Christmas Catering in Sydney
Italian food for a Sydney December — cooked in front of your guests, outdoors if that is where everyone is.
Work parties and family gatherings, set up, cooked, served and packed down by our kitchen.
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Christmas in Sydney is hot, and most of it happens outside. That rules out a good deal of what catering means in December: roast under a heat lamp is northern-hemisphere food being served in the wrong weather.
Italian food has no trouble with the heat. It is built to be put in the middle of a table and shared, and with a live station the cooking happens in front of your guests rather than in an oven somewhere else — which in December is the difference between a room that is waiting for food and a room that is already enjoying itself.
There are two December bookings and they are not the same job. The work party wants everyone standing, moving and talking, with something happening in the corner of the room. The gathering at home wants everyone seated, and the person who usually cooks sitting down with them.
Two Kinds Of December
They want opposite things from the same kitchen, so they are not the same booking.
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The work party
Everyone standing, nobody trapped at a table with the same four colleagues. Stations run through the evening, so people eat when they drift past rather than all at once.
- La Tavola Semplice The Simple Table — a standing cocktail reception built around four live stations, for 30 guests or more.
- La Bella Serata The Beautiful Evening — canapés on arrival, pasta cooked live and a dessert station, for 30 guests or more.
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Christmas at home
A seated table, courses brought out in order, and whoever normally spends the day in the kitchen sitting at it instead. From eight guests, so it works for a family rather than a function.
- La Tavola Privata The Private Table — a plated three-course dinner served to share, from eight guests to thirty.
What Every Booking Includes
The same service whatever the occasion — the kitchen arrives, cooks in front of your guests, and leaves the space as it found it.
- Full set-up
- Live cooking
- Servingware
- General clean up and pack down
- Dietary requirements
- We can cater to vegan, vegetarian, dairy free, gluten free, halal and kosher upon request.
- Securing the date
- We require a 50% non-refundable booking fee to secure the date and the balance to be paid 7 days prior to your event.
- Outside Sydney
- We cater up to 3 hours out of Sydney at an additional cost.
Where To Start
Four ways the kitchen works. Any of them can be taken apart and rebuilt around your event.
- La Tavola Semplice The Simple Table — a standing cocktail reception built around four live stations, for 30 guests or more.
- La Bella Serata The Beautiful Evening — canapés on arrival, pasta cooked live and a dessert station, for 30 guests or more.
- Il Gran Banchetto The Grand Banquet — our full live-station feast with an antipasto grazing table, for 50 guests or more.
- La Tavola Privata The Private Table — a plated three-course dinner served to share, from eight guests to thirty.
Packages from $89pp — staffing and delivery quoted separately
For a standing party, La Tavola Semplice starts at $89 a head and La Bella Serata at $110, both from thirty guests. For a seated table, La Tavola Privata starts at eight. Staffing and delivery are quoted separately in every case, and we take bookings from seven days before the date.
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Sorting out December?
Tell us the date, the headcount and the setting. We'll respond within 24 hours with a proposal.
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