Our dedicated on-site catering team offers delegates a wide variety of exceptional, high quality and nutritious catering options for any occasion. Catering can be scheduled to meet your event timings and we have suggested menus available for your perusal. Equally, our Head Chef is more than happy to discuss any bespoke ideas or requirements for any occasion, budget, taste or dietary requirement.
Catering Menus
Our menus currently include a variety of options: refreshment breaks, sandwiches and packed lunches, finger buffet, fork buffet and we can do more formal evening receptions and dinners with canapes, 2 & 3 course dinners, served with alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.
Catering Order Form
You will find we have created this easy-to-use Catering Booking Form that correlates to the menus and summarises all the information you need in one place. This is to reduce the number of emails for each and every catering order and / or event. It also helps you to quickly and easily estimate your catering budget based on the food choices available – you add the times, food choices and delegate numbers per break and the form will update the final costing at the bottom of the form.
Please ensure you note the break times in the time columns provided and select the relevant catering choices and numbers against each break – so there will be a separate time column with choices for each break. We need to know when we can come back to clear up so please detail delivery and collection times in the column by giving a start and finish time (i.e. 09:00-09:30).
In any correspondence to guests, it is best practice to ask them to also provide any dietary requirements/allergies etc. when they are RSVP-ing to confirm their attendance, so you have these details at the time of confirming your catering order, menu choices and final numbers. Aim to have these details back 2 weeks prior to your event.
Where you have menu choices or dietaries to provide these should be detailed in the box provided at the bottom of the form.
Service of Alcohol
Service of Alcohol is permitted under our current license in the majority of venues across our campus, however, it is important to check first, as we may need to apply for an occasional license or make sure that certain areas of the campus are covered within our license. An occasional license, which can be used for one-off events, takes approximately 6 weeks to process and would incur an additional charge. If you are unclear, then please contact conference@hw.ac.uk
Catering Outlets
We are a highly skilled team that includes, professionally trained chefs, experienced friendly and helpful front line staff here to assist with catering services, backed up by dedicated administrative staff. The team is therefore ideally placed and have the expertise to deliver a wide range of services from light refreshments to an international conference.
We are open throughout the year with at least one outlet open 7 days a week, changing with the seasons and the academic year. Whether you want a quick breakfast wrap, a traditional Scottish fry up or a continental coffee and croissant – somewhere will be available.
Vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halaal, gluten-free, lactose intolerant, simply healthy or purely indulgent – we are here to assist. Speak to us. If we can, we will.
All our catering outlets offer free Wi-Fi.