Our Story

Some things start small and grow quietly, the way the best things usually do.

From Dad Catering grew out of Dad and the Frog, a beloved award-winning cafe in Surry Hills that built its reputation one plate at a time. For years, alongside the cafe, there was catering. Nothing flashy, just fresh, house-made food crafted with care, delivered to people who noticed the difference. The feedback was consistent enough that it became impossible to ignore. So rather than fold catering into the background, the decision was made to bring it forward properly, as a catering service under its own name, with its own focus.

The approach is deliberately lean. A focused menu built around house-made sauces, relishes and flavours carried straight from the cafe kitchen, the sambal chili from the spicy chicken burger, now in a slider. The Frog Mac sauce, now doing serious work at a corporate catering lunch. Our office catering box delivery brings the same cafe-quality experience straight to your workplace, with drop off catering that arrives on time and ready to go. Familiar enough to feel welcoming, unexpected enough to make people look up from their phones.

Because that moment matters. That thirty minutes to an hour and a half where a team steps away from their desks for a workplace workshop, corporate event, or business lunch, that's not just logistics. That's an opportunity to make people feel considered. To say, without saying it, that someone thought about them today.

From Dad believes everyone in that room deserves that.

And it doesn't stop there. From Dad Catering is for every occasion worth feeding well. Corporate office lunches, team events, client entertaining, and recurring office catering for the businesses that want consistency they can count on. Birthday parties, engagements, anniversaries, baby showers, and christenings – every gathering with the people who matter most. Community and cultural events that bring people together around something meaningful. Whether it's a one-off celebration or a recurring corporate catering arrangement, From Dad shows up the same way every time, with food that makes people feel like someone really thought about them.

Good food has always been an act of care. As your caterer, From Dad Catering delivers it.