Dietary catering · Ottawa
A vegan or gluten-aware table for 20 costs what any table does: $885 at the starting price with delivery and on-site styling, plus applicable taxes. The published prices
This page carries the dietary position in full: what is planned in, what the cards say, which questions we ask before a quote, and exactly where a promise stops. It applies across every format we build — grazing tables, brunch, receptions and dessert displays — because a shared surface raises the same questions whatever is on it.
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The OH! approach
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.
At least a third of every table is vegetarian, and it is distributed across the surface in runs so it never ends up grouped in one corner as an afterthought. A guest with restrictions then serves themselves without asking a stranger what is in anything, and that is the entire point of the rule. On a grazing table that third spans the rich, fresh, salty and substantial categories, so the vegetarian route through the table is a full meal on its own.
A fully vegan table is planned as its own composition across the same six categories, so the rich category does the most work: cultured nut and oil-based spreads, marinated and roasted vegetables with real depth, olives and preserved items, and a substantial baked element that eats like a main. The quote names every item so the host sees the whole spread before the date and can circulate it to guests who want to know.
Gluten-aware items are made without gluten-containing ingredients and labelled with exactly that phrase. A shared commercial kitchen and a shared serving surface make a gluten-free guarantee something OH! will not offer, so the card matches what is true. Every table carries at least one clearly labelled gluten-aware item in the substantial category, because a guest who can only eat crudités has been catered to on paper alone.
Nuts are a visible category on a grazing table and a hidden one in bakery, pesto, dressings and some cheeses. Where a severe nut allergy is on the guest list we plan the menu around it before the quote goes out, which usually means removing the visible nut run entirely and checking the supply chain on the bakery and sauce items. The conversation happens at enquiry, never on the day.
These five answers change a menu, and they are easier to give in an email than to improvise while a table is being built.
A label earns its place when a guest holding a plate reads it in one second.
OH! is a service-area business in Ottawa. Food is prepared in a rented commercial kitchen in Ottawa, then delivered and composed on the table in your space. There is no storefront and no public address. It is a shared commercial kitchen, so the cross-contact conversation happens before you book.
OH! cannot make either claim today. Halal preparation needs a verified supplier chain and a documented handling practice; kosher needs supervision of a kitchen OH! rents. Neither exists here, so neither appears on a quote or on this site. Where either requirement is firm, a caterer certified for it is the right call and we will say so on the phone in the first minute.
Where the shared surface is the problem, individual graze cups or a plated covered portion solve it cleanly. Each is made as its own batch, labelled with the guest name where you want it, and set aside from the main display. This is quoted as part of the same event, so it changes the menu without changing how the booking works.
Dietary planning is part of the quote and carries no surcharge. What moves a dietary table’s price is its role, the same as for any table: a vegan spread before a dinner elsewhere sits near $42 per guest, and one that is the whole meal climbs towards $65 a guest. The $600 minimum and the $45 delivery line are the same ones every booking carries.
Where this table goes
The terms, in brief
Questions, answered
Dietary planning carries no surcharge: a vegan or gluten-aware table starts at the same $42 per guest, with the same $600 event minimum and $45 delivery within 25 km. A vegan table is planned as its own composition across the same six categories, every item is labelled on the table, and the quote names each item so the host sees the whole spread before the date.
A shared kitchen and a shared table make a gluten-free guarantee something we cannot stand behind, so the wording stays honest. Gluten-aware items are made without gluten-containing ingredients and labelled as such, and the cross-contact conversation happens before you book.
OH! cannot make either claim today. Halal preparation needs a verified supplier and a documented handling practice, and kosher needs supervision of a kitchen that OH! rents rather than owns. Neither exists, so neither appears on a quote.
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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