Christmas Catering Delivery: Chef-Prepared Feast
$1,250.00
Christmas dinner, delivered ready to serve.
Christmas catering delivery from CHEFIN means a private chef shops, marinates, roasts and finishes your entire Christmas feast off-site, then delivers it beautifully packaged and ready to plate. No chef arrives at your door, no oven chaos, no last-minute supermarket queue — just ten large shared dishes, timed to your Christmas Day schedule. It’s the same chef network behind CHEFIN’s on-site private dining, cooking for you to reheat and serve instead of cooking in your kitchen.
Book in 3 easy steps:
- Add to cart
- Enter your event details
- Secure payment online
The price is per group of 6–10 guests (inclusive of GST), including ten large shareable dishes. If you’re hosting fewer than 6 or more than 10 guests, please enquire with us for a custom quote. This product covers Christmas public holiday service — Australian public holiday pay rates apply.
If you’d like to add extra platters or additional items, simply add this package to your cart, then select any add-ons before checkout.
To explore other options, return to the main shop page to view our full range of packages.
What’s included?
✔️ 3 mains, 3 sides, 2 salads, and 2 desserts, prepared for effortless family-style serving.
✔️ Premium, locally sourced ingredients — seasonal produce, hand-selected proteins, and festive flavours.
✔️ All shopping, preparation, marinating, roasting, and finishing done by our chefs before delivery.
✔️ Carefully packaged, ready-to-plate dishes designed for easy entertaining at home.
✔️ Clear reheating and plating instructions for a seamless hosting experience.
✔️ Dietary-friendly options available (GF, DF, Vegan).
Dietary requirements
Gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options are available — just tell us when you book.
You can find a few sample shared menus by scrolling further below.
Your menu can be customised based on your requirements
Menu examples
Example Menu 1:
Mains:
- Turkey with Apple, Fig & Cognac Cranberry Sauce
- Pineapple & Brown Sugar Glazed Ham
(Vegan: Glazed Cauliflower with Pineapple Brown Sugar) - Grilled whole side of salmon, apple & fennel slaw (GF)
- Brazilian Picanha rump steak with chimichurri (GF, DF)
Sides & Salads:
- Hasselback potatoes
- Mixed greens with beans & olive oil
- Sourdough rolls with chimichurri butter
- Charred cauliflower cheese bake (V, GF)
- Couscous with Christmas pumpkin & pomegranate vinaigrette
- Christmas garden salad
- Beetroot & apple salad with raspberry dressing
- Arugula, pear, macadamia & Comté
- Smoked potato salad with mustard, capers, dill (V, GF)
Desserts:
- Christmas cherry cheesecake with fruit salsa
- Christmas petit fours
- Dubai chocolate Christmas log with pistachio breton
- Christmas fruit salad, passionfruit & Greek yoghurt
- Matcha tiramisu with raspberry cream
Example Menu 2:
Mains:
- Miso soy glazed eggplant, nori, lemon oil
- Slow roasted harissa lamb shoulder, lemon, yoghurt, sumac GF
- Grilled whole side of salmon, fresh apple fennel slaw GF
Sides & Salads:
- Cajun cauliflower steaks, shallots, pomegranate molasses, mint VG, GF
- Candied red beetroot, sherry dressing, spinach, toasted almonds VG, GF
- Bulgur, dates, dill, lemon olive oil, rocket, cherry tomato VG
- Rockpool garden salad, palm sugar vinaigrette, shallots VG, GF
Desserts:
- Sticky date pudding, vanilla chantilly, salted caramel sauce V
- Christmas cherry cheesecake with fruit salsa
- Christmas petit fours
Example Menu 3:
Mains:
- Christmas Honey Roast Ham DF, GF
- Roast turkey, stuffing with truffle mushroom rice DF, GF
Sides & Salads:
- Sydney rock oyster, leche de tigre, togarashi DF, GF
- Prawn cocktails with Australia king prawn, prawn cocktails sauce GF
- Crispy beef fat potatoes. DF, GF
- Roasted seasonal vegetables
- Watermelon, feta, mint salad V
- Greek salad, marinated feta with dehydrated beetroot
Dessert:
- Tiramisu chocolate fudge cake V
Example Menu 4:
Mains:
- Christmas Honey Roast Ham GF, DF
- Christmas whole roast turkey GF, DF
- Pigs in blankets DF, GF
- Vegetable Pithivier V
Sides & Salads:
- Focaccia, cultured butter V
- Halloumi salad V, GF
- Pureed parsnips, jus, port cranberry sauce V, GF
- Crispy rosemary olive oil potatoes VG, GF
- Traditional sausage-meat stuffing, breadcrumbs, onions DF
- Egg & seasonal veg stuffing V
- Cauliflower Cheese Bake V, GF
- Yorkshire puddings V
- Roast seasonal veg VG, GF
Desserts:
- Tiramisu V
- Classic English Trifle V, 1x GF
Example Menu 5:
Mains:
- Saltgrass Flinders island lamb shoulder, pearl couscous, Moroccan eggplant, chermoula yoghurt, harissa oil, toasted almonds
- Whole roasted local snapper, yoghurt, herbs, hot spices, matbucha GF
- Ras El Hanout spatchcock, turmeric soubise, smoked corn salsa, lemon labneh, puffed nuts, grains GF
- Roasted beef sirloin medium rare, wild mushrooms, Bearnaise sauce, bone marrow GF
Sides & Salads:
- Arabic cauliflower salad, smoked sheep’s milk yoghurt, puffed pearl barley, toasted almonds, herbs, golden raisins, chickpeas V
- Maple roasted pumpkin, whipped tahini, candied nuts, toasted seeds, fermented chilli oil V, GF
Dessert:
- Turkish delights, doughnuts, baklava, knafeh, Greek biscuits GF
Example Menu 6:
Mains:
- Barramundi fillets, crispy skin, lemon butter sauce, charred lemon GF
- Slow-cooked lamb shoulder, rosemary, garlic, red wine savoury jus GF
Sides & Salads:
- Grilled seasonal greens, lemon, toasted almonds, dried sour cherries VG, GF
- Holiday Mediterranean salad, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, feta, olives, red & green bell pepper V, GF
- Duck fat potatoes, truffle, parmesan
Dessert:
- Deconstructed baklava, kataifi nest, ice cream, caramelised nuts, lemon dressing V
CHEFIN Booking process
Next Steps
- Secure your booking by paying in full. If using bank transfer/EFTPOS, please ensure you use the order number as a payment reference.
- CHEFIN will email you a booking confirmation and calendar invitation. This will include a form to collect your information and particular needs/requirements.
- Once you have filled in the form and sent it back to us, and your booking is sooner than in 3 weeks, we will assign a Chef based on your needs and desires.
- Your assigned Chef will design a unique menu tailored to your brief, event, dietaries and tastes.
- You can preview this menu, provide feedback, and advise of any menu & event changes along the way.
The questions we hear most often about Christmas catering delivery, answered directly.
FAQ
What’s included in CHEFIN’s Christmas catering delivery?
A private chef prepares ten large shared dishes — three mains, three sides, two salads and two desserts — off-site, then delivers them beautifully packaged with clear reheating and plating instructions. No chef attends on the day.
How much does Christmas catering delivery cost?
The price is per group of 6–10 guests, inclusive of GST, covering all ten dishes. Outside that range, contact our concierge team for a custom quote.
Do I need to do any cooking?
Just reheating and plating, following the instructions that come with your delivery. Everything is shopped, marinated, roasted and finished by your chef beforehand.
Can you cater dietary requirements?
Yes. Gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options are available — just let us know when you book.
What’s the difference between Christmas catering delivery and the Serviced Christmas Feast?
Delivery means your chef cooks off-site and drops the finished feast at your door to reheat and plate yourself. If you’d rather a chef cook, plate, serve and clean up in your own home, see our Serviced Christmas Feast.
Is this the same as a Christmas meal-kit or hamper?
No. A meal kit usually means raw or part-prepared ingredients you cook yourself, and a hamper is packaged pantry goods. This is a fully cooked, chef-finished feast — reheat and serve, nothing to prepare from scratch.
When should I book Christmas catering delivery?
We recommend booking 2–4 weeks ahead to secure your preferred delivery window over the Christmas period, earlier if you need a specific date.
Delivery Day
Here’s what happens from booking to the table.
- Your chef shops, marinates, roasts and finishes all ten dishes in the days before Christmas
- Dishes are packaged for chilled delivery, with reheating and plating instructions included
- Your feast arrives within your chosen delivery window
- You reheat and plate at home, on your own schedule
- No pickup, no clean-up crew needed — just the feast, ready when you are
Perfect For
Christmas catering delivery suits anyone who wants a proper Christmas feast without a chef in the kitchen.
- Family Christmas lunches without the cooking marathon
- Hosts short on kitchen space or oven capacity on the day
- Smaller offices marking Christmas without booking a venue
- Anyone travelling home for Christmas who still wants a chef-made feast waiting
- A backup option when your usual host needs a year off cooking
Where We Deliver
CHEFIN delivers Christmas catering right across Australia — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin, plus major regional markets like the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Newcastle and Geelong, and the surrounding suburbs of every one of these. Tell us your suburb and delivery date and our concierge team will confirm your delivery window.
Booking from Perth, Adelaide or anywhere outside the east coast? The same ten-dish feast applies everywhere we deliver, with delivery windows confirmed once your booking is in.
Why Delivered, Not a Delivery App
A food-delivery app gets you dinner for tonight. This is a chef designing, shopping for and finishing an entire Christmas spread days in advance, timed to arrive ready for one specific meal. It sits between the two extremes of Christmas hosting — cooking everything yourself, or handing the day to a restaurant booking — without the washing-up of one or the seating plan of the other.
Not a Factory Meal Line
Most “Christmas catering delivery” you’ll find online comes from a commercial kitchen running hundreds of identical trays through a production line. CHEFIN’s drop-off feast is designed and finished by the same private chefs who cook on-site for CHEFIN’s other Christmas packages — the ham is still glazed and roasted by a chef, not batch-cooked and blast-chilled by the thousand.
Built to Reheat Well, Not Just Look Good
The usual complaint about pre-made Christmas food is that it tastes reheated. CHEFIN’s chefs choose dishes and finishes that hold up through chilling and reheating — slow-roasted proteins, sauces finished separately, sides that don’t dry out — and send clear instructions so the feast tastes cooked-today, not warmed-over.