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Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
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Not a price list and not an industry average. The real figures from 382 events we catered across Cornwall and Devon in 2026: what people paid, how many they fed, and how little notice a quarter of them gave us.
From Our Kitchen
Cornish Recipes
Traditional Cornish pasties, saffron buns, crab linguine, stargazey pie and more, written by our kitchen team for home cooks who want the real thing.
Catering Advice
Event Planning Guides
What catering actually costs, how we handle allergens, and how to plan a wake, a festival, a retirement party or a sports club fixture, written from the jobs we have catered.
Hog roast, charcoal BBQ, giant pan paella or a delivered buffet, the four routes to a Cornish wedding menu, what each costs per head in 2026, and worked totals for 50, 80 and 120 guests. No wedding surcharge, ever.
We are not a venue. We cater at yours. Which means we have seen what goes wrong. Here is what to check before you sign for a Cornish office Christmas party space.
A behind-the-scenes case study: how Salt Wind Catering catered two back-to-back Rosamunde Pilcher feature films for ZDF in 2026, 42 shoot days, up to 60 cast and crew a day, across 14 locations all over Cornwall.
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Get a QuoteOur self-contained mobile kitchen carries its own LPG appliances, power, water, refrigeration and waste, feeding film crews on remote clifftops, beaches and moors with no mains power or venue kitchen needed.
Book your location caterer as soon as shoot dates and unit base are confirmed, 3–6 weeks for a standard shoot, earlier for summer or multi-week productions. Short-notice bookings welcome too.
Real Salt Wind Catering pricing for wakes at three guest counts: 30, 50 and 100. What the spread looks like, what it costs, and what people actually eat. No upselling, no surprises.
Hog roast, charcoal BBQ or buffet? An honest comparison for Cornwall events, cost, headcount, dietary spread, weather and venue. Call 01209 206255.
The five questions every procurement officer should ask a caterer, and what genuine answers look like. Evidence from a working Cornwall catering operation.
'Approved' gets used loosely in catering. For a site manager running a utility or civils job in Cornwall or Devon it has a specific meaning, and getting it wrong creates real risk. Here is what compliance for a welfare caterer actually involves and how to verify it.
If you are a procurement manager or site lead approving a welfare caterer for a utility contract in the South West, the criteria are not always obvious. Here is what an experienced welfare caterer should bring to the table, and how to test it before you sign.
If you have never hired a location caterer before, the whole thing can look opaque. The call sheet shows times. The contract shows numbers. But what actually happens on the day? Here is a complete walkthrough of a typical Salt Wind Catering film catering day in Cornwall, start to finish.
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