IN SUPPORT OF OUR APPLICATION TO

IN SUPPORT OF OUR APPLICATION TO APPEAR AT YOUR EVENT Our availability: We would like to appear at your future events. However we are also available for last minute cancellations and appearing randomly at your events. Please contact us with your decision. IN BRIEF * Uniquely, we -­‐ Cossack Cuisine -­‐ are the only people offering fresh, handmade hot and cold Russian food at public events. * The Russian Cafe – Cossack Cuisine -­‐ we own has been rated No.1 in Sheffield on Trip Advisor, from July 2014 for 5 consecutive months to present day, i.e. – 18th November 2014/ Check out our reviews here > http://bit.ly/1hbro5g * All of our food fayre is based on traditional Russian recipes. We hand make all our food using local ingredients wherever possible in our Sheffield bakery. Our range includes small, medium and large brioche bread-­‐dough pies -­‐ with sweet and savoury choices – e.g. apricot & sweet cream cheese, or savoury spring onion & egg, black pudding & bacon, plus stews, soups, potato cakes (piroshki), salads, tarts, cakes, celebration gateaux and sweet things. Our food is typically bought for home consumption. *We also offer a range of Russian hot food – for immediate consumption when we trade as “Let Them Eat Pie!” -­‐ our street food operation. * We have been operating at farmers markets & food festivals & street food events for 3 years now – besides the local events in Sheffield such as the Nether Edge street market, we appear at the monthly Farmers Markets at Bakewell, Stone (Staffs.), Leeds, Buxton, Sutton Bonington & many others, the annual Food Festival's in Sheffield, Leeds and Derby and various street food evening events in Buxton, Nottingham, Leeds, etc. We also own and run the No. 1 eating-­‐place in Sheffield – see above. * We have provided our food at over 200 public and private events in the last 2 years. * We can provide the requisite paperwork: -­‐ Food Hygiene Rating certificate (5 stars) issued for our premises by Sheffield Council -­‐ Public Liability Insurance cover document -­‐ Hygiene Training Certificates -­‐ Risk Assessment documents We look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards Steve Jones & Leeza Murina Owners of Cossack Cuisine Mobile -­‐ 07944 093 255 for Steve email -­‐ [email protected] IN SUPPORT OF OUR APPLICATION TO APPEAR AT YOUR EVENT FURTHER INFORMATION 1. BACKGROUND Here is further information who we are and about what we have been doing: We call our business -­‐ "Cossack Cuisine" -­‐ (Very Different. Very Delicious.). We bake our own food items in a professional bakery/kitchen at our industrial premises in Sheffield. My partner is a Russian-­‐born lady who prepares all our food. Though she has been resident in Yorkshire for the last 20 years. We offer familiar dishes with a truly Russian twist such as: -­‐ Zukuski (appetisers) -­‐ Pelmeni (dumplings) -­‐ Piroshki (pies) -­‐ Kotletki (meatballs) All of our food fayre is based on traditional Russian recipes. We also make and sell small, medium and larger bread-­‐dough pies -­‐ both sweet and savoury choices, stews, soups, potato cakes, salads, tarts, cakes and sweet things. There are no other UK traders offering fresh Russian food in a market environment. We have been operating at farmers markets & food festivals & street food events for 3 years now -­‐ including the monthly Farmers Markets at Bakewell, Leeds & others, the annual Food Festival's in Sheffield, Leeds and Derby and various street food evening events in Buxton, Nottingham, Leeds, etc. We also owned and ran the No. 1 eating-­‐place in Sheffield -­‐ see "Our Excellent Reputation" below. 2. WHAT WE SELL AND HOW WE SELL IT I have featured a selection of photos (below) -­‐ some are specific shots of our stand at a number of different food events, e.g. farmers markets, street food and festival occasions. Also I have included some images of our food in situ at these events. We use a sneeze guard on our stall to protect our food. The food we sell is ready-­‐to-­‐eat (cold) but most people take the food home for consumption there. We also provide written instructions on how long to heat the ready-­‐to-­‐eat food, how long to store, etc. When appropriate, we can also employ at our stand/stall -­‐ approved gas or electric heating facilities to cook and/or warm up our food items. 3. OUR APPEARANCES We have also appeared at over 200 food events in Yorkshire (South and West), Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Cheshire. 4. LEGAL & MORE On request we can provide: •
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Food Hygiene Rating certificate (5 stars) issued by Sheffield Council's Food Standards Agency/EHO and a copy of our Insurance Liability cover document. Our Risk Assessment documents covering the typical risk issues for our business. Public Liability Insurance (by the way -­‐ we are also fully paid up members of the NMTF) Personal Health & Hygiene Certificates (for both owners -­‐ at least one of us will be in attendance at each market appearance) IN SUPPORT OF OUR APPLICATION TO APPEAR AT YOUR EVENT 5. OUR EXCELLENT REPUTATION We are particularly proud of our Bakery/Cafe being voted by our customers to consistently be voted as the No. 1 rated food experience of the 1,000+ eating establishments in the Sheffield area on the review web site -­‐ TRIPADVISOR.com Link here to read the reviews > http://bitly.com/1hbro5h. This No.1 position has currently been maintained for 5 consecutive months. Recently we have closed our initial cafe and bakery as we have relocated our bakery to brand new larger industrial premises and are scheduled to open the new cafe/restaurant in Sheffield city centre in 2015. 6. REFERENCES We are happy to provide referees to attest to our professionalism, reliability and excellent quality of food that we make and sell. These are administrators of some of the biggest and long established food/council markets in the North of England. Further information can be found on our web site -­‐ such as biographies of the owners, etc. www.cossackcuisine.com “Cossack Cuisine” Marquee “Let The Eat Pie” Marquee Medium: Mushroom Brioche Pie Large: Veg. Brioche Pie Beef Potato Cake (Piroshki) Smoked Ham Sausage Roll Small: Chicken Brioche Pie Baltic Cod Fish Cakes Russian Honey Cake