Start your Christmas preparations at Bathurst City Centre, where festive entertaining is made easy. Pick up your Christmas essentials, organise catering for your celebrations, grab delicious sweet treats and stock up on everything you need for summer gatherings. It's your one-stop destination for stress-free festive hosting.
Seafood is served
Prawns on ice. Freshly shucked oysters. Lobster, bugs and a whole fish ready for the barbecue. An Australian Christmas without seafood? We couldn’t imagine it.
Head to Woolworths and ask what’s freshest, what’s in season and how much you’ll need for the crowd you’re feeding. Keep it classic with prawns and lemon, build an abundant seafood platter or choose something special for the barbecue.
Ham, turkey and all the trimmings
Some Christmas traditions deserve to stay exactly where they are: right in the middle of the table.
Visit Woolworths for your Christmas ham, all the festive trimmings and everything you need to complete your Christmas spread. Then stop by Phat Chicken for fresh, ready-made chooks. Ask the experts for the right size for your gathering and enjoy more time celebrating, with less time spent in the kitchen.
The classic glazed ham gets a fresh twist this year with cherries. Sweet, sticky and glossy, our version is piled with fresh cherries and herbs for a centrepiece that looks every bit as good as it tastes.
Make our Sticky Cherry & Maple Glazed Ham
Summer sides
When the main event is rich, keep the sides fresh.
Fill your basket at Woolworths with summer’s best, cherries, figs, stone fruit, leafy greens, beetroot, pomegranate and armfuls of fresh herbs.
Colour is leading the table this Christmas, with deep berry tones, ruby reds and fresh greens making sides feel as special as the main event. Our Roasted Beetroot, Red Onion & Pomegranate Salad brings all three together and works beautifully with ham, turkey or seafood.
Try our Roasted Beetroot, Red Onion & Pomegranate Salad
Party food, sorted
Christmas isn’t just one lunch. It’s the drinks after work, the neighbours dropping in, the family catch-up and the last-minute come over, we’ll put something out.
The trend is generous rather than fussy: big grazing platters, beautiful produce and food everyone can reach for. Less time plating individual canapés, more time actually enjoying the party.
Something festive to drink
Christmas calls for something cold in hand. Bubbles for the toast, a cold beer straight from the fridge, favourite wines on ice and something fun and fizzy for the kids.
Alongside the classics, festive drinks are getting fresher too. Think cherries, citrus, elderflower, fresh herbs and plenty of ice - flavours made for a long Australian summer afternoon.
Head to BWS for bubbles, beer, wine, sparkling water, mixers and something special for the kids, then pick up fresh cherries, limes and rosemary from Woolworths for the finishing touches.
Our Cherry, Lime & Elderflower Christmas Mocktail is fresh, festive and just the right shade of blush. Make individual glasses as guests arrive or mix a big jug for everyone to help themselves.
Make our Cherry, Lime & Elderflower Christmas Mocktail
Save room for dessert
Pavlova, mince pies, Christmas cake and shortbread. Dessert is where Christmas tradition really gets to have its moment.
Stop by Woolworths or Venue Cafe Bar for the classics ready to put straight on the table, or make the pav yourself. This year’s desserts are leaning into rich berry tones, fresh summer fruit and a little nostalgia.
Our Blackberry Pavlova with Mascarpone Cream, Figs & Blackberries takes the Australian classic somewhere a little more dramatic, with purple meringue, fresh figs, blackberries and clouds of mascarpone cream.
Make our Blackberry Pavlova with Mascarpone Cream, Figs & Blackberries
And for a little Christmas nostalgia, the chocolate crackle is back. Head to Woolworths for the ingredients, add white chocolate and festive decorations and try to stop at one.
Make our Christmas Chocolate Crackles
Stay for the table setting
Once the food is sorted, stay for everything that makes bringing it to the table feel special. This Christmas, the table is colourful, layered and a little less traditional. Pink and green are having a moment, appearing across plates, platters, glassware, linens and crackers.
Find an oversized platter for the ham, serving bowls for the salads and colourful glassware at Bed Bath N' Table or House. Pick up fresh flowers and greenery from Woolworths, then add crackers, candles and tinsel from The Reject Shop.
Mix rather than match. Layer new pieces with the things you bring out every Christmas. Weave tinsel through the table, around platters and between flowers for a little Christmas joy. Put a cracker at every place and bring out the good glasses.
Because the best Christmas tables aren’t the perfectly styled ones. They’re the ones everyone stays around long after lunch is finished.
Come for the Christmas feast. Stay for the table setting.
