Christmas parties · Ottawa
A holiday party for 30 comes to $1,305 at the starting price with delivery and on-site styling, plus applicable taxes; December moves the calendar and leaves the price alone. Prices and terms
Christmas party catering in Ottawa, for the month when everything lands in the same three weeks. This page covers December office parties, at-home gatherings and open houses, and the New Year evenings that run on the same format — one styled share table, delivered and composed in your space — along with the booking calendar, the seasonal direction and the terms that matter most this month.
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The OH! approach
December 2026 in Ottawa, at a glance
| The date | How it books |
|---|---|
| Fridays and Saturdays, 1 to 20 December | Go first. Hold one early and the conversation is over |
| Weekday evenings | Stay open far longer; the quiet advantage for an office party that can move a night |
| 27 to 30 December | Easier again |
| New Year’s Eve | Its own event, its own timings; a second wave released before midnight |
| Planning window | Two to four weeks is comfortable; December dates fill earliest |
| What holds a date | A 30% deposit with the signed quote |
| Final guest count | 7 days before the event |
| Moving or cancelling | More than 14 days out, the deposit is refunded |
| Starting price | $42 per guest, $600 event minimum, $45 delivery within 25 km |
A holiday table for 30 staff, in numbers
| What | The figure |
|---|---|
| Thirty staff, food and build | $1,260 |
| With delivery within 25 km | $1,305, plus applicable taxes |
| Table replacing dinner, top of the range | $1,950 plus delivery |
| Food, table as the meal | 9–12 kg (300–400 g per guest) |
| Pieces, table as the meal, two hours | 300–420 |
| Pieces, dinner elsewhere, two hours | 180–270 |
| Surface | One 2.4 m table |
| On-site build | 45 to 90 minutes, done before the party starts |
| Holds at room temperature | about two hours |
What a December table costs, by guest count
| Guests | Food and the styled build | With delivery inside 25 km | Where the table replaces dinner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | $840 | $885, plus applicable taxes | $1,300 plus delivery |
| 30 | $1,260 | $1,305, plus applicable taxes | $1,950 plus delivery |
| 50 | $2,100 | $2,145, plus applicable taxes | $3,250 plus delivery |
| Under 15 guests | The $600 event minimum | $645, plus applicable taxes | Quoted against the piece count |
Three weekends carry most of the month, and inside them the Fridays and Saturdays between the first and the twentieth go first. Weekday evenings stay open far longer and are the quiet advantage for an office party that can move a night. The week between Christmas and New Year is easier again, and New Year’s Eve behaves like its own event with its own timings. A date held early costs nothing extra and removes the whole conversation.
A December office party is usually held in a rented space, in the evening, with a guest list that includes partners who have never met anyone in the company. That makes it a hosted evening with work as the reason, and the table is planned for standing and circulating across a two-hour arc. Rented rooms and halls book in fixed blocks, which fixes our setup window and our pack-down time, so we confirm both with the venue before quoting.
For an office of thirty, the arithmetic on the published figures runs like this. At the starting price of $42 per guest, thirty staff come to $1,260 before delivery and taxes, or $1,305 with the $45 delivery and on-site styling within 25 km; where the table replaces dinner it sits at the top of the range, $1,950 plus delivery. On the table that is 9–12 kg of food and 300–420 pieces over two hours as the meal, or 4.5–6 kg and 180–270 pieces where dinner happens elsewhere, on one 2.4 m surface composed before doors in 45 to 90 minutes. December fills before any other month, so the two-to-four-week planning window in the table above reads as a floor; a 30% deposit and a signed quote hold the date, and the final count is due 7 days before.
December at home means guests arriving across a wide window, most of them coming from something else that ran late. A share table holds for three hours with no service moment to miss, and that is what makes an open house workable for a host who also wants to be at their own party. We build before your first guest, hold a second wave for the late surge, and box what is left before we go.
The December table leans into what is genuinely good in an Ottawa winter: warm spice, citrus, preserved and dried fruit, richer and aged cheeses, roasted vegetables with depth, and a restrained hand with the red and the green so the display looks composed in photographs. It is a direction we plan with you around the space and the guest list, and the final item list arrives in writing with your quote. The build underneath it is the same grazing table we run all year, and our grazing tables page covers how it is composed.
New Year evenings run late and reward a table that holds without attention, so the plan shifts towards items that stay good at ambient temperature and a second wave released before midnight. Hanukkah gatherings run on the same share format and the same seasonal direction. Kosher preparation is something OH! cannot offer, because it needs supervision of a kitchen we rent, and we say that before a quote goes out.
In December the cancellation window does the most work. A date is held by a 30% deposit and a signed quote, with the balance due 3 days before; moved more than 14 days out, the deposit comes back, and inside that window it has already paid for the shopping, which in December rarely finds another table. The guest count is final 7 days before the party, which suits an office where replies trickle in until the last week.
A December quote is built from the figures published on our pricing page — the per-guest price, the event minimum, the delivery charge — with the deposit fixing the date and the number together. What the month changes is the calendar rather than the arithmetic: the Fridays and Saturdays between the first and the twentieth go first, and the quiet weekday dates stay open longest. The areas we deliver into through December are listed on our locations page.
For a December Saturday, book in the autumn; weekday evenings stay open well into the month. A held date needs a signed quote and a deposit behind it, and a short-notice weekday is always worth a call on +1 613 710-0554. Every December enquiry gets a written reply within one business day.
Rich seasonal menus concentrate dairy, nuts and wheat, and a party guest list is the one you know least about. The December cards name the spiced nuts, the aged cheeses and everything baked with wheat, and a guest with a serious allergy is a conversation before the date, while the menu can still bend.
Rented halls and restaurant back rooms fill up in December, and many of them ask suppliers for insurance papers. OH! has no policy in its own name to show them today, so ask the venue what it requires before you book, and tell us what it said.
The answer depends on the date and on what is left of the calendar when you ask, so the useful move is to ask about the date you want and get a straight yes or no. What is fixed is the paperwork behind it: a 30% deposit and a signed quote hold a date, the balance is due 3 days before, and the guest count is final 7 days before the party. An enquiry arriving inside that last week gets the same written reply within one business day, and that reply is where you find out whether the date can still be taken. The Fridays and Saturdays between the first and the twentieth go first and weekday evenings stay open longest, so a short-notice weekday is always worth a call on +1 613 710-0554.
Two more pages carry the month in full. Our office Christmas party catering page takes the workplace table from the meeting-room afternoon to the after-hours evening, with the invoicing and the building access an office manager settles first. Our holiday grazing table page carries the home end of December — Christmas Eve, the Boxing Day drop-in and New Year’s Eve — with the winter produce, the styling and the hold times a warm room asks for.
Where this table goes
The terms, in brief
Questions, answered
December asks for more than the usual two to four weeks, and a weekend for more again. The Fridays and Saturdays between the first and the twentieth of December go first, so an office that wants one of them books it in the autumn; a 30% deposit and a signed quote hold the date, the final count is due 7 days before, and a date moved more than 14 days out gets its deposit back.
From $1,260 for thirty staff — $42 per guest for the food and the styled build — and $1,305 once the $45 delivery and on-site styling within 25 km is added, plus applicable taxes. Where the holiday table replaces dinner, the same thirty come to $1,950 plus delivery, at the top of the $42–$65 per guest range. The table is composed in your room before doors in 45 to 90 minutes, every item is labelled, and the leftovers are boxed before we go; the rows below work the food weight and piece count for the same thirty.
300 to 400 g per guest where the table is the evening’s meal, so 9–12 kg and 300–420 pieces for thirty over two hours, or 150 to 200 g and 180–270 pieces where dinner happens elsewhere. Thirty guests fit one 2.4 m surface, the table holds about two hours at room temperature, and a second wave is held back for the late arrivals.
Share dietary preferences and allergy information when you enquire. We plan suitable choices and label the table clearly. For severe or life-threatening allergies we talk through cross-contact before you book, and we cannot guarantee allergen-free preparation on a shared table.
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