M: 07765 413845 / E: kevin@coolcooks.com
Photo: Kevin Brewer
Chief 'Cool Cook' Chef
Cool Cooks Catering Company is a Hertfordshire based family run food catering business located at Hertford Rugby Club in Hoe Lane, Ware (near the Essex borders). With over 40 years of catering experience we take pride in providing both quality food and outside event catering services for local businesses and individuals alike, we treat each special event or function on an individual basis.
We supply a wide selection of professional food catering services; ranging from finger / fork buffets to formal lunches / dinners and barbecues to hog roasts and spit roasts, all freshly prepared in our kitchens for you and your guests. Let us take the catering worry and strain out of your social event, function or celebration party leaving you to relax and enjoy yourself.
Our services include catering for:
- Formal Dining Functions
- Social Events
- Parties & Celebrations
- Wedding Receptions
- Funeral Wakes
- Outside Catering
- Hog Roasts / Spit Roasts
- Barbecues
- Canapés & Savouries
- Buffets
- Carvery Roasts
Cool Cooks can help design your food menu to suit both your event's location and requirements whilst keeping to a budget. Should you have any questions about our food catering services for your special event please get in touch with our chief 'Cool Cook' chef Kevin Brewer.
If you have a special event coming up that requires catering, be it corporate, private or social and, you believe Cool Cooks could help, then please Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
Cool Cooks have built an excellent reputation with local businesses, clubs and associations for providing both quality food and service at a realistic price. Whether you are organising a corporate or formal presentation evening, a wedding reception, summer ball or a fundraising event Cool Cooks can accommodate you, design your menu to suit both your function location and requirements whilst keeping to a budget and help to make it the success you wish for.
Sample Menu - Starters
- Oak Baked Salmon topped with a Quail's Egg and finished with a lemon and dill dressing.
- Homemade Chicken & Port Pate served with a green salad garnish and red onion marmalade.
- Choice of Homemade Soups to suit your tastes.
Sample Menu - Main Courses
- Roast Beef, Roast Lamb, Roast Pork, Roast Turkey, Roast Chicken all served with the appropriate trimmings.
- Slow Braised Belly Pork with a Apple and Cider Jus, Spinach & Bacon.
- Stuffed Chicken Leg with a Rich Red Wine Sauce.
- Boned Leg of Lamb En Croute with a Garlic & Red Wine Gravy.
- Shank of Lamb in a Red Pepper and Garlic Jus.
Sample Menu - Desserts
- Vanilla Mousse with Red Berry Compote.
- Homemade Chocolate Brownie with Baileys Ice Cream.
- Raspberry & Hazelnut Meringue Roulade.
Cool Cooks offer a wide range of hot and cold buffets to suit every occasion or event. Finger or fork, hot or cold a buffet can fit most occasions, weddings, christenings, fundraising events or just a 'good old knees up', we are well placed to meet your requirements, building the menu around your needs and ensuring that we take the worry from you so you can relax and enjoy the occasion.
Sample Menu - Basic Finger Buffets
- Freshly Made Assorted Sandwiches.
- Homemade Sausage Rolls.
- Chicken Tandoori.
- Winglets.
- Homemade Scotch Eggs.
Canapés and Savouries are ideal for business meetings and receptions where you are looking to impress your clients or friends. All our Canapés are homemade and can be tailored to suit your occasion or taste.
Everybody loves a traditional English roast dinner and this makes a great carvery, where cooked joints of meat are freshly sliced to order for customers, an ideal choice for corporate events, weddings and large family occasions.
Cool Cooks offer a range of buffets set packages for funeral wakes and memorials, leaving one less thing for you to worry about.
Hog Roasts are a great way to create a special ambiance at corporate events or private parties. The ever popular option of Hog Roast is always a firm favourite with hosts and guests alike. All our pigs are sourced from a local farm and are free range reared and they are carved in front of you; bringing a sense of theatre to the occasion. Not sure that a Hog Roast is really up your street? We can adapt the hog roast machine to spit roast all manner of joints allowing you to have a Carvery service in most locations you wish.
Sample Menu
- Whole Spit Roasted Hog served with Apple Sauce and a Homemade Stuffing. (60-100).
- Whole Spit Roasted Lamb served with Mint Sauce and a Homemade Stuffing (30-50).
- Spit Roasted Chicken with a Homemade Stuffing.
- Spit Roast Ham, Turkey, Beef, Lamb or Pork or a mixture of each.
The above can be served with a roll, baguette, French stick or bap or you can make it a complete meal with Roast or New Potatoes, Selection of freshly made salads such as Coleslaw, Tomato and Basil Salad, Spiced Mixed Bean Salad, Spinach and Fig Salad, Fresh Beetroot, Rice and Pasta Salads Mixed Leaf Salad Greek Salad.
Organising for a Corporate event, party or wedding? A Cool Cooks BBQ is a great way to take advantage of summer, we also have some party tents to ensure you and your guests stay dry. We use quality ingredients and fresh produce together with a variety of rubs, marinades and seasonings for our barbecues ensuring that you can relax and enjoy the ambience of the occasion.
Sample Menu - Meat
- Homemade Beef burgers.
- Cumberland Sausages.
- Spare Ribs.
- Spiced Lamb Kofte Kebabs.
- Chicken Fillets in a Coriander and Lime Marinade (or similar to suit your tastes).
- Minted Lamb Cutlets.
- Pork Loin in a Cider and Mustard Marinade.
Sample Menu - Fish
- Salmon Steaks Marinated in Lemon and Dill.
- Tuna Steaks in Garlic and Onions.
- Herb Crusted Sardines.
- Lightly Spiced Mackerel Fillets.
Sample Menu - Vegetarian
- Fennel Stuffed Flat Mushroom.
- Feta and Herb filled Courgette.
- Vegetable Kebabs.
All of the above can be served as with Hog Roasts and Spit roasts with either a selection of breads or salads.
Looking for something different then why not try our Doner Kebab grill, it has proved a great hit at both corporate events and evening wedding receptions as something a little different.
Worried about the quality? No need to as we will make your Doner from fresh ingredients and can also flavour to your particular taste and requirements.
Another great idea is to have pan meals from our large paella cooking pans; these offer so much more than just paella.
A small selection of Cool Cooks catering event photos:
Over the years that we have been operating Cool Cooks have acquired a solid clientbase in the local area and further afield providing food catering services for corporate businesses, clubs and associations; that we continue to do functions for on a regular and ad hoc basis. Below is a selection of what previous clients have said about our catering services:
"We had a lovely evening this summer when Kevin and team cooked a spit roast dinner. We had many comments from our guests about the delicious food, so thank you for all you hard work to make our evening a great success."
Claire Gratton
"We used cool cooks for my daughters christening. There were 100 adults at 40 kids. We decided on a hog roast. The meat was delicious, as was the salads etc. There was plenty of food and at a very reasonable price. Everyone commented on how good the food was. We found cool cooks very accommodating and helpful throughout. Thank u cool cooks. We will definitely use you again."
Katie Barnes
"Thank you so much for making my 50th birthday party a success. As you know, this is was the first time we've used caterers to host a party at home and was keen that the quality of food and service were high. I've had nothing but compliments from all my guests who raved about the food, quality & quantity! and the efficient staff.
From our initial contact with you, everything has been easy. The flexibility you offered made us choose you, and I liked the way we weren't 'forced' to have anything we didn't want, or made to sign up to a 'package' – as can sometimes be the case with caterers. There was nothing I would have done differently. Things could not have gone any better. Many thanks to you and your team."
Nancy Flint
"Gem have been using Cool Cooks for over three years now and wouldn’t do so if they weren’t offering well priced great quality food. To assign our loyalty just to the food would be doing Kevin and his team a disservice as they have always been very professional, courteous and above all reliable; whether they are catering for 25 or 250. We recently had an event for 250 people and used Cool Cooks for a food’s from around the world theme and they did not let us down. We had five food stations each offering a different cuisine – from America a BBQ, from Italy Pizza and Pasta, from Mexico Fajitas and Tacos, from China Stir-fry (you choose the ingredients) and from France Crepes and Waffles. Best of all after the initial rush Kevin had his team cook to order so it was always fresh and hot. We look forward to coming up with even more complicated food requirements for Cool Cooks to provide in the coming year."
Gareth Phillips
Senior Commercial Analyst
"My husband and I used Cool Cooks to cater our joint 30th Birthday party and our Wedding. When it came to planning menus Kevin’s experience and expertise soon became clear. We had strict budgets for both and he provided a wonderful and generous buffet for 200 for the birthday party (which was about the only thing that went right that night) and for the Wedding an excellent sit down meal for 100 followed by another wonderful evening buffet. Kevin was a rock for both events and without him we wouldn’t have enjoyed either! We are very happy to recommend Cool Cooks."
Rosie Phillips
"Cool Cooks provided a BBQ for our RLB Summer Garden Party. We found them to be professional, friendly and helpful. They arrived to our venue early with a self-sufficient refrigerated van, 3 servers to help the event run smoothly, and once the food had been served (but not too soon) cleared away quietly and thoroughly. We had many compliments on the food and the portions per person were very generous, so much so that most of us left with doggy bags after the event! I liked the fact our BBQ package included for china plates and metal cutlery for a price where most others were providing disposable paper plates and plastic cutlery. I also found it very helpful that there was an option of different packages to suit different budgets. I would recommend Cool Cooks and definitely consider booking them again for any future events"
Candi Brown
Quantity Surveyor / Sports and Social Committee Events Organiser
"The Rotary Club of Hertford have enjoyed CoolCooks food for several events. One was for our annual Senior Citizens Christmas lunch where over 100 guests were catered for. An excellent meal and friendly service was provided by Kevin and his team."
Peter Rawlings
Past President and Chairman of the Community Committee
"Always high quality food and service. Excellent indoor and outdoor catering for any function. No hesitation in recommending. very happy to support this local business."
Tracey Ambridge
Cool Cooks Catering Company Ltd is currently based at Hertford Rugby Club in Hoe Lane, Ware, Herts SG12 9NZ.
For further information please contact:
Kevin Brewer
Telephone: 07765 413845
E-mail: kevin@coolcooks.com
Social media: Cool Cooks on Facebook