Melbourne’s Multicultural Event Caterers

A catering company. Tandoori Flames cooks from a dedicated production kitchen in South Kingsville and our team travels to your venue, home or one of our three event spaces. We are not a venue with a kitchen attached.

Weddings, engagements, corporate functions, birthdays and milestones, baby showers, cultural and religious ceremonies, galas, funerals and community events — from 15 guests to 500-plus.

Eight: Indian, Sri Lankan, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian, African and Samoan/Pacific Islander. All from one kitchen, which is what makes mixed menus work.

Yes, three — Ultima Function Centre in Keilor East, Fleur Weddings & Events in Fawkner, and Amora. All catered in-house by our own team. We also cater at any venue you choose.

All of greater Melbourne. Our kitchen is in South Kingsville, so the inner west, bayside and outer west are home ground, and we travel to the CBD, north and south-east regularly.

It depends on guest numbers, menu selection, service style and any staffing or equipment. Drop-off is the most affordable; full plated service is the most expensive. Every quote is itemised so you can see each component.

Within 24 hours of enquiry, and usually sooner during business hours. There is no deposit and no obligation to enquire.

Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are built into every menu as standard. Halal-certified meat is available on request and we confirm certification in writing.

Two to three months for weddings and events over 150 guests. Smaller events can often be arranged in a week or two. November to March and December book out earliest.

Yes, and a large share of our private work is in homes and backyards. We only need to know about kitchen access, power and parking.

Yes — chefs, wait staff, chafing dishes, crockery and cutlery. Drop-off is also available if you would rather run service yourself.

More than 850 since 2013, from 15-person family lunches to 500-plus guest weddings.

Tandoori Flames is a Melbourne catering company specialising in Indian and multicultural menus for weddings, corporate functions and private events. We cook from our own kitchen in South Kingsville and have operated since 2013. We also own and run three event venues: Ultima Function Centre, Fleur Weddings & Events and Amora.

We are a caterer, not a restaurant. There is no public venue to visit for a meal. We cook in a commercial kitchen in South Kingsville and bring food, equipment and service staff to your event, whether that is a venue, a hall, a park or a private home across Melbourne.

Yes, we own and operate three Melbourne event venues. Ultima Function Centre in Keilor East has eight event spaces and holds up to 800 guests. Fleur Weddings & Events in Fawkner is a single-room reception for up to 400. Amora in Melbourne provides a hotel-grade setting. All three can be catered by us directly.

Since 2013. We started with Indian catering for weddings and community functions in Melbourne’s inner west and expanded into eight cuisines and three venues from there. The kitchen is still based in South Kingsville, and the majority of our work remains weddings and large cultural functions.

Weddings and receptions, engagements, corporate lunches and end-of-year functions, conference catering, birthdays and anniversaries, temple and festival functions, naming ceremonies, and funerals or prayer meetings. Guest counts run from around 30 at a home function up to 800 at Ultima Function Centre in Keilor East.

Send us four things: your date, your venue or suburb, your approximate guest count and the type of event. That is enough for us to come back with a menu proposal and pricing. If you also have dietary numbers or a cuisine preference, include them and the first proposal will land much closer to what you want.

We are a caterer, not a restaurant. Everything we own exists to serve food at your venue: a commercial kitchen in South Kingsville, transport and holding equipment, live station gear, and chefs and service staff who work events rather than a service floor. We also operate three event venues of our own, which you can book with catering included.

Since 2013. That is over a decade catering Indian, multicultural and cultural functions across Melbourne, through weddings, temple events, corporate functions and family gatherings. In that time we have also taken on three event venues: Ultima Function Centre in Keilor East, Fleur Weddings & Events in Fawkner, and Amora in Melbourne. The experience mostly shows in logistics rather than in recipes.

No. Most of our catering work happens at venues we do not own, at private homes, parks, temples, community halls and corporate sites. Our own three venues are an option if you have not booked a location yet, and they make the logistics simpler because the kitchen and access are already known to us. But catering stands on its own.

Indian is our core, particularly Punjabi and North Indian, and it is what most clients come to us for. We also cook South Indian, Indo-Chinese, Sri Lankan, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Italian and modern Australian menus, each rostered to chefs who specialise in them. If a cuisine is outside what we deliver well at your guest count, we will say so rather than attempt it.

Yes, and it is more common than people expect. Vegetarian, vegan, Jain, satvik, halal, gluten-free and nut-free all sit within normal work for us. The key is counts rather than notes: we need numbers per requirement so we know how much to cook and how to separate it. Give us those and the labelling takes care of the rest.

Send us your date, venue, approximate guest count and any dietary requirements, and tell us whether you want delivery and setup only or full on-site staffing. From that we can put together a menu and a quote. The more accurate the guest range and the venue details, the more accurate the quote. A tasting can be arranged for larger functions.