By event
Private Event catering.
Birthdays, anniversaries, garden parties — a dedicated chef and a team that disappears into the evening.
The occasion
Private Events catering in Los Angeles & Orange County
What it takes to cater private events well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.
A private event is the most personal catering there is, and the least forgiving of a generic playbook. A milestone birthday, an anniversary dinner, an engagement party, a backyard celebration in the hills — these are your guests, in your space or a space you chose, and the whole point is that it feels like yours and not like a banquet hall. We start from the room and the occasion, not from a fixed package: how many people, how you want the evening to move, whether it's a seated dinner or a grazing party that drifts from the garden to the kitchen island.
Most private events across LA and Orange County happen in homes and rented spaces that were never designed to cook for thirty or eighty people. That is fine — it is what we do. A dedicated event chef works on site, service staff are scaled to your headcount, and the team is briefed to be present when you need a plate cleared and invisible the rest of the time. By the end of the night the kitchen is cleaner than we found it, and you spent the evening as a guest at your own party rather than its caterer.
The personal briefs are our favorite. A family recipe written on a card, a dish from a trip you can't stop describing, a spread that has to honor a grandmother's table — bring it, and the chef will test it, change nothing without your blessing, and serve it faithfully. Dietary needs are handled the same way they are at every Carthage event: vegan, halal · zabiha-sourced, and gluten-free tracks, labeled per dish and built into the menu rather than bolted on.
Why Carthage
Why Carthage for private events
What you get with us for private events specifically — not a generic catering pitch.
A dedicated chef on site
Private events always include an event chef cooking on site, with service staff scaled to your headcount — not trays dropped off and left, but a kitchen brought to your space.
Built around your room, not a fixed package
We plan from your space and your guest count — seated dinner, grazing party, or somewhere between — rather than fitting your evening into a menu we wrote for someone else.
We'll cook your family recipe
Bring the handwritten card or the dish you can't stop describing; the chef will test it, change nothing without your blessing, and serve it faithfully to your table.
Present, then invisible
Staff are briefed to clear and refill when you need them and disappear the rest of the night, and we leave the kitchen cleaner than we found it — so you're a guest at your own party.
Menus & packages
Private Events catering, by cuisine
$34–$91 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.
American Private Events Catering
American Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Armenian Celebration Catering
Christenings, milestones, and memorials — a mezze table and charcoal grill scaled from twenty guests to three hundred.
BBQ Private Event Catering
Backyard parties and milestone cookouts — charcoal platters, sliders, and the sides everyone fights over.
Fusion Private Event Catering
Test-kitchen menus for hosts who want plates nobody else in LA has served — shawarma tacos, BBQ kofta sliders.
Italian Private Events Catering
Italian Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Korean Private Events Catering
Korean Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Mediterranean Private Event Catering
Birthdays, anniversaries and garden parties — a mezze hour, charcoal grill, and baklava to close.
Mexican Private Events Catering
Mexican Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Sushi & Japanese Private Events Catering
Sushi & Japanese Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Thai Private Events Catering
Thai Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Vegan Private Events Catering
Vegan Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Halal Private Events Catering
Halal Private Events catering in Los Angeles — three per-guest packages, halal by default, sized to your guest count.
Questions
Before you ask
What’s the minimum party size?
Will there be a chef on-site?
Can you recreate a family recipe?
Dietary
Dietary needs?
Every private events 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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