Everybody at once
Family reunion catering on 30A has one real requirement: everyone eats together, once, without 4 cars and two reservations. A hibachi chef at the rental house does that, and the cooking keeps the children occupied for the 90 minutes that usually go wrong.
When one rental holds three generations, eating out stops being realistic around night two. Nobody will seat eighteen at seven. Splitting into two restaurants defeats the purpose of the week. Cooking for eighteen means one or two people spend the evening in the kitchen and miss it.
A chef at the house is the only version where all three of those go away at once, and the reason reunions rebook it year after year is usually the third one.
For mixed-age groups we recommend a kids' seating around 5:30 and an adults' seating after. The children get the full show at the hour they are actually hungry, then they leave the table and the adults eat properly. The alternative, one seating for eighteen, works, but it means small children sitting through a ninety-minute dinner, which is a plan that has never once survived contact with reality.
Above about 20 guests in a single seating we bring a second chef so nobody waits.
Seagrove Beach and WaterColor are our two biggest reunion towns: Seagrove for the deep lots and old houses, WaterColor for the deck sizes near Western Lake. Santa Rosa Beach bay-side houses off 393 are the sleeper option: big yards, wide driveways and the easiest setups on 30A.
Inland, Freeport and Point Washington houses have more space than anything on the coast, and reunion groups who rented there rarely have any setup constraint at all.
Before you book
Yes. Twenty in a single seating is a two-chef, two-station booking so nobody waits. Split across a kids’ and adults’ seating, one chef handles it comfortably.
Yes, and for mixed-age reunions we recommend it. Kids at around 5:30, adults after. It adds about 40 minutes to the evening.
List them on the booking form. Allergy and vegetarian plates are cooked on a cleaned section of the grill, separately, not picked out of a shared batch.
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