With over 20 years of experience, Cooks & Partners is a London-based bespoke caterer dedicated to making your wedding day truly unforgettable. Founded in 1998 by chef Simon Goggin, whose passion for exceptional ingredients drives everything they do, the team has grown into a close-knit group of experts focused on delivering outstanding culinary experiences. Their commitment to taste and quality is at the heart of every wedding they cater.
Every couple is unique, and your wedding menu should be too. Cooks & Partners avoids one-size-fits-all menus, instead crafting a personalized culinary journey that reflects your tastes and story. Whether you envision elegant fine dining, stylish canapés, relaxed street food bowls, or generous sharing platters, they can create it. They’re also skilled in fusion menus and will work closely with you to design dishes that you and your guests will love.
Great food deserves an equally stunning presentation. Cooks & Partners offers a full-service approach that covers every detail of your wedding’s look and feel, including:
The secret to unforgettable wedding food is fresh, seasonal ingredients. Cooks & Partners sources locally from farmers, butchers, and artisanal suppliers to ensure every bite is delicious and sustainable. Led by passionate chefs and event managers, their professional yet friendly service has earned glowing reviews from countless happy couples.
A New Year’s Eve surprise wedding, an intimate affair hosted in the client’s private residence where no expenses were spared! Pairing only the finest English wines with a generous family feasting menu with a room bathed in candlelight saw the guests leaving with contented tummies and happy memories.
Foodies, innovative, stylish, accommodating, client-focused
We take great pride in our bespoke approach to every client we work with by investing the necessary time and effort to find out what will really make their day special.
First and foremost don't allow the planning to overwhelm you, rely on the professionals you trust to guide you through the planning process. And always plan well ahead, the small details that make the difference can be time-consuming but immensely rewarding.
Wedding favours are where most couples like to inject a bit of their personality, we’ve seen inscribed flipflops that doubled up as place cards hanging off the back of each chair at a beach-themed wedding. “Mint to be” jars of mint-coloured mints at a wedding where mint was the main colour theme, the couple was crazy for the colour and we delivered!
Each enquiry starts with a detailed phone call during which we gather an understanding of the couple’s ideas and vision for the wedding. We invest this time from the beginning in order to build our understanding of each other from the get-go. After our first conversation, the initial quotation is created and so begins the discussions and quotation-tweaking! We’ll then meet on site or for a coffee to chat through the details in person and once you are satisfied with the quotation, confirmation and deposit paperwork is prepared and completed to secure your booking. Where appropriate, we invite couples in to taste the final menu and run through any remaining options and requests for the big day. On the day of, your original point of contact will oversee the wedding, managing the floor staff and liaising with the venue to ensure everything runs exactly according to plan!
By proudly selecting any dish, hot or cold, sweet or savoury, from our perfected-over-time menus. We often spend months sourcing and deliberating the right supplier; it’s largely important to us that the food not only tastes phenomenal, but that we have considered the welfare and sustainability of our ingredients too.
We once had a fantastic bride who loved Earl Grey tea and butternut squash so we did what any normal innovative team would do and combined the two! The result? A drool-inducing starter course of Earl Grey smoked butternut squash topped with a soft Ricotta, sprinkled with toasty sunflower seeds and garnished with fresh and green micro-cress, warm slices of homemade bread and butter served on the side.