Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
93 articles
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.
How to organise a wake at a Cornish village hall: timing relative to the service, set-up windows, accessibility, what villagers expect, and who handles what. Gentle, practical guidance from a caterer who does this most weeks.
You have rented a Cornish cottage for a hen weekend. Twelve people are arriving Friday night. Here is how Salt Wind Catering handles the food — Friday platters, Saturday hot meal, Sunday brunch — without you ever leaving the cottage.
Board lunch catering across Cornwall — discreet, precise, dietary handled cleanly. Plating standards from the cook team, weekly retainer concept, and how to brief us.
Office Christmas party catering across Cornwall — booking deadlines, menu options, group sizes 15-200, and how to keep dietary tricky-stuff out of the way on the day.
When the original caterer cancels, the weather turns, or fifty people arrive tomorrow for a wake — what emergency catering in Cornwall actually looks like, and how to make the call.
Fresh fruit platters delivered across Cornwall — offices, holiday lets, meeting rooms, birthdays. Sample sizes, what's on them, and how delivery actually works.
How much food per head do you actually need for a buffet, BBQ, hog roast or paella? Honest portion guidance from a working Cornwall caterer — no padding, no upsell.
A planner-grade site survey guide for live cooking events in Cornwall. Vehicle access, cooking footprint, set-up windows, weather, RAMS and per-cook-style pitch requirements — everything Salt Wind Catering's cook team checks before mobilising.
What counts as a private event, how it differs from corporate or wedding work, and what to expect when you book a private caterer in Cornwall.
An honest breakdown of what comes with a Salt Wind Catering catering booking — and the things we don't do, so you can plan the rest of the event around it.
Original first-party data from a year of Cornwall catering enquiries. How quickly enquiries get answered, how far in advance people book by event type, and how the season actually peaks. Based on Salt Wind Catering's own enquiry log between 2024 and 2026, anonymised and aggregated.
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