About LAiRIE

The owners believe there is space in the market for innovative Caribbean styled condiments that are healthy as well as tasty, with each sauce made with the fast growing vegan population - eco-friendly and health-conscious communities in mind. 

Leandra and Alicia's business journey began in 2018 after sharing their creative vegan and vegetarian dishes with friends and family over the years of transitioning to a Plant-based lifestyle. Their passion for recreating plant-based dishes with a Caribbean twist gave birth to LAiRIE, initially a Caribbean veggie-vegan catering company, services covering between London and surrounding areas. Both working diligently to pursue events and trade shows to display their innovative and flavour filled dishes with great success in private events, Vegan trade show in Bedford 2018 and Christmas Artisan fairs.  

     As a growing start up in England, with many innovative dishes in their itinerary later LAiRIE saw an oppertunity to bring Caribbean vegan flavours to the expanding plant-based community in Northern Ireland. With a leap of faith and the support of their family and friends, the voyage to Northern Ireland began, when both Leandra and Alicia moving to Belfast in 2019 to begin their journey in their found niche. 

     Many Opportunities opened up for LAiRIE in Belfast, through their events in both private and public sectors, which lead them to working on the innovation program in the Belfast Metropolitan College, where their hard work and dedication won them Gold innovation success awarded by Minister for the Economy in May 2020. 

    With covid slowing down catering development throughout the year of 2020, LAiRIE decided to cultivate their popular flavours into a product where customers can access the authentic natural Caribbean flavours whenever and wherever they so desired throughout the pandemic and so LAiRIE Sauce Yard grew.

     Being successful awardees of Innovation grant in 2021 the business decided to pursue further development of their sauces through CAFRE(College of Agriculture Food & Rural Enterprise), where they put their products through extensive quality tests and nutritional analysis in order to offer customers the best of authenticity as well as offer health conscious tasty flavour enhancers.