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Drop us a message if you are interested in getting a quote for you event! we will do our best to have a custom quote over within 72 hours <3

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A message from Christopher

Thank you for your interest in d.a.r.e food <3

My team and I take every event seriously and are constantly striving to evolve our food and service. We work closely with client briefs to create tailored menus for each occasion—always staying true to my signature cooking style. 

Our menus evolve with the seasons to help reduce our environmental impact, and we are proactive in minimizing food waste through techniques like dehydrating, pickling, and fermenting, as well as donating surplus food to charity when possible.

As a plant-focused catering company, we prioritize fresh, unprocessed plant-based ingredients as the core of our dishes, though we still offer meat and fish options. My goal is for our food to promote well-being and demonstrate that health-conscious meals can be truly delicious, while still leaving room for a little indulgence!

We cater to a wide variety of events, from weddings and office parties to product launches and funerals, catering to groups ranging from 10 to 1,750 guests (our largest so far!).

I sincerely look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,

Christopher Dare

Chef / Owner

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D.a.r.e (formerly SOUP) is my little food business, I’ve been events catering foaround 10 years and cooking for pleasure, pain, money & duty in different forms since I was 13 where I started peeling potatoes in a fish and chip shop a journey that has since lead me to restaurant and cafe ownership, international events, pop ups and consultancy work, and dishwashing, of course, always dishes :-)

I’m trying to cook with seasonal and Finnish produce, though this is quite challenging in the darker months, typically my dishes have a few bold flavours, taking inspiration from classical European / Nordic flavour combinations and then with some experimental (and I hope original) flavour combinations.

I’m experimenting with methods of reducing our food waste & preserving the best of each season using dehydrating, fermenting & pickling.

In my free time I’m a keen runner, skateboarder, snowboarder and some art & pretty things.

Feel free to follow my personal journey on ig @christopher.dare. Away from d.a.r.e I run www.naked-cleaning.com, and www.karaoke-caravan.com, 

D.a.r.e relies on my friends coming in to help work on a job basis, typically they have their own little enterprises or studies and come in to make the dream happen, without these relationships the business would not work, would like to express a great deal of gratitude to them.

Thanks for taking the time to read, hope we can add some memories to your story with our food & service.

peace, love and empathy,

Christopher <3

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