Outside catering in Brighton

We've finished catering for Christmas parties for another 12 months and we're now ready for everything else that 2011 can throw at us.

Which means - as well as serving breakfasts, lunches and afternoon teas from our Trafalgar Road shop - we can cater for your business functions, parties, buffets, birthdays and any other events that involve sandwiches, cakes, sausage rolls, vol au vents, canapes... well, we're sure you get the picture.

Pop in to the shop, call us on Brighton 686665 or drop us a line for more information.

Catering for Brighton and Hove

If you’re thinking about ordering business lunches or any other corporate catering in Brighton, please give us a ring at The Laine Deli. Not only are we perfectly placed for picking up last-minute orders, we’re also well-equipped for producing virtually any kind of event catering.

From breakfasts to buffets, from sandwich platters to giant cakes, we’re always happy to help.

Please download our Outside Catering leaflet, call in to the shop or call us on Brighton 686665 to discover more.

Coronation Chicken: the result

You may not remember - but back in May we were wondering about adding the curried magic of Coronation Chicken to our sandwich menu. Well, we've done it. In fact, it's been a regular fixture for a few weeks now.

Picnic hampers

There's nothing better than a picnic on the beach... except a picnic on the beach that someone else has made for you!

We'll have everything ready for you to pick up - and we can even supply the hamper.

Tyrrell's Potato Chips

There are those who would say a sandwich isn't a proper lunch without a packet of crisps. While we wouldn't condone a diet that's too high in fried potato, we've done our best to make sure we sell decent crisps. Actually, we don't sell crisps at all - we sell Tyrrells Potato Chips. Their potatoes are sliced and then cooked without removing the starch, which improves the taste and means they absorb less oil than other crisps.

And Tyrrell's is our kind of business, too. Not only are they fans of smaller businesses - as their headline-hitting battle a few years showed - they're also pretty innovative. Tyrrell's potatoes are now being used for making vodka as well as for their chips!

Coronation Chicken

Coronation Chicken. Should we?

One of our customers is keen... but we're not convinced there's enough demand for Coronation Chicken to be a regular item on our sandwich menu. In case you're wondering what we're talking about, Coronation Chicken combines cooked chicken a with curry-flavoured mayonnaise-based sauce. It was created (in a somewhat more luxurious form) for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 by Rosemary Hume from London's Cordon Bleu Cookery School and Constance Spry of the Winkfield Domestic Science School. However, it wasn't a new idea: George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 had a similar dish called - yes, you've guessed - Jubilee Chicken.

So there's plenty of history there. But that doesn't answer our question: should we add it to our menu or put it on the 'specials' board?

Sandwiches

Sometimes we all need a little inspiration. That's why we've put The Laine Deli sandwich menu on our website. You can now download it and keep it pinned to the office noticeboard or stuck on your fridge. Of course, we don't insist that you choose a sandwich from the menu. We'll happily create any combination of ingredients for your lunchtime treat!

To download our sandwich menu as a printer-friendly pdf document, simply click here or visit our website.

Outside catering

There's much more to The Laine Deli than our shop. We also do outside catering, supplying food to all kinds of events - from business breakfasts and working lunches to product launches and other celebrations. We can provide a sandwich platter with fruit, drinks and a variety of cakes... and we can even bake a giant cupcake that'll serve up to 14 people. It's the perfect birthday cake for people who don't like birthday cakes!

To download our Outside Catering menu as a pdf document, simply click here.

St. George's Day

23rd April - it's St George's Day. But is it too much of a cliche to have Roast Beef as our sandwich of the day? Or should we go for an English cheese instead? Decisions, decisions...

The New Yorker sandwich

Introducing our sandwich of the day: a bold combination of salami, turkey, Swiss cheese, gherkin and mustard mayonnaise. We'll serve it on granary bread, white bread, ciabatta, baguette or bagel. And we'll leave out the gherkin if you really, really don't like it.

Our first day

Thank you to everyone who turned up and made our first day at The Laine Deli so much fun. The free samples of smoothies, cakes and biscuits all disappeared very quickly... as did our supply of sandwich bread. We'll be placing a much larger order for tomorrow. Time to tidy up now and head off for a quick celebration in Brighton - before an early night. See you on Wednesday!

Ciabattas

We've been busy working on our 'Outside Catering' leaflet and wanted to double-check the plural of ciabatta. Yes, it's ciabattas - although ciabatti didn't seem completely implausible. And we learned something new: the word 'ciabatta' is Italian (we knew this bit!) for slipper (didn't know that).