Special Occasions
 
Special moments such as weddings, banquets and dinner parties are successful due to good preparation and finishing touches. We will work with you to create the opulence that your occasion deserves. Our track record will give you the confidence that you need when organising such an event.
 
Below are examples of various menus suitable for all types of occasions including dinner parties, balls and presentation evenings.  Click to view our menus.
 

Breakfast

Finger Buffets

Fork Buffets

Hot Fork Buffets

Sit Down Menus

Caribbean Menus

 

 
 
 
Breakfast
 
Continental Breakfast with Croissant, Coffee & Orange Juice
 
 
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  At Clarkes, we recognise that with the fast paced lives that we live and with our very different backgrounds, we need to provide a variety of options to meet your need to start the day well.

Package 1
  • Tea & coffee
  • Still and sparkling water
  • Orange juice
     
Package 2
  • Tea
  • Herbal tea
  • Coffee
  • Hot chocolate
  • Still & sparkling water
  • Orange juice
  • Apple juice
     
Package 3
  • Selection of mini danishes
  • Muffins
  • Biscuits
  • Plus package 1
     
Package 4
  • Continental breakfast
  • Tea & coffee
  • Still and sparkling water
  • Orange juice
  • Boxed cereals
  • Fresh fruit platter
  • Croissants with preserves
  • Danish pastries
  • Yoghurts
  • Muffins
     
Package 5
  • Full English breakfast

 Package 6
  • Smoked salmon bagels
  • Bacon in French bread or a roll
  • Beef sausages in French bread or a roll
  • Veggie sausages in a roll
  • Plus package 1
     
     

Fair trade

  • Tea and coffee
  • Water
  • Juices
  • Biscuits
  • Fair trade biscuits 
     
 
Finger Buffets            
                        
Full finger buffet with wide selection of delicious food 
 
Finger Buffet 1
  • Selection of sandwiches  
  • Chicken pieces 
  • Sausage rolls
  • Pork pies
  • Scotch eggs
  • Cocktail sausages
  • Onion bhajis
  • Spring rolls
  • Vegetable samosas
  • Pasta cheesy bites 
                                                                       
  
Finger Buffet 2
  • Cocktail sandwiches
  • Bridge rolls
  • Breaded prawns
  • Crispy veg parcels
  • Tandoori chicken pieces
  • Spinach and feta goujons
  • Sausage rolls
  • Cocktail sausages
  • Crudities
  • Nachos and dips
  • Cut fruit platter
 
 
Healthy Option 1
  • Chicken slices
  • Pineapple & raisin salad
  • Egg mayo
  • Tuna mayo & cheese Pitta pockets
  • Baked samosas
  • Greek salad
  • Mixed crudities
  • Bilinis with low fat spread topped with smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes & olives
  • Fresh fruit platter
 
Healthy Option 2
  • Grilled fish kebabs with olive oil
  • Sliced fresh chicken & pineapple kebabs
  • Raisin & salsa sauce in pitta pockets
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Lamb tikka with low fat yoghurt
  • Crudities with dips
  • Fresh fruit platter
 
Around The World Vegetarian Buffet
  • Veg pakoras
  • Veg samosas
  • Potato skins with sour cream
  • Spring rolls
  • Mozzarella sticks
  • Feta cheese
  • Tomato and olive kebabs
  • Jalapeno peppers
  • Mini filled pitta pockets
  • Nachos
  • Crudities
  • Dips
 
 
 Sandwich platter
  • Selection of sandwiches
  • Vegetarian samosas
  • Vegetarian spring rolls
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cheese and grapes platter
  • Fruit bowl
 Feel free to mix and match the above menus
 
 
Cut Fruit Platter 
 
All buffets sandwiches can be replaced with filled Pitta pockets, French bread, bridge rolls, wraps or gluten free bread.
 
 
Fork Buffets


 Cold Fork Buffet at Business Lunch
 
The menus below are suitable for medium or large functions, they can be served or customers can come to the buffet table.  The menus chosen have a bit of everything to suit all tastes and dietary requirements.
 
Cold Traditional buffet
  • Honey roast ham
  • Roast turkey breast
  • Roast beef
  • Poached salmon with pepper mackerel
  • Smoked salmon
  • Chicken pieces
  • Vegetarian quiche
  • Samosas & spring rolls
  • Mixed salad
  • Tomato red onion & basil salad
  • Coleslaw
  • French bread & butter
  • Served with dressings and condiments
 
 
Cold Modern
  • Roast sirloin of beef
  • Smoked turkey crown
  • Coronation chicken
  • Parma ham (salami, mortedella chorizo platter)
  • Smoked salmon with king prawn
  • Salmon wedges
  • Roasted med veg cous cous salad
  • Rocket salad
  • Waldof salad
  • Hot minted new potatoes
  • Tempura of vegetables with a sweet chilli dip
  • Cut fruit and cheese
  • Selection of speciality rolls
  • Served with dressing and condiments
 
 
Hot Fork Buffets
 Hot Fork Buffet Ready To Be Served
 
Below are examples of the types of menu that we can provide.  We can use these or customise a menu to suit your specific needs. 
 
Hot Traditional Buffet
  • Chicken a la king
  • Beef bouginoun
  • Salmon in a tomato & herb sauce
  • Vegetarian lasagne
  • White rice
  • Hot new potatoes
  • Stir fried vegetables
  • Selection of salads
  • French bread and butter
 
 
Hot Modern Buffet
  • Chicken supreme in a sun dried tomato and leeks cream sauce
  • Lightly spiced lamb curry
  • Talapia fillet in a provencale sauce
  • Mushroom stroganoff
  • Roasted Mediterranean veg & baby leave spinach fricassee
  • Saffron rice
  • Hot minted new potatoes
  • Stir fried noodles
  • Selection of speciality bread
 
Sit Down Menus
Well presented main course for sit down meal
 
Below are examples of 3 course a la carte menus suitable for weddings, dinner parties, balls and presentation evenings.
 
Sample menu 1
  • Soup of your choice served with a selection of speciality breads
  • Traditional roast with all the trimmings
  • Strawberry nest meringues on a passion fruit coulis
  • British cheese board
  • Coffee & mints
 

Sample menu 2
  • Tiger tail prawn cocktail with chive finger bread
  • Pan fried chicken breast in a mushroom & Madeira cream sauce,
    panache of baby vegetables & chateau potatoes
  • Vanilla crème brulee with fresh berry compote
  • Selection of British & continental cheeses
  • Coffee & mints
 
 
Sample menu 3
  • Roasted onion & goats cheese tartlet with a rocket salad
  • Pan fried fillet of beef with a café du pari butter, parsnip chips, dauphinois potatoes & roasted med vegetables
  • Trio of lemon torte, chocolate torte & strawberry torte served with cream Chantilly
  • A selection of cut soft fruit & cheese
  • Coffee & petit fours
 

Sample menu 4
  • Parma ham with roasted figs & rocket salad
  • Monkfish tilapia & shellfish fricassee with fondant potatoes
  • Baked individual vanilla cheesecake with a pear & sultana chutney
  • Continental cheeseboard
  • Coffee & nougat

Pricing includes cutlery, crockery, linen
 
 

Caribbean Menus
Caribbean rice and peas and chicken
 
Clarkes have a great Caribbean chef in Myrtle Kerr who has over 30 years experience catering for Caribbean functions using only the best ingredients to give that authentic taste.
 
See below for just a taste of some of the food Myrtle specialises in:
 
 Caribbean Finger buffet
  • Festivals filled with:
    • callaloo and roast veg
    • salt fish and ackee
    • creole chicken
  • Jerk chicken nibbles
  • Fried plaintain
  • Roti filled with curried mutton
  • Roti filled with rundown vegetables
  • Salt fish fritters
  • Jamaican patties
  • A salad leaf filled with mango salsa
  • Tropical fruit kebabs
     
Caribbean Hot buffet
  • Curried mutton
  • Curried chicken
  • Jerk pork
  • Barbecue ribs
  • Barbecued chicken
  • Stewed chicken
  • Fried snapper
  • Marinated coley steaks
  • Pan fried salmon escrivisse
  • Cajun spiced red fish
  • Jerk chicken
  • Fried chicken
  • Creole chicken
  • Mango chicken
  • Caribbean roast lamb
  • Lightly curried vegetables
     
 
Caribbean Sides
  • Rice and peas
  • Rice and beans
  • Plain rice
  • Season rice
  • Plantain
  • Sweet potato
  • Roast potatoes
  • Stirfried vegetables
  • Run down vegetables
  • Coleslaw
  • Mixed salad
  • Pasta salad
  • Sunshine salad
  • Tropical rice
  • Salad
  • Potato salad
  • Hard dough bread
  • French bread
     
 
Asian Menus
Chicken Satay with Peanut sauce 
 
Cliff Ong, our Asian specialist, has created a variety of menus that will satisfy your needs for cuisine from the East.
 
Chinese
Starters
  • Mini spring rolls
  • Dim Sum selection
  • Sesame prawn toast
  • Mini Spare ribs
  • Prawn crackers
  • Japanese breaded prawns
  • Chicken Satay
 
 
Main course
  • Sweet and sour chicken
  • Lemon chicken
  • Beef in black bean sauce
  • Chicken in cashew nuts
  • Chilli beef
  • Aromatic duck
  • Chinese spare ribs
  • Szechuan style lamb
  • Duck with ginger and pineapple
 
 
Vegetarian
  • Sweet and sour vegetables
  • Tempura of vegetables with a sweet chilli sauce
  • Vegetable chow mein
     
 
Sides
  • Singapore noodles
  • Egg fried rice
  • Special fried rice
  • Chop suey
 
Selection of desserts
 
 
Indian
 

Starters

  • Samosas
  • Lamb Samosas
  • Onion bhajis
  • Spinach pakoras
  • Poppadoms
  • Fish tikka
  • Chicken tikka
 
Main course
  • Prawn korma
  • Fish masala
  • Chicken tikka masala
  • Lamb tikka
  • Lamb Rogan josh
  • Chicken tandoori
 
Vegetarian
  • Aloo saag
  • Tandoori chicken pieces
  • Dhal tadhka
  • Paneer butter masala
  • Vegetable jhalfrezi 
  • Vegetable korma
 
Rice
  • Steamed rice
  • Pilau rice
  • Mushroom rice
  • Vegetable fried rice
  • Chicken briyani
  • Vegetable briyani
 
Sides
  • Garlic naan bread
  • Naan bread
  • Chapati
  • Roti
 
Desserts
  • Rasamalai
  • Fruit salad
  • Selection of tropical sorbets
 

 
Festival Menus
Festive branch
 

Call us for our latest festival menus.  We cover important occasions such as:

  • Bonfire / Guy Fawkes night
  • Halloween
  • Christmas
  • New Year
  • Valentines
  • Easter
  • Black History month
  • Religious Festivals e.g. Yom Kippur, Eid
 

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   Clarkes
65 Century Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 6AJ
Clarke’s Caterers Ltd.
Company Registration Number: 05129920