Contract Catering In London

Here at Social Pantry, we have been catering for both events and the workplace since 2011. Based in Battersea, our HQ is split into two, with our Events kitchen and team of Event Planners working on the events side of the business, and our Workplace kitchen and Workplace Partners focused on the contract catering side, as they function very differently. Contract catering differs from event catering in a variety of ways, but firstly, having a contract with Social Pantry means we have entered into an agreement of how often we cater for your office. This could be multiple times daily if we have agreed upon our ‘In-House’ catering option – where we move into your onsite canteen and provide full time staff to run it – or even if it’s just once a week to ’Drop Off’ food for a team building end-of-week lunch. We can build a contract to suit your needs, for 6 months, 12 months, 3 years, or more! Our events catering is a separate part of the business, where our Event Planners work with a client for months planning one key event, whether that’s a wedding, a conference or an exhibition opening in an art gallery. Events will most usually start with canapés and champagne, moving onto a three-course seated dinner, whereas most often our contract catering can be more casual. Typical contract catering can look like breakfast stations where your team helps themselves to granola and freshly baked pastries, or lunch pots that they can grab and go, or even meeting catering, where we provide sandwich platters and sweet treats to break up even the longest presentations.

Absolutely! Our sustainability-focused menus are naturally plant-rich and we offer extensive vegetarian and plant-based options. We can also accommodate dietary requirements such as dairy, wheat, soy or nut free diets and cultural requirements like halal and kosher.

This depends on your chosen menu but we are unable to leave food behind that would be unsafe to eat. If there are non-perishable items within your order that are surplus, we can leave these with you. Your Event Planner can help with deciding on food quantities for each item, to avoid waste.

At Social Pantry, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We are constantly striving to ensure our events are as low waste as possible. We have numerous initiatives that help us in doing that, please ask your Event Planner to find out more or read our Sustainability plan here.

We offer a choice of drinks including coffee, tea, freshly squeezed juice and ‘booster shots’, as well as a range of soft drinks including kombucha and still and sparkling water. We can also arrange to bring in speciality drinks suppliers. Fancy a barista coffee cart in the office? How about a smoothie van in the car park? After work cocktails mixed by a team of expert mixologists? You name it, we’ll do it.

Absolutely! Our workplace partners are happy to organise tastings either at your workplace or at Social Pantry HQ so you can get a taste of what we offer.

Yes, where required we handle all of the setup and cleanup for your meal service.

Absolutely, we have a pre-set menu that is updated monthly.