About us

The flavour behind every celebration

At Al Kareem Catering, we believe every occasion deserves delicious food, beautifully presented and made with care.

From intimate gatherings to grand celebrations, we bring flavour, quality and excellence to your table.

What we actually do

Al Kareem Catering is a South Asian event caterer working out of Luton. We cook the food families in this town already know — handi and biryani, seekh kebabs and lamb chops, chaat, daal, gajar halwa — and we cook it in the quantities an event needs, to the timings an event runs to.

That is a different job from running a restaurant. A restaurant serves one table at a time. Catering means two hundred plates that all have to be right at once, at a venue that is not your kitchen, on a day that cannot be moved. Most of the work happens before anyone eats anything: agreeing quantities properly, understanding the venue, knowing who at the event has an allergy, and planning backwards from the moment the food must be on the table.

Who we cook for

Weddings and the events around them — mehndi, nikkah, walima. Birthdays, anniversaries and engagements. Corporate lunches, staff celebrations and client hospitality. Religious and community gatherings, including Eid, iftar, khatam and mosque and charity events. Some of these are two hundred people in a hall; some are fifty at home. The planning is the same either way.

How we quote

We quote rather than publish fixed prices, and we would rather explain why than have you assume we are being evasive. What catering costs depends on three things: how many people you are feeding, which dishes you choose, and whether you need delivery, collection, or setting up. A single headline price would be wrong for most of the events we cater. Tell us those three things and you will get a real figure.

If your budget will not stretch to what you have in mind, we will say so, and tell you what it will stretch to. That is more useful than a quote you cannot afford.

Our promises

Five things we hold to

These are printed on our flyer. Here is what each one means in practice.

  • Authentic flavours & premium ingredients

    The menu is the food people actually cook at home for an occasion — handi, biryani, seekh kebabs, chaat, gajar halwa — not a shortened version of it.

  • Hygienic preparation & professional service

    Food is prepared under the food safety procedures a registered catering business is required to operate.

  • Custom menus to suit your occasion

    Every package on this site can be changed. You can also ignore the packages entirely and build a menu dish by dish from the full list.

  • Affordable packages for every budget

    Three tiers at three guest counts, and a quote for anything outside them. Tell us the budget and we will tell you straight what it covers.

  • On-time service you can rely on

    Timing is agreed at booking against when food must be on the table, not when it leaves the kitchen.

Standards

Food safety and how we work

Catering is a regulated activity, and it should be. Every catering business in England must be registered with its local council, must operate a documented food safety management system based on HACCP principles, and must be able to tell you accurately what allergens are in the food it serves.

If you are booking us for an event — particularly at a venue that asks for caterer documentation — ask us for what you need and we will provide it. Any caterer who is reluctant to give a venue their paperwork is telling you something.

A note on this page: we will publish our food hygiene rating and our food safety documentation here as soon as this website goes live with them confirmed. We would rather show you nothing than show you something we cannot evidence.

Based in Luton. Cooking across Bedfordshire.

Our core area is Luton, Bury Park, Dunstable, Houghton Regis. We regularly cater further out — Bedford, Harpenden, St Albans, Milton Keynes, Watford, Hemel Hempstead — depending on the date and the size of the event.

See all areas we cover

Let us cater your next event with taste, care & perfection.

Tell us your date, your guest numbers and the kind of occasion it is. We will come back with a clear quote and honest advice on what works.

Request a Quote Call 07754 656680