Christmas Catering Delivery: Chef-Prepared Feast
$1,250.00
Christmas catering delivery from CHEFIN means a private chef shops, marinates, roasts and finishes your entire Christmas feast off-site, then deliver cold in sealed aluminium trays, any morning across Christmas week in December. At home, you’ll reheat each dish — allow one to two hours — then plate and serve it yourself. Ideal for a Christmas lunch, and just as easy to serve at dinner.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.
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.
✔️ Ten fully cooked dishes, delivered cold in sealed aluminium trays, ready for you to reheat, plate and serve at home.
✔️ Clear reheating and plating instructions for every dish — allow one to two hours for everything to come up to temperature and get to the table.
✔️ Dietary-friendly options available (GF, DF, Vegan).
Dietary requirements
Gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options are available — just tell us when you book.
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 a waitstaff to help you with service, 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. Prefer your chef to cook on-site instead? See our Christmas Day Catering page.
You can find a few sample shared menus by scrolling further below.
Your Chef Tailors a Menu, Just for You
Example Menu
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)
Sides:
Hasselback potatoes
Sourdough rolls with chimichurri butter
Charred cauliflower cheese bake (V, GF)
Salads:
Christmas garden salad
Beetroot & apple salad with raspberry dressing
Desserts:
Christmas cherry cheesecake with fruit salsa
Dubai chocolate Christmas log with pistachio breton
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:
Cajun cauliflower steaks, shallots, pomegranate molasses, mint (VG, GF)
Bulgur, dates, dill, lemon olive oil, rocket, cherry tomato (VG)
Herb-roasted chat potatoes (VG, GF)*
Salads:
Candied red beetroot, sherry dressing, spinach, toasted almonds (VG, GF)
Rockpool garden salad, palm sugar vinaigrette, shallots (VG, GF)
Desserts:
Sticky date pudding, vanilla chantilly, salted caramel sauce (V)
Christmas petit fours
Example Menu 3
Mains:
Christmas Honey Roast Ham (DF, GF)
Roast turkey, stuffing with truffle mushroom rice (DF, GF)
Roasted beef eye fillet, red wine jus (GF, DF)*
Sides:
Crispy beef fat potatoes (DF, GF)
Roasted seasonal vegetables
Honey-glazed heirloom carrots (V, GF)*
Salads:
Watermelon, feta, mint salad (V)
Greek salad, marinated feta with dehydrated beetroot
Desserts:
Tiramisu chocolate fudge cake (V)
Christmas pavlova, mixed berries, cream (GF)*
Example Menu 4
Mains:
Christmas Honey Roast Ham (GF, DF)
Christmas whole roast turkey (GF, DF)
Vegetable Pithivier (V)
Sides:
Crispy rosemary olive oil potatoes (VG, GF)
Cauliflower Cheese Bake (V, GF)
Pigs in blankets (DF, GF) — moved from Mains, where it traditionally serves as a side
Salads:
Halloumi salad (V, GF)
Christmas garden salad, herb vinaigrette (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)
Sides:
Maple roasted pumpkin, whipped tahini, candied nuts, toasted seeds, fermented chilli oil (V, GF)
Saffron rice pilaf, toasted almonds, currants (VG, GF)*
Charred flatbread, za’atar, olive oil (V, DF)*
Salads:
Arabic cauliflower salad, smoked sheep’s milk yoghurt, puffed pearl barley, toasted almonds, herbs, golden raisins, chickpeas (V)
Fattoush salad, sumac, pomegranate molasses (VG)*
Desserts:
Turkish delight, doughnut, baklava, knafeh and Greek biscuit platter (GF)
Rosewater panna cotta, pistachio, honey (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)
Herb-crusted chicken breast, lemon jus (GF, DF)*
Sides:
Duck fat potatoes, truffle, parmesan
Grilled seasonal greens, lemon, toasted almonds, dried sour cherries (VG, GF)
Roasted heirloom carrots, honey, thyme (V, GF)*
Salads:
Holiday Mediterranean salad, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, feta, olives, red & green bell pepper (V, GF)
Rocket, pear & parmesan salad, balsamic (V, GF)*
Desserts:
Deconstructed baklava, kataifi nest, ice cream, caramelised nuts, lemon dressing (V)
Orange & almond cake, mascarpone cream (GF)*
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?
Everything is fully cooked before it arrives — you’re reheating, not cooking from scratch. That said, allow one to two hours to reheat and plate everything properly, so it’s worth timing your reheat to when you want to sit down. Full instructions are included with your delivery.
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?
With Christmas Catering Delivery, your feast arrives cold and fully cooked, and you reheat, plate and serve it yourself — allow one to two hours. With the Serviced Christmas Feast, a chef handles the cooking, plating, serving and clean-up on-site instead.
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
Dishes are fully cooked in the days before your delivery, then packed cold into sealed aluminium trays. Delivery arrives on the morning of your chosen day — any day across Christmas week in December — giving you the rest of the day ahead. Allow one to two hours to reheat everything, then plate and serve it yourself, whether that’s for lunch or dinner.
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.