First Serve Menus

At First Serve offer wide range of menus to suite all tastes. Below is a list of all the menus on this page. Clicking on a menu in the list below will automatically scroll you down this page to that particular menu.

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Menu List

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First Serve Canapé Menu

Choose four canapés and we will provide a minimum of three of each item from £12.50 per person.
  • Crudités with blue cheese dip
  • Gorgonzola, Parma ham & fig crostini
  • Scottish smoked salmon triangles on wholemeal bread
  • Prawns in garlic mayonnaise wrapped in a chive pancake
  • Scampi with tartare sauce
  • Asparagus rolls with mustard butter
  • Aromatic duck bites
  • Sausages with honey & mustard glaze
  • Rare roast beef on pumpernickel with rocket & horseradish
  • Spinach & feta filo parcels
  • Chicken satay with peanut dipping sauce
  • Devils on horseback
  • Caesar salad gems
  • Mediterranean kebabs
  • Sesame prawn toasts
  • Parma ham, Manchego cheese and olive bites
  • Vegetable spring rolls with plum dipping sauce
  • Bang Bang chicken sticks
  • Thai fish cakes with chilli dipping sauce
  • Tomato & pesto mozzarella crostini
  • Goats cheese & cranberry tartlets
  • Roasted pepper & goats cheese crostini
  • Spicy Meatballs with yogurt & mint dip
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First Serve Starter Menu

The following starters vary in price from £5.50 per person
  • Watercress soup with walnut bread
  • Spicy tomato soup
  • Avocado, mozzarella and tomato salad
  • Fresh asparagus with butter or hollandaise sauce
  • Piedmont peppers with roasted tomatoes
  • Blinis with smoked salmon & soured cream or gravadlax
  • Smoked Salmon mousse with Melba toast
  • Egg & watercress Mousse
  • Fresh salmon & dill terrine
  • Smoked salmon roulade
  • Prawn & avocado salad
  • Prawns baked in garlic & parsley butter
  • Fresh pear & walnut salad with Stilton dressing
  • Toasted bacon & goats' cheese salad
  • Grilled goats' cheese salad with balsamic dressing
  • Artichoke & lemon salad with prosciutto & bresola
  • Baked field mushrooms with garlic & parsley cream
  • Mediterranean tartlets with rocket salad
  • Feta cheese & spinach filo parcels
  • Wild mushroom risotto
  • Large prawns with Pawpaw lime juice, ginger, & soy sauce
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First Serve Main Course Menu

The following dishes start from £16.50 per person

Thai green chicken curry

Served with basmati rice, mini popadums and cucumber and mint relish.

Boardroom Chicken

Breast of chicken in a light creme fraiche sauce with sun dried tomatoes, basil & pine nuts, served with new potatoes and green salad.

Chicken with Wild Mushrooms

Chicken breast in a white wine and wild mushroom sauce, served with new potatoes and green salad.

Tarragon Chicken

Chicken breast coated in a creamy white wine and tarragon sauce, served with a choice of rice or potatoes and tomato and watercress salad.

Chicken with Crisp Ciabatta & Parma Ham

Chicken breast baked in the oven in a leek, sage, mustard & creme fraiche sauce topped with gruyere cheese, Parma ham and ciabatta crumbs. Served with Dauphinoise potatoes and green salad.

Chicken with Sage & Pancetta

Chicken breast baked in the oven with fresh sage, wrapped in pancetta Served with Dauphinoise potatoes and green salad

Chicken Curry

Served with rice poppadoms & mango chutney

Roast Duck Breast with Sour Cherry Sauce

Served with mashed potatoes and green beans.

Lamb Tagine

Tender lamb cooked with apricots, tomatoes and spices, served with buttered cous cous and green salad.

Lamb Pilauf

Marinated spiced lamb served with Pilauf rice and a green salad

Braised Lamb Shanks

Served with mashed potatoes, baby carrots and green beans.

Moussaka

Minced lamb in a rich tomato sauce, layered with aubergine and potato slices, topped with a creamy yogurt and cheese sauce, served with green salad & garlic bread.

Rare fillet of Beef with Horseradish & Rocket

Fillet of beef cooked rare in a peppercorn crust served with creamed horseradish, wild rocket and croutons. With new potatoes, fine beans and baby carrots.

Beef Carbonade

Beef cooked slowly in ale to give a rich flavour, served with herb dumplings, potatoes and glazed beans and carrots.

Beouf Bourgignonne

Beef cooked in red wine with button onions, mushrooms and bacon lardons, served with potato & celeriac mash and French beans.

Pork Medallions with Wild Mushrooms

Slices of pork fillet pan-fried in a creamy mustard & wild mushroom sauce, served with roast potato wedges & green beans.

Mustard Pork with cherry tomatoes

A colourful pork casserole with cherry tomatoes, whole grain mustard and button mushrooms, served with potato and parsley mash and green salad.

Simple Home Cooked Dishes

  • Chicken, ham & leek pie
  • Steak & ale pie
  • Creamy fish pie
  • Italian meatballs in tomato sauce
  • Chicken korma with rice
  • Sweet & sour chicken
  • Chilli con carne
  • Coq au vin
  • Coronation chicken
  • Hungarian goulash
  • Cannelloni
  • Normandy pork casserole
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First Serve Main Course Fish Menu

The following dishes start from £16.50 per person

Salmon en croute

Whole salmon fillets stuffed with herbed butter and baked in puff pastry served with new potatoes and tomato and watercress salad.

Exotic Fish Pie

A luscious mixture of fish such as salmon, cod, natural smoked haddock, large prawns, mussels and scallops bound in a white wine and parsley sauce with button mushrooms cooked under a puff pastry lid. Served with new potatoes and green salad.

Seafood Lasagne

Layers of luscious fish in a creamy sauce layered with sheets of lasagne and spinach, topped with melted cheese, served with garlic bread and green salad.

Salmon with lime & ginger

Tranche of salmon baked with a fresh lime & ginger sauce. Served with parsley mashed potatoes & pak choy.

Salmon Asparagus Terrine

Fresh salmon & asparagus layered together and wrapped in smoked salmon. Served with new potatoes & a mixed leaf salad.

Salmon nicoise

A decorative dish of poached salmon with prawns, asparagus, beans, egg, olives and lentils amd rice
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First Serve Vegetarian Menu

The following dishes start from £11.50 per person

Wild Mushroom Risotto

Field, oyster and porcini mushrooms oven baked with Arborio rice, wine, onions and Parmesan served with garlic bread and green salad

Greek Pie

Fresh spinach, eggs and feta cheese delicately flavoured with cumin and baked in sheets of filo pastry served with carrot and orange salad

Moroccan Vegetable Tagine

Gently spiced, aromatic flavoured dish with aubergine, courgette & chick peas, served with couscous, garlic bread and green salad.

Roasted Vegetable Lasagne

Roasted aubergine, courgette, pepper and tomato layered with pasta and bechamel sauce topped with melted cheese. Served with garlic bread, fresh Parmesan and green salad

Crespolini

Cannelloni filled with Spinach and ricotta cheese, smothered with rich cheese sauce and oven baked, served with garlic bread and green salad.

Aubergine & Coconut Curry

A mildly spiced curry of aubergine, sweet potato & chick peas. Served with naan bread, yogurt, mint & cucumber relish & a crisp green salad.

Feta Filled Peppers

Grilled sweet Romano peppers filled with a mix of feta cheese & cherry tomatoes topped with a pecorino cheese sauce. Served with garlic bread and green salad.

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First Serve Dessert Menu

Desserts start from £6.50 per person
  • Hazelnut meringue gateau with fresh raspberries
  • Chocolate strawberry tart
  • Summer fruit millefeuilles
  • Banoffi pie
  • Chocolate roulade
  • Summer pudding
  • Apple or pear tart tatin
  • Tiramisu
  • Delicious apple pie or crumble
  • Pavlova with choice of fruits
  • Passion fruit mini pavlovas
  • Heavenly cheesecake with fruit compote topping
  • Creme brulee
  • Profiteroles with chocolate sauce
  • Lemon meringue pie
  • Chocolate truffle torte
  • Coconut ice cream with mango sauce
  • Chocolate mousse
  • Exotic fruit salad
  • Winter fruit salad
  • Tiramisu

The following are examples of First Serve menus that have proved very successful with our clients and have provided the right selection of dishes for a particular occasion.

You are welcome to choose any of the sample menus as they appear or you may prefer to add or substitute any or all of the dishes with a choice from the First Serve menus above. This may, of course, affect the price (either up or down).

We would be delighted to discuss and help you to choose the menu that is just right for your particular occasion.

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Menu 1 - Celebration Menu

Canapés served on arrival

  • Smoked salmon & caviar canapés
  • Aromatic duck bites
  • Assorted crostini
  • Asparagus rolls with mustard butter

Starter plated (please choose one from the following)

  • Melon & Parma ham with rocket & Parmesan
  • Tomato stuffed with lightly curried prawn mayonnaise
  • Smoked salmon mousse with Melba toast
  • Tomato, mozzarella & basil salad with herb dressing

Buffet

  • Rare roast, peppered fillet of beef on rocket with horseradish cream Home cooked ham with cranberry relish
  • Home cooked ham with cranberry relish
  • Tarragon chicken with fresh herb mayonnaise
  • Mediterranean quiche
  • Potato dauphinoise
  • Three bean & pasta salad
  • Greek salad
  • Green salad
  • French bread & butter

Dessert

  • Brown sugar & hazelnut meringue with raspberries
  • Deep lemon tart
  • Tropical fruit salad
  • Brie & grapes with ciabatta biscuits

£30.00 per person

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Menu 2 - Celebration buffet

Canapés served on arrival

  • Hot sausages with honey & mustard glaze
  • Goats' cheese & sweet pepper crostini
  • Scottish Smoked Salmon or Trout on wholemeal bread

Starter plated (please choose one from the following)

  • Asparagus & crispy bacon salad with green mayonnaise
  • Tomato stuffed with lightly curried prawn mayonnaise
  • Egg & watercress mousse with Melba toast

Buffet

  • Salmon en croute
  • Moroccan chicken with couscous
  • Goats' cheese & watercress tart
  • New potatoes with parsley butter
  • Tomato, artichoke & rocket salad
  • Red cabbage coleslaw with lemon mayonnaise dressing
  • Mixed leaf salad with French dressing
  • French bread & butter

Dessert

  • Tropical fruit Pavlova
  • Marscapone & lime tort
  • Chocolate roulade

£28.00 per person

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Menu 3 - Buffet menu

Canapés served on arrival

  • Smoked salmon on wholemeal bread
  • Hot sausages with honey & mustard glaze
  • Roasted pepper & goats' cheese crostini
  • Chicken with avocado in mint mayonnaise
  • Home baked ham with cranberry relish
  • Smoked haddock, leek & creme fraiche tart
  • Hot new potatoes with mint & chive butter
  • Waldorf salad
  • Tomato, bean and herb salad
  • Mixed green leaf salad
  • Hot new potatoes with mint & chive butter
  • Waldorf salad
  • Tomato, bean and herb salad
  • Mixed green leaf salad
  • Selection or breads and butter
  • Chocolate truffle torte
  • Lemon meringue pie
  • Exotic fruit salad

£24.00 per person

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Menu 4 - Buffet menu

Canapés served on arrival

  • Crudités with assorted dips
  • Hot sausages with honey & mustard glaze
  • Asparagus rolls with mustard butter

Buffet

  • Chicken with basil, pine nuts & sun dried tomatoes
  • Seafood gratin
  • Red onion & watercress quiche
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  • Hot buttered new potatoes
  • Cucumber, fennel & pea salad
  • Three bean salad with tomatoes and herbs
  • Green salad with French dressing

Dessert

  • Tropical fruit Pavlova
  • Lemon cheesecake
  • Chocolate tart with raspberries
  • Selection of breads and butter

£24.00 per person

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Menu 5 - First Serve Christening menu

Canapes served on arrival

  • Crudites with red pepper houmous
  • Goats cheese & roasted pepper crostini
  • Asparagus rolls with mustard butter

Buffet

  • Chicken breast with sun dried tomatoes, basil & pine nuts
  • Fresh seafood Florentine
  • Mediterranean tart
  • Hot new potatoes with parsley & butter
  • Three bean & pasta salad
  • Tomato & watercress salad
  • Mixed leaf salad with French dressing
  • Chocolate roulade
  • Tart tatin
  • Fruit salad & mini meringues

Special menu for children

  • Assorted mini sandwiches
  • Sausages
  • Crisps
  • Carrot & cucumber fingers
  • Grapes, strawberries & melon balls
  • Chocolate biscuits

£19.50 per person for the adult menu.

£7.50 per head for the children's menu

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Menu 6 - First Serve Funeral or memorial menu

  • Menu choice may depend on the time of day the food is to be served.
  • A more substantal selection is usually appropriate at lunchtime and perhaps a smaller selection during the afternoon.
  • Prices start from £8.50 per person for sandwiches
  • Smoked salmon on wholemeal bread triangles
  • Hot sausages in honey & grain mustard glaze
  • Vol-au-vents with assorted fillings
  • Homemade sausage rolls
  • Asparagus rolls with mustard butter
  • Assorted sandwiches
  • Egg & cress, coronation chicken, prawn mayonnaise, ham & mustard mayonnaise, cucumber, cheddar cheese & chutney
  • Assorted homemade cakes
  • Vanilla or chocolate sponge cake with butter cream filling,
  • Toffee, date & walnut cake, fruit cake, lemon drizzle cake
  • Chocolate brownies, carrot cake with orange frosted topping
  • Homemade mini scones with fresh cream & jam
  • Tea & coffee

We can provide any other drinks upon request

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