Cocktail catering in Melbourne, delivered. Your Private Chef caters Melbourne cocktail events — canapes, food stations, grazing tables, hot and cold finger food — with restaurant-grade food cooked in our Caulfield kitchen. Beautifully presented for stand-up grazing-style events. Quote in one business day with a tailored cocktail menu plan.
Cocktail catering is designed for stand-up, social, grazing-style events. Guests circulate, food circulates, no one sits down for a course-by-course meal. The catering needs to look beautiful, taste consistent across the night, and accommodate dietary needs invisibly. Your Private Chef caters Melbourne cocktail events from a single Caulfield kitchen — same five-star chef standard across hot and cold finger food, beautifully presented on grazing tables or stations. For premium cocktail events (typically 100+) we can also arrange wait staff to serve canapes directly to guests.
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A Your Private Chef cocktail catering booking covers a custom canape menu, multiple food stations if you want them, and full presentation tailored to your event.
Honest pricing for Melbourne Cocktail Catering. These per-head and per-platter anchors give you a starting point — final quotes are tailored to your menu, headcount, and delivery distance.
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Cold canape (per piece) | from about $3.30 |
| Premium bowl food (per piece) | up to $8.80 |
| Cocktail event package (6 pieces + service) | from about $30 per person |
| Cocktail event with grazing station presentation | from about $45 per person |
| Premium cocktail event with wait staff | from about $75+ per person |
Delivery is a flat fee based on kilometres from our Caulfield kitchen. All prices include GST. Minimum spend: $40 + delivery fee weekdays, $150 + delivery fee Saturday. On Sundays our kitchen rests — see our Sunday Catering Ideas tab.
Start by exploring our diverse menu online. Our offerings cater to various styles and dietary requirements, ensuring every need is met.
Place your order through our online form. For specialized menus or specific dietary considerations, our team is at your service to personalize your catering experience.
After placing your order, you'll receive confirmation from us. We may engage in further discussions to ensure your specific requirements are perfectly met.
At Your Private Chef, we ensure that on the day of your Melbourne Cocktail Catering, all meals arrive perfectly timed and plated. For larger occasions, our Professional Setup service handles everything. We arrange settings to create a visually cohesive setup, ensuring your Melbourne Cocktail Catering looks elegant throughout.
At Your Private Chef, we bring ease and elegance together in every Melbourne Cocktail Catering. Our food arrives expertly prepared in modern containers, needing no on-site coordination. Whether hosting a school celebration, your Melbourne Cocktail Catering feels smooth, combining style with professional detail.
Each Melbourne Cocktail Catering order reflects fine dining standards and meticulous preparation. Our chefs use fresh seasonal ingredients, balancing taste and aesthetics in every dish. From creation to completion, your Melbourne Cocktail Catering showcases vibrancy, and the artistry behind every creation, delivering an experience that feels professionally curated.
For every Melbourne Cocktail Catering, we offer varied presentation choices, from self-serve setups to professionally arranged presentations. Include our Event Setup Service (starting at $50) for styled platters that add refinement. However you prefer to serve it, your Melbourne Cocktail Catering is guaranteed to be beautifully presented.
We ensure your Melbourne Cocktail Catering order is on schedule, fresh, and beautifully presented. Our delivery network offers flexible delivery windows throughout Melbourne. Using insulated boxes and expert logistics, we guarantee every Melbourne Cocktail Catering is delivered in style.
With deep roots in Melbourne, catering for top-tier corporations, private events, and aviation partners, Your Private Chef stands as the region’s most acclaimed delivered catering provider. When you select us for your Melbourne Cocktail Catering, you’re choosing confidence, efficiency, and a benchmark for excellence.
Melbourne Cocktail Catering is one of many Melbourne catering formats we offer. Each links below has its own dedicated menu, pricing, and quote form:
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In over 400 reviews, clients consistently call out the quality of the food, the dietary care, the warm professionalism of the team, and the smooth delivery experience. Catering for everything from quiet melbourne cocktail catering bookings at home to large cocktail catering events at venues across the city — same craft on every order.
Renowned for our capability in serving a broad mix of Melbourne Cocktail Catering requirements, we are appreciated by our clients for consistently exceeding expectations. Our bespoke services are recognized for accommodating specific requirements. This balance of professionalism and care ensures every Melbourne Cocktail Catering is executed beyond expectation, making Your Private Chef a preferred partner across the region.
Our Melbourne Cocktail Catering catering team is renowned for creating tailored menus and for responding effectively to client preferences. Clients often celebrate our creativity as one of our strongest assets. This ensures every Melbourne Cocktail Catering is delivered with precision, reflecting our promise of professional excellence.
Across Melbourne, clients rely on us for our punctual planning and professional delivery, two qualities central to flawless Melbourne Cocktail Catering organization. Our commitment to punctuality ensures every occasion is coordinated perfectly. With efficient systems, we make sure each Melbourne Cocktail Catering stays perfectly aligned.
Clients often praise the taste and quality of our dishes, which enhance the entire Melbourne Cocktail Catering experience. Our signature dishes are frequently recognized for their flawless preparation, bringing delight to every guest. Through dedicated cooking techniques, we ensure that every Melbourne Cocktail Catering reflects true culinary artistry.
Clients often celebrate our Melbourne Cocktail Catering catering for its aesthetic precision and the commitment of our expert team. Each setting is crafted with precision, reflecting our focus on excellence. Our chefs bring flair to every dish, transforming Melbourne Cocktail Catering into an experience that delights both the palate and the eye.
The focus on detail we bring to each element of catering — from initial coordination to final execution — defines the Melbourne Cocktail Catering experience. Each phase demonstrates our commitment to quality, ensuring our service shines through every stage. Through this, every Melbourne Cocktail Catering reflects our uncompromising standards.
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Transform your office meetings and celebrations with our gourmet platters and packages.
Finger Food to Flavoursome Buffets
Our platters suit any event or office gathering — every format, every dietary need.
Party On with Exciting Menus
Host a spectacular party with our curated menus — BBQ, canapes, cocktail, family-style.
Energising Breakfasts and Teas
Start your day with our morning catering — fresh pastries, fruit, savoury platters.
Personal Plates for Every Guest
Individual catering boxes ideal for safe distancing or seated events with dietary control.
Refreshing Drink Options
From artisanal juices to mineral waters, our beverage range complements every menu.
Delicious Sammies for Every Craving
Loaded rolls, gourmet sandwiches, finger sandwiches — fresh from our kitchen.
Delight Kids with Tasty Bites
Tasty bites and dessert platters designed for the young ones at your event.
Chef-Prepared Meals Weekly
Fresh, chef-cooked meals delivered every Tuesday afternoon. NDIS-friendly invoicing available.
Perfect Gifts for Food Lovers
Gift the joy of gourmet dining with our catering vouchers — corporate or personal.
Diet-Friendly Options for All
Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, halal, nut-free, low-FODMAP, kosher on request.
Sundays Made Special
Saturday-delivered menus you can enjoy Sunday, plus pickup options from our Caulfield kitchen.
Every Your Private Chef booking is built from a blank page. We do not recycle set menus — we ask about your guests, your venue, the kind of night you want, and we design the food around that. Fourteen years operating from our Caulfield kitchen, over two thousand catering events served across Melbourne, full public liability and food safety compliance, 400+ verified customer reviews. Trusted regularly with corporate cocktail receptions, weddings, milestone celebrations, premium product launches, and after-work functions across Melbourne.
Because our chefs stay in the kitchen rather than being shipped to events one at a time, we hold a consistent five-star standard at every booking and pass the efficiency back to you in honest pricing. You are not paying for chef travel time and downtime. You are paying for great food, properly delivered.
Your Private Chef delivers across the City of Melbourne and the surrounding metro area — from the CBD and Southbank through to Caulfield (our kitchen base), South Yarra, Toorak, Brighton, Hawthorn, Carlton, Fitzroy, Richmond, Docklands, and most established Melbourne suburbs. For events further out — Mornington Peninsula, Yarra Valley, the Dandenongs — call us on 0497 333 100 for a tailored delivery quote.
Melbourne is one of the world’s strongest food cities — see City of Melbourne, Visit Melbourne, Broadsheet, and Time Out Melbourne for the wider Melbourne food and culture scene, or Wikipedia for a broader profile of the city. Catering in a city this competitive means the bar is high — we have spent fourteen years meeting it, then raising it ourselves.
Your Private Chef is a top-rated Melbourne cocktail caterer. Permanent Caulfield kitchen, full canape and finger food range, grazing table presentation, wait staff available for premium events. Beautifully presented restaurant-grade food, designed for the way cocktail events actually flow.
Our dedicated team is available to talk from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. But but we can deliver by arrangement outside those hours.
We almost never have a chef on location. Our chefs create everything in our Caulfield kitchen and we bring it to you ready to enjoy — it is much more cost-effective for our clients than splitting chefs across multiple events. For larger events (typically 80+) we can arrange a styled table solution — buffet, BBQ, or grazing table — with a staff member available to set up and maintain.
We travel all over Melbourne to deliver catering from our Caulfield kitchen. Delivery fee is based on kilometres travelled (weekend deliveries may be a little more). Pickup is also available from our Caulfield kitchen — just click the pickup option at checkout.
Hot delivery is available for most menus, with the food timed to arrive just before you plan to eat. Buffet-style, meats, and large platters travel up to about 1 hour from our kitchen. Hot finger food (gyozas, spring rolls, party pies) needs to be within 20–30 minutes of our Caulfield kitchen. The only additional cost on hot delivery is the time-specific delivery fee. Cold delivery is the same high-quality food packed for easy reheating at the venue — better for events later at night, public holidays, or venues where hot logistics will not work.
Per-person pricing depends on the menu style and headcount. Canapes start from about $30 per person, shared platter dinners from about $45 per person, multi-course menus from about $75+ per person. Delivery is a flat fee based on kilometres; equipment hire and extra service staff are quoted separately. All prices include GST.
Our shopping cart takes bookings up to midnight for next-day orders. For larger events, allow 1 week notice. For very urgent catering with less than a full day notice, we may be able to help with platters of sandwiches and fruit — call 0497 333 100.
Weekdays: $40 + delivery fee. Saturday: $150 + delivery fee. On Sundays our kitchen rests, but we have suitable menus available for a Saturday delivery that can still be enjoyed on Sunday — see our Sunday Catering Ideas tab on the menu.
Yes — gluten-free (GF), dairy-free (DF), vegetarian (V), vegan, halal, nut-free, low-FODMAP, and kosher on request. The menu uses standard dietary symbols. You can also note dietary needs in the text box at checkout. We take cross-contamination care seriously but do not claim to be a celiac-friendly kitchen.
Default is a clean delivery service — eco-friendly disposable platters professionally presented, ready to serve. Three upgrades are available: VIP High-Rise Delivery ($20) for delivery to your lobby or floor; Catering Setup ($50) where our driver takes the catering to your eating area and lays out the platter boxes; full styled-table setup with chafing dishes, grazing styling, and service staff for events of 80+ guests, quoted per event subject to availability.
For most catering, no — our chefs cook in the kitchen and we deliver. For large events (typically 100+ guests) staff usually make sense. For mid-size events around 80 guests, table setup with a staff member is often the better fit.
Yes — recurring orders are available through the checkout portal, or call our office to set it up for you.
Our kitchen starts at 5am for corporate breakfast deliveries. Last weekday delivery is 5pm unless arranged by prior approval. Weekend cold deliveries wrap up by 3pm. Evening event deliveries are possible by prior approval. The office is staffed 9am to 5pm weekdays.
A private chef cooks individual events on demand — typically dinner parties, corporate dinners, celebrations. A personal chef tends to be an ongoing service. Your Private Chef delivers private-chef-grade event catering from our kitchen, plus a separate Weekly Meal Delivery service for ongoing fresh and frozen meals (delivered Tuesday afternoons).
Explore our menu, make your selections, and place your order for delivery today. Let us bring the flavors directly to your doorstep, ensuring a hassle-free and delicious dining experience.
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Our Christmas Catering range features gourmet mains, festive sides, and decadent desserts — perfect for your end-of-year event (up to Dec 21) or Christmas Day meal (pickup on Dec 24 for easy reheating on Christmas Day).
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