Our food brings together heirloom family recipes, regional favourites picked up from my travels across India, and then those that have been influenced by my experiences thereafter.

I created The Travelling Tikki to share my love for regional Indian cuisine and cooking, and for food rooted in tradition but not bound by it.

  • All our food is handmade fresh to order. We also roast and grind our own spice blends - intoxicating aromas in the kitchen when that happens! Our fresh produce is handpicked and locally sourced from our village or neighbouring green grocer, butcher and fish monger. We never use artificial colours or flavouring.

  • We believe food brings people together and all our food experiences from our grazing hampers to our dabba dinner deliveries, catering offers, afternoon tea and supper clubs are designed to be shared.

  • We only take on small to medium sized catering requests, so we can focus on giving our clients a fantastic experience, with attention to detail in food preparation, ambience and presentation - there is care, effort and intention behind every aesthetic and flavour choice we make.

  • We are a sustainable business, using reusable, recyclable or compostable tableware and packaging across our services, unless we absolutely cannot, and we encourage pre-orders to reduce food wastage.

We create food experiences, inspired by India:

  • Pop-up events: Supper Club and High Chai experiences at local venues, where we bring a small group of familiar and new faces together to connect over good food and conversation. Find out when the next one will be and what’s on the menu

  • Catering:

    • Private dining experiences at a venue of your choice. A sit down delicious 3-5 course feast at a beautiful table. Find out more

    • Indian-inspired afternoon tea (High Chai) experiences, tiered stands and all, at your chosen venue. Find out more

    • Self-serve hot buffets, complete with curries, sides and accompaniments. Find out more

    • Grazing platters, with sweet and savoury nibbles. Find out more

  • dabbaClub experiences: a regional Indian feast in traditional tiered tiffin tins (dabba). We can cater these for your private event and we also deliver these locally to a small group of homes on a first come first served basis, every Friday evening, in East and West Horsley and its neighbours. Find out more

  • Seasonal grazing hampers packed with sweet and savoury treats to enjoy yourself or to gift. Our Autumn grazing hamper launches September ‘25!