About the Hidden Kitchen

Founded by Annabel Gray, the Hidden Kitchen is a South London based caterer providing services at home or corporately which is special, sustainable and secret. The Hidden Kitchen creates feasts tailored to your needs, ready for serving at your dining table.

Our home catering services range from everyday eating and batch cooking, to kitchen suppers, formal dinner parties and celebrations. Our corporate catering services span from buffet or bowl food style lunches to more formal sit down affairs.

We also provide bespoke cooking classes (for adult & children), working hard to impart our knowledge and skills to those wanting to become more confident in the kitchen, whether that is a little chef or adult seeking to become the master chef!

Working around your needs, we provide small scale catering for one to 40 people, around the London, Surrey and Kent area (circa 1 hour from Streatham).

Meet the Chef

Annabel has been passionate about food since a child. Having been taught to cook at a very young age by her mother, she has always felt at home cooking and creating menus that bring people together. Classically trained at Leith’s (2008) and Cookery School at Little Portland Street (2025), and with a Level 2 from Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), Annabel finally took the leap from the busy corporate world to start the Hidden Kitchen in 2025.

Based on her own experiences hosting for her large family (young nephews and nieces included) and entertaining friends and colleagues, the Hidden Kitchen aims to provide either a full banquet of fresh homemade food, or ad hoc support which can prop you up when you host. In a society where everyone is busy and even more aware of the benefits of prioritising healthy, sustainable eating - hosting and eating well can be one less thing to worry about.

With a background in Environmental Science (BSc - Honours) and a practitioner of the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental professionals, Annabel hopes to bring together two of her passions to always ensure the food that arrives at your door is as local and sustainable as possible, minimising food waste across the process. With an understanding of the demands of busy working schedules, she aims to be as flexible and subtle in her support as you need.

So, want to stock the fridge with some special staples to help host family or feed your household? Need some healthy midweek dinner support to get you through a busy week? Or if you require a complete start to finish catering service for a special occasion - feel free to get in touch to chat through your needs and we’ll see what we can cook up together.