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Client Dinner & Entertaining catering in Los Angeles.
Client dinner and hospitality catering in Los Angeles — plated or premium spreads that close the room, halal.
Menus & packages
Client Dinners catering, by cuisine
$81–$143 per guest across cuisines. Each cuisine, built into per-person packages for this occasion. Open one for its package tiers, pricing, and proof — the full dish list lives on each menu.
Indian — Client Dinner
Plated fine dining that closes the room, Indian — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Italian — Client Dinner
Plated fine dining that closes the room, Italian — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Mediterranean — Client Dinner
Plated fine dining that closes the room, Mediterranean — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Persian — Client Dinner
Plated fine dining that closes the room, Persian — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Sushi & Japanese — Client Dinner
Plated fine dining that closes the room, Sushi & Japanese — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Client Dinners catering runs about $63–$136 per guest, all-in, and the price per guest falls as the guest count rises. Here is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.
| Guests | Estimated cost | Per guest |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $1,850 – $2,700 | $74 – $108 |
| 50 | $3,550 – $6,800 | $71 – $136 |
| 100 | $6,500 – $12,800 | $65 – $128 |
| 150 | $9,450 – $18,750 | $63 – $125 |
All-in: the food plus the staff, delivery and setup the service style needs. Tastings, rentals, add-on services and California sales tax are the only additions, and there is no service charge. The crew, setup and delivery are shared across the room, so the price per guest falls as the count rises. Every menu halal · zabiha-sourced.
Client Dinners Catering
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The occasion
Client Dinners catering in Los Angeles & Orange County
What it takes to cater client dinners well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.
Entertaining a client is a statement about how you do business. We cater client dinners and hospitality with a plated service or a premium shareable spread — refined, chef-led, and fully halal so every guest at the table is looked after. Priced per guest, staffed to the evening.
A client dinner is the one catered meal with a commercial outcome attached, and the things that decide it are mostly not culinary. Whether the host can stay in the conversation instead of managing the room. Whether courses arrive in the gaps rather than across someone's sentence. Whether the guest who does not drink, or does not eat pork, or has an allergy, is looked after without a negotiation happening in front of the table. We plan these evenings from the guest list backwards: who is coming, what they need, how long you want the evening to run, and where the conversation is supposed to get to. Then we staff it so the host hosts. Captains work on silent-service protocol and are comfortable signing NDAs where the relationship requires it.
Being fully halal · zabiha-sourced turns out to matter commercially here in a way it does not elsewhere on this site. Entertaining clients or partners from the Gulf, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey or a Muslim community closer to home usually means one of two awkward outcomes at a conventional restaurant: the guest of honour eats the vegetarian option while everyone else eats the menu, or the host spends the first ten minutes interrogating a server. Neither happens at a table where every dish is already halal. It reads as preparation rather than accommodation, which is the impression you were paying for. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free guests are planned for the same way, in advance and plated to match. We cater private dining rooms, offices, and private homes across Los Angeles, plated or as a premium shareable spread, priced per guest and staffed to the length of the evening.
Why Carthage
Why Carthage for client dinners
What you get with us for client dinners specifically — not a generic catering pitch.
The host stays in the conversation
Staffed so you are not managing the room. Courses placed in the gaps, captains on silent-service protocol, comfortable signing NDAs where the relationship requires it.
A guest list nobody has to interrogate
Every dish already halal · zabiha-sourced, so a client from the Gulf or a Muslim partner eats the menu rather than the vegetarian option. It reads as preparation, not accommodation.
Plated or a premium shared table
A seated plated service for a formal evening, or composed premium boards where the conversation is better served by a shared table. Both chef-led.
Your room, your home, or a private dining room
Catered across Los Angeles in offices, private homes and private dining rooms, priced per guest and staffed to the length of the evening.
Entertaining where the service itself is part of the impression? See our plated dinner catering
Questions
Before you ask
Can you cater a client dinner at a private home?
Do you serve wine or a bar?
We are hosting international clients. Does halal help?
How much staff comes with it?
Dietary
Dietary needs?
Every client dinners menu is labeled per dish and built around the guest list — here's how we handle the requests we hear most.
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