Bespoke Dining, Designed Around Your Table

For smaller gatherings where every detail matters, our intimate dining experiences bring together exceptional ingredients, thoughtful menu design and warm hospitality.

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Intimate Dining

Led by Wild Oven private chef Jemima, each experience is tailored to your gathering, whether you're celebrating a special birthday, hosting family and friends, marking an anniversary or simply bringing people together around the table.

Drawing on training at Leiths School of Food and Wine and a passion for seasonal, ingredient-led cooking, Jemima works closely with each client to create a menu that feels personal, memorable and completely unique to the occasion.

Why Intimate Dining

More Than A Meal

Not every occasion calls for a large event.

Our intimate dining experiences are created for smaller gatherings where every detail matters. Whether you're celebrating a milestone birthday, anniversary, family gathering or special occasion, each menu is thoughtfully designed around your guests, preferences and the atmosphere you'd like to create.

Led by Wild Oven private chef Jemima, every experience begins with a conversation and evolves into a menu that feels personal, seasonal and completely unique to your gathering.

Personally Designed Menus

Every menu is developed specifically for your event, drawing inspiration from the season, your favourite flavours and the style of evening you'd like to host.

Seasonal, Ingredient-Led Cooking

Thoughtful menus built around carefully sourced ingredients and the best produce available at the time of your event.

Warm, Personal Hospitality

Relaxed, attentive service that allows you to spend less time hosting and more time enjoying your guests.

The Experience

An Evening Worth Lingering Over

The best gatherings rarely follow a schedule.

They're the evenings where conversations stretch a little longer, another bottle is opened, and nobody quite wants the night to end.

Food arrives from the fire. Guests settle in around the table. Stories are shared, glasses are raised and the atmosphere unfolds naturally throughout the evening.

Whether we're cooking in a Cotswold cottage, a private dining room, a garden in Oxfordshire or beneath open skies in the Warwickshire countryside, our goal is always the same:

To create an evening that feels effortless, generous and genuinely memorable.

Sample Experiences

From wood-fired feasts to seasonal suppers, each experience is shaped around the people you're bringing together.

The Wood Fired Experience

An evening built around live fire, shared plates and the theatre of cooking over flame.

The Sunday Table Feast

Generous sharing dishes, long conversations and the kind of lunch that drifts effortlessly into the evening.

Seasonal Fire Feasts

Thoughtfully designed menus inspired by the best ingredients each season has to offer.

Mediterranean Garden Supper

A vibrant vegetarian feast celebrating fire-cooked vegetables, herbs and generous hospitality.

What our clients say

Thank you so much for your help during the wedding preparations and on the day itself. From designing the catering package to the food tasting and small details for the day, we felt in such safe hands and could not fault your management. We really appreciated you being there on the day and thank you for being flexible with the timings. The food was incredible and the service was fantastic. So many of our guests have commented on how delicious it all was. I wish we could eat it all again!

Millie & Ben
★★★★★

Hey Kiera,

We just want to say a massive thank you to Callum, Bea and the team for Saturday.

Absolutely incredible food and such a wonderful and friendly team. Guests couldn’t stop raving about how much the canapés were flowing and how much awesome food there was, with the pork getting a lot of mentions.

The team did such a great job and made our wedding day the best ever. Please share our appreciation with everyone who worked there socks off in the heat, and to Bea who kept checking in on us throughout the day too.

Rosie and Sam
★★★★★

Thank you SO much for such a fantastic day; It honestly could not have gone any better and a huge part of that is down to you and your brilliant team! We had SO many compliments about the food - everyone loved it! Thank you for everything, from your amazing show-stopping pizza oven truck, to the tiniest of details that were considered - we didn't realise until we were clearing down the venue the next day but those personalised dietary cards you gave to each of our guests with dietary preferences was the most wonderful little detail. Several of those guests came up to us on the day to say how special it was that they felt fully included, to have their preferences catered for in such a considered and careful way, so thank you, honestly for doing that. We keep dreaming about your pizzas too and wish they were available to buy in shops!

Caroline and Jamie
★★★★★

We cannot thank you and the team enough for last Saturday, you were all so wonderful to work with and the food, from the canapés to the pizza, was just outstanding! We had so many comments from our guests, it was all delicious.

Not only was the food amazing, but there were so many little things that you did that really stood out and I felt went above and beyond. Firstly, tracking us down after the ceremony to feed us (very appreciated!), secondly - I loved the cards you placed down for our vegetarian, gluten-free, etc friends, explaining the adjustments (so thoughtful and just a really lovely touch), finally, we had a last minute addition of our niece (she’s just turned one) and we heard that your team brought over a special place with some mashed potatoes etc for her. Again, these small but meaningful gestures did not go unnoticed, so thank you.

Jay & Ollie
★★★★★

FAQs

Can menus be personalised?

Yes. Unlike our larger event catering, every intimate dining experience is built around your gathering. Menus are developed with Jemima and tailored to suit the occasion, guest preferences and season.

How many guests is intimate dining suitable for?

Typically up to 30 guests, although this varies depending on the style of experience and venue.

Where can intimate dining take place?

At home, in private venues, holiday properties, gardens, outdoor spaces or hired event locations.

Do you cater for dietary requirements?

Absolutely. Menus can be adapted to accommodate dietary requirements and guest preferences.

 

Let’s Plan Your Experience

Gather your favourite people. We'll take care of the rest. From bespoke menus and thoughtful hospitality to fire-cooked food and memorable moments, we'll help create an evening worth lingering over.