Meet Kemp & Kemp Catering Limited (Richard, Karen and other team members).
We are specialist wedding caterers in Staffordshire and cover the West Midlands, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire and Leicestershire. We run the company and have a host of great people we can draw on when we need help.
Richard & Karen and their team are all passionate about food.
FOOD, MENUS & CULINARY INFLUENCES. Karen is the inspiration behind all the food and is totally passionate about food and her catering. We cook everything ourselves. We never use a microwaves (Karen has never owned one). Karen was in the regional heats of BBC's Masterchef a few years ago, and was only eliminated by the eventual winner.
Karen is inspired by cooks like Nigel Slater, Ruth Rogers, the late Rose Gray (River Cafe), early Jamie - all underpinned by Delia, but is uniquely able to replicate the intimacy of these cooks in a wedding situation. Her latest 'hot fave' cook is Ottolenghi!!
Her approach to food is no-nonsense and she believes we live to eat, not the other way around... that's why most of this website is about food not waffle.
ON TV - For BBC footage of Karen at work in our kitchen back in 2008 making her famous 'Gourmet sausage rolls' and 'local tarts', click on the following link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7624289.stm
OUR TEAM AT YOUR TABLE. We make great service a priority and Richard (who also has extensive experience in customer service) oversees this part of our operation. The staff we use to serve your food are supplied to us from a specialist recruitment agency (Rouge Recruitment) who only deal in the catering and hospitality industry For more click here... or visit www.rougerecruitment.com 
This means our staff really are the best and they smile all the time (see below).
Meet (L to R) 'Kiki', Maria, Caryss, Joe & Isobel - part of our pool of great staff.
WHERE IT BEGAN - ON FARMERS MARKETS. We began making and selling homemade food in late 2007 with stalls on Farmers Markets across the Midlands. We've had stalls as far afield as Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Ludlow and a great many places in between, including Clarence House on The Mall in London in 2010. Whilst doing these markets we were able to build up a great network of local contacts in the food scene in the Midlands. This means we can source fresh, seasonal, local food for your wedding from our many friends & colleagues... like:
CHEESE. When we need great cheese we go to our friend Phil Hulland who lovingly dedicates himself to making artisan cheeses at his dairy in Lower Broadheath - see www.lightwoodcheese.co.uk, or our Staffordshire farmer friends John & Lucy Heath (and son Tom) who make the most amazing blue cheese from the milk of their own cows at Ellenhall Grange, Staffordshire - see, www.bertelinfarmhousecheese.co.uk.
Our friends John, Lucy & Tom Heath of Bertelin Farmhouse Cheese.
CAKES. When we need great cakes we contact our friend Sarah Edwards near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, see www.sarahedwardscakes.co.uk, or up north, Melanie Ingram is a master cake maker.
EASTERN NIBBLES. When we need superb, fresh authentic samosas or similar Indian goodies (including wheat and gluten-free), our friend Afia from the markets is always on hand. Sublime, authentic, fresh and (just like all our food) home cooked.. see www.afias.co.uk.
ASPARAGUS. When we need asparagus (and when its in season) we always prefer to get it from R. T. Lee's Lodge Farm at Quatt, Bridgenorth.
MEAT. We increasingly use our friend Martyn Mottershead's fantastic (and always crowded) butchers shop in Stafford, see www.mmfinefoods.co.uk. Martyn (and his friends) also shoot game for us (in the shooting season anyway).
PATE. We've made and sold our own homemade pate on farmers markets for several years now - see www.thehomemadepatecompany.co.uk so you can be sure when we serve pate at your wedding it will be just as amazing as everything else - and (of course, like everything else) it will be made by us.
EGGS. Our two hens (Gwyn and Elaine) provide us with at least some of the free-range eggs we use to make the sauces we create - like, mayonaise, bearnaise or hollandaise.
TARTS. Since 2007 we reckon have made and sold over 80,000 savoury tarts on farmers markets. For more about this enterprise, see the other website at www.thelocaltartcompany.co.uk or come to a market when we're doing one (not often now in the summer!) and say "hullo" and get a taste of Karen's food there. We often serve tarts as veggie alternatives for weddings, and can make some amazing varieties like Karen's favourite 'Provencale' - that's homemade pesto, tomatoes, olives, basil on the most divine pastry base - light, golden, tasty, life changing!
OTHER THINGS ABOUT KEMP & KEMP CATERING LIMITED.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT. As well as Karen's amazing homemade food, Kemp & Kemp Catering Limited have another strength in Richard's experience as a professional project manager over 25 years. He uses his skills to make sure your catering splices seamlessly with everything else you have planned for your day. Try this app for planning yours.. we're in!
KITCHENS. We make all your food fresh in a fully inspected, professional catering unit located on a farm in the hills near Penkridge (Staffordshire).
So, for perfectly cooked, homemade, delicious wedding catering - served by great staff - send us an e-mail at info@kempandkempcatering.co.uk or give us a call on 01785 748528.
Catering with Passion we call it - call us and see why!
Kemp & Kemp Catering Limited, is a company registered in England and Wales.
Company Registration No 7507141. Registered Offices: St. John House, 49 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford ST17 4DH