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Sunflower Kitchen is an events catering company based in Somerset, capable of anything from intimate alfresco dining to large weddings or crew catering for festivals & film shoots.

18/08/2024

Thursday saw us returning to Harewood Forest for number 2 outta 3 of our big week in Hampshire. Becky and Louis’ guests enjoyed earl grey brined BBQ chicken, Lavs’ festival style porchetta and some delicious salads -

Crispy roast potatoes with oregano and green olives.
Charred corn fattoush with confit garlic pitta.
Harissa roasted butternut squash, whipped feta, rocket & drizzled garlic.

Last pic is the veggie option of bbq marinaded aub, caramelised onions and butters with a tommy salsa thing.

Dreamy! We’re in the full swing of things over here so please forgive us if emails take a while to get to - Monday is admin day I promise x

And saying that we are already thinking about autumn and winter fun - some excellent things in the pipeline but get in touch if you wanna eat some yummy food. It’s what we do.

11/08/2024

Dreamy setting in harewood forest yesterday for Jo & Joe’s big day. Sharing starters followed by porchetta, crispy tatties and homemade mayo, coupla salads including amazing leaves and their baby summer leeks we BBQ’d into smoky velvety deliciousness.
Mint julep peaches with smashed up meringues and whipped cream to finish.

We don’t do it for weddings of ~80, and it is a hell of a lotta washing up, but using our vintage mismatched china makes everything look so beautiful! Who needs a table runner when you’ve got 19th century Imari plates. It also gives Lavs a very good excuse to continue hoarding and buying the 100s of bits of china we’ve got ✌️ if you want pretty plates, give us a shout. Xo

23/04/2024

Just a few nice veg pics from last nights tasting… another fully veggie wedding we’ve got planned with Harry and Adam in October. We love catering fully veggie or vegan events! It’s so much fun making veg the centre of attention and making even the most reluctant carnivores admit that yes, lentils can be sexy! Our fave was the chargrilled aub with a super rich tahini sauce and a sumac onion & herb salad 💥

We are pretty slam dunked all summer now but have a couple of little gaps in June, so if you’re thinking about that party…

02/04/2024

Further proof that olive oil makes everything better. This super rich choccy mousse will be up for grabs at our pop up at the end of the month and it is a stone cold banger. Booking essential, get in touch x

01/04/2024

Hope you’ve all had a delicious sunshiney chocolatey weekend 🌞 Some of Friday’s hen do - in a caprese, patatas bravas and focaccia stole the show for us carby girls. A delightful sparkly evening 🪩

23/03/2024

Buttery alliums are good. Shallot and leek tart tatins topped with lots of thyme, honey and tangy salty crumbly goats cheese. Eeeesshhht! Perfect addition to a buffet lunch or grazing table.

We’ve got a little bit of availability left for this summer, so if you’re thinking about having a party, this is your sign to do it! Books open for 2025 too, give us a ring x

20/03/2024

Happy equinox beauties! Perfect day to give ya details on our next pop up on Sunday 28th April. She’s a real bargain at £45 a head, with a welcome drink, canapés then going back to our roots with That Lamb Tagine. Wine by the carafe will be up for grabs, 1pm kick off, DM or email [email protected] to book. Text your friends about it right now x

07/03/2024

We're doing another pop up to celebrate spring! This time we're springing up in the Market House in Castle Cary right in the middle of town. There'll be a long lunch, cheap bloody marys and enough room for all ya mates and all ya fam so spread the word. There might even be some of these focaccia crostini with ricotta, tapenade and a cheeky little wild garlic gremolata. Full menu and deets to follow, see ya there x

DM or email [email protected] if you just can't wait to book.

05/03/2024

Ahem.. ok so that is self appointed but still. Got only a couple of 2024 spots left and books open for 2025. Get in touch xoxo

15/02/2024

Tuesday’s 70th birthday dinner nibbles. Mushroom arancini, truffle mayo. Crab, fennel & leek toasts, brown crab butter, dill. Very very good beige food. Followed by scallops in tarragon & dill butter, roast lamb & dauphinois then tiramisu. So. Much. Butter. X

12/02/2024

Food is our love language and this romantic beauty is the perfect starter to woo your love with on wednesday (or any day!).

Shaved fennel, crispy capers, selection of beeeautiful seasonal bitter leaves, burrata and segmented blood orange. Chuck a sprinkle of salt, slosh of evoo and a spritz of amalfi lemon on (amazing at the moment) and you’re good to go. Classy and sexy, we think your gals, pals and loves will love it 💕

05/02/2024

It’s quiet time for us over here at SK HQ but the perfect moment to give a shout out to the joy of using seasonal produce. We like many others, know all too much about the darkness that winter can bring but in a very silly way, being able to look forward to making marmalade, the rhubarb arriving or the snowdrops and crocuses popping up can really make the cycle feel a bit better. Nature gives us all these bright colour when we need them most, how cool is that?!

Not only does using seasonal ingredients bring more joy, it’s kinder on the planet as you don’t have to fly things halfway across the world unnecessarily (looking at you, Peruvian asparagus) and what’s more, it tastes better!! Anyone who’s been to one of our tastings will have heard us lamenting about buying out of season produce for a summer wedding tasting, and expounding that things really do taste better when they’re from our lovely local suppliers.

15/01/2024

Yesterday we had the pleasure of catering a delightful 90th birthday Sunday lunch. Old lady friendly canapés (mushroom vol au vents are back btw), rhubarb and frangipane tart and a couple of classic French apple tarts. There was also reverse seared côte de boeuf, some very very yummy jammy roast potatoes and jerusalem artichokes, and some parmesan & pine nut crispy kale.✌️

Friday night’s wedding tasting bits at the back there with pintxos inspired nibbles for an august grazing table and a couple of very summery salads to accompany ’s sausages😍

08/01/2024

Probably about time we properly introduced ourselves! Sunflower Kitchen is run by Phoebe and Lavinia, crack team of generation spanning, cremant drinking, “wow this is so delicious you’re so clever”-ing, dungaree wearing, overzealously swearing, greedy lady chefs.

Here’s some appropriately silly photos of us taken by last year and the much much more important info that we have space in JUNE 2024. The most gorgeous, light and predictably nice weathered month, we got loadsa availability. Get at us. The rest of summer 2024 looking pretttttty busy but always worth giving us a shout if you’ve got party plans. We like parties. 🌻

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas gorgeous ones! Some questionable “we’re all in a rush” pics from Demelza & James’ lovely day last week. A full gluten free menu for Demelza’s family to be at ease that they could eat everything! Butcher’s black gammon, celariac remoulade and crispy capers on gf toast, obvs mushroom arancini and pesto mayo, seasonal salads to go with a really great spiced chicken dish, and marsala poached pears & hazelnut pavs. Seasonal but not Christmassy and a total joy! These guys completely transformed a village hall with beautiful drapery, such a good idea.

Wishing you all peace and happiness and hopefully some time off! We’re straight back next week with the biggest and last wedding of the year. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

09/12/2023

Just a sample of last night’s Palestinian inspired menu for a fundraiser for ’s Gaza appeal. The yog roasted cauli was topped with a dill, green chilli and garlic sauce - the three big flavours of Gazan cooking. Labneh topped with Palestinian za’atar (so good) and evoo, mutabal, pita, pickles, tabbouleh, musaka’a and a spiced warming sticky toffee full of beautiful medjool dates. Raised some money, had a lovely time, hopefully all remembered how lucky we are to be able to hold our loved ones close. also a pretty good bet for trying to make a tiny difference if you fancy giving some pennies xx

Well done for making a community hall look so beautiful and pulling it all together you complete superwoman! And thank you so much to all our helpers ✨🌻🧡

16/11/2023

These beaut shots by giving cosy inspo for that dinner party you’ve been meaning to have for ages. Sit back and relax so we can worry about everything fitting in the oven at the same time and smelling like frying! Scroll all the way to the end for the sexiest shots of aubergine and scallops you’ve ever seen✨

Get in touch for winter dinner parties or summer BIG parties. We do it all!

18/10/2023

We couldn’t get over these king oyster mushrooms from .fungi we served at a tasting on Sunday! Seared with a bit of paprika, garlic and shallot and served on a bed of the smokiest baba ganoush, it’s gonna be a killer part of a sharing starter spread for Joe and Shelby next July! trying to steal the show as usual ⭐️

We’ve still got a little bit of space for Christmas parties if you’ve suddenly realised it’s getting colder 🎄

10/10/2023

Would you believe we made 230 people dinner judging by these photos? Our last big weekend in September was a magnificent double header where we worked so hard and cooked so much we didn’t take any photos at all! I’ll just have to assure you the food looked beautiful and was very delicious and you’ll just have to take my word for it.

Massive thank you to Dan & Scarlett and Lizzie & Ned for having us be a part of their big day, and thank you to all our gorgeous clients! We feel very lucky to get to work with such lovely people where it often just feels like making friends, not work. It’s a joy to create feasts for you all 🌻

We’re straight into tasting season after a brief research trip to Catalonia, we’ve come home with so many tapas inspired ideas! 💃💃💃

20/09/2023

The thing about being people who serve pavlovas in fields is that the ones that look perfect on insta aren’t the yummy ones. Once you’ve transported 15 meringues along with a tonne of other stuff across the countryside, if they’re the good ones with the light crispy outside and a soft mallowy middle, they might look a bit like this ✌️bloody delicious though. Rose, raspberry & pistachio pav always bangs!

A gentle nudge that our 2024 summer is already booking up (I know!!) so get in touch people xo

18/09/2023

Some of us remembered to take photos this week! Hooray!

A drizzly but beautiful day in Monmouth for Alice and Tom in a little hidden valley with its own deer and wild boar (who luckily didn’t come and join the party). Cosy tipis, venison sausages and blackberry sauce, and this seasonal & colourful menu. Our gorgeous smiley team as usual getting 10/10 reviews and we even managed to make their cheese cake look fabulous. Now, everyone cross their fingers for sunshine for our last double header weekend of the season xo

31/08/2023

Just got these beaut pics through from Tash & Pat’s Bash in July! The cauli salad was obviously the star of the show but check what the end of the evening looked like 😍 Penny Square Barn in Batcombe is only a mile up the lanes from our kitchen and we had a fab time catering there for these two.

Congratulations you two, what a joy 💖

27/08/2023

A record breaking 160 guests yesterday to round off the busiest August Ever. A beautiful day for Faith & Elliot at the lovely in Devon, even the sun came out for some of it ! Sharing starters of merguez & harissa, beetroot hummus (colour on that!!), smoky smoky baba ganoush, pea feta & mint, halloumi with thyme honey and flatbreads and crudités. Then lemon and zataar chicken with the most sunshiney, colourful salads going.

The gals were also slinging burgers at to make it a ludicrously busy weekend! And now, for a week off. Peace out x

21/08/2023

Another Saturday, another wedding, another day I completely forget to take any good photos at all. So here’s our Frank looking angelic, team briefing, Lavs on the crostini, and Gabriel on the aubergine. Antonia & Greg’s was a bloody good party though! Completely veggie menu pleasing even the staunchest of carnivores I heard. Beautiful day in beautiful Oxfordshire, finished off with everyone stuffing their faces with macaroni cheese ⭐️🌻

11/07/2023

Aaaaand wedding number two on Saturday! Really fab if slightly windy day at penny square barn for Tash and Pat. Dips and sticks, onion bhajis and mushroom arancini followed by shawarma spiced lamb, cauli salad, harissa roasted beetroots & carrots, leaves and sumac yoghurt. Simple, yummy, delivered by our gorgeous team. Helluva party too! 🌻⭐️✨

23/04/2023

I wanted to write that people trampled over each other to get their hands on these chocolate mousse, but in reality they chatted in an orderly queue. Just as good. Afternoon tea yesterday following a (if I do say so myself) fab buffet lunch. Accompanying aforementioned mousse (mousses? meesse?) was -

Classic French apple tarts, lemon, honey & mascarpone viccy sponge, a rhubarb, rosemary & marmalade number and a couple of vegan gluten free ginger & apple cakes. Only a tiny scrap left for the kitchen gals! And the rain held off until pack down!

16/04/2023

Yesterday’s beaut hen do were treated to this rhubarb, raspberry, rose & pistachio pavlova - isn’t she gorgeous?! Is she the best thing you’ve ever seen?! Aren’t you glad it’s primrose season?! I reckon so.

31/03/2023

Last Friday’s very delicious and fancy 70th birthday party… many happy ladies in the kitchen stuffing dill & tarragon scallops in our gobs!

Planning next week’s party menu which could not be more different - mac and cheese for 150 party-ers in a field! Variety is the spice of life x

24/03/2023

Excited to announce our next pop up! We’re springing up (geddit?) at in Castle Cary in 3 weeks. The menu is a true celebration of spring and it’s a very good excuse for a Friday evening treat!

DM or email to book, can’t wait to see your faces. X

09/03/2023

Happy belated International Women’s Day! We were so busy yesterday cooking and having a giggle together we completely missed it. A women-owned biz, we try and raise each other up every day. Grateful for and inspired by all the women we work with, clients we work for and each other! Here’s to friendly, laughing kitchens run by women x

Bonus pics of our yummy tasting yesterday 🌻

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Saturday’s relaxed and adorable village green wedding for E & C was an absolute delight. A simple grazing table (see it set up in two places? nothing is too much for our magical team) followed by sharing mains of musakhan inspired chicken, crispy potatoes with za’atar, feta and salsa verde, @wildgardenveg leaves, zhoug slaw and a wild rice tabbouleh. Tamari and Aleppo chilli marinaded king oyster mushies with a tahini sauce for the veggies! Local cheddar strawbs macerated in elderflower cordial with @brutondairy cream felt appropriate for Wimbledon’s last day too (the bride’s father was a massive tennis fan!). Cute! Yummy! A celebration of our wonderful local produce! #somersetfood #bristolfood #seasonalfood #localfood #dorsetfood #somersetwedding #villagehallwedding #cidercountry #bristolwedding #dorsetwedding #wiltshirewedding