Welcome to
The Perfect Plum
Welcome to
Sensational Food & Professional Staff
Food is a key ingredient in a successful event, we like to keep it simple and delicious by providing fresh Sussex ingredients in our constantly changing menus.
Take a look and see what’s on our Menu of the Month! With the classic blend of culinary brilliance and enough variations to inspire a budding chef, we at The Perfect Plum are excited to promote optimal health & new exciting offers.
Food & Wine Tasting
We host tastings prior to bookings all the time. Tastings take place in Plum’s beautiful garage kitchen, originally a coach house, now a fully professional commercial kitchen with dining in an industrial setting rather than a restaurant. Enjoy a variety of exceptional wine choices and offers introduced by our in house sommelier. Taste with us and find the perfect pairing for your celebrations menu.
Environmentally responsible
Locally sourced meat from our butchers in Kemptown, fruit and vegetables grown in season, fresh fish from our own Brighton coast and all handpicked by me. All ingredients have their seasonality, shell fish when there’s an ‘r’ in the month, game from the Glorious 12th (August), lamb in Spring and so on. You get the picture and we follow the seasons with our constantly changing menus.
meet the team
Since 2006, Plum’s mission has been to create simple, seasonal, beautiful + approachable food. We set up our catering business from home and began growing a reputation for delicious home cooked, locally sourced food. We love Sussex growers, farmers and producers and we’re proud to use their products in our menus. The business has flourished and grown since the early days into a luxury boutique caterer.
Weddings & Cocktail Hour
Book now for 2020!
Plum offers a seasonal dinner menu in all forms- buffet, family- style, plated + small plates. We love creating additional custom stations – farmstand table including our classic cheese, charcuterie + seasonal vegetable platter + raw or vegan bars. Let us know what you are dreaming of!
Wedding package – £50 includes a-la-carte 4 course meal + half bottle of wine pp along with basic service wares.
Planning a wedding can be overwhelming but we oversee all aspects of the wedding day, from the first meeting when we discuss food to the last meeting when all the details of the day are finally in place. So changing your mind is never a problem and we believe that whatever your budget we can produce exquisite food with exceptional service.
‘Thank you so much for all you and your team’s hard work on our wedding day. Everyone commented on how delicious the food was and the service was fantastic too’.
Events
We have helped a number of companies with launches, staff parties, exhibitions, promotions and marketing events, providing food that fits properly with the type and scale of event. Good service and good food leaves our clients free to get on with their main agenda.
‘We had such a fantastic day and the food and organisation was perfect’.
Classes
Inspired Street Food
If you enjoy street food and wonder why your home recipes don’t taste the same this is your opportunity to learn some of the secrets. Inspired by the flavours of Middle Eastern cooking and using recipes given to me by chefs and cooks from Morocco, Iran and Israel, each team will produce a classic street food dish. Then the best part of the evening when we all set our dishes out on the sharing table and dig in, washed down with a glass of wine.
- Crunchy green herb falafel
- Organic in-house made hummus
- Fish and sumac kebabs with homemade pita and tahini sauce
- Lamb and za’arta shwarma with fresh coriander and lemon chutney
- Kanafeh with lavender syrup
Live Botanical Drink Workshop
Join us as we learn the art of hand crafted live botanical brewing! Old Tree Kombucha is known for its delicately balanced floral flavours with a tangy, apple blossom sweetness and champagne-like character. The workshop will begin with an introduction from the brewers themselves, headlining ancient botanical brewing history & culture. You will enjoy a variety of Plum’s favourite plant based small plates as you explore the health benefits of natures cleansing and revitalising probiotic soda!
- Taste some of the main Old Tree brews and fermented tonics inspired with foraged fruit infusions and tinctures
- Create your own bespoke flavoured sour-tonic beverage choice: Kombucha, Kefir, Kvasse and cider to take away and share with your friends
Fresh fish from Brighton Beach
For those of you who love to eat fish and want to know how to buy, prepare and cook it, this is an evening dedicated to understanding everything you need to know about fish. Ideally placed just one block up from the beach we take pride in using as much fish as possible on our menus. We are going to share our great knowledge of fish cookery with you, showing you how to fillet, de-scale and apply recipes to different types of fish. All the fish we cook with will be from sustainable varieties and we will sit down and enjoy our dishes with a glass of wine.
- Pollock Teriyaki
- Balek Ekmek
- Brandage with salted whiting
- Salmon and green pea fish cakes with caper sauce
- Mussels in turmeric cream
Pop-ups & Local Events
The Garage Kitchen Supper Club
This is a one-of-a-kind culinary experience and a chance to visit us in our beautiful new garage kitchen in one of Hove’s beautiful mews’. Originally a coach house, now a fully professional commercial kitchen with dining in an industrial setting rather than a restaurant.
If you crave an amazing meal and an exciting dining experience this is for you! Our food is always about using the best ingredients as they become available season by season, even if that means ignoring the latest food trend. Our menus change monthly and we look for inspiration wherever we go, sometimes using classic recipes, sometimes inventing a new dish when we’ve been inspired by another chef. We want our guests to leave feeling they’ve had a really tasty dinner and one they won’t forget.
Supper club dates and menus will be announced on Facebook, Twitter and on our blog-page here.
Charity Fundraisers
All the team at Plum have contributed their skills and services every year to raise money for a very important cause. Plan International have highlighted the problems facing women and young girls all around the world and this is what they say:
‘Millions of girls around the world are being discriminated against because of their gender. Girls are robbed of their childhoods, denied their most fundamental human rights and prevented from fulfilling their potential’.
If you believe in every girl’s right to live safe from violence, go to school and learn without fear, marry who she wants, when she wants then support our fundraising event for Plan International ‘Because I’m a Girl’.
Twice a year we hold a charity dinner event at the Garage, we donate the food and service and you pay for an evening of delicious food and good company. Leave us your details and we will let you know the upcoming dates for fundraiser dinners.
Menu
Welcome cocktail and canapés
- Home cured salmon gravadlax
with pickled fennel and soda bread
- or
- Cauliflower and cumin croquettewith green herb yogurt and lime sauce
- Roast belly pork
with popcorn crackling, roast apple, cider gravy. Creamy mustard mash and wilted kale
- or
- Honeyed sweet potatoand chickpea casserole, spinach and tomato sauce. Warm salad of quinoa and barley with rocket, apricot and red onions
- Orange and almond tart
with homemade chocolate ice cream
- or
- Roast pearwith pomegranate sauce, mascarpone and nutmeg ice cream
Private Dining
Weekends away, private dining and dinner parties
Enjoy the luxury of a delicious dinner cooked and served for you at your chosen accommodation on your weekend away or perhaps a dinner party in your own home. We have a selection of menus for you to chose from and we can also personalise your event with something you particularly like. Give us a call and have a chat about it, nothing is too much trouble, we want your event to be exactly what you are dreaming of.
Menu
- Cured Salmon
with pickled fennel and apple with mustard dressing and wholemeal soda bread
- Supreme of cornfed chicken
in cider and saffron sauce with crushed pumpkin, potatoes and wilted spinach
- Lemon mascarpone posset
- Duck rillette
on toasted fig bread with pickled pear
- Low and slow
brisket of beef with red wine sauce and roast vegetables
- Chewy meringueswith chantilly cream and caramelised apples
- Green herb and chickpea felafel balls
with tahini sauce and fresh banana shallot
- Honeyed sweet potato
and chickpea casserole with tomatoes and spinach served with warm salad of couscous, apricot and toasted sesame seeds
- Chocolate fondant tartwith gingersnap crust
- Beetroot and horseradish macaron
with fresh mackerel tartare
- Belly pork
with sage and lemon stuffing, soy and ginger gravy. Served with roast root vegetables and kale
- Cambridge burnt creamwith poached pear
Hen & Bachelor parties
Brighton has everything to offer group parties on a weekend visit. You’ve got bars, clubs, theatres, both high and low culture and wonderful accommodation to be found in the town. Plum can put the finishing touches to your weekend by bringing a dinner party to your door. We know exactly what you want, a delicious and intimate dinner to share with your friends, discreet service and then we clear it all away leaving you free to slip off into beautiful Brighton for a fun evening.
We can recommend accommodation for you having worked in so many houses and lodges, so if you’re not sure just ask us and we can give you a completely impartial view.
The Perfect Plum has a great offer – 3 course meal £30 + glass of wine included. Perfect pre-dinner cocktails are also available!
- Crab popcorn fritters with green onion mayo
- Chicken supreme cooked in turmeric cream with fresh tomato salsa
- New potatoes roasted with fennel seeds and garlic
- Butterscotch posset with peanut brittle
- Spinach and cheese fritters with green onion mayo (v)
- Aubergine and chickpea casserole with turmeric sauce and fresh tomato salsa (v)
