Award-Winning Catering in Sydney

Led by the Chef Who PERSONNALLY Earned the Awards, Not One Who Worked Near Them

Smile Catering is led by the chef who personally earned the awards.

Grant King led The Pier Restaurant to three chef hats, held for five consecutive years, and a place on the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants. Then he did the thing everyone told him was reckless. He left the security of a celebrated three-hat kitchen and opened his own restaurant, Gastro Park, with no backing and no safety net. It earned two chef hats and made him Gault and Millau Chef of the Year with a score of 18 out of 20.

That is the difference. These accreditations are not on a company profile because Grant once worked in a building where someone else earned them. They exist because Grant earned them himself, twice, in two different kitchens he led.

When you book Smile Catering, that is the chef designing your menu and cooking your event.

What Award-Winning Catering Actually Tastes Like

This is not the usual arancini balls, average buffet or reheated trays of food. Every menu is built from scratch around your event, the season, and the produce Grant sources personally from the fishermen and farmers he has worked with for three decades.

A canape might be smoked lobster with caviar, or beef tartare on a crisp potato galette. A wedding course might be line-caught kingfish with finger lime and native coastal herbs. A degustation might move through eight courses that each feel like they belong in a hatted restaurant, because the person who designed them ran one.

The Credentials, Publicly Recorded

  • Three Chef Hats - The Pier Restaurant (five consecutive years)

    Australia's Best Restaurant - Gourmet Traveller

    San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants

    Two Chef Hats - Gastro Park ( For 7 years!)

    Chef of the Year Australia - Gault and Millau, 18 out of 20

    Guest Judge - MasterChef Australia

    Co-Author - The Pier Cookbook

    Catering Across Sydney

    From the Eastern Suburbs to the Lower North Shore, Sydney Harbour to the Hunter Valley, Smile Catering brings three-hat quality to weddings, corporate events, cocktail parties, private dining and yacht events.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Smile Catering is led by Grant King, one of the most credentialed chefs in Australian history, with three chef hats, two-time hatted restaurant leadership, Chef of the Year and a San Pellegrino World's Top 100 ranking. Few if any Sydney caterers can match these personally earned accreditations.

  • The distinction is whether the chef personally earned culinary recognition or simply worked in recognised kitchens. Grant King earned three chef hats leading The Pier and two more building Gastro Park

  • Premium catering is priced per event according to menu, guest numbers and service. Every Smile Catering menu is custom designed, so quotes are tailored. Contact us with your event details.

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