Private Party Catering in Sydney
Italian food, cooked in front of your guests, in your house or a venue of your choosing.
Small parties and dinner parties across Sydney — set up, cooked, served and packed down by our kitchen.
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A private party is not a scaled-down wedding. There is no running order, nobody is making a speech, and the point of the evening is that people stay in one room and talk to each other. Food that arrives, gets eaten and disappears works against that. Food being cooked in the corner of the room does not — it gives people somewhere to stand.
That is the whole idea behind a live station: the kitchen comes to you, sets up in your space, and cooks in front of your guests for as long as the party runs.
The Parties We Cater
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Small parties
Twenty or thirty people in a house or a garden, where the kitchen is the room everyone ends up in anyway.
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Milestone celebrations
The birthdays and anniversaries that only happen once, where the food is expected to be the thing people remember.
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Dinner parties
A seated table, courses brought out in order, and a host who gets to sit at it rather than run between the oven and the guests.
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Engagements
The party that happens before anyone has started planning the wedding, usually at somebody’s house and usually at short notice.
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Baby showers and christenings
Daytime, mixed ages, and a room where people arrive and leave at different times — which suits food that keeps being made rather than food that lands once.
Booking for December? Christmas has a page of its own.
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
La Tavola Semplice starts at $89 a head and La Bella Serata at $110, both built for 30 guests or more. Below thirty, the plated Tavola Privata starts at eight. Staffing and delivery are quoted separately in every case.
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Planning a party?
Tell us the date, the headcount and the setting. We'll respond within 24 hours with a proposal.
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