Special dinners
Greek feast-day dinners: Christmas, Easter and more
Greek holidays are celebrated at the table, with family and friends. For Christmas, New Year, carnival, Clean Monday, Easter and your name day we bring a Greek table to your home: you choose 2 mains, we bring salads, feta, 3 starters and warm pita, ready to heat. Our cooks cook, and our Greek mother looks over every order.
Below, for each feast day, the dishes from our menu that suit it. The price is that of the Greek table: €25 per person for the first 10 people and €22 for each person above 10, VAT included.
At a glance
- Ideal for
- Families and friends, 8 to 40 people; also a Christmas borrel (drinks) or team dinner.
- Delivery
- On the day in Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Utrecht, ready to heat; hot at an agreed time for a surcharge.
- Ordering
- At least 48 hours ahead. We cook for up to 40 people a day, so holidays fill up fast.
- Price
- €25 per person for the first 10 people, €22 for each person above 10, incl. 9% VAT. Extra starters €5 per plate.
- Christmas: Christougenna
- New Year’s Eve and the vasilopita
- Apokries, Tsiknopempti and Kathara Deftera
- Easter: Pascha
- Name days, 25 March, 28 October and family celebrations
The photos are for illustration until our own food photography is ready.
24, 25 and 26 December
Christmas: Christougenna
Greeks celebrate Christmas on 25 December with the whole family at the table. We bring that table to your home in Amsterdam, Amstelveen or Utrecht, also for a Christmas borrel (drinks) with colleagues.
Fasting during Advent (from 15 November)? Choose the fasting menu: plant-based mains, and write ‘fasting menu’ in your request so we make the salads, dips and pies plant-based too.
Suits it, from our menu
- Oven-roasted lamb surcharge
Lamb with lemon, garlic and potatoes. - Moussaka
Aubergine, potato and spiced minced beef under béchamel. - Clay-pot manestra with veal surcharge
Orzo with tender veal in tomato sauce, baked in a clay pot. - Hilopites with chicken
Greek egg pasta with chicken in tomato sauce.
Extra starters: Tirokafteri, Baked feta, Bougatsa (€5 per plate).
Fasting menu (plant-based): Briam, Green beans in tomato, Okra in tomato.
Ordering: Order at least 48 hours before delivery, so by 22 December for Christmas Eve. We cook for up to 40 people a day and the holidays fill up first: ask well ahead.
31 December and 1 January
New Year’s Eve and the vasilopita
A family table for the last night of the year or the first day of the new one. On New Year’s Day Greeks cut the vasilopita, the New Year cake with a coin inside: whoever finds the coin has luck all year.
The vasilopita is not on our menu. If you would like one, ask for it as a custom dinner; our cooks will tell you honestly whether they can make it.
Suits it, from our menu
- Moussaka
Aubergine, potato and spiced minced beef under béchamel. - Clay-pot manestra with veal surcharge
Orzo with tender veal in tomato sauce, baked in a clay pot. - Souvlaki
Pork or chicken skewers with lemon and oregano. - Biftekia with potatoes
Greek oven-baked patties with potatoes.
Extra starters: Taramosalata, Fried courgette, Dakos (€5 per plate).
Ordering: At least 48 hours ahead; the table builder shows whether your date still has room.
Tsiknopempti 4 March, Kathara Deftera 15 March 2027
Apokries, Tsiknopempti and Kathara Deftera
Apokries is the Greek carnival. On Tsiknopempti, ‘smoky Thursday’, Greeks eat grilled meat: souvlaki, sausage and lamb chops.
Eleven days later Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) starts the fast before Easter. The table is plant-based, with olives and taramosalata (fish-roe dip), traditional on that day.
Suits it, from our menu
- Souvlaki
Pork or chicken skewers with lemon and oregano. - Loukanika
Greek village pork sausage, with potatoes. - Paidakia surcharge
Lamb chops with lemon and oregano. - Gyros plate
Gyros with pita, tomato, onion and tzatziki.
Extra starters: Taramosalata, Olives, Tzatziki, Tirokafteri, Bread (€5 per plate).
Fasting menu (plant-based): Briam, Green beans in tomato, Okra in tomato.
Ordering: At least 48 hours ahead; for a Monday or Thursday around carnival, preferably a week before.
Sunday 2 May 2027 (Greek Orthodox Easter)
Easter: Pascha
Greek Easter falls on 2 May in 2027, five weeks after Western Easter (28 March). Lamb belongs on the table: we bring oven-roasted lamb with lemon and potatoes, or paidakia (lamb chops); both at a surcharge.
During Lent before it (from 15 March) we cook the fasting menu. Magiritsa (Easter soup) and kokoretsi are on request only, as a custom dinner.
Suits it, from our menu
- Oven-roasted lamb surcharge
Lamb with lemon, garlic and potatoes. - Paidakia surcharge
Lamb chops with lemon and oregano. - Souvlaki
Pork or chicken skewers with lemon and oregano. - Moussaka
Aubergine, potato and spiced minced beef under béchamel.
Extra starters: Tzatziki, Baked feta, Bougatsa (€5 per plate).
Fasting menu (plant-based): Briam, Green beans in tomato, Okra in tomato.
Ordering: At least 48 hours ahead; for the Easter weekend, preferably two weeks before.
all year round
Name days, 25 March, 28 October and family celebrations
On your name day, such as Agios Nikolaos on 6 December, the family comes round. On 25 March and 28 October Greeks celebrate their national days; bakaliaros (fried cod with garlic dip) for 25 March is on request.
For a wedding or baptism see Greek wedding or baptism, for a birthday birthday catering. Ask for special dishes or your own family recipe as a dream dinner.
Suits it, from our menu
- Moussaka
Aubergine, potato and spiced minced beef under béchamel. - Souvlaki
Pork or chicken skewers with lemon and oregano. - Gyros plate
Gyros with pita, tomato, onion and tzatziki. - Briam vegan
Oven-roasted courgette, aubergine, potato and tomato.
Extra starters: Dakos, Fried courgette, Bougatsa (€5 per plate).
Ordering: At least 48 hours ahead, for 8 to 40 people.
Questions about feast-day dinners
Do you cook on Christmas Day and Boxing Day?
Pick your date in the table builder: it shows straight away whether we cook that day and how much room is left. If a day is closed, choose the day before; everything comes ready to heat.
Do you have a fasting menu?
Yes. Briam, green beans and okra in tomato are plant-based. Write ‘fasting menu’ in your request and we make the salads, dips and pies plant-based too.
Can you make a vasilopita or magiritsa?
They are not on our menu. Ask for them as a custom dinner; our cooks will tell you honestly whether they can make them.
What does a Christmas dinner for 12 people cost?
With the Greek table 10 × €25 + 2 × €22, VAT included. Oven-roasted lamb and paidakia come at a surcharge, extra starters are €5 per plate. The final price is in your proposal.
Plan your feast-day dinner.
Choose your date, the number of people and 2 mains. You see a price estimate straight away.