Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what some of our clients have said about Lettuce & Lovage:
Comments from Triodos Bank, 19th May 2010
Special mention to the Rhubarb Cake – Excellent! The food was good and the quality also. Very nice personal attention – Thank you. Mikel
Thank you for the great food and what made it exquisite was the enthusiasm, finesse and love you added to it! Lieve
I have enjoyed the food here very much and the staff aswell. Thank you. Michael
The food was delicious and served with the right mix of politeness, style and joy. I thoroughly experienced the experience. Jacco
Excellent food served by wonderful, friendly and flexible staff. Hein Dyksterhuis
Wonderful Food, Brilliant, friendly and flexible service. Very Special – Thank you! Bevis Watts
I have enjoyed the fruitful and rich food of Rhubarb – a catering company where the earth is at heart. Anon
Comments from AHRC, 1st April 2010
V.Tasty chicken – beautifully presented yet retaining rustic and wholesome feel. On the whole – excellent. Paul McWhirter
Very good food – especially amazing apple crumble! Efficient service too. Jenny
Comments from Sawday Publishing, 31st March 2010
Food was delicious and the staff attentive. Amy
Both our buffet lunch and sit down dinner were delicious – I very much appreciated the seasonality and freshness of ingredients and preparation that enhanced the inherent flavours of the ingredients. Kathie Burton
Really delicious – LOVED the crumble! Pork crackling was cracking, altogether really lovely. Claire
Delicious – enough so to lure us back for more. Anon
Our lunch and dinner were both delicious – Thank you. Your food felt healthy and natural and we had plenty of it. Kate
Comments from ASP, 31st March 2010
I felt very well taken care of as the ‘only vegan in the village!’ My vegan meals were delicious – thank you very much! Lianka
Gorgeous food, especially the Jerusalum Artichoke Soup, the Parmesan straws & charcuterie. Jo
Nothing has induced me to break my irritating low carb diet until today when I fell off the wagon and ate delicious roasties and crumble. Pork Belly was lush. Thank you. Sarah
The food was excellent – fresh, very tasty and beautifully cooked and served. Thank you. Anon
Fantastic food – this is the second time we came, we’re sure we’ll be back! Great friendly service too! Anon
Comments from The NHS, 10th March 2010
Lovely lunch and breakfast, very good quality food & very good service. Ann
Very good evening meal & breakfast, well-presented, tasty and an interesting range of salads. David Manley
Comments from Progress, 10th March 2010
Meal and service was excellent. Staff were polite and unintrusive whilst serving lovely food. M. Holland
Comments from National Trust, 24th February 2010
We loved the Beetroot & Feta salad – delicious! Great to have such tasty dishes on offer for lunch. Tracey Wright
Delicious food. Loved the Tagine & Beetroot Salad. And Puddings! Thanks. Lizzy
Really delicious & tasty food – and makes a nice change to have healthy food at a conference. Anon
Food is really tasty & healthy, great flavours and salad. K Noble
Delicious, wholesome, well-presented, friendly food. Rob
Delicious food, very well prepared & presented. Fantastic service. Kathryn Warren
All the food has been absolutely delicious made all the more enjoyable knowing it’s ultimately seasonal & local. Denise Lota
Great food, imaginative recipes and good quality ingredients – lovely. Malcolm Anderson
Absolutely delicious. I was really impressed by the variety and interesting mixes that worked really well. You’ve inspired me with things to try at home. J. Fletcher
Very good throughout. Great to have the salads alongside the mains. Also good to see the portion size given wasn’t excessive. Looking around now almost all plates are empty. Fits the ethos! – Thanks. G Thomas
The food has been absolutely fantastic – I have a special diet & the catering staff have really taken care of me – Thank you. Tamzin Phillips
Delicious food, excellent service – well done. Cathy Blackaller
More Comments from other Happy Clients
Hi Jo
We just wanted to say a hugh thank you to you and your team for all of the hard work you put in to our wedding on the 17th. We had such a brilliant weekend and the day itself was totally amazing. Everyone commented on how great the food was and on how helpful and friendly the staff were. Also the cake that your chef made was not only delicious but looked totally amazing and was one of the talking points of the day. I know he spent a long time putting it together so please pass on our personal thanks. Overall we just couldn’t have asked for anything more, it really was a perfect day.
We just can’t thank you all enough for helping to make our day so special and creating a wedding that exceeded all of our dreams.
Best wishes. Jamie & Helen
We had to write and thank you for making Helen and Jamie’s day so special with the wonderful food you cooked and served. The canapes were tremendous and seemed to be never ending. The buffet in the evening was so beautifully presented, a variety of dishes that suited everyone from young to old. The piece de resistance was the profiterole pyramid cake. Helen and Jamie were truly surprised and the gasps of delight from everyone showed what a masterpiece was being presented. Keith & Christine Purvis
Just a quick note on behalf of both Helen and myself to thank you, and your team for a superb meal and excellent, friendly service at Helens party last Sunday. We were both really impressed with the efficiency of your operation and we were delighted with the menu. A lot of our guests took your card and I hope to see you again at one of their parties. We both think that your excellent food contributed hugely to the great evening that was had by ourselves and our guests.
A big big thank you and a merry Christmas to you all. Rob and Helen Winstone, December 2009
Hi Jo, I just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful evening. The food was delicious and the service was discrete and professional. We’d definitely recommend you to anyone planning a similar event.
All the best for the future of the business and for a happy Christmas. Carole, December 2009
Excellent.
The food is so gorgeous – lots of variety, rich, filling & healthy food.
Delicious food and friendly chefs.
Good hot food, just what was needed.
5 Star.
Fantastic.
Very good (catering) & high quality.
Wholesome.
Superb, always wanted more of the excellent food.
Some of the comments left by students on the BBC Wildlife Film making course, 6th – 8th November 2009
Thank you for your help in making our ‘Celebration of a life’ a success. Your contribution began with the planning as we were ignorant of what would be involved in catering for 75 people in our home. You visited us and, quite quickly, we were able to make all the key decisions. It was helpful that you were so flexible.
The food, its presentation and the service, were superb. Many guests commented on it. And your contribution did not finish until you had cleared up everything and swept the kitchen floor!
Thanks a lot and good luck with your business. From my limited contact with you, it seems to me you have the experience and the qualities to make it a great success. Glyn England, November 2009
I was recently lucky enough to attend an event at Folly Farm for which you catered. I have to say that everyone thought that the food was just amazingly delicious and quite frankly a refreshing change from the norm!
I look after a Catering Mark that the Soil Association have developed to reward caterers for using fresh, seaonal, local and organic produce and I would love to talk to you more about this, as I am in no doubt you would be prime candidates. Michael Bond, Soil Association
Delicious, home made food. The evening hot chocolate and rhubarb shortbread were a treat! Teachers of East Harptree Primary School, Bristol
I just wanted to thank you and your chef very much for the wonderful food you provided for our wedding. Thanks for all your efforts and for being so accommodating of our needs. It was a real pleasure to deal with you at such short notice. Thank you. Maria and Andy
Lettuce & Lovage produce food that is astoundingly good and so fresh it almost pops off the plate! Using locally sourced quality produce is important to me. We had Trout en Croute (with fish caught from nearby Chew Valley Lake) which was delicious served with wild garlic as a vegetable. Although I’ve never made it myself I loved the nettle soup too. Whether it is main course or pudding this food is vibrant and unmissable! Sarah Pitt, TV Producer
I was recently helping to run an introductory wildlife filmmaking course at Avon Wildlife Trust’s Folly Farm Centre. The course was residential and students and tutors alike were looking forward to the promised delicious, organic, home-cooked meals … we were not disappointed.
Dinner on Friday evening was a delight! The Chew Magna Trout served En Croute with wilted wild garlic (collected from the Folly Farm woodlands) and sautéed potatoes simply melted in the mouth and the only sounds heard from the dining tables were hmmms and aahhhhs in a range of different tones and volumes. The rhubarb shortbread and cream that followed added a satisfying completeness to the meal.
Throughout the weekend we were served a range of beautifully presented and equally tasty meals. The home-made wild garlic and nettle soup served at lunchtime on Sunday was a revelation (and a delicious one at that) and the chocolate brownies which arrived with tea mid-afternoon on Saturday were set upon with the enthusiasm they truly deserved!
I cannot recommend this group of committed foodies more highly. Karen Partridge, TV Producer/Director
All our food was so very good to eat – Jo, Matt and her team took such trouble. Fairfield School, Bristol
Lettuce & Lovage provided the catering and bar service for my brother’s wedding at which I was both best man and “wedding manager”. Ollie, and his new wife Becky, had spoken on how impressed they where and how easy Rhubarb Catering had been to deal with before the event, even having asked for many non-standard items.
On the big day I took over and was amazed by the way that quietly and efficiently brilliant food was served to the tables at the right time for more than a hundred people.
Producing great food is only half the battle, what I appreciated most from Lettuce & Lovag was that all the staff where charming friendly and helpful – helping massively to keep me calm, collected and enjoying myself, making what could have been a very stressful and busy day for me, just a fun, busy one! They were a delight! Henry Prudden
