CATERING
Catering in Cape Town — Every Format, Published Prices
Plated dinners to 500-guest spits. Every format shows its from-price and minimum before you message us.
Fixed itemised quote before you pay a deposit · Reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 SAST.
Catering in Cape Town across six formats — plated private-chef dinners, canapé receptions, grazing and harvest tables, braai and spit events, large-group buffets and office drop-off platters. Every format publishes its from-price and its minimum. from R395 pp per person · Min 20 guests.
The short answer
Catering in Cape Town across six formats — plated private-chef dinners, canapé receptions, grazing and harvest tables, braai and spit events, large-group buffets and office drop-off platters. Every format publishes its from-price and its minimum.
This page is a router, deliberately. Tell us the occasion, the headcount and the area, and we'll point you at the format that actually fits — then price it line by line.
Pick your format
Plated and private-chef dinners for 2–14. Canapés and cocktail from 20. Grazing tables where styling leads. Braai and spit from six guests to five hundred. Large-group buffets from 50. Office platters by next-day drop-off.
Each card shows its from-price from the same rate card as our pricing page — prices include VAT where stated, with festive multipliers published.
Private chef dinner (10+ guests)
fromR850pp
Min invoice R3,900
Canapés reception
fromR395pp
Min 20 guests
Grazing & harvest tables
fromR495pp
Min 15 guests
Gourmet private braai
fromR650pp
Min 6 guests / R5,500 min invoice
Large-group catering (50+)
fromR550pp
Office drop-off platters
fromR195pp
Min 10 guests
Why us, honestly
We publish prices. Most caterers don't — you fill in a form and wait to find out what lunch costs. Our from-prices and staffing rates are on this site, permanently.
All-in quotes: staff, rentals and travel itemised before you pay a deposit. And a replacement guarantee: if a booked chef or waiter falls through, we replace them or refund that line. No 'best caterer in Cape Town' claims — just terms you can check.
We're also honest about being the newer team in this market. What we bring is the myCHEF family's operating standard — running in Bali and Dubai since 2015 — applied to Cape produce, Cape venues and Cape seasons.
What's included across formats
Different formats, same ground rules. The two columns below apply to every catering quote we send.
Included
- menu consult, an itemised fixed quote, and a named coordinator for staffed events
- service staffing at published ratios and rates where the format includes service
Quoted separately
- rentals, Zone 2–3 travel, festive multipliers, pairing and bar add-ons
- venue hire, marquee contracts and liquor supply — we serve, we don't sell alcohol
How to brief us
One WhatsApp message is genuinely enough: the date, the guest count, the area and the occasion. Add dietary notes if you know them. We reply within the hour, 08:00–20:00 SAST, with the format we'd recommend and why — sometimes that's a cheaper format than the one you asked about, and we'll say so.
From there: a menu consult, a fixed itemised quote, and a deposit that locks the date. The whole thing can happen in a day for drop-off work, or over a few unhurried weeks for a wedding weekend.
Start with the numbers
If you're still budgeting, our catering cost guide for Cape Town breaks down what each format costs across the market — and what changes the price: staffing, rentals, travel and season. Our choosing-a-caterer framework applies the same honesty to comparing us against anyone else.
Planning a wedding or a corporate event specifically? Those clusters go deeper — villa and Winelands wedding weekends on one side, all-in corporate catering on the other. Both route back to these same published formats.
And if you genuinely don't know which format fits, that's normal — most first-time briefs start with a guest count and a date, not a format name. Send those two facts and we'll do the rest.
In writing, not in vibes — read the full booking protection terms.
Questions, answered.
Anything else? One WhatsApp message is enough — reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 sast.
Related services
Tell us the date, the guests and the place.
We handle everything else — menu, shopping, cooking, service, cleanup. Guaranteed.
Replacement-or-refund · Fixed itemised quote · Published cancellation tiers