Did you know its Stress Awareness Month!? We wanted to talk about all things stress, mental health and well-being to raise awareness and help to start a conversation about the importance of mental health in the workplace.  The pandemic and all the uncertainties in the recent years have had a huge impact on our mental health. “In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%, according to a scientific brief released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today”. So the mental health and well-being of your family, friend ..read more

A conversation with Julie Crump, Chief Operations Officer at Caviar & Chips Julie has been COO at Caviar & Chips since 2019 and has seen the business grow from a team of six to a team of almost 100 in just three short years.  Julie has helped navigate the hospitality group through a global pandemic, two new pub / restaurant openings, a grade II listed building renovation to a boutique wedding venue and more recently being awarded the Best Wedding Caterer in the UK. We caught up with Julie over coffee in the week that the latest venture in the group opens – No.34 Garden & Gril ..read more

It’s the season of engagements! Did you know that over a quarter of all wedding engagements happen over the Christmas and New Year period? So as you can imagine, it’s a busy time of year for the wedding industry and a super exciting time for newly engaged couples. Insight from 100 bespoke wedding menus At Caviar & Chips, we cater for weddings all over the UK and everywhere from a woodland to a stately home. All of our menus are bespoke and created by our clients, so we’re in a great place to see what trends are really out there when it comes to choosing a delicious menu for your weddi ..read more

You’ve sorted your venue, wedding dress, guest list, but you still need to organise your wedding caterers and decide on your wedding menu. If you’re a foodie couple, you’ll want to make sure you have the food on your wedding day as perfect as possible. After all, this is your very first meal as a married couple.  Deciding on food for your wedding day can be quite challenging when considering your guests’ dietary requirements, as well as ensuring you newlyweds have exactly what you want on your wedding day (particularly as you’re the ones paying for it)!  Here’s five of our top tips f ..read more

The hospitality industry has had a challenging 18 months, but it’s great that we’ve been able to get back out catering at lovely events!  We’ve chatted to our amazing Caviar & Chips Operations Coordinator Matty, to get his thoughts on the hospitality industry and his new role with us.  1. What job did you have before joining Caviar & Chips?  Before joining Caviar & Chips, I was a Psychology and PE Teacher at a secondary school. I graduated university and then studied a one year teacher training course where I achieved my teaching qualification. Following this, I wor ..read more

A seasonal wedding menu is often the place we start when crafting a bespoke menu. With the first signs of spring in the air we can’t help but get excited by the new, tasty locally sourced ingredients that we can use to create delicious seasonal wedding menus.  Britain produces some of the greatest ingredients in the world, so we thought it was time to celebrate springs seasonal bounty!  We are so lucky to have available an abundance of foods from the land and the sea so close by.  Thanks to where we are on the globe; our farmers, fishermen, growers and, of course, mother nature ..read more

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we thought we’d come up with some of the most romantic Valentine’s menus we could think of. They’re set to knock yours and your partner’s socks off!  As wedding caterers, it doesn’t get much more romantic for us than crafting bespoke menus for couples planning their wedding day.  Our menus are often created based on three special things. Where the happy couple met, where they fell in love and their absolute favourite food and drink.  Love, food and the celebration of these three ingredients is what we do day to day at Caviar & Chi ..read more

It’s so exciting when you begin your journey planning your wedding day. For many people it’ll be the first time getting married and so knowing where to start…and how to start can be daunting. Luckily you can surround yourself with experts who can help guide you along the way and turn that uncertainty into excitement. We love working with couples planning their big day and starting from a blank piece of paper. Crafting a wedding menu from scratch is exciting and you can see some great examples on our menu pages You don’t need to know exactly what you want at the very beginning of your wedding p ..read more

Before we start with our tips and advice on creating your perfect sharing style wedding menu, it’s worth saying that when it comes to your wedding catering and creating your perfect food and drink menu, you may not know exactly what you want, but you may have a good idea of how you would like it to feel.  For some of our clients they want a classic, elegant dining experience.  Something that makes it a very special occasion with tasting menu and fine dining dishes.  For some of our clients they want the opposite – festival, boho and rustic with street-food inspired menus from cu ..read more

When it comes to planning your wedding food, we’re big fans of crafting your menu around the food and drink that you love most.   Tear up the “rule book” on wedding traditions and forget the question of “what is it you’re meant to have to eat?”  If you love Italian have Italian food for your wedding day. Your wedding day is going to be one of the biggest celebrations you share together with your loved ones, so do it the way you want to.  Celebrate with all of your favourite people and all of your favourite things!  So we’re here to give you a little inspiration and a little ..read more