Private Dining Catering Sydney
Turn Your Home Into Sydney's Best Restaurant.
You have a dining table. Grant King has three chef hats, the San Pellegrino World's Top 100, and 30 years of cooking that has left food critics speechless. Put the two together and something extraordinary happens.
Private dining catering with Smile Catering is not a delivery. Nobody drops off trays and leaves. Grant and his team arrive at your home, your apartment, your venue, and cook live in your kitchen. The food is prepared from scratch in front of you using ingredients Grant has hand-selected that morning. The service is seamless. The wine is matched. And when the evening ends, the kitchen looks like nothing happened.
This is dinner party catering for people who love food and want to share something unforgettable with the people who matter most.
How Your Evening Comes Together
It starts with a phone call. Grant wants to know who is coming, what they love to eat, what the occasion is, and what kind of evening you want to create. Relaxed and generous with shared platters across the table? A multi-course progression that builds from delicate to bold? A themed menu inspired by a cuisine you fell in love with on holiday? Grant has spent decades cooking across cultures and continents. Whatever direction excites you, he has the technique and the imagination to make it happen.
The menu is designed from scratch around your conversation. No set menus. No recycled dishes. Grant creates something new for every dinner party because every group of people is different and every evening deserves its own identity.
On the night, Grant arrives with his team and every ingredient. Your kitchen becomes his kitchen. You sit down, pour a drink, and let the evening unfold.
Dinner Parties Worth Talking About
Grant's cooking is driven by seasonal produce at its absolute peak, prepared with techniques refined across three decades of hatted restaurants. The flavours draw on his international experience: Japanese precision, Mediterranean warmth, Southeast Asian spice, and the clean, bold flavours of contemporary Australian cooking.
Your guests might experience line-caught ocean trout with native botanicals and finger lime. Wagyu tataki with smoked soy, shiso, and truffle. Handmade pasta with slow-braised lamb shoulder and seasonal greens. Desserts that balance surprise with comfort, sweetness with acidity, texture with elegance.
For vegetarian and vegan guests, Grant creates plant-based courses with the same ambition and care as everything else on the menu. No afterthoughts. No token salads. Food that makes your plant-based guests feel like the menu was written for them.
Perfect For
Birthday celebrations and milestone dinners. Anniversary and engagement dinners. Family gatherings and reunion dinners. Thank-you dinners for clients or colleagues. Festive season entertaining: Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving. "Just because" dinners when you want to do something extraordinary for the people you love.
What Guests Say
"The food was first class, stunning really. It was private dining at the level of a top class restaurant. The kitchen was spotless when they left." Bruce M.
"Every single guest has raved about the food and no one can quite decide what was their favourite as every mouthful was so amazing." Laura J.
Book Your Dinner Party
Tell us the date, the number of guests, and any initial thoughts. Grant will be in touch personally.
