About us
What we do
We provide an excellent quality and competitively priced catering service to businesses, organisations and private events throughout Manchester. Choose from our range of buffet options or create your own menu by choosing individual items. Also, if you would like something specific or extra for that special occasion, please speak to one of our staff who will be happy to accommodate your needs. We can also meet the needs of those on special diets, so please mention this when ordering.
We are very aware of the link between nutrition and mental and physical well being and are presently working closely in partnership with the Manchester mental health and social care trust to develop a city wide social business whose main aim will be to tackle poor nutrition and access to cheap locally produced foods. The aim will be to engage people especially younger people and people with mental health issues, in healthy local food activities, i.e. growing, healthy eating and cooking in order to improve skills, confidence and overall health. The partnership is called Bite and you can read more about it here.
Our food
We offer a wide range of menu and dietary choices with the additional option of creating your own menu (see menu leaflet). These menu choices include, vegan, vegetarian, Halal and healthy selection. We also cater for any dietary, religious and lifestyle choices which would include gluten free food intolerance and medical requirements. We do not have a kosher kitchen but cant source and supply Kocher foods.
The sandwiches that we offer are served on an assortment of sliced brown, granary, seeded and wholemeal bread (we can supply sliced white bread on request), wraps, assorted bagels and a variety of bread rolls which would include ciabatta, focaccia, multi seed, sour dough, wholemeal and gluten free if required. All spreads that we use are low fat and suitable for vegetarians. We also have vegan spread when required.
We a variety of snack options which include; nut and seed mix, vegetable crisps, marinated olives, hand cooked crisps and fruit which can be ordered either as a platter which is cut in to small portions or as whole pieces of fruit. We can supply individually wrapped biscuits. We can also supply healthier alternatives i.e. eat natural bars, flapjacks and sesame seed bars. We also offer dips; houmous and salsa served with crudities and either wholemeal pita or oat cakes.
We offer a range of salads that will compliment whichever menu choices that have been made. These salads from our menu include baby potato and spring onion salad or coleslaw (both with either a low fat mayonnaise dressing or healthier mayonnaise free dressing).
The food that we cook is all made from scratch; we don’t use processed foods, artificial flavourings, packets or jar sauces. We keep the use of salt to a minimum preferring to use things like home grown herbs, spices, lemon or orange juice and rind, balsamic or other flavoured vinegars, honey and tamari. In our cafe we display information about salt and diet. We can supply salt and pepper in mini sachets or cruets to be picked up later. We make our own salad dressings and supply it in a separate container for people to add as they require. The mayonnaise that we use is low fat and we also use crème fresh as a healthy alternative.
The drinks that we supply cartons of fair trade juice, bottled water, fair trade tea and coffee, fruit teas, herbal and speciality teas and decaffeinated alternatives. We supply fair trade brown and white sugars and skimmed or semi skimmed milk is clearly labelled and supplied in a thermos jug.
We supply homemade cake, flapjacks and fruit tarts. We also offer fruit platters and portions, nuts and seeds. We could also supply low fat yogurts, fromage frais and crème freche.
All the food that we supply is served on separate platters and clearly labelled i.e. vegan, Halal, meat, fish, gluten free or for a specific person. At present we don’t label local produce but would be able to do this if required.