Best Wedding Catering in Sydney
Wedding Catering: Sydney | Central Coast | Hunter Valley | South Coast
Looking for a wedding caterer in Sydney? This list of Sydney's best wedding caterers features a wide range of innovative food and beverage suppliers who cater for all types of cuisines. They're all 5 star mobile catering companies that come to your wedding anywhere from the Sydney CBD and Parramatta to Manly, and they offer tasty menus for cocktail events through to formal seated receptions.
The wedding catering companies we've shortlisted below don't just feed your guests, they elevate your celebration with a fun food experience. From live cooking stations where private chefs prepare a gourmet meal in full view of guests, to plated fine dining, roving canapés, food trucks and abundant shared feasts, these amazing vendors are the who's who of Sydney wedding caterers.
Here are the top 20 wedding catering companies in Sydney. You'll find sample menus, pricing and inclusions for each, making it easy to find the perfect caterer for your big day.
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Top 20 Wedding Caterers in Sydney
Dining Abode
- Location: North Bondi, NSW 2026
- Service Area: New South Wales
- Years in Business: 5
- 5 Star Reviews: 20+
- Cost: From $165 per person
- Tastings available
Dining Abode is an award winning wedding caterer operated by top-end chef Thomas Johns who has 2 Chefs Hats from the SMH Good Food Guide. His team specialise in providing end-to-end premium catering services centred around restaurant-quality Australian cuisine. You'll be guided through designing a bespoke wedding menu tailored to your taste, and professional wait staff, table styling and beverage services are also provided.
Dining Abode's catering packages start at $165/pp and your options include canapés, grazing tables, immersive culinary stations, lavish buffets, share plates and fine dining menus. Spanner crab, seared beef, spiced chicken and slow cooked lamb are amongs the mouth watering choices, and vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets are well catered.
These expert chefs are preferred caterers at loads of Sydney venues from Darling Point's Lindesay House and the Cell Block Theatre in Darlinghurst to Lion Gate Lodge in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Their well-presented plates have featured in Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, they service events with 10 - 300+ guests, and you get a stress free catering experience with everything done for you, so you can relax and enjoy your special day.
Bespoke Catering Sydney
- Location: Neutral Bay, NSW 2089
- Years in Business: 20+
- 5 Star Reviews: 170+
- Cost: $90 - $139 per person
- Minimum Spend: $1,800
- Tastings available
When you hire Bespoke Catering for your wedding or engagement party, they don't simply serve delicious Italian-inspired food. Owner Fabio and his wife Daniela are fiercely client centric. "Whatever you need, whenever you need it" is how they operate. They're the people you can entrust your favourite family recipe to, and they'll lovingly cook it on your special day. So in addition to exceptional catering, your wedding experience has all the warmth of a Sicilian family kitchen.
Chef Fabio has more than twenty years experience catering special events. He'll work with you to create a personalised wedding menu that suits your venue, guest count and budget, which makes wedding planning easy. Canapés, buffet and 2 & 3 course A La Carte menus come with friendly and attentive wait staff and quality equipment is available to hire from marquees to furniture to glassware.
Menu options include tuna tataki on betel leaves, beef carpaccio, burrata with beetroot & hazelnut, miso glazed salmon, crispy skin barramundi and veal saltimbocca. Fabio is perfect for couples seeking a highly experienced wedding caterer who puts their heart into creating extraordinary food with a real homely vibe.
PB Wedding Catering
- Location: Camden, NSW
- Years in Business: 13
- 5 Star Reviews: 120+
- Cost: From $140 per person
- Tastings available
PB Catering are among the highest rated professional caterers in Sydney right now with loads of recent 5 star reviews raving about Kerry's delicious food and her friendly service staff. She offers seamless wedding catering experiences for up to 300 guests from Parramatta to Campbelltown and is well regarded for keeping formalities to schedule so you get plenty of time on the dance floor.
Modern wedding menus put a fresh spin on classic canapés like roast beef on Yorkshire pudding and tandoori chicken finger lime skewers while more substantial bites include salt & pepper squid, macadamia crusted prawns, vegan dumplings, pork belly bao buns and lobster ravioli which comes highly recommended.
Kerry's high-end culinary experiences are tailored to the dietary requirements of your guests and created in collaboration with you. She's easy to work with and super responsive in the lead up so you always feel like you're in very capable hands, and is attentive and thoughtful on the day itself. (You'll get food trays for the bridal party while you're having wedding photos).
Food Adventura
- Location: Neutral Bay, NSW 2089
- Years in Business: 15+
- 5 Star Reviews: 180+
- Cost: $38 - $67 per person
- Minimum: 30 people
Food Adventura are specialists in Spanish wedding catering and offer the perfect option for lively, fun and affordable feasts. Massive pans of paella are cooked right in front of your guests with the colours and aromas of saffron rice, prawns, mussels and chorizo adding the theatre of live cooking to your wedding experience.
Fabio and his team are Sydney's premier suppliers of paella, tapas and live grill stations and bring the mouthwatering flavours of the Mediterranean to weddings from regional Sydney to the Northern Beaches. The completely self-sufficient set up is ideal for venues that don't have commercial kitchens, and packages come with everything you need to feed your guests from cooking equipment to plates, cutlery & napkins.
All paellas are dairy free and gluten free. Menu options include chorizo, seafood, chicken, lamb and vegetarian, and are all served with fresh salads and bread rolls. The huge pans cater generously for large numbers of people with hearty servings so everyone is well fed, and with the wow factor of live cooking, this is an unforgettable wedding experience for your guests.
Trolley'd Cocktail Catering
- Location: Newtown, NSW
- Years in Business: 11+
- 5 Star Reviews: 80+
Trolley'd is an aviation-themed wedding beverage catering service, perfect for fun weddings throughout Sydney and surrounding NSW regions. The award-winning mixologists elevate weddings with a custom-tailored menu of sustainably foraged, organic cocktails served from up-cycled airline carts.
What's great about Trolley'd is you not only get bespoke cocktails freshly shaken and stirred right in front of your guests, but they bring genuine vintage airline trolleys which once belonged to Ansett Airways to serve from, so you don't have to hire a mobile bar. With your mixologists dressed in sophisticated pilot suits, Trolley'd brings a chic vibe to elegant weddings.
Catered By Matt
- Location: Ryde, NSW
- Years in Business: 5
- 5 Star Reviews: 160+
- Cost: $109 - $165 per person
- Minimum Spend: $3,000
Matt is a talented private chef who's fine dining artistry is well suited to elegant Airbnb style weddings. He provides a seamless catering experience from the moment you enquire, and delivers a premium hand-crafted menu designed in consultation with you, plus polished service by a team of friendly bar and wait staff.
Matt's personable, flexible and extremely accommodating approach ensures an elevated dining experience in any setting. His menus range from sophisticated multi-course degustations to shared plates, elegant canapés and luxury grazing tables. Most couples book canapés + a grazing table for cocktail events, or canapés + share plates for seated receptions.
These are a few of our favourites from the wedding menu; scallop ceviche, kingfish tataki, Berkshire pork, eye fillet, 36 hour beef short rib and the caviar Murray cod in miso butter. Matt's exceptional wedding catering services extend to engagement parties and bridal showers. If you're looking for a premium Sydney caterer who offers full event management for personalised boutique events, Matt's your man.
Shared Affair
- Location: Redfern NSW
- Service Area: Sydney CBD - Western Suburbs
- Years in Business: 9
- 5 Star Reviews: 60+
- Cost: From $90 per person
Shared Affair is a premium wedding catering company in Sydney that offers end-to-end event packages starting with the creation of your personalised menu, through to coordination of furniture hire, styling, florals and set up. If you want to streamline your wedding planning with just one vendor looking after your whole reception, these guys have the staff to do it.
Nikki and her event team are renowned for styling visually aesthetic food & beverage experiences, which range from themed cocktail menus to lush grazing tables, seafood stations and shared banquets. The gourmet sliders, dumpling station and taco bar are always popular with guests, and the spit roast buffet is a great option for serving affordable food in abundance so you don't have to worry about guests going hungry.
Butchers Daughter Catering
- Location: Crows Nest, NSW
- Years in Business: 8+
- Minimum Spend: $8,000
Brace yourself, and let me introduce you to Sydney's most innovative wedding catering company. Where your food and your florals is a whole damn scene. There's a fruit tree with birds nests at the door. Cooked prawns in a fish tank. Tablescapes laden with sandcastles, lemons, pears and marmalade jam. Plates of grass fed wagyu. Home-grown veggies. (Pesticide-free!) Foraged driftwood and lichen logs.
This is the world of Bridget Ditte, Australia's Walt Disney of food and floral design. She tells your story in tasty morsels served amongst nature's seasonal blooms. She's the master of overstated ceremony backdrops and the creator of exquisite table settings that unmistakably say "this is us!" Bridget is the hands down best wedding caterer in Sydney if you want a modern Aussie menu served in a jaw-dropping scene of botanical wonder that none of your guests will ever forget.
Rustic Kitchen Sydney
- Location: Woollahra, NSW
- Years in Business: 7
- 5 Star Reviews: 50+
- Cost: $115 - $150 per person
- Minimum Spend: $1,500
Rustic Kitchen is the event catering company behind Sydney restaurant I Maccheroni and serves a modern fusion of classic Italian meals from arancini balls to pasta and ragout. Catering options for wedding receptions include set courses, shared plates, a wide range of live cooking stations, grazing tables, oyster bars, wood fired pizza and cocktail menus.
When you book Rustic Kitchen as your wedding caterer you get Michelin Star trained private chefs doing the cooking for you with shared menus from $115 per person. The kitchen team are available to book for weddings with 10 - 200+ guests with waiters and RSA staff also available.
Marcello and his team turn up on time, stick tightly to your reception schedule, cater to all dietary needs and leave the place spotless at the end of the night. A seamless catering experience with restaurant quality Italian cuisine including authentic hand made pasta. Bellissimo!
Chefin Australia
- Location: Australia wide
- Years in Business: 8
- 5 Star Reviews: 100+
- Cost: $165 - $395 per person
Chefin Australia is a platform with 250+ private chefs to hire for weddings and events in Sydney and all over Australia. They offer an easy online booking system that allows you to instantly hire a chef for events, with options ranging from 3 course fine dining to an 8 course traditional Chinese banquet. Most wedding catering packages having a minimum fee of 7 - 10 people or a listed minimum spend, and the majority of chefs specialise in plating contemporary Australian cuisine.
You can also book a private dining experience for two with Chefin Australia, such as for a wedding proposal, engagement celebration or wedding anniversary. Waiters and RSA bar staff can also be added to packages.
Blue Phoenix Asian Catering
- Location: Villawood, NSW
- Years in Business: 9
- 5 Star Reviews: 10+
Blue Phoenix are a Gold Licence catering company accredited by the NSW Restaurants & Caterers Association and are recommended wedding caterers at many of Sydney CBD's largest venues including Doltone House in Pyrmont. With state-of-the-art mobile kitchens, Blue Phoenix are the perfect caterers to hire for Asian weddings at any venue or private property from the city to the Blue Mountains.
Asian banquet menus include all the Chinese shared feast favourites from salt and pepper squid and beef in black pepper sauce to steamed barramundi. Authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian menus are available and are all well priced with tableware and wait staff included.
Kombi Keg Sydney
- Location: North West Sydney
- Years in Business: 4
- 5 Star Reviews: 30+
With 6 self-pouring taps filled with your chosen craft beers, wines or cocktails, Kombi Keg Sydney is a fun catering choice when you need to BYO drinks. The licensed mobile bar makes beverage catering easy by pre-stocking taps with your choice of chilled drinks prior to the commencement of your wedding ceremony & reception, so guests can simply rock up and pour their own brew at celebration o'clock.
Not only does this vintage van look cool in your event space, she's pretty in your wedding photos, offers interactive entertainment for your guests and keeps your drinks perfectly chilled all night. 'Drop & go' hire packages start at under $1,000 for Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains & Sydney weddings, and there's packages with attendants to service guests too.
Pizza in Bocca
- Location: Liverpool, NSW 2170
- Years in Business: 7
- 5 Star Reviews: 10+
Pizza in Bocca is a mobile wedding catering business that serves homemade wood-fired pizza garnished with herbs & spices from the owners own garden. Carmelo rolls into your venue anywhere across Sydney with his trailer-mounted wood-fired oven bringing the authentic taste & smell of Italy to your wedding reception.
All pizza dough is rolled & stretched on the morning of your wedding creating a delicious, thick and airy crust. Pizzas are then cooked fresh onsite so your guests are treated to piping hot, straight-from-the-oven slices of the most authentic wood-fired pizza you can find in Sydney. All the while the delicious aroma wafts through your reception space.
CHAPA Catering
- Location: Enmore, NSW
- Years in Business: 8
- 5 Star Reviews: 40+
Chapa is Sydney's premier wedding caterer for Asado-inspired, South American cuisine. Cooking live over a traditional Argentinian wood-fired BBQ creates delicious aromas that add a festive vibe to events alongside the spectacle of live food-theatre.
As one of Sydney's premier Gold Licence caterers, Chapa is the perfect catering company to hire for backyard & private property weddings, and they offer comprehensive decor & furniture hire, wait staff and bar services too, making the whole catering process seamless and stress free.
MakMak Sydney
- Location: Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
- Years in Business: 5+
- 5 Star Reviews: 250+
MakMak are your go-to Sydney suppliers of wedding dessert table centrepieces, with grand macaron towers priced from just $169. MakMak's flavour-filled macarons can be boxed as bonbonniere, packaged as gifts for special guests and the company also offer two-hour classes perfect for hens events where participants learn how to mix batter and pipe into the perfect shape.
Foodie Del Mar Catering
- Location: Randwick, NSW 2031
- Years in Business: 9
- 5 Star Reviews: 70+
- Work within your budget
- Tastings available
Foodie Del Mar specialise in creating interactive dining experiences that bring atmosphere and a sense of theatre to your wedding reception. Their unique wedding catering options centre around live food stations which are customised to the theme of your event. Mexican fiesta? Taco bars and a margarita station! Love-on-the-Amalfi-Coast? A flaming Cacio e Pepe cheese wheel!
Owners Kristofer and Daphne are really good at coming up with cool catering ideas that bring your wedding guests together... in theme! Some of the receptions they've recently concocted include A Hong Kong Tea House with a yumcha station & noodle bar, and a coachella station with hot dogs, burgers and chilli con-carne. You give them your wedding theme, and they'll give you an interactive culinary experience that you and your guests will remember forever.
This passionate foodie couple love creating one-of-a-kind wedding experiences and it really shows in the service they give. They're proactive, responsive, communicative, attentive and quick to invite you for a tasting. By the time they're serving you at your wedding it feels like they're old friends. The perfect people to cook your first shared meal as a married couple. Naww.
Woodfired Stove Catering
- Location: Sydney, NSW
- Years in Business: 8
- 5 Star Reviews: 30+
We're naming Nico the Tong Master of Sydney. Cause we've never seen anyone more passionate about BBQ than Nico. He posts videos cooking his juicy, succulent meats on the socials. They haven't gone viral yet but they ought to. We now know where to source the world's best BBQ's, how to cook lamb shoulder and make fancy sauces in an air fryer. You need to watch till the end of each video for the "deeelicious". Makes us smile every time.
Nico's all about woodfired cooking. He brings traditional American low & slow BBQ and South American Asado cuisine to your wedding. Mouth-watering meats are cooked live over an open fire, infusing a delicious smokey flavour into every bite. He's also just added a portico to his collection so you now have an even wider selection of theatrical live fire flamed catering experiences to choose from.
Wedding reception catering packages are available for a minimum of 20 people with menu options including a tower of lamb ribs with chimichurri, pulled pork, brisket, beef short ribs, pork belly, cheese crust tacos and smoked oxtail served with potatoes, salad, sauces and soft buns. If you're looking for an interactive way to entertain your wedding guests, Nico delivers an unforgettable feast of sights, smells and delicious taste. Easy to communicate with.
Aussie Grown Catering
- Location: Glenmore Park, NSW 2745
- Years in Business: 14+
- 5 Star Reviews: 30+
Aussie Grown Catering are spit roast wedding caterers who serve good tasting Aussie tucker at weddings throughout the Sydney region including the CBD, Northern Beaches, Parramatta and Penrith. All food is cooked & prepared on site and served as banquets & buffets, making Aussie Grown the perfect option for sit down wedding catering.
The General Eatery & Supplies
- Location: Dulwich Hill, NSW 2203
- Years in Business: 9
- 5 Star Reviews: 700+
The General Eatery is one of inner west Sydney's most popular cafes serving up a range of healthy salads, burgers and vegan dishes. The Eatery also functions as a micro wedding venue on Saturday evenings and offers finger food wedding catering at offsite locations, specialising in grand rustic grazing tables with artisan cheeses & meats and house made relishes, pickles & dips. served up on the back of a pick up.
Little Caterer Sydney
- Location: Marrickville, NSW 2204
- Years in Business: 4
- 5 Star Reviews: 40+
Sustainable food specialists Little Caterer Sydney are produce-driven creators of high quality seasonal menus co-designed with Brides & Grooms to reflect their individual personalities and style. From canapé menus with homemade pickles & preserves to share plates and three course feasts, Little Caterer Sydney are among the city's best catering companies for weddings with 25+ guests.
Little Caterer Sydney offer the city's widest range of live food stations including a porchetta, paella, taco, pasta, poke bowl and seafood stations. They're also among Sydney's finest caterers of artisanal charcuterie and cheese.
Sydney Wedding Catering
This wedding catering guide makes it easy to find the perfect food & beverage suppliers for your Sydney wedding. Use the following shortlists to find local wedding caterers who serve your preferred cuisine.
Specialty Wedding Caterers in Sydney
Find Sydney wedding caterers who specialise in cooking authentic foods of a particular region with this guide to the city's top caterers for each cuisine.
Asian Wedding Caterers
Blue Phoenix - Chinese cuisine
Spanish Wedding Caterers
Food Adventura - Paella & live grill stations
Italian Wedding Caterers
Bespoke Catering - Lane Cove
Rustic Kitchen Sydney - Woollahra
Popular Wedding Caterers in Sydney
The most popular wedding catering in Sydney is traditional seated dining with shared plates or alternate serve, affordable buffets and cocktail party catering with a fusion of modern Australian cuisine. These are the most popular wedding caterers in Sydney.
Cocktail Wedding Catering
- Catered By Matt - Modern Australian
- Bespoke Catering - Asian & Italian fusion
- Boardwalk Catering - Modern Australian, Asian fusion
Catering For Seated Receptions
Traditional wedding caterers offer plated meals for seated dining which include A La Carte & alternate drop menus along with shared feasts where platters of food are served down the centre of the table for guests to help themselves.
- Catered By Matt - Modern Australian
- Bespoke Catering - Italian & Asian fusion
- Shared Affair - Mixed feasts
- PB Catering - Mixed feasts
- Dining Abode - 2 Chefs Hats
Buffet Catering
- Foodie Del Mar - Food stations
- Woodfired Stove - South American BBQ
- Aussie Grown Catering - Spit roasts
Live Cooking Stations
Some of Sydney's most innovative catering companies offer experiential food stations that bring the theatre of live cooking into your wedding reception. Options include paella catering in grand Spanish pans, live oyster shucking, Tex Mex taco stations, themed grazing tables and dumpling bars.
Food Trucks & Mobile Bars
There's nothing like food trucks & mobile bars to add pizzazz to your wedding reception. Among the best food trucks to hire for weddings in Sydney are mobile wood-fired pizza ovens, portable BBQ spits, Mexican cantinas and gelato bikes. Mobile bar options include horse floats, caravan bars, mobile cocktail bars, rustic barrel bars, kombi kegs and roving barmen.
Mobile BBQ & Pizza Catering
Some of Sydney's most unique mobile wedding caterers include niche wood-fired BBQs such as CHAPA's Asado-inspired Argentinian charcoal meats. Offering the spectacle of live cooking with the delicious smells of slow cooked meats and doughs, mobile BBQ's & wood-fired pizza ovens are a very cost effective way to elevate outdoor weddings.
Local Wedding Caterers
Sydney Catering Companies
Hawkesbury Catering Companies
Western Sydney Catering Companies
FAQ About Sydney Wedding Catering
What's included with full service catering?
Companies that offer full service wedding catering arrive at your wedding with everything required to feed your guests including mobile kitchen equipment, chefs & wait staff and all menu ingredients. Some caterers in Sydney provide plates, cutlery and tableware with their packages, while others will hire for you if required at an additional fee.
How much does wedding catering cost in Sydney?
The average cost of wedding catering in Sydney differs depending on the type of catering required. The cheapest wedding caterers in Sydney are spit roasts, mobile pizzas and paella stations which are priced from $40 - $50 per person. The most expensive wedding caterers are private chefs who charge a per head fee and usually have a minimum spend which starts at $1,500.
The average full service wedding catering companies in Sydney charge between $180 - $230 per head and includes canapés, entree, main & dessert plus all service staff. Cocktail wedding catering is slightly cheaper averaging at around $140 per person including 5 hours of service and 8 - 12 canapés with two of those being substantial.
Who are gold license wedding caterers in Sydney?
Bespoke Catering, Boardwalk Catering, Dining Abode, CHAPA Catering & Blue Phoenix Asian Catering are all gold licensed wedding caterers in Sydney.
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