Can you help me with menu choices for an event please ?

[TheDogsMother]

We are hosting a lunch for a celebratory event. The venue offers lovely food from locally sourced produce and beautifully presented. The venue has given us lots of sample menus and have asked us to pick three options for each course. We then need to get our guests to choose one dish from each course in advance. So my question is this, which combination of three main ingredients is likely to appeal to most guests. There are no vegetarians/vegans amongst the guests.

Options of dishes made with beef, lamb, chicken, fish (inc gurnard, plaice, hake, sole, salmon, cod, brill, sea trout, halibut, haddock), duck, pork.

It's a nice problem to have but the pages of delicious dishes are making it impossible to choose. Haven't even tackled starters and puds yet . Thank you in advance

But the OP says that most of the guests are quite 'foodie'. So unlikely to choose something 'safe' given the option of something more interesting.

Thank you so much for your input and kind words. Who knew it would be so difficult to choose !! In terms of a smoked fish starter we were thinking about this one. Smoked salmon, capers, grated eggs and spelt bread. It will be prettier than it sounds . The fish choice in general is amazing as venue is very close to the coast so all locally caught.

Congratulations, @TheDogsMother!

Another thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to have a meat option that isn't served rare/pink in case anyone is pregnant.

@goingoverground Thank you and that's a good point.