Party Platters in Ottawa

What comes on the platters

Each board is one food group composed on its own surface, so the set reads as a spread and every board can be reached from the side of the table it stands on. Which boards you get depends on the hour and on whether the platters are the meal.

• Cheese and charcuterie boards: cheeses, folds of cured meat, crackers, nuts and fruit
• Fruit, crudités and dips, for the guests who skip the cheese
• A tray of Ukrainian sweets: medovik honey cake, kartoshka cakes and nalysnyky crêpes with poppy seed and cherry or sweet cheese
• Hot varenyky with fried onions and sour cream, and grilled Ukrainian sausage, quoted per event
• A card on every board with the plain name of the food and its common allergens

Set out on your table

The platters are set out on the surface you choose in 45 to 90 minutes, finished before the first guest. The boards, trays and risers come with the food and leave with us, the same evening or the next morning by arrangement, so there is nothing to wash and return. Whatever the guests leave is boxed for you before we go.

How many platters for how many guests

A single composed board serves roughly six to twelve people as an appetiser, and about half that where it is the only food in the room. So the count follows the guests: plan five to seven pieces per guest over ninety minutes where dinner follows, and ten to fourteen pieces per guest over two hours where the platters are the meal. The table below multiplies that out, and the quote turns it into a number of boards for your count.

The Ukrainian sweets tray

Medovik, kartoshka cakes and nalysnyky are the sweets OH! made and sold at its own UAFest 2026 stand in Carleton Place, and they go on a tray of their own beside the savoury boards: the layered honey cake, the kartoshka cakes, and rolled crêpes with poppy seed and cherry or sweet cheese. The same sweets can be ordered for delivery at home on the festival kitchen page.

Hot trays

Where the party wants something hot, a tray of varenyky filled with potato or with potato and cheese, finished with fried onions and sour cream, and grilled Ukrainian sausage goes beside the cold boards. Hot dishes are quoted per event on the same quote, and they follow the same clock as the rest of the spread: about two hours at room temperature, about one hour once the room is warmer than about 32 °C. Our hot buffet page covers hot food for a larger group.

Platters or a full grazing table

Platters suit a kitchen island, a sideboard or a dining table that has to stay a dining table, and a party where people sit and pass the food. Past about twenty-five guests one long composed surface feeds people faster and looks fuller, and that is the format on our grazing tables page. Both are priced from $42 per guest, so the choice is about the room.

What it costs

From $42 per guest for the food and the setting out, with the working range at $42–$65 per guest; platters that replace dinner sit at the top of it. The $600 event minimum applies before delivery and taxes, so at the starting price it stops setting the total at 15 guests, and a smaller party is quoted at the minimum. Delivery is $45 within 25 km, and past that the charge is quoted for your address.

Ordering platters

Send the date, the guest count, the hour and the surface the platters will stand on. Enquiries are usually answered within an hour, and always within one business day, with a written quote that lists the boards, the delivery and the terms. A 30% deposit and a signed quote hold the date, and the final count is due 7 days before.