New England Catering at its Finest

Woodman’s has been a family tradition since 1914, serving generations of people from New England and beyond. Our experienced catering crew takes pride in offering the best clambakes and barbecues in New England! Our team will be sure to make your day as easy as pie.

We will come to you and cook at a venue of your choosing, or rent one of your venues on property to host your event. The Top Deck is located about the restaurant, featuring a private room with marsh views. Alternatively, host your event in the Lobster Trap pub, a more casual pub style setting, and kick the wedding weekend off right!

If you host your wedding ceremony and reception at The Essex Room, you will receive 10% off a clambake or bbq menu for your rehearsal dinner.

Clambake & BBQ Menus

Sample Clambake Rehearsal Dinner Menu

	Quantity	Price	Total
All American Clambake (pricing based on 35-124 guests)	50	$82.25	$4,112.50
15% Gratuity			$616.88
7% Tax			$287.88
Grand Total			$5,017.26

Sample BBQ Rehearsal Dinner Menu

	Quantity	Price	Total
Bessie’s Best Barbecue (pricing based on 50-124 guests)	50	$55	$2,750
15% Gratuity			$412.50
7% Tax			$192.50
Grand Total			$3,355

*Woodman’s of Essex charges a minimum of 18% gratuity on all food and beverages. A flat rate gratuity of $200 per worker is quoted on these menus as there are two additional workers added to provide extra service. Standard pricing includes catering crew members to cook and serve the food. Additional crew members are recommended for rehearsal dinners and other special occasions to clean and clear and offer additional assistance throughout the event. Please contact our catering office for more information and to discuss customizing the proposal to fit your events needs.

Pricing is subject to change at the discretion of Woodman’s of Essex.

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Lovely location in back of Woodmens.

Peter Orio

ABSOLUTELY!!! We had my daughters wedding Friday Sept.6,2019, everything was perfect ! Food, venue , staff were phenomenal ! Donna, Lauren , Maureen made our day perfect! No stress at all for this mother of the bride! Have been friends with the Woodman family forever and they did not disappoint! All of our friends and family are raving about it!Patti & David Burnham

Patti Burnham

Lovely time at family receptions 👍🏼

Roni Joseph

What a wonderful party they hosted. Food was fantastic and was great playing lawn games with the kids

Clark Williams

The Essex Room and staff are amazing! They made our wedding day everything thing and more. We had an unexpected hicup during pictures and they made it go as smooth as possible and made me and the bridal party feel comfortable and at ease and no one had a clue anything happened! Truly amazing! I wish I could do it all over again! They put my vision to life and the food, the guests still can’t stop talking about it! Maureen, Lauren, and Donna are the best and I hope to be in touch with them in the future! Thank you for making my wedding dreams come true! #gobingorgohome #greatestcomebackofalltime

Victoria Vitale Bingham

My Son Brenden and Sarah's Wedding was at the Essex Room Sept. 23rd. It was so well done, everything was perfect. The venue was beautiful, the food was wonderful and the staff was incredible. Thank you for the perfect memories.Rosemary Doyle

Rose Graham Doyle

It was a special event for a family member, everything was amazing and well planned. I would recommend it to anyone needing a hall for a special event!

Susan Merson Drohan

Beautiful place and very friendly staff! My best friend had his wedding here and it was perfect!

Matty Citroni

Second wedding this year, and both were fun, and done just right! Wish I knew about this before�

Brian Campbell

We could not of been happier with everything. Our wedding was perfect all thanks to Donna and her amazing staff!! The venue is beautiful and every guest commented how fabulous the food was!!

Bethany Bell

I had such a great time at the Essex room!!! at Sam and Charlie McNeil wedding. The food was fabulous soup to nuts. If I had a daughter. I would definitely have the wedding here. The chef was fabulous and the after party was amazing. Can't wait to go back for seafood. Thank you donna of the Essex room you were wonderful!!!

Donna Bonaccorsi

We feel so fortunate to have found the Essex Room! Woodman's has long been a family tradition with us and Sam and Charlie wanted to have their reception there but we would have never guessed at the professionalism, expertise and support from Donna Roy and her whole staff. They were there every step of the way! As for the day itself, the room was beautiful, the food was perfect and staff was kind and accommodating. We can't recommend this venue strongly enough!!!

Marianne Veronelli Bolt

My son's wedding reception was held at the Essex one year ago ,had a great time, food was amazing would recommend it to anyone.

Nancy Grant

Impressive staff and venue. Daughter's wedding was a blast. Definitely the place to have a wedding reception. Would recommend it to anyone. Can't wait to plan my youngest daughter's wedding there ..........soon.

Fred Marzano

Great place for corporate events and functions. Menu is awesome. Owned and operated by the Woodman family. Can't beat the views!

Erik Smith

I don't even know where to begin! My husband and I had our wedding reception at the Essex Room almost 2 weeks ago and it was more than we could have ever dreamed of. Faye, Norman and Kristen made sure everything was taken care of and my husband and I didn't have to worry about anything (and I worry.. A lot!). 🙂 Maureen was also there to make sure everything ran smoothly which was an extra bonus. Chef Ned accommodated all of our guests various allergies and everyone enjoyed the food. Thank you to the entire Essex Room family for working with us to make sure our day was special! Additionally, thank you providing a great after party space at the Lobster Trap Pub. Our guests had a blast! 🙂

Erin Sheehan

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