CATERING & EVENTS

What We Offer

How we work, in short

We cook on site. In a building with a kitchen we use it; in a field with nothing in it we bring one — ovens, refrigeration, power and the people to run them. Almost nothing we serve was cooked in Suffolk that morning and driven to you, and that single fact decides most of what is good about the food.

Every commission includes an events coordinator or front-of-house manager on the day, at no extra cost. A kitchen without somebody controlling the room is how food arrives late, and it is why we do not treat coordination as an upsell.

The same people quote it, cook it and serve it. Whoever you speak to first is in the building when your food is made. There is no account manager handing you to an operations team you never meet.

What we cater

Weddings — in marquees and fields, barns, country houses and festival-style days where nobody sits down. Six wedding menus to start from, none of them fixed.

Parties and private events — milestone birthdays, private dining at home, Christmas and New Year, and funerals and wakes arranged at short notice.

Work — corporate events, directors’ lunches, shoot lunches through the season, and film and television units on location.

Come and eat before you decide

A tasting is the best work of a kitchen that knew you were coming. The Outlook at Fox’s Marina in Ipswich is our own café, bar and restaurant, open to the public Wednesday to Sunday. Go on a Saturday without telling anyone and watch how the room is run when nobody is performing. It is a more honest test than anything we could stage for you.

Where we work

From our kitchen at Mickfield, near Stowmarket, across Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, with Ipswich on the doorstep. Further out than that, ask — the honest answer depends on the date, and we would rather say no than quote badly.

When to get in touch

Weddings are usually booked twelve to eighteen months out, and the popular Saturdays in June, July and September go first. That said, we hold dates that fall through, so a shorter run is always worth asking about rather than assuming.

Christmas books in September, not November. Shoot days are best arranged as a season before it starts rather than one at a time during it. Funerals and wakes are the exception to all of it — ring and we will come back the same day.

Tell us the date, the venue and roughly how many people, and we will answer with something useful rather than a brochure. If you are not sure of any of it yet, ask anyway — working out the shape of the day is most of what a first conversation is for. See what is included and how booking works, or the questions people actually ask us.