The Smart Summer Party at Inner Temple Garden

As guests started to arrive, the drinks and canapé reception began. Glasses of either champagne or rosé were circulated around the gardens, while the bar served beer and a variety of cocktails. Our beautiful floral bar remained open for the evening, giving everyone a chance to sample our drinks offering.

Canapés were then served, which included mini lobster buckets with béarnaise sauce and crispy lamb hash with BBQ turnip purée.

Shortly after, Moving Venue’s selection of bowl food was circulated, giving guests a chance to try massam duck curry on sticky rice with crispy onions and spring onion and sea bream ceviche with heritage tomato, almond milk and nasturtium among many.

Over at the live grill bar, our talented chefs served up a choice of charred beef with cured yolk, crispy potato and black garlic aioli, as well as grilled seabass with zhoug, buttermilk, dill and cucumber, and for the veggies summer greens with cashew labneh, radish, peas and broad beans (v).

One stand-out feature of the event was the Smart Christmas Parties themed dessert station, which included a raspberry and Earl Grey bûche de Noël and a champagne and red berry Santa’s belly.

Over in the corner of the Garden, Smart Live installed the Smart Live Swing for guests to ‘swing into summer’ and have their polaroid taken as a little giveaway from the event. They also sourced live entertainment for the evening, which included roaming performers who got guests on their feet, as well as a roaming stencil artist who also supplied guests with a quirky souvenir from the event.

To top it all off, the sun shone throughout our time at Inner Temple Garden and was the perfect setting for our evening soirée.