EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR THE ULTIMATE LABOR DAY FEAST
For many, Labor Day may mark the end of summer in the U.S., but that doesn’t have to mean the end to carefree cookouts and fun in the sun. The national holiday is an excellent excuse to fire up the grill, invite some family and friends over, and dine outdoors.
Celebrated the first Monday in September, Labor Day is a chance for many to enjoy a day off from work and to savor a three-day weekend before the start of a new school year. Whether you are hosting a backyard BBQ or attending a celebratory cookout as a guest, let America’s top chefs and pitmasters do all the work to create the best BBQ, picnic, or Labor Day cookout for you and your loved ones.
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What Are Good Labor Day foods?
Good Labor Day foods include American classics like hot dogs, hamburgers, and BBQ. Popular Labor Day foods include savory and sweet foods that are easy to prepare and can be made on a grill or packed for a picnic. The best Labor Day cookout foods include:
- Labor Day appetizers like crab cakes, dips, oysters, pigs -in-a-blanket, and shrimp cocktail.
- Labor Day lunches and dinners like seafood and BBQ samplers & sides.
- Labor Day desserts like ice cream sandwiches and fruit pies.
BBQ
Labor Day is the perfect chance to make it a hot grill summer with BBQ classics. America’s top pitmasters are making all styles of American BBQ, including Carolina BBQ, Kansas City BBQ, and Texas BBQ.

Snow’s BBQ Best of Texas BBQ Combo
One bite of the Best of Texas BBQ Combo and you’ll see why Texas Monthly named Snow’s BBQ in Lexington, Texas, the #1 BBQ in Texas. Sink your teeth into fall-off-the-bone St. Louis pork ribs, juicy smoked sausage, and tender oak-smoked brisket with the perfect “bark.”

Central BBQ Memphis Style Ribs – 4 Slabs + Sauce + Rub
Memphis, Tennessee’s Central BBQ has been making award-winning pit-smoked BBQ like their famous ribs since 2002. First, their pitmasters marinade loin back ribs overnight in a Memphis-style dry rub that is a mix of brown sugar, paprika, and salt. Then, the ribs are smoked to perfection.
Replicate the Central BBQ experience at home with Memphis Style Ribs – 4 Slabs + Sauce + Rub, which includes 4 seasoned slabs of ribs, 1 bottle of mild, hot, mustard, or vinegar sauce, and 1 rub to use for future BBQ feasts.
Hot Dogs
Frankly, we have the best hot dogs in America. From hot dogs and pigs-in-a-blanket to corn dogs to hot links and sausages, we have the hottest hot dogs, including Chicago “dragged through the garden” dogs, Detroit chili dogs, and New York all-beef hot dogs and hot dog kits.

Pink’s Hot Dogs Hot Dog Kit Best Seller
Paul & Betty Pink began selling hot dogs from a push cart before opening their Hollywood, California, hot dog stand in the 1940s. See why locals and celebrities alike love Pink’s all-beef hot dogs famous for their flavor and signature snap.
Pink’s Hot Dogs Hot Dog Kit Best Seller includes 6 Chili Cheese Dogs with chili, cheddar cheese, white onion, mustard, and buns and 6 Mustard & Kraut Dogs with sauerkraut, white onions, mustard, and buns.

Vienna Beef Hot Dogs Natural Casing Chicago Style Hot Dog Kit
Oh snap! Who doesn’t love a beefy, snappy hot dog? Since Emil Reichl and Samuel Ladany debuted their Vienna Beef hot dogs at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, Chicagoans have been in love with Vienna Beef Hot Dogs.
Try the Windy City favorite with the Natural Casing Chicago Style Hot Dog Kit with 10 6-in. hot dogs in natural casing and 10 poppy seed buns plus all the toppings Chicago hot dogs are famous for: bright green relish, yellow mustard, celery salt, and sport peppers.
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Burgers
It’s burger time. From fast-food to gourmet to one-of-a-kind creations, we have the best burgers and cheeseburgers for meat lovers, vegetarians, and vegans. One bite and you’ll flip!

Chef Geoffrey Zakarian Ugly Burger Dinner Kit
Chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s Ugly Burger is a hot mess — in a good way! The “Chopped” judge is coming in hot this holiday and every day with his Ugly Burger Dinner Kit.
Zakarian’s delicious Certified Angus Beef Burgers get their name from a New York Times’ restaurant critic, who declared these cheeseburgers were “so delicious but so ugly!” Each burger is topped with Gruyère cheese, jalapeño, onion, pickled cucumber, and Burger Sauce and sandwiched between a freshly baked onion bun.

Gott’s Roadside Gott’s Complete Cheeseburger Kit
Roadside burgers are worth the pitstop. Some of the best are at Gott’s Roadside in St. Helena, California. Founded by brothers Joel and Duncan Gott in 1999, award-winning Gott’s Roadside makes its 1/3 lb. cheeseburgers with fresh-ground, vegetarian-fed beef.
Skip the road trip and bring burger bliss to your cookout with Gott’s Complete Cheeseburger Kit. This burger box includes 4 Angus beef patties, 4 Panorama Bakery Egg Buns, 8 American Cheese Slices plus Gott’s famous Secret Sauce, and locally-sourced iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, and kosher dill pickles.
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Grill Kits
On Labor Day get grillin’ and chillin’ with the greatest grill kits ever. The best foods for the grill include steaks, BBQ samplers, fish, sausages, and more.

Chef Francis Mallmann’s Asado Kit
Let South America’s most famous chef cook for you this Labor Day. Chef Francis Mallmann brings his traditional Patagonian-style BBQ straight to you. Chef Francis Mallmann’s Asado Kit includes 1 Hanger Steak, 1 1.5-in. thick, 14-Day Dry-Aged Boneless Ribeye Steak, and 5 Argentinian Chorizo Sausages plus Chimichurri sauce.

Junior’s Restaurant Junior’s Game Day Grilling Kit
Junior’s Restaurant may be famous for its New York-style cheesecake, but the Brooklyn restaurant also makes Jewish deli classics. Junior’s Game Day Grilling Kit includes the Rosen family’s ‘greatest grilling hits,’ including 4 10-oz. steak burgers and buns, 4 jumbo 1/2 lb. hot dogs and hero rolls, and 2 racks of BBQ baby back ribs with BBQ sauce.
Seafood
No matter if you like your seafood boiled, baked, fried, or steamed, get crackin’ on Labor Day with the freshest seafood shipped from the dock to your door.
Beal’s Lobster Pier Beal’s Famous Lobster Roll Kit
You don’t have to travel to the coast of Maine to get a taste of wicked good lobster rolls. Beal’s Lobster Pier’s Famous Lobster Roll Kit includes everything you need to make the same lobster rolls Beal’s has been making in Acadia National Park since 1932.
Each lobster roll kit includes 4 lbs. of lobster meat, 16 butter brioche buns, Beal’s Buttah, Hellmann’s mayonnaise, and 16 small bags of potato chips.

Pike Place Fish Market King Crab Gift Box
Founded in 1930, Pike Place Fish Market is legendary for its seafood and its fish mongers who throw fish at Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market. Their King Crab Gift Box is perfect for Labor Day as these mighty Alaskan King Crab are pre-cooked and ready to eat.
Feast on 2 lbs., 4 lbs., or 6 lbs of fresh King Crab plus enjoy Pike Place Fish Market goodies like a nearly indestructible canvas shopping bag, black cooking apron, cocktail sauce, and Northwest Seafood Seasoning.
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