Wilde Thyme to serve award-winning cuisine at The Famous Grouse Experience

CRIEFF, Scotland - Jan. 13, 2015 - PRLog -- Comrie based caterers Wilde Thyme have been selected by The Famous Grouse Experience at Glenturret Distillery to serve their award-winning food at the five-star visitor attraction in Crieff. The luxury food and events caterers will be offering the very best of local produce from Scotland’s larder in the visitor café and restaurant as well as providing corporate and leisure event catering at Scotland’s oldest distillery, giving visitors a unique and memorable taste of Perthshire.

The launch of Wilde Thyme at Glenturret has been led by Wilde Thyme’s chef patron Andrew Hamer, working closely with the team at The Famous Grouse Experience. Established in 2003, Wilde Thyme has catered for an array of high profile clients and at notable events including last year’s Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. The talented team also picked up the award for UK ‘Event Caterer of the Year’ in 2013.

Andrew, previously the executive chef at Gleneagles Hotel, is the creative force behind Wilde Thyme and looking forward to working with the distillery team and a world-class visitor attraction.

Andrew said:
“This is an incredibly exciting time for the team at Wilde Thyme and we are very much looking forward to working with everyone at Glenturret Distillery, the home of The Famous Grouse Experience. Being from Comrie, the Distillery is on our door-step so this new partnership is extra special being so close to the home of our business.”

Andrew continued:

“We pride ourselves on creating dishes with the very best quality of ingredients from top local suppliers and will bring our company values to this new partnership. Both Wilde Thyme and The Famous Grouse Experience believe in quality and offering people an experience that they won’t forget and that’s something we are planning to create together.”

Stuart Cassells, General Manager at The Famous Grouse Experience at Glenturret Distillery, commented:

“Everyone here is thrilled to be welcoming Andrew and the team at Wilde Thyme to develop our food offering. To be working with innovators of this calibre is a real privilege. I can say from first-hand experience that their culinary creations are mouth-watering and I can’t wait for distillery visitors and our regular local visitors to experience that.”

Wilde Thyme at Glenturret is opening its doors and serving up culinary delights from Monday 19^th January, 2015. To find out more about Wilde Thyme Catering and Party Design please visit www.wilde-thyme.co.uk

To find out more about The Famous Grouse Experience at Glenturret Distillery and the tours and facilities available, visit http://experience.thefamousgrouse.com/

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For further information on this news release, please contact Tricia Fox, Volpa, Tel: 07989 955039 or 01738 658187, Email: t.fox@volpa.co.uk

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(Left to right) Matthew Mauchlen – Woodburn Farm, Crieff, Gary Conacher – Simon Howie Butchers, Dunning, Andrew Hamer – Wilde Thyme, Lesley Williamson – The Famous Grouse Experience, Glenturret Distillery

About Wilde Thyme Catering and Party Design

Established in 2003 as luxury caterer, Wilde Thyme is now one of Scotland’s leading catering and party design companies and is based at Cultybraggan near Comrie, Perthshire.

Managing Director, Andrew Hamer is a former Executive Chef at Gleneagles where he developed his skills in international cuisine, and a member of the ‘Academy of Culinary Arts’.

Wilde Thyme is a regular caterer and event company in prestigious venues such as National Galleries of Scotland, Inveraray Castle and Carlowrie Castle, Isle of Bute and is the exclusive caterer at Glamis Castle.

Andrew has positioned the company to live by its ethos of ‘Delivering the exceptional restaurant experience to an event environment’

About Glenturret Distillery and The Famous Grouse Experience

The Famous Grouse Experience is located at Scotland’s oldest working distillery – Glenturret. Originally established as a single malt distillery in 1775, today The Famous Grouse Experience is the most visited distillery in Scotland (welcoming an average of 100,000 visitors every year).

The distillery offers the opportunity to learn how a single malt is made in the traditional way, as well as learning how some of the Glenturret single malt is then blended along with other grain and malt whiskies to create The Famous Grouse, the No. 1 whisky in the UK.

Opening Hours10am-6pm (Nov-Feb 10am-5pm)

For more information please visit http://experience.thefamousgrouse.com/ or call 01764 656565