Wedding & Banqueting

We are passionate about providing memorable food & brilliant service, tailored exactly to the wishes, expectations & ideas of our customers & their guests.

Our menus are imaginative and delicious & we believe strongly in using fresh, seasonal & locally-sourced ingredients.

Our catering is based upon classical roots with the ingredients taking centre-stage. Our chefs are constantly evolving the menus in The Lexden Crown on a daily basis; the combination of this progression & the attached menus will give you a great selection & the option to tailor-make your food for your event.

That said, we know the food is only half of the deal; we take great pride in delivering a great & personal service, a warm & friendly smile & a flexible approach.

Please see our sample menu ideas including:

Canapés

3-course Wedding Breakfast

Luxury Buffet

BBQ

Evening Buffet

For more information about our catering services, arrange a quote or simply to talk through your ideas, please contact our Event Catering Co-ordinator Harriet T: 01206 548490 ~ info@eventcateringcompany.com

Canapes

Elegant options to welcome your guests

Hot

Meat

  • Onion & bacon tarts
  • Honey & mustard cocktail sausages
  • Puff pastry sausage rolls
  • Duck spring rolls with hoisin dip
  • Miniature beef meatballs
  • Miniature burgers & cheese (supp £1.50pp)
  • Stroganoff beef skewer with a red
  • pepper aïoli
  • Mini Yorkshire puddings with roast beef & horseradish cream

Fish

  • Thai spiced crab cakes
  • Tiger prawns in filo with sweet chilli

Vegetarian

  • Roasted mushroom & goat’s cheese
  • Red pepper & goats cheese crostini
  • Tomato & mozzarella crostini
  • Red onion & brie pastry cup
  • Leek & Applewood cheddar tarts
  • Roasted pumpkin & ricotta tart

Cold

Meat

  • Smoked chicken, bacon & spring onion pastry cup
  • Mini Quiche Lorraine
  • Miniature Welsh rarebit

Fish

  • Crayfish & crab cocktail pastry cups
  • Prawn & crayfish pastry cups
  • Crayfish & crab cocktail pastry cups
  • Smoked salmon & horseradish blinis
  • Crab & ginger tartlets
  • Smoked fish rillette crostini

Vegetarian

  • Olives & sun blushed tomatoes
  • Red onion & brie cheese cup
  • Baked button mushroom with brie
  • Celery with blue cheese mousse
  • Mini basil, tomato & mozzarella skewers

Wedding Breakfast Banquets

Three-course banquets for your special day

Peruse our banqueting selector to devise your special 3-course menu ~ Please note that some dishes are seasonal

Starters

Fish

  • Potted fresh crab, salmon & ginger with salad leaves
  • Layered crab & smoked salmon, pickled cucumber salad with a dill-yoghurt dressing
  • Smoked salmon with brown bread, capers & horseradish
  • Hot-smoked salmon salad with seasonal garnish
  • Gravadlax with mustard dressing & rocket
  • Fishcakes with a chilli mayonnaise & salad
  • Prawn & crayfish cocktail with cherry tomatoes & an iceberg lettuce salad

Meat

  • Smoked chicken salad with honey & mustard dressing & croutons
  • Duck rillette with red onion chutney & Melba toast
  • Smoked duck & mango salad with a sweet chilli & hoi sin dressing & sesame seeds (£2pp supp)
  • Leek & bacon tart with babyleaf salad
  • Home-made local pork & apricot terrine with red onion chutney & a creamy mustard dressing
  • Ham hock terrine with piccalilli
  • Proscuitto with rocket & sunblushed tomatoes

Vegetarian

  • Seasonal, vegetable soup with herb croutons
  • e.g. Leek & potato, mushroom, butternut squash, tomato & basil, Gazpacho
  • Tomato, mozzarella & basil salad
  • Mushroom & brie tart with a rocket & balsamic vinegar garnish
  • Greek salad with feta cheese, red onion, olives & beef tomatoes
  • Roasted beetroot & goats cheese salad with pea shoots & a balsamic & olive oil dressing

*Seasonal Suggestions

  • Spring: Asparagus salad with Parmesan & soft boiled eggs
  • Summer: Char-grilled vegetable salad; aubergine, pepper, courgette & tomato
  • Autumn: Mushroom salad

Wedding Breakfast Main Courses

Fish

  • Natural smoked haddock fillet with creamy spinach & bacon
  • Fillet of fresh salmon with a leek & prawn sauce, steamed potatoes
  • Fillet of salmon with crushed new potatoes, spinach & a creamy chive sauce
  • Swordfish steak with a Thai curry sauce & rice

Meat

  • Breast of chicken wrapped in bacon with a creamy mushroom sauce
  • Breast of chicken wrapped in prosciutto ham & a creamy thyme jus
  • Paprika-spiced breast of chicken with a chorizo mashed potato
  • Roasted lemon chicken breast with Dauphinoise potatoes & a creamy thyme sauce
  • Roasted breast of duck, with caramelised apples, roast parsnips & potatoes
  • Lamb rump with Dauphinoise potatoes & a sweet rosemary jus
  • Lamb casserole with a basil-infused mashed potato & sun blushed tomatoes
  • Local pork chop wrapped in Parma ham & sage, served with crushed new potatoes
  • Fillet of Beef Wellington on roasted horseradish & rich red wine jus (£10pp supplement)

Vegetarian

  • Half roasted butternut squash stuffed with tomato, sage & mozzarella
  • Baked peppers with cous cous in a rich tomato sauce with rosemary & olive oil
  • Fresh saffron & red pepper risotto with parmesan shavings & pesto
  • Wild mushroom pasta with a plum tomato & basil sauce, topped with fresh Parmesan
  • Wild mushroom & Parmesan risotto topped with wild rocket & basil pesto
  • Mediterranean vegetable skewers on a goat’s cheese, sun blushed tomato & rocket risotto
  • Mediterranean vegetable lasagne with goat’s cheese & a chunky tomato sauce & rocket

*Seasonal Suggestions

  • Spring: Risotto Verdi; peas, broad beans, spinach & pea shoots
  • Summer: Roasted plum tomato risotto with Parmesan cheese & basil oil
  • Autumn: Wild mushroom macaroni with olives & cheese
  • Winter: Root vegetable lasagne with goat’s cheese & a chunky tomato sauce & rocket

Wedding Breakfast Desserts

Desserts

  • Crème brûlée with butter shortbread
  • Dark chocolate brownie with a yoghurt cream
  • Cheesecake & coulis
  • Summer pudding with raspberry coulis & crème Chantilly
  • French lemon Tarte with crème Chantilly
  • Profiteroles filled with vanilla cream & draped in a dark chocolate sauce
  • Eton mess: fresh strawberries, meringue & vanilla cream
  • Sticky toffee pudding with warm pecan toffee sauce
  • Pear & apple tart with vanilla sauce
  • Individual apple crumble with cream (or custard)

Cheese

  • Selection of farmhouse cheeses with chutney, grapes & biscuits (£3pp supplement)

We are happy to source specific cheeses, supplements may apply, please contact us

BBQ Wedding Breakfast

Wedding BBQ
*All of our BBQ’s include bread, hot new potatoes & condiments
*Also great as an Evening Buffet option

Fresh from the BBQ – pick 4 options
Thai spiced swordfish steaks
Homemade beef burgers
Char-grilled 5oz steaks (£2.00pp supplement)
Marinated Mediterranean vegetable skewers (v)
Local pork sausages
Cajun-spiced chicken drumsticks

Salads – pick 4 options
Char-grilled Mediterranean vegetables & mixed leaves (v)
Marinated olives & sun-blushed tomatoes (v)
Crayfish cocktail & cherry tomato salad
Dressed baby leaf salad (v)
Homemade coleslaw (v)
Potato, chive & crème fraîche salad (v)
Spiced couscous salad (v)
Hot new potatoes
Red onion & tomato salad with balsamic dressing (v)
Classic Greek salad (v)

Platters
Feta cheese & red onion tart (v)
Selection of homemade chutneys (v)

Desserts
Homemade chocolate brownie & cheesecake

Evening Buffet

Evening Buffet

Baguettes with a selection of fillings (inc ‘v’)
e.g.:
Cheddar & home-made chutney (v)
Honey roast ham & mustard mayonnaise
Egg mayonnaise & cracked black pepper (v)
Roast beef & horseradish
Chicken salad

Fresh tortilla wraps with a selection of fillings (inc ‘v’)
e.g.:
Red pepper & goats cheese (v)
Coronation chicken/ chicken Caesar
Mediterranean vegetable with feta (v)
Prawn Marie Rose & iceberg salad

Honey & mustard cocktail sausages
Farmhouse pork terrine & bread
Freshly baked tarts
Crisps and nuts (v)
Potato, chive & crème fraîche salad (v)

*Please contact us for more options including:
*Hog Roast
*Evening BBQ
*Pizza Buffet