BATH KOMEDIA CANTEEN GETS SOIL ASSOCIATION’S GOLD FOOD FOR LIFE AWARD
Komedia Canteen is the first restaurant in the City of Bath to achieve the Soil Association’s Gold Food for Life Catering Mark for serving fresh and healthy meals made with local and organic ingredients.
The Soil Association Food for Life awards scheme endorses establishments who deliver fresh food, free from undesirable additives and promoting high animal welfare. The scheme encourages the use of unprocessed, fresh, local, seasonal and organic food. More and more, people want to know where their food comes from and how it was produced. The Food for Life Catering Mark offers a guarantee that fresh food you can trust is always on the menu.
Komedia, which runs the award winning music and comedy venue, also operates a daytime Canteen within the impressive Grade One listed former Beau Nash Cinema. Komedia Canteen has now achieved the highest independent mark from the Soil Association, verifying that the menus reflect a seasonal, local and ethical ethos and that they use some of the very best food and drink producers in the South West including Pieminister Pies, Marshfield Farm, River Cottage, Bath Ales, Sydling Brook Organic and many more.
Komedia Canteen is open every day, Friday and Saturday evenings and serves food at the venues Comedy and Cabaret shows. In the day time the family friendly Komedia Canteen is open for breakfast & lunch. You never have to worry about the kids missing out on ‘the good stuff’ as the Komedia chefs have created a menu for the younger diners showcasing everything that is tasty from local and seasonal suppliers with dishes such as Golden Free Range Chicken Goujons, Somerset Cheddar Apple Toast or the local catch in a Fishcake. Komedia is proud to cook wholesome and nutritious food that the kids love to eat. With a further offer to parents, Komedia has also teamed up with Mulberry Kidz nursery to provide a crèche service for Bath parents which operates 10-2pm Monday to Saturday.
Evening diners can now also enjoy the very best in local and seasonal produce from the impressive a la carte menu on Friday and Saturday. This is either as part of Komedia’s VIP Comedy and Cabaret experience or for pre booked dining in the Komedia Canteen
The Catering Mark is open to all types of restaurants and caterers. The bronze, silver and gold tiers offer a step-by-step route to serving more freshly prepared, locally produced, seasonal and organic food. Restaurants with the gold Catering Mark use a wide range of organic ingredients and source half of their ingredients from the local area. Komedia’s Bath suppliers include Bartlett’s family run butchers, Bath Bakery, Simi’s Cakes, Grown Green and Newton Farm Foods.
Komedia Director Richard Daws said: “We are delighted that the hard work of our chefs and local suppliers is now able to be independently verified and that our customers will have peace of mind that their food is exactly what it says on the menu – the very best fresh, local and seasonal food.“
More info at www.komedia.co.uk/bath
