Jessica Leah Catering

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to you all! You’ll recognise these gorgeous faces from all our events this year 🎄 What a brilliant 2024. Thank you all for making it happen ❤️

24/12/2024

Another busy Wellington year, complete! So lovely to see so many of you this morning. This is such a big part of my family’s holiday season, they don’t know it any different! Christmas just isn’t Christmas without the stacks of brown paper bags, the colour coded excel sheets, and all the wonderful people popping round to collect their pastry wrapped parcels! 😌
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Hope you all enjoy! Xx

12/11/2024

The first ever supper club at the gorgeous Northdown Brewery Tap Room - next week! Already almost sold out. A handful of tickets left and they won’t hang about! 😍
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Somewhere to heat the definition of hearty food, and escape from this very wet and windy weather 🍻🔥
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Friday 22nd November, 7pm
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Menu

Jerusalem Artichoke & Gruyère Arancini, Celery Vinaigrette

Short Rib & Leek Galette, Spinach & Lyonnaise

Imperial Stout Chocolate & Dark Cherry Marquis

£40

(vegetarian options available)
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Order your tickets through
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So excited for this one! 🤩

24/10/2024

I’m taking orders for Christmas Beef Wellingtons! They’re made using the best beef in the land, therefore they are rather pricey. I still sell them for you all to cook on Christmas Day as I know some of you would still like to buy them!

For those who don’t know the spiel, for the last 8 years I have been making Beef Wellingtons, and Vegetarian Wellingtons, at Christmas time. I prepare it all and hand it over ready to pop into the oven on Christmas Day. I also print out cooking instructions for however you would like it cooked. I can make them as big or as small as you like as you pay by the portion.

They are £25 a portion. A Wellington for 4, for example, would be £100. Vegetable ones are £10 a portion, and filled with lovely white winter root vegetables.

They can be collected in Margate on Christmas Eve and your order must be in by November, at the latest. To order, just send me a message here and I will confirm your order and add you to the list!

The photo is a throwback to the Wellington Supper Club last year 💛

22/10/2024

Eight years ago, I got my driving licence. I was 31, and was working 100+ hours a week for about 15 years so driving was never something I could work towards. My extremely short maternity leave gave me a moment to step back and wonder what I’m doing with my life.

I decided to start a catering business. Just while the kids are little, maybe? Who knows! Well eight years have gone by and you guys have kept me BUSY. But more importantly, I do something different every week. I have challenges thrown my way constantly, and I get to do things I want to do. Things that give me so much satisfaction.

I do feel quite emotional looking at chefs working in restaurant kitchens. It was a huge part of my life and it’s a lifestyle that’s extremely tough and often rewarding. But do I regret leaving? No. I see my family everyday. I don’t whisper goodbye while they’re still asleep anymore. And I don’t come home trying not to wake anybody up as often as I used to.

Thank you JLC for giving me a semblance of a life. And thank you to all the people who make it possible. Family, friends, and my incredible staff. Happy eighth 🎉

17/10/2024

Spuds + love 🥔

16/10/2024

Just in case you forgot what season we were in…

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02/10/2024

So excited to be cooking lots of lovely Maltese food for you all!! Bragioli, imqaret, Qarabaghli, all of it 🙌🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹

FLAVOURS OF MALTA WITH JESSICA LEAH next weekend. Ohhh it's going to be delicious and hearty and you can read all about the menu on the website and in our newsletter.

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26/09/2024

Heading into my final year in this bloody brilliant decade. My 30s gave me a semblance of a balanced life with JLC. Also, much, much happiness!

I celebrate every birthday because, well if you don’t know by now, it’s not my favourite restaurant in Margate, but in the world 💛🎂

18/09/2024

Bring on NEXT WEEK’S Sundeck Suppers! Menu is out 👌🏼 Very excited to cook for you all over fire 🔥 and to sample all this incredible food! Not long to go!! Tickets available to book now - link in bio! .kitchen .rebel

11/09/2024

I have been wanting to be part of the for some time, and what a great team I’m joining! Cooking over fire with my best loved view 🌅

Joining Julian Brown of , Nathalie Nguyen of .kitchen, Simon Maynard , and Russ Jaques of .rebel

Summer isn’t over yet, and we’re giving it a proper send off. Book your tickets and we’ll see you there! 🔥🔥

21/07/2024

Before, and after 🔥
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The most glorious day for a wedding! 190 guests, singing, eating, dancing, eating, drinking, did I say eating?
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I’m currently recovering, eating, cleaning, eating, drinking (coffee), did I say eating?!!
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Fabulous, fabulous day. Thank you to my team, who were incredible right up until the wee hours 🧡

14/07/2024

“I don’t want to finish it, because and then it will be finished” 🥲

Cherry season is upon us!! 🍒 Cherries on everything 👏

03/07/2024

Until next year asparagus, you will be missed! 🌱

01/07/2024

Here’s a new one! Espresso brownies, complete with crema ☕️👌🏼

30/06/2024

Sea trout nicoise, outside, on a summer’s day ☀️ 🐟

28/06/2024

I cooked for a very special birthday lunch today. It was for my first ever JLC customer, almost eight years ago! 😊

I made her most favourite dessert, Îles Flottantes, or Oeufs à la Neige, or Floating Islands! You may have heard of it. Meringue quenelles, poached in milk, light as air, sat atop Sauce Anglaise, drizzled with a crackly caramel and a few toasted almonds sprinkled over the top. Very simple, and also, deceptively technical 👌🏼

20/06/2024

Peppers, on peppers. What’s not to love! Another beautiful evening, meeting more lovely guests ☀️
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Tunworth Soft in these parcels, because it’s always a winner 🤤