Board Lunch Catering Across Cornwall | Salt Wind Catering

Board lunch catering across Cornwall from Salt Wind Catering — discreet drops, precise plating, dietary handled cleanly off a confirmed list. Cook-team scope only (no front-of-house waiting staff), weekly retainer available, VAT invoicing and POs accepted. Call 01209 206255 to brief us.

What Board Lunch Catering Actually Means

A board lunch is not a buffet. It's food for a named room, at a named time, for people who are mid-meeting and don't want a catering team blundering through the door asking where the urn goes. The brief is precision: arrive when asked, leave the food where it's needed, go. Repeat next quarter or next week without drama.

We do this for businesses across Cornwall — Truro, Penzance, Falmouth, Newquay, the Helston tech cluster, professional services firms, the public sector, family offices. Quarterly board meetings, monthly senior leadership lunches, weekly executive team catch-ups. The food is good. The operations are tight. That's the offer.

Discretion as Standard

Cook team are in and out. Drop at reception or with a named EA. No walking through the meeting room. No "what are you discussing today" small talk. We don't share client names publicly and we don't post photos of board setups on social media. If you want an NDA on file we'll sign one — most clients don't bother asking because the behaviour is already there.

Plating Within Cook-Team Scope

Honesty up front: Salt Wind Catering is a cook team, not a front-of-house service. We don't bring waiters. We don't bring china plates. Within that scope, the plating standards we can deliver are: individual cold lunches plated on quality compostable boards, hot lunches sealed in individual portions for table service, or tight sharing platters with proper garnish and presentation. The plating is for what it is — a working lunch — done well.

If you need china and silver service, your venue or an FOH agency handles that. We cater into their plates without complaint — many board lunches we deliver into a meeting room where the EA has already laid place settings. See the wider corporate catering offer for context.

Dietary Precision

Board lunches usually have a confirmed list — eight people, three of them with specifics. Vegetarian, gluten-free, pescatarian, no shellfish. Those go on the booking record and stay there. Each individual portion is labelled or plated separately so there's no asking around the table during a sensitive discussion.

For nut allergies or coeliac we're straight: our Redruth kitchen handles both nuts and gluten. We minimise cross-contact carefully but can't claim a 100% trace-free guarantee. Most board members with severe allergies prefer to know that than be told otherwise. Allergen info is available on request as standard.

Weekly Retainer Concept

If you run a regular leadership lunch — every Tuesday for the SLT, every other Wednesday for the partners, monthly senior team — a retainer setup is the path of least resistance. We agree a rotating menu (say four weeks repeating, or seasonal cycling), lock in the dietary profiles, and run it. One short confirmation email each week with the headcount.

Billing collapses to monthly: one invoice for the month, line per drop, PO referenced. Finance teams quietly like this. For everyday working lunches at the wider business see office lunch delivery.

Typical Menus

Cold board lunch: individually plated poached salmon or roast chicken with seasonal salads, dressed leaves, focaccia or sourdough, a small tart or seasonal fruit dessert. Drops chilled, lifts straight onto the table. Hot board lunch: braised lamb shoulder, slow beef cheek, or a proper vegetarian centrepiece served with grains or potatoes and two sides, sealed individually for table service.

Sharing platter board lunch: dressed proteins, salads, breads, antipasti, all laid tight on a single board with garnish. Works well for 8-12 around a table where people can serve themselves without it feeling like a buffet. For more on sharing options see buffet catering Cornwall.

Invoicing

VAT-registered invoicing. PO numbers welcome on the invoice. 30-day terms for established accounts. For retainer clients, monthly consolidated invoicing. Salt Wind Catering is a Cornish business based at 37 Fore Street, Redruth — 5-star FHR, NCASS registered, FSB members, £10m public liability cover on file.

Related Salt Wind Catering services

Browse the wider corporate catering offer, set up regular office lunch delivery, or scope a full Christmas office party. Request a quote or call 01209 206255.