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References
(A selection of letters from our clients.)
Earlier References: 2006
- 2010 2011 - 2023
- 2024
The Rifles Annual Officers' Club Dinner
Thursday 17th September 2024
The Guild of Freemen of the City of London - 16th December 2023
December 16th 2023
October 16th 2023
The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver
Wyre Drawers -
Monday 16th October 2023
October 10th 2023
Chamberlaine's Court, Guldhall -
Tuesday 10th October 2023
July 18th 2023
The Rifles Officers' Club Annual Dinner -
Thursday 13 July 2023
June 24th 2022
The Worshipful Company Of Coachmakers And
Coach Harness Makers
June 17th 2022
The Worshipful Company Of Distillers
July 2021
Dr Maurizio Bragagni OBE, MBA, CDir FIoD
Honorary Consul, Republic of San Marino
June 2021
Coronation Past Masters
May 2019
Board of Grand Stewards 2018-19
www.bgs2018-19.com
Dear Mark,
On behalf of the Board of Grand Stewards 2018-19 I extend
sincere thanks for your support with the 2019 Grand Festival
held at the Guildhall last week. The food was delicious,
entirely living up to expectations.
Your experience, wise counsel and the sheer hard work of your
staff ensured that the event was a complete success, viewed by
many as one of the best in living memory.
With my best wishes and warmest regards...
October 2017
Sheriff of the City of London
Sheriff Neil Redclifee
Dear Mark,
What an absolute trumph! That has to be the best Breakfast ever!
Thank you so much for all year extraordinary efforts in making
our Shriffs' Breakfast such a success. It all paid off and will
be remembered for a very long time. The Dragon in particular was
inspirational inspite of our difficulty in choosing a name for
the menu.
The Cornish Lobster Cocktail in the sea which was pure theatre
and the Ballindlloch Beef was absolutely delicious. Washed down
with such exceptional wine - sadly not much by me as I had to
keep my wits about me in front of the Lord Chancellor.
Please send mine and Emna's warmest and heartfelt thanks to all
at the Cook and the Butler and especially to Modesta and Jean.
We did thank you at the end of the speeches but I couldn't see
you, am not sure if you all heard.
Looking forward to seeing you often in the year ahead and thank
you for making it such a perfect day for us all.
Warmest wishes.
Neil + Emna
September 2017
The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers
Dear Mark,
As my year as master is coming to an end I just wanted to say
thank you to you and your company, The Cook and The Butler.
Thank you for all the superb food and wine that we have enjoyed
at our lunches and dinners in the City.
Our Company are very appreciative of the level of service we
receive from your caterers at all of our functions. The Cook and
The Butler are highly respected throughout the City, and rightly
so.
I wish you all the best in your role as Master of The Worshipful
Company of Cooks this year.
Thank you again.
Best wishes...
Master of The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers
June 2016
The Worshipful
Company of Weavers
November 2015
Agincourt 600 Committee
Commemoration
Banquet at Guildhall
AGINCOURT 600: COMMEMORATION BANQUET AT
GUILDHALL - Sept 2015
The banquet that you provided for us and our
700 guests at the Guildhall on 22 September was absolutely
stunning. The principal guests, including members of the Royal
family, were utterly delighted with the evening that you and
your staff had arranged for us. Many members of the Agincourt
600 Committee have had many years of experience of dining in the
City of London. We were simply of one mind: you gave us the most
sumptuous and beautiful dinner any of us had ever received.
The inspired choice of the menu and its ingredients that
reflected that part of North France where the battle of
Agincourt was fought added an almost emotional relationship
between the food and the event we were commemorating. The care
and the amount of thought you put in to designing the menu was
legendary: the sauce "Nicholas Wootton" accompanying the meat
course, named after the Lord Mayor in 1415; the selection of
fruits and the mini toffee crab apple from Picardy; the goats'
cheese from goats who grazed on the battlefield at Azincourt.
These superb touches added to what was a wonderful array of
food.
The reception for all of us was marvelous and our guests were
highly delighted to have such lovely canapés. The champagne and
the wines were a perfect accompaniment.
Thank you for all that you provided for us. It was a tour de
force.
The Worshipful Company of Poulters
"...I
want to express our appreciation of the wonderful spread you set
out for the company and our guests at Trinity House; it was
excellent. Our thanks to you and all at The Cook and The butler
together with your staff that night.
"I especially want to thank you for your choice of wines, the
Gewurtz was superb and the Tannat a lovely surprise; very well
done."
October 2015
The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing
Cards
Dear Mark,
I missed you at the end of the WCMPC Livery Dinner at Trinity
House on 5 Oct to thank you personally for the Superb Trafalgar
night dinner you laid on for us that night, although you did get
a 'chuck up' in the poem I wrote as part of my speech. So this
is to reiterate that and also thank you for a whole year of
dinners (+ 1 lunch), all of which have been superb, but crowned,
I think, by the 'Ships of the Line' pudding that evening. You
must be very proud of your head chef and chefs, together with
your front of house team, all of whom are a credit to The Cook
and The Butler.
As I approach the end of my year and hand over to a new Master,
I am really pleased that we undertook a strategy of visiting
halls and venues catered by you. It has worked very well and I
have been happy to recommend the arrangements to other Livery
companies I have met.
So thank you, Mark, and your excellent team, for a whole year's
worth of catering. Anyone who came to the Oct Traf night dinner
is in no doubt of the heights your team can scale and a number
have mooted that it was the "best Livery Dinner ever"! I know
people say nice things but that is heady praise indeed.
We shall, of course, cross paths often after I have stood
down,not least at Anchorites and my own company's (Ethos) annual
bash, which next year is likely to be in May onboard Wellington.
Once again, thank you and please pass on my thanks to your team.
The Worshipful
Company of Weavers
May 2015
The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars
April 2015
The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing
Cards
The
Worshipful Company of Carmen
"Dear Mark,
"I wanted to write following the Joint Services Dinner Night on
Wednesday 22" April 2015. I was really delighted with how the
evening went, and how everyone worked together to make the event
the success it turned out to be. I am thrilled that immediately
after, and since, I have received numerous messages of approval
and thanks. The overwhelming consensus is that the evening was
the best Military Awards Night in memory, and one that will be
hard to beat in the future.
"Thank you so much for the key part you played in the
preparations, and the evening itself. The Great Hall looked
impressive and perfectly set out. The food was outstanding, well
presented, and delicious to eat - and most definitely relished
by all. Sourcing beef from Gloucestershire was inspired, and
marvellous. The wines were just as I remembered them from the
tasting, and very well received. The visual was simply awesome,
and a spectacle that everyone loved and appreciated. It was
clear that a great deal of time had been put in to deliver what
you did. Can you please pass on my thanks to Jean and the team,
and give them my best wishes.
"Once again, thank you so much, for all that you did, to make
the event the success it was. Your support really was, and is,
much appreciated."
The Meyrick Society
"Once again may I thank you and your most
professional staff for yet another memorable Meyrick Dinner. I
said before the event that the menu (particularly after
substituting lamb for pork) looked pretty good and we were not
disappointed – in fact many thought it one of the best meals to
date.
"Personally, it is the perfect evening; a very good meal, plenty
of wine, surrounded by chums and in magnificent surroundings but
as you will have seen from the number attending, not everyone
shares my enthusiasm. In order to encourage members to attend
this evening, the Society now contributes a major part of the
cost of hiring the hall and thanks to your kind gesture in
keeping your price (relatively) low, we can moderate the cost of
the ticket. I am very much aware of what you do and much
appreciate it.
"Assuming that my fellow members want another Dinner, I will be
in touch but in the meantime, thank you for a very competent
service."
March 2015
King Edward's School, Witley
"Dear Mark
"Another Bridewell Day has been and gone and yet again this has
been catered for admirably by The Cook and Butler. Thank you for
your part in ensuring the day was successful. The food was
superb, and again many favourable comments have been received.
All the children seemed happy too with the contents of their
lunchbags.
"Please pass on my thanks to your staff who, as always, were very
pleasant and courteous.
"I hope we will be allowed to use The Cook and Butler in March
2016, when Bridewell Day falls on Tuesday 8th March.
"With best wishes..."
February 2015
The Worshipful Company of Poulters
"Dear Mark,
"Just a line to say thank you again for the superb meals you and
your team have provided during my year as Master.
Each event was I believe perfect and from the comments I have
received that is the view of all those attending.
Please convey my sincere thanks and congratulations to the Chef
and all his team at The Cook and The Butler for an excellent
job, in every respect.
My warmest regards to you all."