Caterers Adelaide

Catering around Adelaide covers a wide spread of styles: charcoal spit roasts and wood-fired pizza, Greek and Vietnamese street food, grazing tables, coffee vans and plated dinners of two or three courses. The caterers here come to your venue, backyard or hired hall, so the format you choose matters more than where they sit.

They generally cover the ten metropolitan regions. A small number also list the Adelaide Hills or the Southern Vales & Coast, so put a Hills or McLaren Vale address at the top of your enquiry.

The format comes first, because it drives the rest of the budget:

• Grazing tables and boxes suit a relaxed afternoon gathering, with headline pricing from $18 per person.
• Buffets, spit roasts and food stations feed a crowd without a full waiting team, and one family caterer starts from $24 per person.
• Roaming canapés and seated menus need staff on the floor, and that level of service starts from $53 per person.
• Food trucks bring their own kitchen, so check power, a level spot for the truck and whether the venue allows them.
• Coffee vans and mobile bars count as catering too, with espresso packages from $363 and mobile bar service from $700.
• Dietary needs are well covered, with several caterers offering vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menus, and one kitchen that cooks vegetarian food only.

Ask each caterer to quote the same guest count and service length so the numbers line up. A per-person figure rarely includes staff, travel or hire items, so ask what sits on top.