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Father’s Day Menu Ideas

Robyn Stone

Published Jun 12, 2025

These delicious ideas for your Father’s Day Menu include easy, tasty favorites for appetizers, main dishes, desserts, and more, perfect for celebrating the special dad in your life!

Cast iron skillet with a butter-basted skillet ribeye steak topped with rosemary. - 1

Whether you are planning snacks, a full meal, or desserts, we’ve shared several recipes in our list of Father’s Day Menu Ideas that we know he will love! These recipes are simple, delicious, and some of our favorites!

Appetizers

These appetizers are crowd favorites! Dad is sure to love them, too! There are many more appetizers , so you are sure to find some that everyone will enjoy!

Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

White plate holds several buffalo chicken wings coated in buffalo sauce, sitting next to a bowl of ranch dressing for dipping. - 2 White plate holds several buffalo chicken wings coated in buffalo sauce, sitting next to a bowl of ranch dressing for dipping. - 3

Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings Recipe

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Baking dish with cheese topped spinach artichoke dip being spooned out to serve. - 4 Photo of spinach artichoke dip on a slice of toasted baguette. - 5

Spinach Artichoke Dip Recipe

Southern Pimento Cheese

Pimento cheese scooped onto a bagel chip. - 6 Pimento cheese scooped onto a bagel chip. - 7

Southern Pimento Cheese Recipe

Main Course

You and your Dad will love these much-loved main dish recipes for lunch or dinner! They are delicious any time of year!

Grilled Chicken Breasts

Grilled chicken on a white plate with a salad. - 8 Grilled chicken on a white plate with a salad. - 9

The Best Grilled Chicken Breast Recipe

Skillet Ribeye Steaks

Rosemary garnish on a skillet rib eye. - 10 Cast iron skillet with a butter-basted ribeye steak topped with rosemary. - 11

Skillet Ribeye Steaks Recipe

Bart’s Best Hamburgers

Hamburger with grilled sweet potatoes on a white plate. - 12 Hamburger with grilled sweet potatoes on a white plate. - 13

Bart’s Best Hamburger Recipe

Easy Slow Cooker Ribs

Ribs with bbq sauce on a white plate. - 14 Photo of BBQ ribs on a white platter on a white background. - 15

Easy Slow Cooker Ribs Recipe

Side Dishes

We all love an easy, scrumptious side dish! There are tasty ones here and so many more sides on the site for the best Father’s Day menu!

Pear Salad

Pear salad topped with a cherry on a bed of lettuce. - 16 Photo of pear salad on a white plate with a bowl of cherries in the center. - 17

Pear Salad Recipe

Southern Potato Salad

Closeup of a bowl of Southern potato salad in a glass bowl. - 18 Closeup of a bowl of Southern potato salad in a glass bowl. - 19

Southern Potato Salad Recipe

Southern Baked Beans

Pot of bacon topped southern baked beans on a wooden table. - 20 Southern Baked Beans Recipe - This recipe makes the perfect side dish for so many meals! This easy baked beans recipe will become a favorite! // addapinch.com - 21

Southern Baked Beans Recipe

Grilled Okra

Grilled Okra on wooden skewers on the grill. - 22 Father’s Day Menu Ideas - 23

Grilled Okra Recipe

Coleslaw

Coleslaw in a blue bowl. - 24 Father’s Day Menu Ideas - 25

Coleslaw Recipe

The Best Mashed Potatoes

Creamy golden mashed potatoes topped with butter, salt and pepper in a white Dutch oven. - 26 Creamy golden mashed potatoes topped with butter, salt and pepper in a white Dutch oven. - 27

Easy Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Desserts

Even if you don’t get together with Dad for a full meal, a great dessert hits the spot! Here are some faves, and you’ll find many more homemade desserts from pies to cookies to cakes and cobblers on my website.

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Photograph of chocolate chip cookies on a white plate. - 28

Strawberry Shortcakes

Strawberry shortcake topped with homemade whipped cream and mint sprig on a white plate. - 29 Strawberry shortcake topped with homemade whipped cream and mint sprig on a white plate. - 30

Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

The Best Chocolate Cake

The Best Chocolate Cake Ever on a white scalloped cake stand with a hobnail bottom. - 31 Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting on a white cake plate and dark background. - 32

The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe {Ever}

Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

Ice cream cone with scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream. - 33 Ice cream cone with scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream - 34

Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Southern Banana Pudding

A glass bowl holds Southern Banana Pudding topped with homemade meringue. - 35 Southern Banana Pudding Recipe - An heirloom family recipe for banana pudding that is a classic, Southern dessert. Creamy, traditional banana pudding topped with airy meringue. // addapinch.com - 36

Southern Banana Pudding Recipe

Drinks

Serve some of your favorite refreshing drinks for Father’s Day! These are simple, scrumptious ones he will love!

Fresh Lemonade

Photo of a clear pitcher of lemonade with lemon slices and 2 clear glasses of lemonade with lemon slices on a white background. - 37 Photo of a clear pitcher of lemonade with lemon slices and 2 clear glasses of lemonade with lemon slices on a white background. - 38

Fresh Lemonade Recipe

Strawberry Lemonade

A pitcher of Strawberry Lemonade with strawberry and lemon slices sits beside two glasses with ice and full of the strawberry lemonade. - 39 Glass pitcher is filled with ice, lemon and strawberry slices and strawberry lemonade, sits beside glasses filled with it too. - 40

Strawberry Lemonade Recipe

Southern Sweet Tea

Photo of clear pitcher of tea and two clear glasses filled with tea, ice, and topped with mint leaves with lemon slices and ice cubes on a white background. - 41 This Southern Sweet Tea recipe is smooth, sweet, and delicious! It includes tried-and-true tips for how to make sweet tea that everyone loves! // addapinch.com - 42

Southern Sweet Tea Recipe

I hope you find all of your dad’s favorites with this Father’s Day Menu Ideas collection!

Happy Father’s Day!

Robyn xo