Catering platters in Melbourne, delivered. Your Private Chef offers a wide range of mix-and-match catering platters cooked in our Caulfield kitchen and delivered beautifully presented in eco-friendly platter boxes. Cold platters delivered ready to serve; hot platters delivered just before eating. Perfect for office lunches, small gatherings, family events, and budget-conscious occasions. Quote in one business day.
Catering platters are the most flexible option in the Melbourne catering range. Rather than a fixed set menu, you mix and match individual platters from our full range — sandwiches, sushi, finger food, cheese, fruit, hot meats, salads, canapes. Choose exactly the food and the amount that suits your event. Ideal for budget-conscious orders, small groups, or events with very specific tastes. Our chefs cook the platters in our Caulfield kitchen and we deliver them ready to go.
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A Your Private Chef platter order includes only the platters you choose. No package minimums, no forced extras — pick what your guests will actually eat and pay only for that.
Honest pricing for Melbourne Catering Platters. 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 |
|---|---|
| Sandwich / fruit / cheese platters | from about $25 per platter |
| Finger food platters | from about $80 per platter |
| Gourmet hot platters | from about $73 per platter |
| Premium signature platters | from about $230 per platter |
| Jumbo mixed rolls platter (48 pieces) | from $348 per platter |
Delivery is a flat fee based on kilometres from our Caulfield kitchen. All prices include GST. Minimum spend: from $40 + delivery fee weekdays, from $150 + delivery fee Saturday. On Sundays we operate with a $400 minimum spend — 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.
On the day of your Melbourne Catering Platters event, our team provides expertly made food that’s professionally arranged and set to impress. For big celebrations, you can choose our Professional Catering Setup service. We arrange and style your tables with attention to detail, ensuring your Melbourne Catering Platters event looks refined and seamless.
At Your Private Chef, our Melbourne Catering Platters service makes catering effortless. Food arrives perfectly prepared in stylish packaging, with no extra coordination needed. Whether it’s a family gathering, office lunch, or school occasion, your Melbourne Catering Platters remains seamless, elegant, and flawlessly arranged.
At Your Private Chef, every Melbourne Catering Platters embodies culinary artistry and commitment to craft. Our chefs use premium local ingredients to balance flavour and presentation beautifully. From assembly to final presentation, your Melbourne Catering Platters reveals authentic quality and the care behind every dish.
We offer versatile presentation choices for every Melbourne Catering Platters occasion, from ready-to-serve delivery to professional setup service. Add our VIP Setup Option (from $50) for hot trays that enhance your presentation. However you serve it, your Melbourne Catering Platters will always look exceptional.
We ensure your Melbourne Catering Platters order is on schedule, temperature-safe, and immediately ready to serve. Our delivery network offers pickup services throughout Melbourne. Using secure containers and attentive handling, we guarantee every Melbourne Catering Platters runs smoothly.
Your Private Chef has decades of combined experience catering for executive offices, exclusive households, and private jets. As the city’s top-ranked delivered catering provider, we are trusted for consistency and quality. When you choose us for your Melbourne Catering Platters, you choose excellence that defines Melbourne’s catering standard.
Melbourne Catering Platters 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 catering platters bookings at home to large catering platters events at venues across the city — same craft on every order.
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Latest seasonal menus and just-added platters from our Caulfield kitchen.
Quick-turnaround sandwich and fruit platters for catering that can’t wait.
Asian-themed platters and packages — fresh, vibrant, restaurant-grade.
Hot and cold canapes for cocktail events, weddings and premium functions.
Stunning grazing platters and shared menus — perfect for stand-up events.
Carvery, themed stations and shared buffet packages from our kitchen.
Morning tea catering for offices, meetings and early conferences.
Gourmet sandwiches, rolls and wraps made fresh the morning of delivery.
Hot CBD lunches, board meeting platters and recurring office orders.
Cake, cheesecake, pastries and dessert platters from our kitchen.
Mineral waters, juices, soft drinks and artisanal beverage packs.
Quiet, sensitive catering for memorial gatherings and family wakes.
Tasty bites, sweet treats and party-friendly platters for the young ones.
Fresh and frozen meals delivered every Tuesday afternoon.
Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, halal, nut-free and kosher menus.
Beautiful grazing menus and canape packages for racing-day events.
Roast turkey, glazed ham, festive platters and Christmas dessert spreads.
Hot cross buns, Easter platters and corporate Easter catering ideas.
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 office lunches, small family gatherings, milestone celebrations, and budget-conscious events 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 offers Melbourne’s widest catering platter range — over 150 individual platters across hot and cold, sweet and savoury, casual and premium. Cooked in our Caulfield kitchen, delivered ready to go.
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: from $40 + delivery fee. Saturday: from $150 + delivery fee. On Sundays our kitchen operates with a $400 minimum spend — 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 (from $20) for delivery to your lobby or floor; Catering Setup (from $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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