The Kitchen Garden Somerset

The Kitchen Garden Somerset I have cooked for 20 years and have worked in restaurants and as a private chef around the world. I

You have to have a sense of humour in this job…. And you have to love Hen Parties. We have spent 6 years curating the pe...
07/09/2026

You have to have a sense of humour in this job…. And you have to love Hen Parties. We have spent 6 years curating the perfect and building relationships with other providers who are at the top of their game. This is Jo from Pure Yoga Somerset …. She has travelled the world doing yoga 🧘‍♂️ and is at the top of her game. We only work with women and women that are passionate about their business. Women that never stop learning. Women who strive to always be the best. Women who live to laugh and have a sense of humour. I met Jo when I started yoga at Hotpod Yoga in Taunton - purely to stay strong to lift crates and cook. Cooking is hard in your wrists, you are on your feet all the time, you strain your shoulders, hunch turn back and live on your feet. Yoga has helped alleviate a weekend of hardcore cooking. Monday yoga helps me decompress too and start my week the right way. No one wants to chat to a grumpy old cook do they! Jo, Carol and I have teamed up to provide brunch and yoga sessions for hens, friends, birthdays and just because it’s a lush thing to start your holiday morning off doing. The yoga builds a hunger, and then we wow with a beautiful brunch … continental, homemade granola, yoghurt, Somerset honey, poached pears, 🍐 breakfast cakes, bagels , smoked salmon, and then the full English afterwards. It’s seriously the best brunch ever. Based on me eating breakfasts around the world and drawing on the best of everything I have ever eaten for breakfast. Carefully curated and has been reviewed as “A five star brunch like no other” This client had eaten brunches in five star ⭐️ hotels around the world. To book brunch and yoga link is in bio 🔗

“Hello, you must be Miranda, I am Amanda” are the first words I remember from this  beauty as she swirled in with perfec...
07/09/2026

“Hello, you must be Miranda, I am Amanda” are the first words I remember from this beauty as she swirled in with perfect hair and nails and a sack truck filled with ice cream. I was helping to set up The Firehouse Somerset kitchen in 2016 and had searched for the best local ice cream. Ten years of the most delicious ice cream and a wonderful working relationship and we would not change our supplier for a million dollars… Granny Gothards Ice cream is just FABULOUS. We love telling stories of our suppliers to our guests. This story is my favourite. It embodies girl power, strong women 💪, change of career, and life’s funny ways of changing direction when you are a working woman. Granny Gothards was owned by Natasha and Anthony Gothard. Natasha built a beautiful business but decided she couldn’t take it any further. She put it on the market. There was an economic crash. She could not sell it. She was about to flog the machinery and Amanda who was retiring from as their accountant for 15 years decided to buy it on a whim one evening on the way home from work. She went home to her husband and said she was not retiring and she had bought an ice cream parlour. The rest is history. She has grown this business and employs a number of local people. Her ice cream is now flown around the world and she has over 100 wonderful flavours. This powerhouse and her story has always made me feel confident that women’s lives and careers change and evolve and we can have many interesting jobs over our lifetime. A change of career if you have the balls to take the leap is a very rewarding part of life. (Says the former journalist- turned lawyer who decided cooking for people was much more fulfilling and interesting than sitting at a desk in front of a screen!).

This was 6 years ago when we started The Kitchen Garden Somerset. We have worked our asses off. We have cooked for over ...
06/09/2026

This was 6 years ago when we started The Kitchen Garden Somerset. We have worked our asses off. We have cooked for over 18,000 people in 6 years …. On average 3,000 people a year if we average 12 people a week for 45 weeks of the year. It’s way more than that as we often do two or three events a week. We have cooked in some beautiful places for wonderful people. We have seen highs and lows. We have built a lovely little local company that supports over 20 local businesses and individuals, and they in turn support us.
Thank you Brown & Forrest Smokery Granny Smiths ltd Granny Gothards Ice cream White Lake Cheese The Meat Men Kingfisher Brixham Bakery in Langport The Little Cheese Shop Somerset C***r Brandy and Burrow Hill C***r and Paul Merry who taught me all I know about bread and this is how we started…. We were going to call our business Bread and Butter but we love The Kitchen Garden Brand … thank you mainly to Carol Alba the calm to my storm and wingwoman extraordinaire. I could not have built a private dining business without you being our Mainstay, tiller and chief bu****it smeller and chief whip! privatechef

06/09/2026
Home grown courgettes…. Loads of EVOO pine nuts, herbs,🌿
02/09/2026

Home grown courgettes…. Loads of EVOO pine nuts, herbs,🌿

Hen party puddings galore…. Caramelised pineapple 🍍 in Malibu. Mango sorbet. Whipped lime 🍋‍🟩 and cream … Piña Colada me...
02/09/2026

Hen party puddings galore…. Caramelised pineapple 🍍 in Malibu. Mango sorbet. Whipped lime 🍋‍🟩 and cream … Piña Colada meringue ….

The best kind of food. Slow cooked cannelini beans, with fennel, shallot, rosemary, stock, unctuous…. Delicious
02/09/2026

The best kind of food. Slow cooked cannelini beans, with fennel, shallot, rosemary, stock, unctuous…. Delicious

Flipper Formentera great oysters 🦪
26/08/2026

Flipper Formentera great oysters 🦪

The sauces make the dish … and these were not good …
26/08/2026

The sauces make the dish … and these were not good …

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