Morning, Afternoon & High Tea Catering Sydney CBD

Morning tea catering is a shared spread for the break between breakfast and lunch, usually around 10:30. Offices order it for birthdays, farewells, all-hands meetings, charity mornings, welcome days and any meeting long enough to need a pause. Afternoon tea is the same idea later in the day. Dress it up with scones, tartlets and finger sandwiches for a farewell or a client visit and most people call it high tea.

Italians call it merenda, and it follows a few unwritten rules: small but real food, sweet and savoury on the same table, and good coffee nearby. That is how we build our range. Read more in our piece on Italian merenda and Sydney morning tea.

On the sweet side: the Assorted Tartlets Platter (15 or 30 pieces), the Tea Scone Platter with berry jam and whipped cream (12 or 24), the Italian Cannoli Platter, the Premium Pastry & Biscuit Tea Platter, cookie, brownie and cake platters, and fruit platters, from a seasonal platter for 8 to 10 to a tropical one for 15. On the savoury side: quiche platters of 12, mini meat pies, arancini, skewers, croquettes and the Gourmet Bruschetta Platter.

For 15 people, one pastry platter, one quiche platter and a fruit platter covers a quick break. If the morning tea has to stand in for lunch, add a savoury platter or a sandwich platter. For a high tea, put scones, tartlets, finger sandwiches and fruit on the same table.

We are a cafe first, and for morning tea that matters. Our kitchen runs from 5:30am every weekday, and the platters for your 10:30 break are put together that morning by the team that serves the cafe, not the night before. The bruschetta is made fresh every morning in our kitchen on Bent Street.

We deliver in our own van, to your floor and not just the front desk, and we know the buildings: Aurora Place, Quay Quarter, International Towers, 1 Bligh Street, Governor Macquarie Tower and dozens more. Because we are in the middle of the CBD, a morning tea for a Martin Place or Macquarie Street office is a short trip, not a drive across town.

Morning tea is where dietary needs get forgotten, because most sweets are flour, butter and nuts. We plan around that. Gluten-free friands and cookies, vegan fruit platters and fruit salad pots, a vegetarian quiche platter and vegetarian arancini all sit in the range, and Halal-certified options run across most menus. Every product shows its dietary tags, and the filter on this page narrows the list before you order.

Tell us about allergies in your group and we cross-check every item for peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish, eggs, gluten and dairy. Every platter is labelled. Our kitchen handles nuts and gluten every day and is not a fully allergen-free environment, so for a serious allergy, call us first and we will talk you through the options.

We deliver morning and afternoon tea across the Sydney CBD, Martin Place, Barangaroo, Wynyard, Circular Quay, Pyrmont, Ultimo, Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, North Sydney, Crows Nest, Chatswood, Macquarie Park and the inner Eastern Suburbs. Not on the list? Contact us and we will check your address.

Order by 2:30pm for next-day delivery and choose a time at checkout that lands just before the break. A birthday you only heard about this morning? Call before 9am and we will tell you honestly what we can do. Large or custom orders need 48 hours, and we deliver Monday to Friday.

Add platters to the cart above, choose the date and time, and check out. The minimum for delivery is $100, and there is no minimum for pick-up from the cafe. To have us build the spread, contact us with the headcount and the occasion.

If your office does a monthly birthday morning tea, a standing account keeps the delivery time and dietary notes on file and bills every order to the account. When the break follows an early start, pair it with breakfast catering, and see sweets and desserts for the full dessert range, from tiramisù to babà.