Brother Marcus steps into corporate catering

Brother Marcus has launched a corporate catering offer in London’s Canary Wharf.

The London-based restaurant group will offer a menu of mezze-style communal dishes, with each order featuring up to 25 different plants.

It is designed for team lunches, meetings, client entertaining and corporate events, serving groups of eight to 100-plus people.

Menus are built around sharing plates rather, featuring seasonal mezze, salads, grains, house dips and breads, alongside protein-led dishes designed for group dining.

Co-founder of Brother Marcus Tas Gaitanos said: “We’re launching corporate catering in Canary Wharf because the way people eat at work has become too isolated and too predictable. The standard desk lunch, whether it’s a sandwich or a meal deal, is functional, but it’s not inspiring.

“We wanted to create something that people actually look forward to. Food that brings teams together, supports energy throughout the day, and offers nourishment without sacrificing flavour.”

Brother Marcus was founded in 2016 by school friends Gaitanos and Alex Large.

After investing £9,000 in their first brunch café in Balham, they opened a second restaurant in London’s Angel in 2018. Here they added an evening service, inspired by their side-hustle supper club, Smashing Plates, which came to form the foundation of Brother Marcus’s signature all-day Eastern Mediterranean concept, offering everything from Greek sausage bayildi to baklava sandwich with pistachio ice-cream.

Ten years later, Gaitanos and Large operate eight restaurants and a cocktail bar across London. Over the past 18 months alone, they have doubled their existing estate and now oversee a team of 320 staff.

The pair have been shortlisted for Restaurateur of the Year – Group at this year’s Cateys. The winner will be revealed on July 7.