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A Surprise Proposal With A Side Of Chef And Griddle!

Chef and GriddleProposing to the one you love is often hailed as the pinnacle of romance,  but it also comes with its fair share of stress and pressure. Traditionally, men have taken the lead in proposing, with only about 16% of women seizing the opportunity to pop the question. But Delilah decided to flip the script, and in doing so, she created a heartwarming and unforgettable experience for herself and her partner, Adam, all with the help of Chef and Griddle.

Delilah had been in a loving relationship with Adam for a number of years, and she knew that he would never expect her to propose. So, she hatched a plan to surprise him in the most unexpected and heartwarming way.

Delilah planned an event that she cleverly disguised as an overdue house-warming party, a gathering the couple had been talking about for ages. However, behind the scenes, she had been working with Chef and Griddle to create an unforgettable experience.

Setting the scene, the client adorned her back garden with enchanting fairy lights, flickering candles, and delicate rose petals, creating an ambience of pure romance – the perfect setting for a surprise proposal!

As friends and family gathered, under the pretence of attending a regular housewarming party, the anticipation was palpable. The atmosphere was filled with laughter, conversations, and the clinking of glasses as drinks and food flowed seamlessly.

Chef and Griddle’s BBQ menu, which featured an array of sumptuous dishes, including handmade British beef burgers, succulent gourmet sausages, flavourful chicken kebabs, and marinated spareribs, was an instant hit with the group. We also delighted plant-based guests with veggie burgers and vegetarian sausages, which paired beautifully with the inclusive selection of sides, such as Greek salad, pasta salad, and freshly made chips.

Then, the moment arrived. Delilah, with a heart full of love and courage, made a stunning announcement that captured everyone’s attention. As she bent the knee and presented the ring, gasps of surprise and joy echoed through the air. Adam’s expression was a wonderful mix of astonishment and happiness, and his immediate and heartfelt “yes!” filled the space with jubilation.

The surprise proposal was undoubtedly the highlight of the evening, but there was another star that played a crucial role in making the celebration unforgettable: Chef and Griddle. We were there to ensure that everyone was well-fed throughout the evening, and guests couldn’t get enough of our flavourful banquet.

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Make The Most Of Your Child’s Birthday With A Party Catered By Chef And Griddle

Chef And GriddleHosting a children’s birthday party can be a lot of fun, as it allows you to plan an event that is all about your child, with fun decorations, a great theme, and lots of entertainment options! At Chef And Griddle, we have a variety of menus that are perfect for party catering, including this delicious buffet…

 

Alice’s son Theo is turning five this June and is looking forward to enjoying his first proper birthday party. He has had celebrations in the past, but this is the first year that he will be inviting friends from nursery to celebrate with him, so Alice is working hard to make sure that this party is as memorable as possible for everyone attending! Since Theo loves dinosaurs, the party will have a Jurassic Park theme, with party games and entertainment to match. For the menu, there need to be dishes for the children to enjoy, as well as something for the parents and adults to enjoy just as much. Alice contacted Chef And Griddle and we discussed our Gourmet BBQ menu since it includes plenty for every guest to enjoy and is suitable for people of all ages. We are sure that this menu will go down a treat and is guaranteed to be a great addition to the event.

 

In preparation for the party, the Chef And Griddle team will arrive at the function room in the morning to prepare for the 2:00pm serving time. We will begin by cooking the main dishes, including succulent pork sausages, veggie sausages, juicy British beef burgers, and marinated chicken kebabs. These dishes will be served in fresh bread rolls, alongside homemade chips, seasonal salad dishes, corn cobettes, and delicious coleslaw. Overall, this menu has a wide variety of dishes for the guests to choose from, with something for everyone to enjoy.

 

Are you in need of a caterer for an upcoming private party? If so, get in touch with our team today to find out what we can do for you. Simply let us know your party size, date, and location and we can do the rest.

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Host An Artwork Shop With Catering From Chef and Griddle

Chef And GriddleArt workshops and creative courses are always great events to host and they are a lot of fun for guests and instructors. To elevate your event further, it can be a good idea to provide refreshments or catering, especially if the workshop is taking place over several hours. At Chef and Griddle, we have a variety of menus that are ideal for this occasion, including this one…

Megan is a local artist that hosts a wide variety of classes and workshops for people of all ages and abilities. This year, she wanted to host a longer workshop to allow customers to practice a wide variety of skills in one session. Since this workshop was set to take place over several hours, she also wanted to provide a delicious catering option for the customers to enjoy. For the menu, Chef and Griddle was hired to provide a classic hog roast, alongside a delicious meat-free option for several guests to enjoy. The menu would then be served buffet style during the lunch break to allow guests to enjoy a break from their hard work.

On the day of the event, the Chef and Griddle team arrived at the venue with plenty of time to prepare for the 1:00pm mealtime. We began by slow-roasting the hog and ensuring that it was cooked to perfection when it was then expertly carved by our chef. For meat-free guests, we also provided veggie sausages. The mains were served in fresh bread rolls, alongside sage and onion stuffing, crispy crackling, and homemade applesauce. For the side dishes, we prepared homemade chips and a variety of salad dishes to create a varied and nutritious buffet lunch. Our menu was a great addition to this event and went down a treat with the customers!

Are you in need of a caterer for an upcoming event? If so, get in touch with Chef and Griddle today to find out more. No event is too big or too small for our team and we are always on hand to help!

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Book Chef and Griddle For Your May Bank Holiday BBQ Bash!

Chef and GriddleWe seem to be spoilt with bank holidays left, right and centre this May. We even have an extra one thrown in for good measure thanks to the King’s coronation – so there really is no excuse not to have a party (or three!) to celebrate all that extra time off work! For many people May bank holidays are synonymous with throwing their first BBQ of the year. With lighter and brighter days ahead and the summer to look forward to, nothing says that spring is well underway more than by enjoying a flame-grilled feast outdoors with your family friends, neighbours or workmates!

If you are planning a BBQ bank holiday bash during May and you are worried that your barbequing skills might not be up to scratch, or you have simply invited too many people to feel comfortable catering for everyone yourself, Chef and Griddle will be happy to step in and help your out. Don’t bother dusting off your BBQ – instead why not let us bring along our sleek and efficient hog roast catering machines to rustle up a great BBQ banquet for you and your guests? We can cater for large events and smaller outdoor parties – we can scale up or scale down our catering style as required to suit you. We can even cater in your back garden if that’s where you have chosen to host your party.

Chef and Griddle have a mouth-watering BBQ menu in store for you, featuring a selection of the following delicious dishes:

  • Our own gourmet sausages
  • Handmade beef burgers
  • Marinaded spare ribs
  • Juicy chicken kebabs
  • A selection of salads including gourmet coleslaw and Greek salad
  • Vegetarian and vegan options including BBQ pulled jackfruit burgers and grilled vegetable kebabs
  • An assortment of bread rolls and wraps with gluten free available on request

 

All your food will be made in front of you and your guests and served hot off the grill for your enjoyment. We can also provide a catering gazebo, high quality bamboo tableware, and tablecloths if you want us to.

Get May off to a great start by hiring Chef and Griddle to provide a beautiful BBQ menu for your bank holiday party!

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Closing February With Great Dining At Chef and Griddle

Chef And GriddleSomehow we’ve already come to the end of February, but just before we at Chef and Griddle look forward to the oncoming Spring season of events we still had a busy week to close out winter with many wonderful events and hundreds of guests this past week. We thought we might let you know a little about some of the events that really excited us here at Chef and Griddle this past week – you never know, it may inspire you to put on your own with us sometime soon through Spring and Summer too!

The weekend took the Chef and Griddle team to an engagement party where our hog roast staple buffet worked wonders, helping to fuel a wonderful celebration that went long into the night. Unfortunately our team weren’t quite able to hang around and enjoy the full length of the partying, but we are glad that our foods could help the celebrations carry through to the wee hours of the morning!

Thankfully because we got a nice night’s rest following the engagement the Chef and Griddle were nice and fresh for the weekend of rugby action in the Six Nations, with our foods providing support to a couple of watch parties across the area. We were in at local rugby clubs themselves (and you know that those boys can certainly eat! ) as well as local pub events and booked out watch events from avid fans. Buffets again were the preferred option for most of these events, as guests could take in all the action without our interruption and eat at their own pac. Our foods were ready right from kick-off so that every minute of the action could be enjoyed with a pulled pork roll in hand! It’s even better when you can close out these events with a win too!

The weekend wasn’t our only port if call though. The weekdays saw a couple of corporate dining events, ranging from staff lunches to networking events and an industry talk for new level marketing strategies. All work and no dining makes events a dull affair, so thankfully the Chef and Griddle team was there to lend a hand with our roast delights!

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Summer Catering

Good Afternoon! We have had yet another manic week in the office this week, the winter months are typically known as being the quieter months for hog roasting but we have been booking events in every 20 minuites the past few weeks. Most of the jobs we have been booking in are for Christmas parties as is to be expected at this time of year, however we have also made a staggering amount of bookings for next year and 2014 as well. I think this is because our customers are getting ahead of the curve as they know how exceptionally busy we are in the summer months and they want to get their event booked in so they can breathe a little easier not having to worry about availability.

We have also been taking a lot of bookings for hog roast machine hires next year for the summer months ready for the festivals. Speaking of machine hires we hired out two hog roast machines with two pigs on Sunday for a customer that was serving 200 people in Keynsham. We dropped the equipment and the pigs off early on Sunday morning with two bottles of gas and the instruction manuals and collected them on Monday at midday. We cleaned the machines for the customer on this occasion, we usually ask that they are returned clean however the customer had agreed to pay the cleaning charge so we happily cleaned it for them.

We have also catered for a large party this week, the customer had our gourmet hog roast which typically includes the spit roasted pig with all the trimmings, three salads and warm new potatoes. On this occasion the customer wanted to swap the new potatoes for potato wedges which we did no problem, all of our menus can simply be starting points if you wish as all of our chefs can make anything you require of us, we have even been know to roast crocodile and bison in the past!

If you would like to book an event or machine hire for 2013 I would urge you to make your enquiry now using the contact form or call the office using the telephone number on the main page.

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Spit Roast Lamb

Yesterday was the Islamic New Year and we were out cooking a Halal lamb roast for 100 guests in Addlestone. The Islamic couple that we were doing the roast for are repeat customers of ours who trust us to do an exceptionally tasty Halal spit roast. The menu that the couple opted for was a whole spit roast lamb with rosemary and thyme along with roast potatoes which we cooked in a tray with the lamb fat.

For the vegetarians we prepared meat free somosas which went down a storm. This was all served onto high quality crockery which we collected after the meal and cleaned off site. In the office the new years eve enquiries are flooding in especially for machine hires and pigs. Our machines can fit through most normal sized doors and have pneumatic tires for ease of transportation, so they are an ideal machine for new years eve parties. We can also supply pigs and lambs to go in the machine and will put it in the machine for you and set it going, so all you have to do is check the temperature of the meat and carve it when it is ready. We also supply all of our machines with a 19 kilo gas bottles which is enough to feed around three pigs or lambs.

We are also getting a lot of enquiries for weddings and corporate events in Summer next year, summer is always a fantastic time for hog roasts. Due to the large number of enquiries we are receiving and the fact that we are so exceptionally busy in Summer we urge you to start booking your hog roasts straight away to avoid disappointment. We can provide everything from canapés and desserts to simple evening meals such as bacon and sausage rolls with a few salads. Christmas is also still a very busy period for us with us booking in quite a few turkey roasts this week for Christmas parties or just family gatherings. We are all looking forward to being able to share the festive cheer with people through our hog and turkey roasts and we bet they are going to make a lot of customers extremely happy.

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Leading up to Party!

The summer sport is the topic on every persons lips at the moment and with all our heroes in play we are sure to be cheering them on throughout the occasion. Andy Murray into the Semi’s and ready to fight his way to the final itself.  And then we have the upcoming Olympic 2012 where the best of our British elite athletes with be competing with the worlds best, which will unite people from across the world in one massive celebration of sport.

Everybody loves a good time to lead up towards the events of the summer, and there is no exception this weekend where we will hosting an event in  Sandiacare, Nottingham for some lucrative characters. Our excellent professional chefs will be preparing  food that is mouth watering to look at never mind eat with accompanying vegetables and other sides.  After the main course of our delicious meat we will be serving a range of deserts with cream or ice-cream, which will be topped of the band that will be playing while the people will be laughing amongst each other with the glasses of wine flowing.

With the Hog Roast Caterer team to ensure that they will have a good time, nothing can go wrong. Plates will not be empty, bellies will not grumble, and nobody will have a smile that is upside down. So the upcoming weekend like all our weekends will not be one to forget, nor miss.

We really enjoy doing events for people so if you would like an amazing event for yourself,  friends and family to remember for life, then please feel free to browse the website or get in touch with us for a free quote and we will do the rest.