Whether you wish to serve a few pre-dinner canapés or are entertaining a large number of standing guests over the course of several hours, our canapés & bowl food menu provides a vast variety of choices. Canapés can be light & tasty or rich & decadent, and our bowl foods provide more substantial dishes that can be combined to create a full & varied meal.
Cold meat
- Seared beef fillet tataki with Shichi-mi tōgarashi & Terriyaki glaze
- Skewers of British roast beef fillet with horseradish crème fraiche
- Ethical foie gras paté on brioche crostini with fig purée
- Roasted figs with honey, parma ham, & Roquefort on toasted sourdough
- Asparagus wrapped in prosciutto with pesto dip
- Sissi’s truffled chicken liver pate with mixed crackers
- Crunchy smoked chicken with salsa roja, avocado & cream in a taco basket
Hot meat
- Mini Yorkshire puddings with British roast beef, horseradish & micro herbs
- Mini “Wienerschnitzel” (veal) with chive sauce
- Mini cheeseburgers on an open brioche bun slice with tomato chutney & gherkin
- Warm duck spring rolls with hoi sin sauce
- Empanadas chilenas
- Variety of Austrian & German Sausages & sweet mustard
- Mini croque monsieur
- Quesadillas with chicken & tomato salsa
- Mini cocktail cumberlands with honey mustard
Cold fish
- Blinis with smoked salmon, crème fraîche & dill
- Bloody Mary tomato soup with vodka-infused crème fraîche & sustainably-sourced caviar
- King prawns with Thai spices & guacamole
- Tuna tataki with Sissi’s sesame, ginger & soy sauce
- Miso black cod on crispy seaweed puff with wasabi mayo, edamame, pickled ginger and chilli
- California rolls with soy sauce & pickled ginger
- Tuna crudo with avocado mousse, pomegranate & lime dressing on spoons
- Peruvian “ceviche” on spoons or on baby gem lettuce
Hot fish
- Soft-shell crab tempura with wasabi mayonnaise
- Pan-fried queen scallops served in their shells with a citrus chimichurri
- Fish & chips in a cone
- Mini crab cakes with wasabi mayonnaise
- Asian glazed-miso black cod with cauliflower purée on spoons
- Lemon sole goujons with tartar sauce
- Salmon dice with teriyaki glaze
- Crunchy Oaxacan fish tacos, with guacamole and tomato salsa
- Roasted king prawn with Tom Yum broth
Cold Vegetarian
- Basket of crudités with quail eggs, & Austrian “Liptauer” served in a head of cabbage
- Soft boiled quail’s eggs with baby asparagus ‘soldiers’ (max orders 30)
- Vietnamese rice-paper rolls filled with vegetables, Vietnamese dipping sauce (nuoc cham)
- Cherry tomato & baby mozzarella skewers with basil
- Vegetable maki rolls with a variety of seasonal vegetables & wasabi mayo
- Mini cups of:
- Smooth gazpacho, with cucumber jelly
- Cucumber & dill vichyssoise
- Zucchini rolls filled with harissa hummus, walnut crumb & pomegranate (Vegan)
Hot Vegetarian
- Mini strudels filled with spinach, feta cheese & roasted pine nuts
- Mini quiche bites with mushroom, pesto & melted gruyère
- Yuka (fried south American root vegetable) with guacamole
- Grilled halloumi skewers & seasonal roasted vegetables with red pepper dip
- Truffle arancini (risotto balls) filled with melted mozzarella, with sweet chili mayo
- Vegetable gyoza with plum sauce
- Pâté a choux puffs filled with mushroom purée & truffle
- Indian-spiced parsnip & potato rösti, coconut relish & tomato chutney (Vegan)
- Vegetable spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce
- Mini cups of Butternut squash soup (Vegan)
Cold Sweet
- Mini pavlovas with fruits of the forest
- Eton mess in a cup with berries, whipped cream & meringue
- Mini Sachertorte
- A variety of French & Austrian biscuits
- Mini tartes au citron with toasted meringue
- Mini bite-size jam doughnuts
- Sissi’s fudge brownies
- Sissi’s rich chocolate truffles
- Variety of colourful macarons
- Skewers of mixed exotic fruit & berries with chocolate dipping sauce
- 70% dark chocolate mousse on spoons
Hot Sweet
- Mini tarte tatin
- Sissi’s mini apple strudel with whipped cream
- Sissi’s Kaiserschmarrn on spoons with plum compote
- Mini crepés with chocolate praline
- Warm chocolate chip cookies (reduced sugar)
Bowl Food
- Black cod with teriyaki glaze, sweet potato ginger purée & kale crisps
- Pan-fried scallops with cauliflower purée and crispy bacon crumb
- Roasted ribeye of beef anticuchos (skewers) with chimichurri & fried plantainst
- Moroccan lamb tagine with Sissi’s couscous salad
- Sissi’s Austrian beef Goulash on Spätzle
- Shredded Peking duck with mixed baby leaf salad & Asian vinaigrette
- Prawn Pad Thai with rice noodles
- Asian glazed salmon on braised puy lentils
- Courgette, gruyere & prosecco risotto with parsley pesto
- Wild mushroom risotto with parmesan crisp
- Butternut squash risotto with mascarpone & herbs
- Roasted aubergine, tomato, & pomegranate salad with yoghurt dressing
- Grilled Mediterranean vegetables on couscous salad with basil & lemon
- Spinach & ricotta stuffed tortellini with rocket pesto
- For 1-2 hour cocktail parties, we would recommend 6-8 canapés
- For 3-4 hour cocktail parties, we would recommend 8-12 savoury canapés, 2-3 bowl foods or street foods and 2-3 sweet canapés
- For dinner parties, we would recommend 2-4 canapés before sitting down for your 3-course meal