Christmas Party Catering in Medellín

We cater four kinds of holiday event: company year-end parties, novenas, staff snack boxes and private parties at home. Each gets a menu built for its time of day, from a 4:00 p.m. office celebration with sweets to a 9:00 p.m. dinner with an open bar.

Most parties use one of three service styles: a hot buffet, passed canapés with live stations, or a plated dinner for an awards night. For family parties and smaller teams, our buffet catering setup works from 15 guests, with chafing dishes, tableware and a server for every 20 to 25 guests.

Year-end parties are the largest events of our season, for 50 to 900 staff in hotel ballrooms, convention halls, fincas and company terraces. The usual format combines a welcome cocktail, a hot buffet or plated dinner, one or two live stations and a bar.

For a party of 300 on a buffet, we staff 12 to 15 servers (1 per 20 to 25 guests) and 4 to 6 bartenders (1 per 50 to 75 guests). Live stations spread the crowd and keep the buffet line short: a carving board for pernil, a pasta station or an arepa grill with chorizo and hogao.

We work with venues across the valley, from event halls on the Milla de Oro (covered by our catering in El Poblado) to fincas in Llanogrande, and we coordinate tables, chairs, linens, tents and decor through partner suppliers. Parties of more than 150 follow our large-scale event catering planning, and our corporate event catering team looks after the rest of the company calendar.

The bar runs as an open bar or by consumption, and we pour only spirits carrying the Antioquia department tax stamp. Companies that prefer to supply their own whisky or aguardiente can do so, and our bartenders chill, pour and track it through the night.

The Alumbrados navideños are the city's Christmas lights, switched on by the public utility EPM around the start of December and kept running into January along the river parks and in neighborhoods across Medellín. Many companies time an evening party so the team can walk the lights after dinner.

Timing matters on these nights. The lights come on after dark, and traffic near the main routes crawls from about 6:00 p.m. on weekends, so we schedule our van to arrive at the venue before the evening rush and plan either dinner at 6:00 p.m. with the walk at 8:00 p.m., or a late buffet once the group returns.

When a group is too large to walk the route together, a rooftop or hotel terrace overlooking the valley gives everyone the view without the crowd. If your party falls on 7 December, Día de las Velitas, our decor partners can line the terrace with paper lanterns (faroles) for the candle lighting at nightfall.