Event Catering

Free Range Cooks provide delicious, honest food for special occasions ranging from vibrant street food to smart sit down three-course dinners, making them a perfect choice for weddings, dinner parties and festivals across the South East of England. They also offer tips for when booking caterers for your own event.

What do you need to know from an organiser in order to provide a comprehensive quote?

To provide an accurate quote for a customer ideally we would need a date for the event, a rough number of guests. Information on the venue whether it’s indoors or outdoors if it’s indoors does it have a kitchen and prep space and if outdoors do we have access to light, power and water. This allows us to determine whether or not we have the equipment to do the job and also plan what equipment we will need to bring with us.
It’s also good to get a rough idea of what the customer has in mind for the potential food offering to enable us to provide an accurate sample menu specific to your needs.

What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

I would advise any potential customer to ask some questions about the providers work background and see how much experience and knowledge they have on the particular food choices you have asked for.
Ask the provider if they can provide any reviews from previous work they have completed and finally ask the provider how they intend to organise and run the day. That way you can get a rough image of how things are going to look and work on the day of the event.

Please tell us a little bit about how and why you started the business.

Free Range Cooks was started 3 years ago always with the idea of creating exciting, vibrant food from across the world whether it be for large celebrations or intimate private dining. We pride ourselves on using local food and producers as much as possible and love creating menus around the great produce we have available to us.
We love the vibrancy and variety of food, thrive on a new challenge and meeting great people along the way.

Please tell us about a booking you've had through Add to Event, how did it go? Would you recommend us to others?

We’ve had loads of bookings through Add to Event and would highly recommend it to anyone. I’ve even been using it recently to source suppliers for my own wedding next year.
One event that comes to mind that we catered for back in the summer was a fantastic festival style wedding in Sussex. We fed 150 people paellas and risottos from our giant pans accompanied by a great looking salad and bread table followed by our fantastic jam jar dessert selection. Everyone complimented us on the food and most people came up for seconds and thirds. We even came back the next morning to do breakfast for all the guests who had camped out to try and heal their sore heads.