From Intimate Dinners to Street Food: Event Catering Across Somerset
Somerset event catering, cooked properly
Whether it's six friends around a kitchen table in Wells or two hundred guests in a marquee outside Taunton, The Fig Pantry brings restaurant-quality food to wherever your event is happening. We're a Somerset based private dining and catering company, and we cook across Somerset and the wider South West, from the Quantock Hills and the Mendips to Bath, Bristol, Devon and Dorset.
Our menus are built around the best of the West Country: Westcombe Cheddar, Chew Valley trout and strawberries, West Country pork, Somerset cider and seasonal produce from local growers. Everything is cooked by our own chefs, and every menu can be tailored for vegetarian, vegan, gluten free and other dietary needs.
Here's a look at every kind of event we cover, plus an introduction to our brand-new street food venture, STACkED! Streetfood.
Private dining for special occasions in Somerset
Some celebrations deserve more than a restaurant booking. Our private dining service brings a full restaurant experience to your home, holiday cottage or Airbnb, whether that's a milestone birthday, an anniversary, a family reunion or a long overdue get together with friends.
We plan the menu with you, arrive with everything we need, cook on site and serve each course at the table. When the evening is over, we clean down the kitchen so you can carry on celebrating.
Plated multi course dinners or relaxed sharing style feasts
Canapés and welcome drinks to start the evening
Afternoon tea for birthdays, baby showers and christenings
Menus written around the season and your guests' dietary needs
Booked a big holiday house in Somerset, on Exmoor or in the Quantocks for a weekend away? We can take care of the food, from a welcome supper on arrival to a Sunday brunch before you head home.
Wedding catering in Somerset and the South West
Your wedding breakfast should feel as personal as the rest of your day. We cater weddings in marquees, barns, village halls, country houses and back gardens across Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire.
Our wedding menus are designed to suit the way you want your guests to eat:
The Quantock Menu: a convivial, family style sharing feast, with platters of slow roast meats, seasonal sides and sharing dessert bowls passed down the table
The Trethowan Menu: an elegant, individually plated two or three course wedding breakfast
Canapé receptions: seasonal bites to welcome your guests while photos are taken
Evening food: street food bowls, a burger station or a Somerset grazing board to keep the dancefloor fuelled
Every wedding quote includes linen, crockery, cutlery, all kitchen equipment, professional staff and setup. Get in touch for a copy of our 2027 wedding brochure!
Hire a private chef in Somerset
A private chef turns any kitchen into your own restaurant for the night. Whether you're hosting a dinner party in Bath, a weekend house party near Frome or a lazy brunch in a cottage on Exmoor, we take care of everything from menu planning and shopping to cooking, serving and the washing up.
Our private chef service is popular for:
Dinner parties and tasting menus at home
Private chef brunches for birthdays and get togethers
Holiday homes and Airbnbs, for one meal or the whole stay
Chef's table experiences, where guests watch each course come together
You get to spend the evening with your guests rather than in the kitchen, which is the whole point.
Hen party and stag do catering
Planning a hen party or stag do in Somerset or the South West? Good food is the easiest way to make a weekend away feel special, and it saves the group booking a restaurant table for twenty.
Hen parties: afternoon tea with Prosecco, a private chef dinner, a brunch the morning after or a grazing table for a night in
Stag dos: BBQs, burger stations, hearty sharing feasts or a big cooked breakfast to set the group up for the day
Holiday house weekends: food for the whole stay, so the group can relax rather than shop and cook
We cook in holiday lets, lodges and party houses across Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, and in Bristol and Bath. Tell us the plan and the budget, and we'll build a menu around it.
Corporate catering in Taunton, Bristol and across Somerset
From working lunches to conferences and company celebrations, we provide corporate catering that makes a good impression without disrupting the day. We've cooked for businesses, laboratories and charities across the region, including Somerset Wildlife Trust, The Fostering Network, Novo Nordisk, Werfen, Sysmex, Somerset Council and the NHS.
Working lunches, sandwich platters and grazing boards for meetings and training days
Conference and event catering, with canapés, buffets or plated lunches
Team away days, summer parties and staff BBQs
Client dinners and Christmas parties
We're happy to work to a per head budget and can provide clear allergen information for every dish.
Christmas Day, Halloween and seasonal celebrations
Some of the year's best gatherings are also the hardest to cook for. Let us take on the stress.
Christmas Day private chef: imagine a Christmas Day where nobody is stuck in the kitchen. We'll cook and serve a full Christmas dinner in your home, from canapés and a festive starter to the roast with all the trimmings and a proper Christmas pudding. We also cater Christmas parties, festive buffets and Boxing Day brunches across Somerset. Christmas dates book up early, so get in touch as soon as you can.
Halloween parties: from spooky canapés and themed grazing tables to warming bowls of autumn food for bonfire and Halloween parties, we can bring a seasonal menu to your event, whatever its size.
We also cater Easter lunches, Bonfire Night, New Year's Eve dinners and summer garden parties.
Introducing STACkED! Streetfood
We're excited to launch STACkED! Streetfood, our brand-new street food venture. The Fig Pantry has always been about refined private dining and elegant event catering, but our evening food menus showed us how much people love bold, generous, hand-held food. STACkED! gives that side of our cooking a name and a home of its own.
Under the STACkED! banner we can bring street food catering to events where a fine-dining name wouldn't quite fit:
Festivals, fairs and food markets across Somerset and the South West
Wedding evening food and late-night bites
Corporate events, staff parties and team days
Birthday parties, garden parties and community events
Sports clubs, schools' summer fairs and fundraisers
Expect loaded burgers, stacked street food bowls and big flavours, made with the same care and local Somerset ingredients we use in everything at The Fig Pantry. Keep an eye on our socials for STACkED! menus and the events where you can find us.
Areas we cover across Somerset and the South West
We're based in Somerset and travel throughout the county and beyond, including:
Somerset: Taunton, Bridgwater, Wellington, Yeovil, Wells, Glastonbury, Street, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Castle Cary, Bruton, Somerton, Langport, Chard, Ilminster, Crewkerne, Minehead and Burnham-on-Sea
Countryside and holiday areas: the Quantock Hills, the Mendips, the Somerset Levels, the Blackdown Hills and Exmoor
Nearby cities: Bath, Bristol and Weston-super-Mare
Across the South West: Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire and Cornwall
If your venue isn't listed, just ask. We travel for the right event.
Book your event with The Fig Pantry
Whatever you're celebrating, from an intimate private dinner to a wedding, a stag weekend or a festival crowd with STACkED! Streetfood, we'd love to cook for you. Tell us your date, location, guest numbers and the kind of food you have in mind, and we'll come back with a tailored menu and quote.
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