Catering and Drinks Onboard
CATERING
Catering is possible onboard covered boats that are doing:
- Booze cruises (where the first hour is spent onboard with a bar)
- River trips
- 2 hour harbour / river cruises
Your own catering
- You are welcome to bring your own food, or to use external caterers. (For which we do charge a small clear up fee).
- We recommend delivery of food prior to the trip (which we will arrange with you). This enables us to arrive for your trip with the food laid out ready for you!
Our Caterer
Bristol based caterer Kate's Kitchen have a great passion for food using seasonal, high quality ingredients and local produce (visiting the Bristol Farmers' Market weekly) to cook creative and imaginative dishes creating British and worldwide flavours.
A very popular choice amongst our customers! Our specially designed Ferry Boat menus including:
- Summer Finger Buffet
- Canapes
- Summer Cream Teas
- Winter and Christmas menus (see 2009's menu as an example)
Prices from £6.50 to £10.50 per head.
Our Cake specialists
- Bristol's top organic cake makers The Organic Chocolate Cake Company will create many different styles according to your event, wedding cakes, media event cakes, birthday cakes and deliver it directly to us here at the Bristol Ferry Boat Co.
DRINKS
Bars
We offer a wide choice of drinks and we ask for your selection before the trip so that we can stock your bar accordingly. Payment can either be by 'pay as you go' or a Bar Tab can be pre-arranged. We offer:
- Bath Ales Natural Blonde beer (pilsner beer brewed in the Netherlands for Bath Ales. Rich, full flavour and organic, made with wheat and barley malt - 5.0% abv.)
- Bath Ales Gem beer (a quintessential English beer, made with wheat and barley malt - 4.8% abv).
- Weston's Organic Cider
- Guiness
- Red wine
- White wine
- Smirnoff Ice
- Spirits including; gin, whisky, vodka, bacardi
- Soft drinks; J20, coke, lemonade, mixers and water
See Bar prices for 2009
Champagne and Wines
For special occasions we can supply champagne or wine selected from our Wine List (supplied by Bristol Wine Company).
Hot drinks
- Teas and coffees can be pre-arranged for larger group trips.
- there is a flat rate charge of £1 a head for the entire group (only available for groups of 12 people +)
- ideal for winter and autumn trips. Please note that during high season we may not be able to offer this service due to logistical issues.


