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White Tie has launched a range of ready home meals! 'Dinner In' is exclusive to Verkerks' inner city Christchurch store. Our initial range will include braises and casseroles, popular dishes, sides such as traditional dauphinois, spinach pilaf and our famous pickled slaw. The meals are put together per order according to your choices. Many of our clients have asked for this service, for fresh daily homemade meals that are nutritious and cost effective. Well, here it is. Dinner for 1 or 10, take it home and heat it up - you don't even have to let on you bought it...it'll be our little secret. Verkerks, Corners Armagh and Manchester Street, Christchurch Ph: 03 379 3977
NOURISH EACH OTHER
One of the things we love most about food is our ability to nourish each other - celebrate, commiserate, comfort, love and share. Food nourishes the mind, body and soul, so an inability to afford it can be mentally, physically and spiritually debilitating. White Tie is in the fortunate position to be able to nourish our community, and we'd like to invite you to do the same.
In this time of financial trial, many more of our neighbours in the city are struggling to provide for themselves and their families. The Christchurch City Mission is currently coping with a 150 per cent increase in demand for food parcels while still running its night shelter, providing hot meals and supporting local care centres. Coupled with this huge increase in demand is the decrease in charitable donations. More and more families are lining up, hit by redunancies or lost working hours in the credit crunch.
So, we've decided to make it easy for everyone - we're going to produce food for the Christchurch City Mission with your help.
With your contributions, we will purchase ingredients to produce warm, nutritional, home cooked meals for the night shelter and provide fresh, quality baked goods for food parcels. Our staff are donating their time and our commercial kitchen will run after hours to produce this food. We've crunched some numbers, and with no labour cost, help from our major food supplier BidVest and basic ingredients, we can produce meals such as shepherd's pie, lasagne, casserole and soup and homemade breads and biscuits for food parcels significantly cheaper than the average home. A donation of $20 for example would allow us to feed 16 for dinner at the night shelter.
The National Bank has set up the White Tie City Mission fund for your donations, which can be made directly to account 06-0817-0315242-00. Alternatively, cheques can be sent to the White Tie City Mission Fund, P O Box 22 002, Christchurch 8142 or call 03 365 2837 to make a credit card donation.
Think about it like this - feeding your community will also nourish your soul. Only good can come from it....
Winter 2009 WHITE TIE’S 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY... Tina and Grant Duncan have been the owners of White Tie Catering for 10 fabulous years! To celebrate, they are launching a series of events to mark this milestone which also gives them an opportunity to have some fun...so read on to find out about our White Tie Winter Bistro, the Great Gatsby and some new advances for White Tie. WHITE TIE WINTER BISTRO - 2010 update The famously nomadic Tina and Grant are taking their roving style to a whole new level – through winter, White Tie will host a series of al la carte pop up restaurants. For just one Thursday night a month, White Tie will create a bistro in a secret location and give clients a chance to enjoy the style of a truly local intimate winter bistro. This is for those, like us, who yearn for simple, classic dishes inspired by the food our mothers used to make…crispy light wiener schnitzel, slow braised lamb, cauliflower gratin, mac and cheese, steamed pudding and a generous list of reds by the glass. The bistro will remind our clients that high end food is about quality, not cost and it will deliver a la carte service at local bistro prices. Each one-night-only restaurant will make casual winter dining an occasion to remember. Tina will be your chef, Grant your maître d’ and warm, a la carte soul restoring food awaits you….. The first winter bistro will be open on Thursday June 3, remaining dates yet to be confirmed. The style and size of the tables will depend on each venue so seats only can be booked. Seats are strictly limited, booking is essential. All guests will receive a message the day before their bistro date to advise them of the location. Bookings can be made on 03 365 2837 or magic@whitetiecatering.co.nz. The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby, from the F Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” would have approved of White Tie. Mr. Gatsby loved to throw lavish parties at his mansion on Long Island Sound near New York, and the wealthy parvenus in the area who attended his parties would have been thrilled by White Tie’s picture perfect canapés and stylish staff… White Tie has been a proud supporter of Christchurch’s The Court Theatre for a number of years and it’s the perfect way for us to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. So, we are extremely pleased to present the ‘White Tie season of The Great Gatsby’. This piece of work is widely viewed as a paragon of The Great American Novel and asks what lies beneath the glamour? (We’ll never tell.) Adapted by Ken Duncum and Directed by The Court’s own Artistic Director Ross Gumbley, The Great Gatsby runs from the 25 July to 22 August. To view more of The Court Theatre season and the Christchurch Arts Festival, visit The Court Theatre or call the box office on 03 963 0870. We actively encourage our friends to support this superb icon of Christchurch art and culture. And don’t forget, it’s the perfect venue for your next White Tie client event… WHITE TIE IN WELLINGTON White Tie goes inter-island for the first time with a move to the Air New Zealand Wellington Koru Lounges. After taking over the two Christchurch lounges in July 2008, Air New Zealand has asked White Tie to move into the capital where almost 10,000 people pass through its lounges each week – that’s a lot of lamb braise… Working to run a remote contract has been a big and challenging job but so far, the transition’s gone without a hitch. The Company took over the lounge and its staff on May 17th and put in place the on-site production model that’s been so successful in Christchurch. This means Koru passengers are offered food that’s created especially for them, fresh on-site, from the oven to the buffet. Enjoy! Go to the Koru lounges online for more information about membership and benefits. |
