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Seasonal Southern, cooked to the room.
Wren & Rye quotes, confirms, and cooks directly. City Kitch makes the introduction — we never take the order or the payment.
Wren & Rye is a small catering company built around one idea: the menu should come after the conversation. They ask who is coming, what the room is like, and what you actually want the night to feel like - then they write to that, using whatever the farms are cutting that month.
The cooking is Southern without the costume. Buttermilk-brined chicken with a sorghum glaze, field peas cooked with smoked tomato, cornbread baked in the pan it is served in. In spring the menu turns green and sharp; by September it is all tomatoes and corn and long-braised things.
They cap themselves at two events a weekend. It means they turn work away, and it means the chef who quoted your event is the one standing at the pass on the night.
out of 5
They asked more questions in the first call than our last caterer asked all year. Ninety people, plated, and the kitchen ran twenty minutes ahead the whole night. The sorghum chicken is the thing everyone brought up afterwards.
Reply from Wren & Rye
Thank you Priya - that room was a joy to cook for. Tell your father the field peas are on the autumn menu now.
Drop-off for forty at the office. Arrived early, labelled every tray including the gluten-free ones, and took the empties away at the end. Genuinely no notes.
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