Ali Bishop
I’ve been catering weddings and functions for over 12 years, with a dedication to creating memorable events, providing great customer service and designing wholesome, delicious food. I previously owned Pachamama Cafe in Killcare and co-owned Garden 2 Plate Cafe & Catering for 5 years.
I’m passionate about providing guests with exciting dishes that are vibrant with alive food that’s colourful and pretty. I especially love garden to plate style catering where produce travels the least miles to get to your table. I often source my ingredients straight from my own small permaculture garden. All our kitchen scraps go straight back into my compost which ends up back on the veggie patch. It is my joy to see this cycle come full circle to the dishes I serve to my guests.
My love and passion for great food took me to New York to study plant based cuisine at culinary school in Brooklyn. I regularly host cooking workshops and events to share my love of creating fresh, delicious meals with the community.
Our Story
About our name: Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the earth mother or Mother Earth. In Inca mythology, Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting. Many modern South Americans believe that problems arise when people take too much from nature because they are taking too much from Pacha Mama.
Pachamama Catering has a mission to provide customers with vibrant, delicious and environmentally conscious meals, showcasing the beauty and flavours of nature in every dish. Pachamama Catering Central Coast was founded in 2013 and is consistently growing with this philosophy at heart. Growing local, small batch fruit, vegetables and flowers, keeping waste and single use products to an absolute minimum, and constantly striving to achieve a lower impact on the environment, Pachamama Catering is one of the small businesses on the Central Coast, making a difference one meal at a time.
Over the last ten years Pachamama has been catering your life events, from weddings to birthday parties, corporate lunches and more, we have achieved a reputation for being one of the best caterers on the Central Coast. Pachamama provides catering for gatherings large and small. Weddings, parties and corporate clients including regular corporate clients Trip Advisor, Uber and Spotify. We have worked in many venues across the Coast and beyond and we’re proud to have built relationships with venues, local suppliers and small businesses.
“I can’t recommend Pachamama catering more highly! Ali and her lovely team catered our Wedding at Hunters Hill Sailing Club in April. The food was all vegetarian and absolutely blew our socks off. The shortbread! The dumplings! The satay cauli! Just gorgeous! Our guests were raving about the food and couldn’t believe it was all vegetarian. Pachamama looked after my special diet friends and even checked if my gluten free friend was coeliac (which she was) and organised to have all her food prepared on special untainted surfaces! So thoughtful and very much appreciated by her and me. ”
- Andrea Jackson