Sample buffet Menu
This is just a taste of what we can provide for your Christmas buffet. All our food is made from scratch and our menus are tailored to your needs and preferences, so please get in touch for a personalised quote.
Sausage rolls
Pork, fennel and chilli sausage rolls served with a date ketchup
Tamarind and cider glazed ham
British-style roasted ham, with a sticky, sweet and sour tamarind and cider glaze
Satay Chicken skewers
Tender chicken pieces with a creamy coconut and peanut sauce
Arancini
Deep fried risotto balls with a ragu or pesto stuffing
Turkey sliders
Mini turkey and cranberry burgers in brioche buns
Chinese braised beef
Rich and deeply spiced beef in crispy filo cups
Thai lettuce cups
Thai spiced minced pork or tofu in lettuce cups
Taramasalata
Greek cods roe dip with radishes
Baked camembert
Luscious baked camembert with cranberries and walnuts
Beetroot hummus
With breadsticks and vegetable crudités
Radicchio & pear salad
With Roquefort, candied wallnuts, honey and balsamic
Christmas stuffing balls
Sausage, chestnut, sage and onion stuffing balls served with cranberry dipping sauce
Cheese and charcuterie board
A beautifully dressed selection of local cheeses and cured meats with homemade crackers, onion jam, quince jelly and chutney
Mince pies
Butttery flaky pastry mince pies with a spiced quince mincemat
Mini clementine trifles
Chestnut and caramelised clementine trifle with orange blossom and vanilla
Panatone pain perdu
Crispy panatone bites with dipping custard
Sample canapé menu
For a more informal affair, why not order from our canapé menu, we can either drop off or serve for you. As always, this is just a sample of what we can offer, so get in touch for more info and a detailed quote.
Hot canapés
Mini-yorkshire puddings
Stuffed with rare roast beef and horseradish mayo
Pigs in blankets
With a honey mustard dipping sauce
Lamb bites
Unctuously tender lamb breast, breaded and fried, served with salsa verde
Salt cod fritters
with lemon aioli
Mushroom & polenta bites
Crispy polenta circles topped with porcini aioli and fried mushroom
Gnocchi fritto
golden pockets of fried pizza dough topped with mozarella and salami
Cold Canapés
Parmesan sablés
with fig jam
Tapenade toast
with silky black olive tapenade
Beetroot gravadlax
Beetroot and salt cured salmon on rye crackers with horseradish cream
Panelle with Collioure anchovies & crispy sage leaves
Chickpea flatbread cooked with onions, and topped with anchovies and sage
Goats curd crostini
with roasted grapes
Squash crostini
with feta and pickled chillies
Smoked trout crostini
with horseradish cream
Arancini
Crispy risotto balls stuffed with mozarella and either ragu or pesto
Turkey empanadas
Argentine-style pastries stuffed with turkey and Christmas stuffing
Squash empanadas
Stuffed with roasted squash, sage and chestnuts
Mini sausage-rolls
Italian-style fennel and Chilli sausage rolls with date ketchup
Babaganoush tartlets
Mini-filo tarts with Aubergine tahini filling and pomegranate seeds
Smoked mackerel tartlets
with cucumber and dill
Gildas
Skewers of olives, pickled chillies and anchovies
Pear & blue cheese
with hot honey & walnut
Mini-mice pies
homemade flaky pastry with a rich, spiced quince mincemeat
Christmas pudding bites
with brandy butter
Mini galettes des rois
Flaky pastry with an apple and frangipane filling
dinner party
We can cater for up to 40 people for a formal dinner or lunch. This sample menu provides a sense of what’s on offer, but we can tailor this according to taste and budget. Get in touch for more details and a full quote.
Starters
Salmon blinis
Beetroot-cured salmon with blinis, pickled challots and dill crème-fraiche,
Twice-cooked cheese soufflé
with lambs lettuce salad
Bloody mary prawn cocktail
Sweet king prawns in a bloody-mary rose sauce with crispy lettuce
Celeriac remoulade
with pickled spiced pears and jambon de bayonne
Mains
Tamarind and date glazed ham
With roasted crushed new potatoes,Christmas slaw with brussels sprouts, apples and chestnuts, roasted carrots with harissa and pomegranate, and spiced mirabelle chutney
Salmon en croute
Whole side of salmon baked in flaky pastry and served with leeks, a white wine cream sauce and roasted crushed new potatoes
Confit Duck
With buttery mash, roast plums and braised endive.
Whole roasted squash
Stuffed with jewelled rice, rich with saffron, pistachios, herbs and pomegranate
Dessert
Sticky toffee pudding
With toffee sauce and salted caramel ice-cream
Spiced clementine trifle
with chestnuts, pecans and orange blossom
Bouche de noel
Chocolate genoise sponge with a chestnut cream and sour cherry jam
Panetone pain perdu
with rum raisin ice cream