From Beluga to Beetroot Brownies
Catering expert Cucina has extended their offering to schools, just as comfortable offering decadent and healthy canapés to VIPs at special functions as offering nutritious beetroot brownies to pupils.
Cucina, which serves fresh food to more than 25,000 pupils at 30 contracts up and down the country, recently catered for a sponsors evening at The Harefield Academy in Middlesex, which was combined with a presentation evening for students.
Cucina’s top chefs have developed canapés which include MSC certified smoked salmon from sustainable stocks served on blinis with cream cheese and caviar, ham hock terrine with homemade piccalilli sauce, seared tuna with horseradish cream and crispy bacon, finishing with wild strawberry blancmange with shortbread crumb.
Steve Quinn, Managing Director of Cucina, said:
“By employing award-winning chefs at Cucina we can excel at any level of catering required from every day restaurant standard school food to events such as this VIP function for some very high profile guests. We also provide nutritious breakfasts, as well as snacks for after school clubs, café bars and even service pods, such as at The Basildon Academy. At Cucina we think differently to most food service providers, aiming to set new benchmarks for Food Service. As an innovative company, Cucina continuously strives to exceed nutrient based standards and guidelines and also designs menus for individual schools to meet their tastes and diets. Cucina’s kitchen is a creative environment, which tempts children to eat as they would in an up-market bistro.”
Everything is made from scratch in Cucina’s kitchens, from homemade breads, fresh soups, homemade yoghurts, sandwiches and salads to fresh pizzas baked in professional pizza ovens. Cucina even makes their own tomato ketchup and mango chutney to accompany the menu.
Cucina’s professional and innovative approach includes appointing a Head Chef to oversee each site and offering an educational food service which links the classroom to the kitchen.
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VIPs and pupils in attendance at a sponsors and presentation evening at The Harefield Academy
Notes to Editors
Cucina was founded by Steve Quinn, a food and support services professional with 26 years experience within the industry, working with international hotel groups such as Rank, Thistle, Hilton and Concorde (in France), as well as contract catering firms Sodexho (formerly Gardner Merchant) and the Compass Group. Steve works with a team of top chefs and professionals to ensure that his vision of great food is truly embraced and delivered.
Cucina provides restaurant quality food and have installed professional chefs to run its operations at the new contracts.
For Cucina’s top recipes:
www.marketingprojects.co.uk/news/cucina/news/recipes-from-cucina
For Case Studies of Cucina Catering inspiring dissatisfied students to give school meals a try again please visit: http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/casestudy-detail.asp?caseid=103
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