Our Guide to Selecting Your Dream Catering Menu

When you approach Speyside Kitchen’s Catering Services, our professional caterers shall help you decide a perfect menu in line with your event’s needs. 

Here’s a great checklist to think through:

1. At what time of the day shall your guests be having their meal? 

Is your meal going to be a breakfast or brunch to kickstart the day, a working lunch or a celebratory dinner? If it’s in the evening, are we aiming for early or late? When you’re having the meal and what tone you want to set around the day is hugely important in deciding your menu.

2. What kind of space will the reception area be?

The area your reception is in can impact whether a sit down meal, finger-food buffet or hearty pots of serve-yourself stew are best to provide for your guests.

3. Exactly how many people shall be dining?

We’re great at catering for any size of event, but how many people are attending can affect how you’ll want to tailor your meal. If you’re wanting to cater for lots of people, we can create something which will make serving more efficient and avoid having your guests wait too long for food. 

4. Does your event have a fixed theme?

We can tailor your menu to whatever theme you’ve picked - fine dining for formal, hearty barbecue for rustic outdoors, local specialities for events celebrating Scottish heritage, and much more.

5. Will the attendants include children?

Your menu can be tweaked to suit all, or we can provide a few dishes just for your youngest attendees to enjoy.

6. At what time of the year will the event be?

We use the best seasonal produce, and so to make these ingredients sing, your menu could be different depending on the time of year. We’ll make sure to warm everyone up in the colder months with hearty dishes, or refresh you all in summer.

Each of these questions has important answers. We help you plan options that you should

consider. For example, if you are unsure about a sit down  meal, a standing buffet, or are hoping to do something else entirely, we will come up with suggestions down to your last preference.

Here are some additional questions we might ask:

1. Would you like to do something different?

How about exploring an entirely different cuisine, or picking a few dishes which may not necessarily seem like they go, but reflect the life of the person you’re celebrating? We can sit down and discuss this together. 

2. Would you like to pay a tribute to a family memory?

A special beach holiday celebrated with seafood; the time you lived in Italy brought back with a unique destination menu. Tell us all about the reason you’re holding this event and we’ll make it into another incredible memory.

No matter how you design the event, you can be sure that the catering services you avail from us will be in line with the last detail of your event.

Contact us and we’ll start helping you plan your day. Email info@speysidekitchen.co.uk or call +44 1479 861387 / +44 7925 544473.

Speyside Kitchen: helping busy individuals and groups alike achieve memorable life events by providing first class event planning and catering service that prioritises customer service and customer experience.

Formal set up for fine dining

Different meals for every audience

We can even create a food court for large scale events

We use the best seasonal produce