Off-Grid Film Catering: Feeding Crews on Remote Cornwall & Devon Locations | Salt Wind Catering

Salt Wind Catering's mobile kitchen is fully self-contained — it carries its own LPG-fuelled cooking appliances, generators, water, refrigeration and waste — so it feeds film and TV crews on remote clifftops, beaches, moors and woodland with no mains power or venue kitchen needed. From £30 +VAT per head for a full crew day. Costed quote back within 48 hours.

Can you cater a shoot with no power or kitchen?

Yes — that's exactly what a self-contained location caterer is for. A lot of the best Cornwall and Devon locations have no mains power, no water and no building within reach: a clifftop, a beach at low tide, a moorland tor, a forest clearing. Our mobile kitchen brings everything it needs to cook a full crew service on site, so the location doesn't have to provide anything.

What "self-contained" actually means

It's not a marketing line — it's a kit list. On location we carry and run:

• LPG-fuelled cooking appliances in the mobile kitchen, with charcoal for live-fire and BBQ service.

• Our own generators for power where there's no mains hook-up.

• Fresh water carried in, with a bowser sourced for larger or longer shoots.

• Refrigeration with hot and cold holding, so food stays safe through staggered call times.

• A waste plan — we carry our waste out and leave the location as we found it.

The locations we reach

Based in Redruth, we cater shoots on clifftops, beaches, moorland, woodland, working farms and harbour walls right across Cornwall and Devon — including narrow single-track approaches that full-size London facility trucks can't manage. If a unit base can get there, so can we; for the tightest spots we hot-box meals in instead of setting up a full kitchen on the pitch.

How we plan a remote shoot

Remote catering lives or dies on access. We brief or attend an access recce, work out whether to cook on location or hot-box from a nearby pitch, plan water and waste logistics for the day, and match the service window to your call sheet — early breakfasts, late meals and standby through night shoots. The more notice we have, the tighter that plan.

Keeping a remote shoot low-carbon

Off-grid doesn't have to mean high-impact. We cook made-to-order against your confirmed headcount to cut waste, source from named Cornish suppliers to keep food miles short, and — as a BAFTA albert–aligned supplier — hand your coordinator a per-event sustainability statement (PDF) with the supplier, packaging and vehicle data they drop into albert's carbon footprint calculator.

Can you cater a film shoot with no mains power?

Yes. Our self-contained mobile kitchen carries its own LPG appliances, generators, water and refrigeration, so it cooks a full crew service on remote sites with no mains power or venue kitchen needed.

What remote locations can you reach?

Clifftops, beaches, moorland, woodland, working farms and harbour walls across Cornwall and Devon, including narrow single-track approaches that full-size facility trucks can't manage.

Do you bring your own water and waste?

Yes — fresh water is carried in (with a bowser for larger or longer shoots) and we carry our waste out, leaving the location as we found it.

Can you cook on-site at a remote location, or only hot-box?

Either. We can set up the mobile kitchen to cook on location, or hot-box meals in from a nearby pitch where access is too tight for a full setup.

Is catering a remote shoot more expensive?

Pricing starts from our published from-£30 +VAT per head; remote access and a fully self-contained setup can affect the quote, but it's always itemised — no surprises.