Office-first service model
Designed for admins, HR teams, and organizers who need dependable execution, not just menu variety.
Toronto Corporate Catering
Plan office lunches, appreciation events, and larger team functions with a catering workflow that prioritizes timing, mixed preferences, and smoother execution.
Best Fit
Designed for admins, HR teams, and organizers who need dependable execution, not just menu variety.
Use one partner for smaller lunches, appreciation events, and larger company gatherings. Contact the kitchen early for 500+ guests.
Group delivery for orders over CAD 200 within 5 km of 175 Dundas St W keeps planning predictable.
Service Overview
Corporate catering usually fails when logistics are treated as an afterthought. In Toronto office settings, timing windows, building access, and serving flow can matter as much as the food itself.
Evergreen Thai supports recurring office lunches, appreciation events, and larger internal functions with practical options: party trays for simpler needs, buffet formats for larger groups, and direct planning support when timing is tight.
Corporate Catering Toronto
Corporate catering in Toronto that admins keep reordering is boring in the best way: the food arrives on time, feeds the room, and nobody asks questions afterward. Evergreen Thai Kitchen & Bar has cooked for downtown offices from 175 Dundas St W, at Dundas and University, since 2007, mostly for executive assistants, office managers, and HR coordinators feeding 20 to 40 people.
The typical order is a working lunch of Thai party trays with jasmine rice, delivered to a boardroom before noon. Training days and all-hands meetings run 100 to 300 people and get planned a week or two ahead. Every order for 10 or more people goes through the catering quote form so timing, dietary counts, and building access are confirmed in one pass.
Trays, Buffet, or Boxed
Party trays are the default because they forgive almost everything. Each tray holds a shareable portion of one dish, and guests build their own plate. Trays suit lunch-and-learns, team lunches, and any meeting where the group eats at a table or gathers around a counter, and they are the easiest format to reorder month after month.
A buffet-style setup is available on request for larger events where the food should be arranged as a line, with rice first and mains, appetizers, and salad following. Boxed or individual meals are available on request when people eat at their desks, when a group is split across rooms, or when dietary needs must stay clearly separated.
How Much to Order
Plan on 1.25 to 1.5 lb of food per person for a full lunch, or roughly one main tray per 8 to 10 people plus jasmine rice. For mixed teams, order 60 to 70 percent meat mains and 30 to 40 percent vegetarian mains. Add one appetizer tray per 10 to 12 people if the meeting starts early.
A 2pm meeting needs less than an 11:30 lunch, and a full training day needs the full amount plus something to hold people over between sessions. When in doubt, round up on rice and vegetarian mains rather than meat, since those are the first trays to empty and the easiest to keep.
The Corporate Menu
The menu leans on dishes that travel well and still look like themselves an hour later: Pad Thai, Pad See Ew, Drunken Noodles, Basil Stir Fry, Cashew Chicken, Green Curry, Red Curry, Massaman Curry, Panang Curry, and Pineapple Fried Rice. Spring Rolls, Golden Tofu, Chicken Satay, and Crispy Calamari cover appetizers. Mango Salad adds something fresh, and Tom Yum or Tom Kha soup suits smaller groups.
Vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-aware, and no-onion-no-garlic options are available on request; confirm when ordering. Vegetarian and vegan versions of the noodle, curry, and rice dishes include Vegetable Pad Thai, Tofu Basil, Mixed Vegetable Curry, and Vegetable Fried Rice. Fish sauce and oyster sauce are in the kitchen, so vegan requests must be stated at order time. Curries use coconut milk, not dairy. Massaman and Panang contain peanuts.
Delivery and Timing
Direct group delivery is included on orders over CAD 200 within 5 km of 175 Dundas St W. Corporate catering downtown Toronto towers adds a few steps: security desks, loading docks, and freight elevators each have their own rules, and the driver needs them before arriving, not at the door.
A few business days of notice is comfortable for a standard team lunch; a week or more is safer for 100 or more guests. For 500 to 1,000 people, contact the kitchen early to confirm capacity and timing. Smaller same-week requests are often possible, so ask rather than assume it is too late.
Where Deliveries Go
Most corporate catering Toronto orders land in the Financial District: King and Bay, TD Centre, First Canadian Place, Scotia Plaza, Commerce Court, Brookfield Place, Bay Adelaide Centre, and Royal Bank Plaza. Union Station and the PATH-connected towers, South Core, and CIBC Square are inside the 5 km radius, as are City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square, Eaton Centre, and Downtown Yonge.
North of Dundas, deliveries reach the University Ave hospital row (Toronto General, Mount Sinai, SickKids, Princess Margaret), MaRS and the Discovery District, TMU, and UofT St George. King West and Spadina, and Yorkville and Bloor-Bay, are regular addresses. Liberty Village sits at the edge of the radius, so confirm the address in the quote.
Why a Downtown Kitchen
An out-of-area caterer cooks early, packs for a long drive, and hopes the food holds. A restaurant kitchen at Dundas and University cooks close to the serve time and drives ten minutes. Rice is fresh and curries arrive close to wok temperature. That is the difference in corporate catering Toronto teams notice on the second order.
The same kitchen serves dine-in guests Monday to Saturday 11am to 9pm and Sunday 3pm to 9pm, so every catering dish is cooked and tasted daily. Try it at lunch first, or order takeout through Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Fantuan. For 10 or more people, use the catering quote form, call 416-581-8668, or email [email protected].
FAQ
A few business days is comfortable for a standard team lunch, and a week or more for 100 or more guests. Same-week orders are often possible for smaller groups, so ask. For 500 to 1,000 people, contact the kitchen early to confirm capacity and timing.
Corporate catering Toronto orders over CAD 200 within 5 km of 175 Dundas St W include direct group delivery, which covers most of the downtown core. Smaller orders can be picked up at the restaurant or placed through Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Fantuan.
Yes, vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-aware, and no-onion-no-garlic options are available on request; confirm when ordering. Curries use coconut milk, not dairy. Fish sauce and oyster sauce are in the kitchen, so vegan needs must be stated at order time, and Massaman and Panang contain peanuts.
No, the kitchen does not provide onsite serving staff. Party trays are shareable and self-serve, and a buffet-style setup is available on request. For most office lunches one person can set out rice first, mains next, and appetizers at the end in a few minutes.
Most corporate orders are 20 to 40 people, and the comfortable range is 10 to 500 or more guests. Small executive lunches of 10 to 12 work well as three trays plus rice, while all-hands meetings usually run 100 to 300.
Ready To Order
If you are comparing trays vs buffet, planning for mixed dietary needs, or confirming coverage before booking, start with the quote form and we can map the best next step.
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"Hot, delicious pad Thai and flavourful basil rice made this feel like a proper downtown meal, not a rushed pickup."
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"Friendly staff, plenty of menu options, and food that arrived fresh and steaming hot made the whole visit feel easy to recommend."
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"Delicious food, standout flavour, and dishes arriving piping hot made this the kind of order people remember after the meal."
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