The Corporate Chef is based in Surrey and serves the South East and Midlands. It is our mission to provide a unique experience for our guests whilst offering an eclectic range of food and cuisines to suit most occasions and budgets with an ethos of using premium produce at its best.
• we’ve been established since 2011
• we operate a 5-star hygiene rated kitchen
• we are 5-star rated reviewed on Add to Event
• we are members of NCASS
• we hold PL and EL insurance up to 10M
Since its inception in 2011, it has amassed an impressive portfolio of Private, Corporate and Blue chip clients who it still continues to serve to this day. The Corporate Chef is dedicated to preparing excellent meals from raw produce – be it Corporate Buffets, BBQs, Bowl Food, Canapés, Picnics and Weddings or any other Catering Events that have been requested.
Alan is an award winning chef who has a life-long passion for food and different cuisines. He trained at Leith’s School of Food & Wine and has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience, working in different areas of the industry from fine dining at Michelin star level to award-winning gastro pubs to high level hospitality and banqueting in 4 and 5 star hotels and of course the years of events The Corporate Chef has led and catered for. It’s our vision to harness our relationships with our current clients, work with new venues as well as helping individuals who are planning their future events.
This was an excellent experience for me to enable me to send a lovely afternoon tea to my sister in Wales to celebrate a special anniversary. The customer service was very friendly and professional. The only drawback for me was the price, which being on a very limited budget, we did find a bit steep. But to be fair when we looked up other companies delivering postal afternoon teas in Wales, the price did compare favourably. So overall an excellent experience.
Sent this as an alternative get well soon gift, they were over the moon! Thank you.
I bought this as a gift for my parents’ anniversary and they were absolutely thrilled!
Thank you so much, this really made their day 😊
Amazing food and fantastic customer service
We were incredibly happy with the corporate chef! Alan and the team made amazing food and delivered high quality service. I cannot recommend the 3 course meal experience more!
The food was fantastic. Really fresh and original sandwich fillings... Not the standard go to ham and cheese ones. My wife and her best mate really enjoyed it and had a lovely afternoon. One issue only is that you can book a delivery slot time but its delivered by another company (DHL i believe) so you dont really get it for the time you booked it for so it would be a good idea if the website stated that. All in all it was brilliant and I will definitely use again.
Kept informed all through and would recommend to others
Really good experience, easy to book and The Corporate Chef went above and beyond to make sure my dads 70th birthday afternoon tea was a success - thank you
Afternoon yes for 2 for my father in law
He absolutely enjoyed it and there was enough for 2 teas for himself and Mother in law
Delivery was perfect - packaging was perfect
I will be using pop top again
Bought as a gift to up my daughter and housemate isolating. A lovely surprise. Contents as described. Delivered when promised. Excellent customer service. Would definitely use again and would recommend.
I brought this afternoon tea for my step mum . We haven’t seen each other for over a year due to covid . We live 2 hours away from each other , so I was very dubious about booking something that wasn’t local to me amd that I could pre see . My step mum was super happy with the quality and taste of the lunch . She has a great birthday lunch , so Thankyou x
The Afternoon experience was fantastic! A big thanks to Alan for helping arrange everything - a great surprise for our Birthday Girl! 😁🥂
We really enjoyed the quality sandwiches, scones and cakes. The delivery arrived as indicated. All satisfactory !
Arrived when promised and good quality food well presented.
Arranged this for my mums birthday we really enjoyed it, the food was delicious and there was more then enough for two people.
We ordered this as an anniversary treat for my mum and dad who were both delighted. The food was delicious and delivered fresh on the day we ordered. Many thanks!
I sent this as a gift for my mums birthday and she loved it, must have been great value with plenty in there as she was still finishing it off a day or so later!
Service was great , no hassle and kept informed throughout process.
Food was fab. Thanks so much you made my mums 60th!!! Will def use again.
Great friendly customer service, deliver on time and extremely happy
It was great. The recipient of the afternoon tea was thrilled.
i bought the tea for two as a gift for my aunty, she was over the moon with the quality and said she felt like she was eating out for real... thankyou for helping to make my auntys birthday special 😊
Great, speedy service; lovely food; packaged well. Would recommend
Really excellent afternoon tea, highly recommend & would use again!
High tea was well received as a celebration on a 70th birthday.
I needed to change the delivery address at short notice and they were very helpful - even phoning me as they were making up the tea to check they definitely had the right address.
Bought this for my daughter for a birthday surprise. She was delighted, and said the food was delicious, a real treat! Thank you.
This was a lockdown anniversary surprise for our brother and sister in law. Was very well received. Well done
Fabulous afternoon tea provided for my mother in laws birthday.
In her words
“Out of this world”
Would definitely recommend!
My mum loved the prosecco high tea for her 70th birthday. She says there was plenty of food and it was delicious. A big thanks from me
Would recommend
Really pleased with my purchase of afternoon tea. Was very tasty I’d definitely recommend
The afternoon tea was well received. Thoroughly enjoyed. A great service and lovely birthday surprise
I live in London & ordered this for my Mum & Dads Anniversary, it was booked for Saturday lunch time & arrived on time, was not disappointed it was lovely all freshly made & presented beautiful, it made my Dad cry. I would definitely recommend Poptop to put a smile on someone’s face.
Lovely food, delivered on time and just as lovely as promised!! Great afternoon tea x
Ordered a lockdown afternoon tea for my Aunt and Uncle and they really enjoyed it. Arrived on time and ready to go - can’t fault any part of the purchase. 😀
Great communication. The Fizzy afternoon tea package was good value for money, efficiently packaged, and most importantly, very tasty. Highly recommended.
A lovely surprise for my Mum’s birthday, all beautifully homemade sandwiches, scones and cakes. She also said the presecco was of a high standard, made her day, thank you!
It's was very good, excellent choice of sandwiches cakes were wonderful & the scones jam & cream were the icing on the cake, made a wonderful birthday lunch for my wife's birthday.
Great food, (afternoon tea), good comms. Delivery was slightly delayed by the courier so rang up and found the delivery details for me
Ordered Afternoon Tea for Two for my niece’s birthday and to share with her mum. These were their comments:
Absolutely delicious, portion size was adequate. The packaging and presentation was excellent. Couldn’t fault anything. Highly recommended.
I would definitely use this company again.
The process was really easy, well packaged. Delicious food.
Delicious afternoon tea
Professionally delivered
Would definitely recommend and use again!
Excellent food, great service, perfect valentines afternoon tea, would highly recommend.
We very much enjoyed our Valentines afternoon tea. Everything was very fresh, superbly packed and delivered as promised to Scarborough. Thank you so much.
We booked an afternoon tea for a birthday and it seems the food was delicious. The delivery was on time and without any issues.
Great service, my parents were delighted with their afternoon tea. It livened up a lockdown birthday.
The afternoon tea was excellent, the perfect gift to cheer someone up during lockdown
Was very nice all round could do with more sandwiches though
service and quality of food was excellent. My only comment would be less sweets and more savouries, i.e. pork pies, scotch eggs etc.
Was nice and delivered on time all of it came fresh in cold boxes the only thing was that i felt there could have been more sandwich fingers but apart from that was perfect thanks
My grandaughter said it was nice perhaps a choice of sandwiches would be better
A lovely treat to our door. Really yummy food. Thank you!
Food was delicious, well made and packaged well for delivery.... only downside is you don’t get many sandwiches would have like more for the price paid.
Can not complete review as the afternoon tea was sent under my name and was a surprise gift for family who didn't recognise the name so refused delivery. When I rang the company they gave me DHL number which was an automated service that was no help. Couldn't actually speak to a person there.
Sandwiches and dessert were okish. The lemon drizzle cake was dry. Baileys brownies were awesome. We did follow the instructions.
Sadly both tarts and one of the cop cakes was squashed, which was disappointing, considering this was a gift. Not sure i will use this company again 😥.
Overall was happy.
However the fruit and plain scones were dry and quite hard,
Was pretty disappointed that the clotted cream and the jam for the scones was forgotten. Other than that, everything was good.
The delivery arrived on time on the correct day, but compared to another similar order I made in January with a different supplier this was not great. I was sent photo’s of what was delivered and the presentation was poor and I do not feel this was good value for money. I would not place another order with The Corporate Chef again.
It was all ok, just not wow, I wanted it for the Sunday it was delivered on the Friday and I could have bought 2 packets of sarnies from Waitrose, 2 cupcakes and some scones for a fifth of the price.
It all went wrong as the afternoon tea arrived at my home in Somerset today and not Stowmarket which I had requested when first did the booking with your website. All involved now are very let down and I am very angry and will review as such Julia O’Callaghan
I'm afraid I can't provide a proper review here as my order for a special GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY afternoon tea for my parents was never delivered. I received a call from the chef an HOUR before the delivery was scheduled saying that it had not been sent and therefore the special event my sisters and I had planned for our parents special day, as we couldn't be with them, never was. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. Gutted and extremely upset is probably more accurate. At least my money was refunded.
Very bad experience and very disappointed . Parcel is still not delivered still with courier.
Low on savoury high on sweet
Disappointing and poor value for money
👎👎 not impressive with quality sandwiches. .....
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