Catering Melbourne

Delicious food + spectacular Melbourne events

Essential Catering and Events Melbourne

Whether it’s a wedding, Christmas party or a corporate event, you can rest assured that when you partner with Essential Catering and Events Melbourne, that your guests will be served by friendly and professional staff and the food will be of the highest quality.

Fresh, healthy and delicious menu options
Competitive and affordable rates
Exceptional wedding catering, corporate catering and event catering options
Professional staff and personalised service
Complete Event Management solutions
Corporate Catering Online Ordering

Weekly Home Delivered Meals Fresh to your Door

To receive our weekly menu and to place your orders please sign up via the green link below. To help us operate this service we have teamed up with Cookaborough, a platform that makes it easy for us to manage this service and for you to place your orders.

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Order Office Catering Online

You can now order your business lunches and event catering online with Essential Catering & Events. We deliver all over Melbourne.

Corporate Catering Online

Event Hire Online

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Events & Planning

Wedding Catering

Corporate Catering

Finger Food Catering

Our Menus

Our menus consist of hand made products which are prepared in our commissary kitchen utilising fresh and local produce. Food is then cooked on location to ensure freshness and quality. Herbs, flowers and citrus fruits are grown onsite in our organic garden, where we also compost our organic waste. Our menus have been carefully designed to ensure there are plenty of items to choose from and we are confident that our generous servings will satisfy even the heartiest of appetites!

Browse our menus

Browse our fully customisable menus. We cater for all types of events, large or small.

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Talk to our Event team today. We will respond with a detailed proposal, followed by an exclusive tasting just for you!

Enjoy!

Sit back and enjoy sumptuous food and expert service

From flawless execution to professional and engaging staff, our Melbourne catering offering is a full service experience, providing a distinctive experience for every event. Our culinary team is full of energetic people, die hard foodies with an artisan philosophy who insist on the best. The planning, co-ordination and delivery of your catering event, along with our attention to detail ensures that your event runs seamlessly, which is why our clients keep coming back!

Talk to one of our event executives about your wedding or event catering needs.

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Frequently Asked

Do you do private & party catering?

Yes, in addition to wedding catering, corporate catering, office catering and event catering, Essential Catering and Events absolutely loves to do private catering and party catering. We offer the very best exquisite gourmet cuisine catering options, for your own private dinner in the privacy of your own home for groups as little as 10. If it’s party catering, you are looking for we do everything for you! We are here to help plan your ideal menu and can, if required, provide full event planning to help produce an experience, you and your guests will long remember.

What related services do you provide?

Are you still able to cater for an event if there are no kitchen facilities available?

Can I customise my menu?

Do you cater for dietary needs?

Do you offer menu tasting?

Rave Reviews

Just wanted to let you know how awesome both your service and food was. Not only was the food beautiful and tasty, the guys serving went above and beyond. So lovely! Thank you, for making our night so great!

Amy & Josh

We would like to thank you to your team for ensuring our very special day was a very special day. The food was great, the service was excellent, and the staff were superb. We would highly recommend you and your team for any event requiring professional caterers.

Dee & Graeme

Hi Sean, Just a quick email to Thank you and your team for the fantastic job you did on Saturday night. Everybody made comments on how professional you all were and how nice the food was. Dealing with you has been nothing but a pleasure, everything was so smooth and planned very well. Once again Thank You very much.

Judy W

Ruth, I’d just like to thank your employees on site last weekend for their great work and great service. The food was fantastic and while I received many positive comments about the day, it was the food that everyone commented on. Thanks again to all.

George M

Thank you so much for doing a great catering job for us and our wedding couple & guests. All went very well and there were some nice compliments about the catering. Thanks again.

Rhonda & David

Good morning Sean, Thank you so much for making Fran & Ben’s wedding so special. It is a compliment to you and your team and Julia & I are really appreciative of your efforts and kindness. Kind regards Dominique

Dominique P

Hi Sally and Sean, Thank you very much for putting on a memorable catering experience for our event. We thoroughly enjoyed the service and so did our guests. The whole process was smooth and easy with your company. Thank you once again. Jimmy and Tessa.

Jimmy W

These guys had such an amazing variety of food, and were able to deliver a perfect evening, despite the crazy number of food allergies on our list. They were easily contactable and offered free tastings. The servings were extremely generous and delicious, and the shared platters worked well.

Lucy N

The team arrived at our home and were so wonderful with their customer service and attention to detail. The tapas was amazing and the guests were really impressed. Even after the wedding the guests commented on the food. In particular our vegetarian and special diet guests. I would highly recommend!!!

Michelle R

We had the Gourmet carvery and the food was absolutely scrumptious! Guests were raving about the lamb as well as serving beautiful salad options instead of all that very standard fare. Their staff were a complete delight, very professional and stealth like. I was incredibly impressed!!

Liza H

WOW! I cannot reccommend these guys enough. Amazing food, excellent staff, super easy to talk to. Sean helped us organise our reception timings and was flexible in making changes. Very supportive of all dietry needs of our guests and our friends were in awe of the quality of the buffet!

Daena H

Highly Professional company. Could not fault Sean and his team. Ever so patient with our requests and helped personalise our wedding. Guests were very impressed with the food selection as were we.

Celia T

They did a pop up kitchen. It was called a standing BBQ.They were awesome. The bartender was great as well.

Sally R

Fabulous food and service! We had so many compliments!!

Lauren K

Great food served by great people! They were able to cater to every different dietary requirement that we had without any fuss. No one went home hungry!

Craig B

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Catering Melbourne

Essential Catering and Events Melbourne