Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
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Catering in Carbis Bay for 10 to 200+ guests covering weddings, birthdays, wakes, corporate retreats and beach-house parties. Salt Wind Catering covers Carbis Bay from Redruth in around 30 minutes via the A30.
From Our Kitchen
Cornish Recipes — by Elowen
Traditional Cornish pasties, saffron buns, crab linguine, stargazey pie and more — written by our pastry chef for home cooks who want the real thing.
Catering in Salcombe for 20 to 200+ guests covering estuary weddings, holiday-home parties, sailing-club events and corporate retreats. Salt Wind Catering covers Salcombe from Redruth, around 2h15 via the A30 and A38.
Catering in Mawgan Porth for 15 to 150+ guests covering surf-coast weddings, holiday-home parties, milestone birthdays and beach gatherings. Salt Wind Catering covers Mawgan Porth from Redruth in around 40 minutes.
Catering in Praa Sands for 15 to 150+ guests covering beach-house parties, Lizard weddings, milestone birthdays and holiday-let celebrations. Salt Wind Catering covers Praa Sands from Redruth in around 30 minutes.
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Get a free quote Catering in Polperro for 15 to 120+ guests covering harbour-village weddings, holiday-cottage parties, milestone birthdays and clifftop celebrations. Salt Wind Catering covers Polperro from Redruth, around 1h30 via the A30 and A38.
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.
Devon does not get the same press as Cornwall when it comes to filming locations, but anyone in the industry knows it punches above its weight. Dartmoor's wild granite tors, the rolling green of the South Hams, and the dramatic cliffs around Hartland have all been on screen, repeatedly.
5am call. Pitch dark. Cold rain horizontal off the Atlantic. Forty crew arriving in convoy expecting hot food, strong coffee, and a kitchen that is already running. Breakfast on a film set is the most important service of the day — and the easiest to get wrong.
Standby catering is the quiet workhorse of a film day. It is not the hot lunch service that everyone queues for. It is the constantly-replenished hot drinks station, the fruit bowl that never empties, the bacon roll that appears at 10am when the focus puller is running on fumes.
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