Where to find deluxe grazing platters, boxes & hampers

When I was a kid my mum had a catering business for home parties: special dinners, birthdays, engagements and weddings all held at private homes. The food she cooked was the newly-coined ‘modern Australian’ cuisine inspired by culinary legend Margaret Fulton and my mum was helping time-poor women make a tasty impression on their guests.

I remember helping her deliver enormous buffet platters of colourful new things to eat. No longer was the entertaining standard to remain at just chips, cheese cubes and French onion dip made from the Continental soup packet mix!

Fast forward to a new century and here we have the latest evolution of those fancy buffet plates: grazing platters, grazing tables, dessert tables, deluxe hampers, plus grazing boxes for picnics at home or picnics anywhere.

We're lucky to have these Barrington Coast caterers that are the new generation providing delicious gourmet morsels on colourfully crowded platters, tables, boxes and hampers.

Here it’s easy making a tasty impression on your guests, whether it’s a group of your besties celebrating Miss to Mrs, or just your other half.

Barrington Grazing Co

Grazing boxes ready to savour, for breakfast, a picnic lunch or a lazy afternoon. Select a delicious grazing box full of local goodies, pick up from Bulahdelah or delivery to the region from Tiona to Hawks Nest.

Try the picnic-ready option: A grazing box packed in a classic picnic basket complete with local wine, picnic blanket, napkins, plates and cutlery. All you need to do is choose your perfect picnic spot.

Sea & Salt Grazing Co

Nothing brings people together like crowding around a table teeming with visually spectacular and decadent food. Sea & Salt’s Ashley is happy knowing she’s helped to bring people together for sharing good food, a laugh, enjoying good company and making memories. Her beautifully designed graze boxes and cheese platters are personalised and tailored to your needs.

The gourmet delights include local honeycomb, artisan cheeses, gourmet crackers and nuts, cured meats and dips, fresh produce, homemade dehydrated orange slices dipped in chocolate, edible flowers from the garden and more… truly a feast for the senses in signature Sea & Salt style.

Delivery from Seal Rocks to Tuncurry.

Hampered By Donna

Donna specialises in deliciously pretty gift hampers with an emphasis on being simple and much appreciated. She loves to support our local artisan producers and is impressed by the beautiful food and wine created by these talented and passionate people. That means each time you purchase one of Donna’s hampers you bring a smile to our local business owners too.

These gourmet hampers are stylish and tasty gifts to be enjoyed straight away, so you’ll find helpful things like a cheese board and knife… perfect for carefree picnics even if it’s just on the deck of your holiday accommodation. All hampers are personally delivered to your door by one of their friendly team so that you receive it fresh, undamaged and on time.

Based in Tallwoods Village, Donna’s hampers can be delivered to many places across the Barrington Coast

Let's Get Baked In Forster

Custom-made cakes, baked delights and deluxe grazing tables: savoury or sweet. Candy B offers dessert tables laden with sweet things and custom-made cakes for any occasion. She also caters for special events, weddings, parties... the deluxe displays are set to impress!

Drop into the cafe for a freshly baked treat, some healthy salads or a grazing box for your next picnic.

Batter & Dough Patisserie, Gloucester

If your food styling skills are pretty good already then maybe you just need the final products to adorn your own beautifully laid-out platters and tables. From her new specialty shop in Gloucester's main streeet, Hailey specialises in sourdough breads, custom buttercream cakes, fresh pastries for everyday special treats and truly awesome desserts. You'll find buttercream cakes custom-decorated to your specific tastes; pies, tarts and cheesecakes for all occasions; pastry scrolls and brownies; cupcakes that look like miniature artworks; premium doughnuts filled or topped; plus fully topped pavlovas that will bring a smile to everyone around your table.

So if you’ve got a great idea for a gob-smacking dessert table, then get the fresh goods from Batter & Dough to easily bring your delicious dream to life.

Grazing boxes are also available, packed with eye-pleasing and tongue-pleasing goodies for your next picnic by the river or on your deck-with-a-view.

Bent On Food, Wingham

This multi award winning café in Wingham is a local institution and a destination in its own right, so you may already be a fan of owner Donna’s culinary talents. For dining at home or picnicking elsewhere, there are delicious hampers and grazing boxes packed with local gourmet delights plus catering options for your special event or gathering. Their menu of canapes includes hot, cold and sweet selections plus sliders and the grazing boards feature speciality cheeses, meats, condiments, chargrilled vegetables with gourmet breads and crackers.

And while we're talking about hampers full of goodies to impress, they also do corporate and gift hampers that can be shipped all over Australia. You can even buy the bare platters and boards instore if you want to do all the clever styling yourself, to really impress your guests.

Bent On Food loves creating beautiful grazing boards for special events where delicious local produce can be centre stage, no matter what the season. We love that.