Hot Food Catering Sydney CBD

Hot food catering is cooked food delivered to the office hot, in trays or platters, and served straight onto plates without reheating. It covers the whole day: a warm breakfast for an early meeting, hot finger food for drinks, and, most often, a hot lunch that people sit down to rather than graze through.

Offices choose hot food when the meal matters. A winter lunch, a long training day, a client meeting, a team that has been at it since seven. Cold platters keep people going. A tray of hot pasta or roast chicken stops the room for twenty minutes and sends everyone back to work properly fed, which is usually the point of ordering lunch in.

For breakfast: the Warm Savoury Breakfast Platter, Mini Scrambled Eggs Morning Wrap Platter, toasted croissants and toasties, English muffin sliders and mini quiches. For lunch: pasta trays and lasagne (most serve 6 to 8), Nonna's Meatball Platter, roast chicken thighs, slow-cooked lamb shanks, crispy-skin salmon and the Bistecca Platter. For drinks: arancini, croquettes, mini pies, sliders and skewers.

Then the hot sides, each serving 6 to 8: rosemary chat potatoes, creamy mash, charred broccolini, glazed Dutch carrots and sweet potato wedges. For 15 people, two pasta trays, one protein platter and two side trays make a full hot lunch. See our pasta trays for the whole pasta menu.

Hot food is only as good as the trip between the oven and the table. Our kitchen is on Bent Street, in the middle of the CBD, so hot trays have a short drive to most offices instead of a long one across the city. Everything is cooked in-house by the chefs who run the cafe, led by head chef John Thomas, and nothing is reheated from a commissary.

We deliver ourselves, in our own van, to your floor, and hot trays arrive ready to serve. We know the loading docks and lifts at Aurora Place, Quay Quarter, International Towers, 1 Bligh Street, Governor Macquarie Tower and the MLC Centre, so the food does not wait in a dock while it cools.

Vegetarian guests often get one lonely option at a hot lunch. On this page they have plenty: Vegetarian Lasagna, Gnocchi alla Norma, Trofie al Pesto, the ravioli and the saffron risotto, vegetarian arancini, vegetable skewers, the vegetarian quiche platter and the vegetarian egg wraps all come hot. Most hot pasta trays can be made gluten-free, every skewer platter is gluten-free, and Halal-certified options run across most of our menus.

Tell us about allergies when you order. We cross-check every dish for peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish, eggs, gluten and dairy, and label every tray. Our kitchen is not a fully allergen-free environment, so for complex needs, call us before ordering and we will confirm each dish.

We deliver hot catering across the Sydney CBD, Martin Place, Wynyard, Barangaroo and Circular Quay, plus Pyrmont, Ultimo, Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, North Sydney, Crows Nest, Chatswood, Macquarie Park and the inner Eastern Suburbs. For any other address, contact us first.

Order by 2:30pm for next-day delivery and choose your time at checkout, ideally right when people will eat. Same-day hot food is sometimes possible: call before 9am and we will let you know. Large or custom hot menus need 48 hours, and three to five days for 200 people or more. We deliver Monday to Friday.

Add your trays to the cart above, choose the date and time and check out. Delivery has a $100 minimum, and pick-up from the cafe has no minimum. For a hot menu built around your headcount, contact us and we will plan it with you.

For more choice, browse hot mains and seafood and side trays. If you want the food cooked and served on site, hire a chef and service team. Offices that order hot lunches regularly can set up a standing account, with delivery time and dietary notes on file and every order billed to the account.