Wedding Catering in Warwickshire

Caviar & Chips is a food and drink catering company providing complete and bespoke catering for weddings, corporate events and private functions all over the UK. Based in the Midlands but with coverage all over the UK, they will make your event memorable with creative and inspirational food, hand chosen wines, champagnes and cocktails. Read on for more plus useful advice on choosing caterers for your event.

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

We start everything with a blank piece of paper at Caviar & Chips, so to be able to provide a comprehensive quote we need the date(s) of the event, how many guests, and details of what dishes we'll include in the menu. Whether we will be providing drinks and a bar and whether we'll need to bring a kitchen to the venue. From this we can provide more accurate guide prices to work from and refine the menu until our clients are really happy with their catering plans.

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

We'd always recommend asking for examples of catering and menus that have been delivered in the past. What experience has the caterer got of an event like yours and how can they help make your planning easy for you. Ask about how their process works from deciding on a menu to delivering it on the day and what they do and don't include in their catering. Make sure you're completely clear on what you're paying for and if there's anything that you need to cover yourself or if the venue is expected to do certain things. Your caterer should want to make sure that your food and drink is the best, easiest and most fun part of your event planning - if it's difficult so make sure you have some comparisons.

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

Caviar & Chips was created in 2017 when co-founders Jonathan Carter- Morris and Marc Hornby were at Business School together. Jonathan was planning his own wedding at the time with his (now) wife, Gemma. Jonathan has a wealth of experience as a chef and wanted a wedding menu with their favourite foods and dishes that were important to them, but they couldn't find a caterer that was flexible enough. They decided to cater for the wedding themselves and then Jonathan and Marc decided they would offer the same personal and bespoke service for other clients who wanted their day the way they wanted, rather than the way they were told. Everything we do at Caviar & Chips is centred around what our clients want and our approach is to make the experience magical and memorable, from the planning, to the tasting and the special day itself.

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

We find Add to Event fascinating and we see all sorts of enquiries coming through from potential clients across the UK. We're prompted about certain events and clients that would fit what we have to offer and then connecting with them is really simple. If we were to choose just one example then it would be a wedding that we catered for last summer. The couple lived in London. The bride-to-be from Poland and the groom was English. Their wedding was in a beautiful marquee in their family's garden in Gloucestershire and the menu was a Polish / English fusion. We prepared their menu tasting at their flat in London and we worked together on crafting their perfect menu. There was a beautiful church wedding in the village, followed by a Polish ceremonial eating of bread and drinking vodka and water. We served canapés and champagne on the lawn and then a three course menu of traditional British dishes with locally sourced ingredients. The dessert was a Polish inspired afternoon tea and we served ice-cold shots of vodka to over 120 guests between each course. In the evening we provided a vodka cocktail bar and a Polish grazing table for the evening food. It was a brilliant day and the team really enjoyed looking after all of the guests. We recommend Add to Event to our partner suppliers in the industry and we're excited to check what opportunities have come through on a daily basis.