The Divine Cat at the Brent Museum

Mackintosh’s was extremely honoured to win the tender to cater, despite fierce competition, for the Brent Museum’s Egyptian exhibition of the Gayer-Anderson Cat from the British Museum. This loan is the first of a pilot scheme that the London Museums Hub hopes to repeat with the goal to establish a network of small museums of taking high quality loans from national and Hub museums. More widely known as the ‘Divine cat’, this bronze statue dates back to 600 BC making it over 2, 400 years old. The Mayor officiated at the opening and in order to keep with the theme of the Cat’s Egyptian origins Mackintosh’s chefs created an exciting menu of Middle eastern Canapés.

The guests’ favourites on the night were the warm Kofta of honeyed chicken with apricot, almonds and balsamic vinegar to a Baba Ghanoush on roasted garlic flavoured croutes drizzled with basil oil. Overall the night a huge success and we at Mackintosh’s wish Brent Museum the best of luck with their great new exhibition.