Your Kent Wedding - May/Jun 2019 (Issue 84)

77 CATERING OWN THE NIGHT The speeches are over, and the guests have graced the dancefloor. By this time, your nearest and dearest will be looking around for a little smackerel of something, and your evening revellers will need to line their stomachs! What to do? Fear not – our professionals are here with all of the answers. thelyddenbell.co.uk ▲ THE HOG ROAST Sarah says: “Relaxed, hearty and popular with all ages. We serve it with a full buffet table, including jacket potatoes, homemade coleslaw and potato salad, home-baked bread and an assortment of salads, chutneys and pickles.” ▲ AROUND THE WORLD Specialists in bespoke catering, Caribbean Queen of Kent started out as a takeaway service to boost awareness of Jamaican cuisine. Founder Janis Kay suggests an evening buffet to impress with a Caribbean twist, including, “barbecue jerk burgers, chicken pork and lamb, fried dumplings, fried sweet plantain with sides like coleslaw and potato salad.” She adds: “Currys and stews are an option too, and we’re also very proud of our desserts.” Food can also be fun. Bring a smile to everybody’s face, young and old, with our roundup of yummy delights available for all-day grazing. ▲ ON YER BIKE If you’d like to offer a canapé alternative for the sweet- toothed or a nostalgic dessert, you can’t go far wrong with ice cream. Treats on a Tricycle operates a small fleet of prestige ice cream tricycles, all hand-built by the renowned Pashley Cycles of Stratford-upon-Avon and serve the treat, made on the farm in 20 various flavours. The husband and wife team are also the proud owners of Little Esther, a lovingly restored vintage ice cream van. THE WALL Never was there a more beautiful juxtaposition of words in the English language than “doughnut” and “wall”. And when we bring you these options, we do not do things by halves. Consider the mammoth eight-feet wide by seven- feet tall structure from Bake to the Future. It holds a whopping 288 doughnuts in total! Believed to be the biggest in the UK, it’s the stuff dreams are made of! SWEET OR SALTED? Popcorn – not just for the cinema. It makes for a fun stack for kids and adults alike. We suggest De-Lights. SWEET SURRENDER Make your guests feel special with a sweetie cart, sweet ferris wheel or Ferrero Rocher heart. All decorated to fit your theme or palette, they come fully stocked with elegant jars brimming over with a selection of deliciousness. We suggest Debs Sweet Delights. THE LITTLE WHITE BOOK OF CATERING & SWEET TREATS Bake to the Future , baketothefuture.net | The Bubbly Boutique , thebubblyboutique.co.uk | Caribbean Queen of Kent , caribbeanqueenofkent.com | Chives Caterers , chivescaterers.co.uk | Debs Sweet Delights Weddings & More , debssweetdelights.co.uk | De-Lights , @paulinemooredelights | Finickity Fayre , finickityfayre.co.uk | The Lydden Bell Caterers, thelyddenbell.co.uk | Premier Bar Runners , premierbarrunners.co.uk | Seasons Wild and Free , seasonswildandfree.com | Touchays Event Caterers , touchays.com | Treats on a Tricycle , vintageicecream.co.uk SWEET TREATS FOOD STATIONS Spoil your guests for choice! Claire says, “There are so many to choose from, including American-style grub, antipasti, British pie and mash, Thai cuisine, Mexican fajitas and nachos, to name but a few.”