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 2022!
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
Pasta Masterclass
Saturday 5th Feb, 4pm- 8pm
Join the Plum team for a relaxed evening learning the delights of pasta making. From Pasta making 101 to impressive show stoppers, our experienced chef George Ryan will guide you through process step by step. On arrival, you will be greeted with a complimentary welcome drink and nibbles. Further drinks are available throughout the class.
- Tagliatelle with walnut and rocket pesto
- Spinach and ricotta filled Ravioli with sage butter
- Optional extra: Raviolo with egg yolk centre
- Printed recipes so you can recreate what you have learnt at home.
Pasta Wine & Dine
Saturday 19th Feb, 4pm- 8pm
A special evening to learn the art of pasta making! On arrival, you will be greeted with a glass of prosecco and welcome canapés. This workshop will introduce professional techniques to make impressive pasta dishes from scratch, followed by a sit down meal of your own creations, washed down with a complimentary glass of wine or two chosen by Quaff.
- Welcome drink and canapés
- Tagliatelle with choice of walnut and rocket pesto or caico e pepe
- Choice of spinach and ricotta or mortadella and pecorino filled Ravioli with sage butter
- Optional extra: Raviolo with egg yolk centre
- Printed recipes so you can recreate what you have learnt at home
- Complimentary drinks and focaccia baked earlier that day to accompany sit down meal
Design your own class
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Contact the team for bespoke group classes. We can work with you to design the perfect hen party or a fabulous birthday celebration.
All classes are delivered in our beautiful Mews Kitchen, where we create all of our delicious menus for weddings and events locally. Our commercial kitchen is based in a lovely cobbled mews just off third avenue, a truly stunning setting for a class and heated with a roaring wood-burner to keep us all warm. We are lucky enough to be surrounded by local venders who supply fresh ingredients for all our classes including Bramptons Butchers, Fish Galore, The Cheese Man and Quaff Wine Merchant. Previous classes have included:
- Middle Eastern Street Food
- Live Botanical Drinks Workshop
- Fresh Fish from Brighton Beach
- North Indian Curries
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)
