How many dishes for a South Indian wedding lunch?
The standard banana leaf spread, what is genuinely essential, and where families over-order.
From our kitchen
Catering Notes for Bengaluru Families
Four decades of catering weddings, ceremonies and office functions leaves you with a lot of practical answers. We're writing them down here — menu planning, guest-count maths, serving traditions and how to brief a caterer properly.
First posts are on the way
We're writing up the questions families ask us most often. In the meantime, if you have a question about planning food for your function, just call — we'll answer it properly.
Coming up
What We'll Be Writing About
These are the questions we field week after week, and the topics this blog will cover first.
Guest count maths that actually works
Why the invite list is never the plate count, and how to plan quantities without waste.
The banana leaf serving order, explained
What goes where on the leaf, in what sequence, and why the order is not arbitrary.
Planning a Jain or satvik menu
What "no onion, no garlic" really requires of a kitchen — beyond the ingredient list.
Upanayana catering: a timing guide
Working the food schedule backwards from the muhurtham so nothing is served cold or late.
Questions to ask before you book a caterer
Ten questions that separate a kitchen that can deliver from one that is hoping to.
Have a question we haven't written up yet?
Ask us directly — we'd rather answer it than have you guess.