Compound grounds · festival committees · 100 to 1,500 guests
Ganpati, Navratri, Diwali: one wave after aarti.
- Prasad and bhog₹850 to ₹2,400per kg
- Community buffetFrom ₹850per guest
- Festival eveningFrom ₹1,200per guest
Five hundred residents hit the buffet the minute aarti ends. Kravvia, founded 1999 in Santacruz, splits that wave into two or three lines so the queue clears in minutes, and puts sattvic and strict Jain on the same written quote. Community buffets from ₹850 a guest from 100 guests; festival evenings with live counters from ₹1,200.
The house view
The mistake is treating a society dinner like a wedding. A wedding trickles in. After aarti, five hundred people on the compound are hungry at once. The published buffet is from ₹850 per guest; a festival evening with live counters is from ₹1,200, from 500 to 1,500. Ask for two or three staffed lines, a second batch held hot, and the strict Jain count on the quote before it goes on the notice board. The trade-off is more staff against a cheaper single line. Pay for the lines. Last year's forty-minute queue is what residents remember.
Formats and bands
- Any guests
Prasad and bhog
₹850 to ₹2,400 per kg
Laddu, peda and barfi in bulk, boxed or on trays for distribution. Price it for your guests
- 100 to 500 guests
Community buffet
From ₹850 per guest
Split into two or three lines with staff, the queue built to clear in minutes. Price it for your guests
- 500 to 1,500 guests
Festival evening
From ₹1,200 per guest
Live counters and a full dinner service across the society's grounds. Price it for your guests
Starting bands from Kravvia's published rate card. Final quotes move with headcount, menu depth, date and venue. See the full card. Diwali gift hampers: fifteen, ₹1,400 to ₹10,500.
Price it now
Your guest list, in rupees.
A guest, from
₹850
For 100 guests, from
₹85,000
The published floor for this format; the menu sets the final figure. 14 days' notice is the comfortable minimum, longer October to February.
The detail that matters
Count the Jain flats first
The committee that flags Jain at the gate will spend the evening moving plates. Count the strict Jain flats before you brief. Ganpati bhog stays sattvic. Kravvia writes both onto one quote and has run strict Jain service since 2012 from a fully isolated Jain kitchen, with separate prep and separate utensils, at five hundred plates as at fifty. Ask for that count in the first WhatsApp, not on the compound.
Build the spread
Asked before every booking
Is a 500-plate society dinner the same as a wedding of 500?
No. A wedding trickles in; a society dinner is a surge. Festival evenings run to 1,500 guests. Above 300, service splits into two or three lines with dedicated staff so the queue clears in minutes, not the better part of an hour.
Can strict Jain share the regular buffet line?
No. Jain residents will not trust a mixed line. Strict Jain dishes, with no roots, sit on a line of their own from a fully isolated Jain kitchen running since 2012, with the standard spread beside it, from ₹850 per guest. Name the Jain count at the brief.
What must be on the committee quote?
Guest count, dates and the society address on WhatsApp. The quote is one written document: per-plate rate, service plan with the number of lines, timings tied to aarti, and the strict Jain count. That is what goes on the notice board.
Should we replace the buffet with live counters?
Live counters from ₹1,200 per guest, from 100 guests, belong on a festival evening of 500 to 1,500 when they sit beside staffed lines, not instead of them. A chaat cart that cooks to order will recreate the forty-minute queue. Ask for counters as theatre, and the dinner as held-hot lines.
When does Diwali fall in 2026?
Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) falls on Sunday 8 November 2026, with Dhanteras on Friday 6 November. Committees that brief several evenings together, the Diwali dinner with the year-end events, get one quote for all of them.
