into the celebration. Abundant displays, live stations and dishes finished in the moment give guests the freedom to explore the menu while making the food part of the experience.
Plated Dinner
Bring the restaurant experience to your table with thoughtfully paced courses, artful plating and attentive service. Each dish has its moment, while your guests have the time to enjoy it.
Family Style
Sharing is the source of community at the dinner table. Generous platters passed among guests invite conversation, connection and the simple pleasure of sharing a meal together.
Hill Country Catering Company is the vision of Executive Chef Shannon Van Dorn, a graduate of the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA and Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, where she earned an Advanced Degree in Culinary Arts and Sommelier certification.
Shannon built her career across restaurants, pastry kitchens and large-scale events, with experience at Bonhomie under Philip Speer, Odd Duck, Stella at The Westin Downtown, Holy Roller, Hank’s and as pastry sous at Dai Due, recognized by the Michelin Guide with a Green Star. Those kitchens helped shape a way of cooking that values seasonality, sustainability and a strong sense of place, ideas that continue to live at the heart of Hill Country Catering Company.
Her move into events began as Event Sous Chef for The Peached Tortilla and continued through work with La Pera, The Royal Fig and Whim. Somewhere along the way, she realized what she loved most was not simply cooking for people, but creating the kind of meal that gives them a reason to linger a little longer, pour another glass and stay at the table.
Since 2022, Shannon has brought together her A-Team of chefs, servers and bartenders to create experiences that feel thoughtful without being fussy and polished without losing their warmth. At the center of it all is a simple idea: cook with the season, take care of people well and make the gathering feel worth remembering.
Our team of chefs, servers and bartenders brings warmth, experience and thoughtful service to every gathering, with care for the details that make an occasion feel effortless and well considered.
