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Christmas, handmade and delivered.

Delivering 5 November to 19 December. Made in small batches, stock is limited.

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Christmas Menu 2026

Christmas Menu 2026

From Davidson Plum Glazed Ham to Paolo’s Pavlova Cheesecake, each dish is handmade in small batches by our cooks and delivered freshly frozen. There are starters to share, a centrepiece for the middle of the table, sides and salads to go around, and desserts worth saving room for. Pick the dishes you want, skip the ones you don’t, and spend Christmas lunch at the table instead of the stove.

From Davidson Plum Glazed Ham to Paolo’s Pavlova Cheesecake, each dish is handmade in small batches by our cooks and delivered freshly frozen. There are starters to share, a centrepiece for the middle of the table, sides and salads to go around, and desserts worth saving room for. Pick the dishes you want, skip the ones you don’t, and spend Christmas lunch at the table instead of the stove.

Starters

Mains

Overhead shot of a speckled white bowl filled with roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets with capers and herbs, set on a textured gray surface with a spoon, napkin, and small garnish bowls.
Overhead shot of a speckled white bowl filled with roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets with capers and herbs, set on a textured gray surface with a spoon, napkin, and small garnish bowls.

Sides

A bowl of Yogurt Sour Cherry Gelato with a spoon and cherries on a gray background
A bowl of Yogurt Sour Cherry Gelato with a spoon and cherries on a gray background

Desserts

PLAN YOUR CHRISTMAS TABLE

How many are you feeding?

Whether it's a quiet Christmas lunch or a house full of family and friends, here's a little guidance to help you plan your menu.

4

PEOPLE

One main, two sides, one dessert. A quiet lunch with leftovers for Boxing Day.

6

PEOPLE

The ham plus one main, three sides, two desserts. Add a starter to share.

12

PEOPLE

Two mains, four sides, two salads and three desserts for a generous family table.

20+

PEOPLE

Three mains including the ham, six sides, starters to share and dessert for everyone.

A guide only ... quantities will depend on appetites, your spread, and the serving sizes of your chosen dishes.

Christmas Starters

Christmas Starters

Christmas lunch should be something you sit down to, not something you spend all day preparing. Our cooks make these Christmas starters by hand, in small batches, so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests.

Start with Davide's Smoked Mozzarella Arancini, crisp on the outside with a molten, cheesy centre, and no frying required. Rebecca's Turducken Rollsgive you all the theatre of the famous three-bird roast in a size you can pass around with a drink, and nobody has to debone anything on Christmas Eve. 

For something special, our Scallops come in their shells with miso, kombu and native bunya nut butter. The Heirloom Tomato and Gruyère Tart  combines sweet roasted tomatoes, melting cheese, Dijon mustard and herbs in crisp shortcrust pastry.

Whether you're serving Christmas canapés with drinks or planning a more formal starter, these handmade dishes make Christmas entertaining easy. Simply thaw in the fridge overnight and cook according to the instructions.

Christmas lunch should be something you sit down to, not something you spend all day preparing. Our cooks make these Christmas starters by hand, in small batches, so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests.

Start with Davide's Smoked Mozzarella Arancini, crisp on the outside with a molten, cheesy centre, and no frying required. Rebecca's Turducken Rollsgive you all the theatre of the famous three-bird roast in a size you can pass around with a drink, and nobody has to debone anything on Christmas Eve. 

For something special, our Scallops come in their shells with miso, kombu and native bunya nut butter. The Heirloom Tomato and Gruyère Tart  combines sweet roasted tomatoes, melting cheese, Dijon mustard and herbs in crisp shortcrust pastry.

Whether you're serving Christmas canapés with drinks or planning a more formal starter, these handmade dishes make Christmas entertaining easy. Simply thaw in the fridge overnight and cook according to the instructions.

Davidson Plum Glazed Christmas Ham

Davidson Plum Glazed Christmas Ham

An Australian Christmas without a ham is just a long lunch. And glazing it is the one bit of Christmas cooking most people actually enjoy, so we’ve done everything else.

You’ll get a 3.5kg leg from Mudgee Meats, skinned and scored by hand and ready for the oven, with our Davidson plum glaze made in our kitchen and packed alongside. Davidson plum is a native Australian fruit with a deep, tart sharpness that cuts through the richness of the ham in a way brown sugar never quite manages. Brush it on, bake, baste once or twice, and it turns dark and sticky in your own oven, which is the only way a glazed ham ever looks quite right.

It serves ten to twelve as part of a spread, it’s just as good cold on Boxing Day, and the leftover ham sandwiches are reason enough to buy a Christmas ham this size.

An Australian Christmas without a ham is just a long lunch. And glazing it is the one bit of Christmas cooking most people actually enjoy, so we’ve done everything else.

You’ll get a 3.5kg leg from Mudgee Meats, skinned and scored by hand and ready for the oven, with our Davidson plum glaze made in our kitchen and packed alongside. Davidson plum is a native Australian fruit with a deep, tart sharpness that cuts through the richness of the ham in a way brown sugar never quite manages. Brush it on, bake, baste once or twice, and it turns dark and sticky in your own oven, which is the only way a glazed ham ever looks quite right.

It serves ten to twelve as part of a spread, it’s just as good cold on Boxing Day, and the leftover ham sandwiches are reason enough to buy a Christmas ham this size.

Christmas Mains

Christmas Mains

Long lunch or late dinner, roast or seafood, there’s a centrepiece here for the Christmas you actually have.

Davide’s turkey is the traditional one, for the table that wouldn’t feel like Christmas without it. Paolo’s rolled leg of lamb  is deboned, rolled and marinated with lemon, oregano and rosemary, his family’s way, and it’s very hard to improve on. For a seafood Christmas lunch, Davide’s side of barramundi with chermoula  is the one to build a summer table around. And the vegan Wellington is a proper centrepiece, so nobody at a vegan Christmas is left assembling a plate of sides.

Most tables do well with one main and plenty of sides. Feeding a crowd? Two mains works best, one roast and one from the sea.

Long lunch or late dinner, roast or seafood, there’s a centrepiece here for the Christmas you actually have.

Davide’s turkey is the traditional one, for the table that wouldn’t feel like Christmas without it. Paolo’s rolled leg of lamb  is deboned, rolled and marinated with lemon, oregano and rosemary, his family’s way, and it’s very hard to improve on. For a seafood Christmas lunch, Davide’s side of barramundi with chermoula  is the one to build a summer table around. And the vegan Wellington is a proper centrepiece, so nobody at a vegan Christmas is left assembling a plate of sides.

Most tables do well with one main and plenty of sides. Feeding a crowd? Two mains works best, one roast and one from the sea.

Christmas Sides and Salads

Christmas Sides and Salads

Christmas here happens in the heat, which is why the sides matter as much as the main, and the Christmas salads often matter more.

Lou’s duck fat potatoes  and Paolo’s potato bake are the two rich ones, and most tables want both. Paolo’s honey glazed carrots with raisins and almonds bring sweetness, the hasselback butternut pumpkin brings colour, and between Davide’s pearl cous cous salad  and Lou’s rice salad you’ve got the two dishes that get eaten cold on the deck at four o’clock and again for lunch the next day.

A good rule of thumb is one potato dish, one vegetable and one salad for every main. Plenty can be served at room temperature, so the oven isn’t playing Tetris.

Not sure how much to order? Our Christmas portion guide works it out by guest count, from four people to twelve and over.

Christmas here happens in the heat, which is why the sides matter as much as the main, and the Christmas salads often matter more.

Lou’s duck fat potatoes  and Paolo’s potato bake are the two rich ones, and most tables want both. Paolo’s honey glazed carrots with raisins and almonds bring sweetness, the hasselback butternut pumpkin brings colour, and between Davide’s pearl cous cous salad  and Lou’s rice salad you’ve got the two dishes that get eaten cold on the deck at four o’clock and again for lunch the next day.

A good rule of thumb is one potato dish, one vegetable and one salad for every main. Plenty can be served at room temperature, so the oven isn’t playing Tetris.

Not sure how much to order? Our Christmas portion guide works it out by guest count, from four people to twelve and over.

Christmas Desserts

Christmas Desserts

Nobody has ever complained about too much dessert on Christmas Day.

Paolo’s pavlova cheesecake with mango and passionfruit coulis is the most Australian thing on the menu, pavlova and cheesecake having a friendly argument, and it’s the one that ends up on everyone’s phone. His sticky fig and date pudding with butterscotch sauce is for the people who want Christmas to taste like Christmas. Davide’s trifle  is the full layered production, and his sour cherry gelato is for when everyone says they couldn’t possibly, and then does.

Two desserts is plenty. Three is a statement, and we won’t talk you out of it.

Nobody has ever complained about too much dessert on Christmas Day.

Paolo’s pavlova cheesecake with mango and passionfruit coulis is the most Australian thing on the menu, pavlova and cheesecake having a friendly argument, and it’s the one that ends up on everyone’s phone. His sticky fig and date pudding with butterscotch sauce is for the people who want Christmas to taste like Christmas. Davide’s trifle  is the full layered production, and his sour cherry gelato is for when everyone says they couldn’t possibly, and then does.

Two desserts is plenty. Three is a statement, and we won’t talk you out of it.

Native ingredients

An Australian Christmas, cooked with Australian ingredients

Christmas in this country happens in the heat, with the doors open, and the food should taste like it belongs here. This year our cooks have been working with native Australian ingredients, not as a novelty but because they genuinely make the dishes better.

Davidson plum, tart and dark, glazes the ham. Lemon myrtle, which smells more like lemon than lemon does, goes into the butter for the lobster tails. Bunya nut, a native pine nut Aboriginal communities have gathered and eaten for thousands of years, sits alongside scallops and miso kombu butter. These are ingredients with a very long history here, and they deserve a place on the Christmas table.

If you would like to know more about them, we have written about each one.

Davidson plum

Tart and dark. Glazes the ham.

Lemon myrtle

In the butter for the lobster tails.

Bunya nut

A native pine nut, alongside the scallops.

Read about native Australian ingredients

How it works

Order only what you want

No set menus this year. Every dish is sold on its own, so you build the table you actually want, for the number of people you are actually feeding.

Handmade by our cooks

Every dish is made in small batches by a real person cooking their own family recipe, then freshly frozen so it reaches you exactly as it left their kitchen.

Order early, deliver early

Everything arrives freshly frozen and keeps, so order now, take delivery in November, and let your freezer hold Christmas for you. December deliveries carry a $10 surcharge, and the last one is 19 December.

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Send the Gift of a Stress-Free Christmas

Send the Gift of a Stress-Free Christmas

Give someone you love the gift of real food, handmade by our local cooks and delivered to their door in time for Christmas.

Because sometimes the best gift you can give is time back,  and a beautiful meal made with care.

Give someone you love the gift of real food, handmade by our local cooks and delivered to their door in time for Christmas.

Because sometimes the best gift you can give is time back,  and a beautiful meal made with care.

Christmas Food Delivery FAQs

Simply browse our menu, select your Christmas items, then choose your delivery date and time window before checking out. Minimum order is $120.

Final deliveries are Saturday 19th December 2026, however final dates by suburb will vary. You can check the last delivery dates for your postcode by using our postcode checker at the top of the page - enter your postcode, suburb and the available delivery dates will show in the calendar. Christmas stock is limited, so the earlier you order, the more choice you have.

We deliver across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Gold Coast  and regional areas! 

To check if we deliver to you, you can enter your postcode into our delivery checker at the top of the page.

Yes, and we would encourage it. Everything arrives freshly frozen and keeps in your freezer, so you can order now and choose a delivery date closer to the day at checkout. Christmas stock is limited and ordering early is how you make sure the dishes you want are still there. We are implementing a $10 delivery surcharge on any orders booked for delivery in December.

You choose your delivery date during checkout but we can deliver as early as next day. Sydney metro is next-day delivery, with a two hour window sent by text the evening before. Everywhere else is approximately two to five days, with a text the evening before carrying a tracking link and your two hour window.

As a rough guide, one main, one potato dish, one vegetable and one salad for every six to eight people, plus two desserts. Each product page lists how many it serves. If you are feeding a crowd, two mains from different corners of the menu, one roast and one from the sea, tends to leave everyone happy.

No, and that is deliberate. The ham arrives skinned and scored by hand with our Davidson plum glaze supplied alongside it, because glazing is the one piece of Christmas cooking most people actually want to do, and a ham only lacquers dark and sticky the way it should when it comes out of your own oven. You brush, you bake, you baste it once or twice. Full instructions come with it.

Every dish arrives freshly frozen with its own heating instructions, and most are an oven tray and nothing else. Some, like the scallops and the lobster tails, want moving from the freezer to the fridge the night before. 

December is the busiest month of the year for couriers, and the month when a delivery is most likely to be delayed by something none of us can control. Every dish arrives freshly frozen and keeps in your freezer, so there is no advantage to waiting, which is why we would rather you took delivery in November. The $10 covers the extra cost of delivering in the peak. Choose a November date and it does not apply.

Yes. Every dish is cooked by our cooks and then frozen straight away, which seals in the flavour and means it reaches you exactly as it left their kitchen.

No. Our usual free delivery offer on orders over $300 does not apply to orders containing Christmas items, even if your order also includes meals from our regular menu.

Delivery charges are calculated at checkout.

Yes. Nat's Vegan Wellington is back this year,  built to be a proper centrepiece rather than a plate of sides, and a number of the salads and vegetable dishes are vegetarian. Every product page lists its ingredients and allergens in full, so you can check before you order.

Yes. Because everything is sold individually you can scale to whatever number you are feeding, from eight people to well over a hundred, for a family lunch, an office party or a community event. Order the quantities you need and choose one delivery date for the lot.

Yes, two ways. Send an order directly to their address with a personal message included, or send a FoodSt Gift Card  and let them choose. A gift card has no delivery date to get right, which makes it the easy answer for a long list of people, or for anyone whose Christmas plans you do not know.

As our Christmas menu is prepared in small batches, we plan ingredients, production and deliveries around your preorders. For this reason, Christmas orders are final and we cannot offer cancellations or refunds for change of mind.

If you need to change your delivery date, please contact us as early as possible and we'll do our best to accommodate you, subject to availability.

Your rights under Australian Consumer Law remain unaffected.

Every dish is handmade in small batches by a local home cook following their own family recipe, then freshly frozen. Real people, home cooks from all walks of life, cooking the food they grew up with. You are not getting something assembled on a production line, and you are getting dishes you will not find anywhere else.

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