Corporate Event Catering in Sydney
Live Italian cooking stations for launches, client dinners and end-of-year functions.
The kitchen sets up in your venue, cooks in front of your guests and packs down after.
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A corporate event is judged on whether people stay. Not on the food, in the end — on whether the room filled up, stayed full, and people who had never met ended up talking to each other.
Catering usually works against that. Food arrives, everyone queues, everyone retreats to the table they came with, and the room goes quiet at exactly the moment it was supposed to open up.
A live station does the opposite. It is somewhere to stand that is not the bar, it gives people who don’t know each other something obvious to talk about, and it keeps producing for as long as the event runs rather than landing once and disappearing. Mozzarella pulled to order, pasta finished inside a wheel of Parmigiano, a fry station working through the evening — a guest can watch it being made, which is a conversation that starts itself.
We cater corporate events: launches, client dinners, end-of-year functions, gala nights. Not office lunches or boardroom trays — that is a delivery business and a different kitchen.
Which Package Fits Which Event
Each package states the occasions it was built for. These are those lines, unedited.
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La Tavola Semplice from $89ppCocktail parties · Product launches · Casual corporate events
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La Bella Serata from $110ppCorporate cocktail events · Product launches · Milestone celebrations
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Il Gran Banchetto from $160ppGala dinners · Corporate annual events · Cultural celebrations
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La Tavola Privata from $89pp weekdays, $195pp weekendsCorporate client dinners · Chef’s table experiences
Who Turns Up, And What It Costs
The part a company needs on the quote and a private host usually does not.
- Who attends
- For thirty guests, a head chef, a station chef and a waiter. Staff scale with guest numbers.
- How it is charged
- Chefs at $120 an hour and waitstaff at $80, quoted separately from the per-head price, with a four-hour minimum.
- Delivery
- Charged on the address.
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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
Packages run from $89 a head to $160, most built for thirty guests or more; a seated client dinner starts at eight. Staffing and delivery are quoted separately. We take bookings from seven days before the date.
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Planning a company event?
Tell us the date, the headcount and the setting. We'll respond within 24 hours with a proposal.
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