Dessert & Late Night

Dessert service and the late-night food that follows it. This is usually planned as a second wave rather than an extension of dinner: guests are standing, the room has loosened, and what works is food people can eat with one hand while still talking. It is the part of an evening guests most reliably remember, and the part most often left until last.

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Warm chocolate dessert with sauce pour, ice cream quenelle, and fresh raspberries.

How it works

The shape of the service.

Plated dessert

Served to the table at the end of dinner, timed against speeches so it does not land mid-toast.

Patisserie table

A staffed or self-serve table of smaller items, set out once dinner service has cleared. It works well where the evening moves into dancing.

Late-night stations

Hot, substantial, and easy to eat standing. Usually opened somewhere between ten and midnight, timed to when the room actually wants it rather than to a fixed hour.

Celebration cakes

Made for the event or worked around a cake you have arranged elsewhere, including cutting and plating it for service.

What’s included

Comes with it.

Service staff for the dessert and late-night waves
Serving equipment, linen and display for the table or stations
Timing agreed against your evening schedule
Clear-down after the last service

Dietary requirements

Designed in, not worked around.

Dessert is where dietary guests are most often forgotten, because the constraints are harder — gluten and dairy are structural in most patisserie rather than incidental. We design alternatives rather than omitting the course, and they are plated to look like they belong on the same table.

Questions

The things people ask first.

When should late-night food be served?: Usually between ten and midnight, and it is worth deciding on the night rather than fixing it months ahead. We will read the room with you and open the station when people actually want it.
Can you work with a cake we have ordered?: Yes. We will handle the cutting and plating for service, and coordinate the timing with your photographer if that matters to you.
Is this only for weddings?: No. Holiday parties and corporate evenings that run long benefit from it just as much, and often more, since guests have usually been drinking since a canapé reception.

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