Mint Catering are delighted to announce that they have successfully won the tender to run the cafe at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009. This year the Pavilion is designed by award winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the leading Japanese practice SANAA.

The cafe will specialise in serving a wide selection of classic sandwiches, salads and cakes. Particularly tasty items include poached salmon mayonnaise with watercress and pickled cucumber in a malt roll, classic chicken coronation with a rice salad and lemon polenta cake. As well as offering a wide range of coffees and soft drinks, the cafe is also licensed and a selection of beers and wines will be available. The cafe will operate 7 days a week from mid-July until the beginning of October. Under the terms of the arrangement, Mint Catering will also be able to provide the catering for many of the Gallery’s exclusive evening events.

The Serpentine contract caps off a fantastic start to the year for Mint with significant contract wins including accredited supplier status at the National Maritime Museum, Wellington Arch, Eltham Palace, Chiswick House, Gilgamesh Studios and Bush Hall.

Press enquiries: Charlie Hepworth, Mint Catering, 020 8459 2773, charlieh@mintcatering.co.uk

About the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Commission

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission was conceived by Serpentine Gallery Director, Julia Peyton-Jones, in 2000. It is an ongoing programme of temporary structures by internationally acclaimed architects and designers. It is unique worldwide and presents the work of an international architect or design team who, at the time of the Serpentine Gallery's invitation, has not completed a building in England. The Pavilion architects to date are: Frank Gehry, 2008; Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007; Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, with Arup, 2006; Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, Arup, 2005; MVRDV with Arup, 2004 (un-realised); Oscar Niemeyer, 2003; Toyo Ito with Arup, 2002; Daniel Libeskind with Arup, 2001; and Zaha Hadid, 2000. Each Pavilion is sited on the Gallery’s lawn for three months and the immediacy of the process – a maximum of six months from invitation to completion – provides a peerless model for commissioning architecture.