Sethos

17/11/2025

Tuna tartare - squid ink tulle - herb oil

08/08/2025

Good evening all,

I have a family who have had to cancel a dinner party last minute due to the air BnB falling through. Boiler breaking and they have managed to get a new air BnB but it’s near Ipswich which is a bit too far for me to drive for a dinner party.

I have a 5 course menu prepped and ready for Saturday night, or Sunday lunch time if preferred. Preferably 6-10 people. I hate to see the food and my time go to waste!

As I have spent 2 long days prepping and all the food has been bought I can’t offer a refund to the family at such short notice, but if you would like a last minute dinner party for friends, I would take offers 💰 on the dinner party (rrp £90pp) and all of the money will be passed to the unfortunate family & friends who had to cancel!

What’s the menu you may ask??

Selection of canapés

Scallops

Bread course

Ox cheek

Treacle tart

PLUS this group opted for a chocolate birthday cake and not petit fours! So grab yourself a bargain, make me an offer!

Please share!

Have a great weekend

Chef rich x

Setho's bespoke catering services.

24/06/2025

Bread making day!

Wholemeal focaccia 😋

11/06/2025

Thing of beauty! 🐄

03/04/2025

It’s just a huge struggle for a lot of businesses and customers who aren’t in the know these are some challenges faced by businesses day to day to make ends meet!

Hi everyone 🙋🏾‍♂️

Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the new financial year and how the upcoming changes will affect businesses from April 6th.

This month marks 5 years since the COVID pandemic. We took a decision to close our shop 6 months in. And as many of you know, I have a coffee roasting business () which I moved into doing full time.

As somebody who previously had a cafe and now supplies cafes, I think a lot about how cafe owners will be affected by the changes.

I thought it would be interesting to do a thought experiment to see what it would have cost Canvas Coffee to move from financial year 2024/25 into 2025/26.

Here are the headlines…

Come April 6th, if our old shop were open, we would have to find an extra £25,479.18 for the next financial year just to stay open (just wages and business rates)

From April 6th, it will cost a business employing staff on minimum wage £2,633.18 a year in wage increases and national insurance rises (the NI component alone is £1,031.58).
Pre-pandemic we employed 10 staff not including myself. So the impact of the changes if we were still open would be £13,173.65 a year in additional staff costs.

In addition to these labor costs, our business rates would have been going up significantly.
For some reason, the rateable value of our old shop has jumped from £26,500 to £63,000 despite being empty for 4 years.

So it would have cost us overnight an extra £12,305.53 to just pay the additional business rates that would be required in the next financial year.

I wanted to post this because I’m not sure if the general public really understand from a business/hospitality perspective what’s going on in the economy right now.

Whilst minimum wage increases for the lowest paid in society is good, the national insurance increases and business rates increases will likely result in businesses having to increase prices, and potentially cut jobs.

So next time you decide to buy a coffee and support a local business, please bear this in mind and be sympathetic of the challenges faced by business owners at the moment.

25/02/2025

When you booking your dinner party?

23/01/2025

New addition for 2025

Having a dinner party? Want a murder mystery evening ?

With our Host, and great food we can give you & your guests an evening to remember! 🕵️

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09/11/2024

A huge thank you to Mike , for donating some amazing Shropshire autumn truffles for my dish at the charity chefs night on Monday in Beaulieu hosted by

On Monday I am cooking my signature dish alongside some of the best chefs in the New forest Limewood Hotel & SpauCareys Manor Hotel & SenSpahBalmer Lawn Hotel and others before a ready steady cook mystery box to finish the evening.

If you want to come along there are a few tickets left, you can see my cooking demo, where il be talking about my heritage, and making money for a great charity at the same time

Chefs, if you want some amazing Shropshire autumn truffles please get in touch with Mike,

Www.Shropshiretruffles.co.uk