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Event Catering

Graduation Party Catering Cornwall | Celebration Food

Whether it is finishing university, college, sixth form, or an apprenticeship, a graduation deserves a proper celebration. Salt Wind Catering delivers graduation party catering across Cornwall that matches the achievement — from relaxed garden gatherings to full-scale house parties. Three years of lectures, deadlines, and dissertations deserve more than a bag of crisps and some lukewarm Prosecco. Fun Food for a Big Achievement Graduation parties bridge two worlds — the graduate's friends...

Jn Jenna

24 Apr 2025 4 min read

Event Catering

Kids Party Catering Cornwall | Children's Party Food Delivered

Organising a children's party is chaotic enough without worrying about the food. Salt Wind Catering provides kids' party food across Cornwall that children actually eat — delivered fresh and ready to serve so you can focus on party bags, pass the parcel, and keeping twenty sugar-fuelled six-year-olds from climbing the walls. Food Kids Actually Eat Our children's party food collection is designed around what kids actually eat at parties. Mini pizzas made with real dough. Chicken goujons that...

L Chef Lowen

10 Apr 2025 4 min read

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Grazing Platter & Cart Catering Cornwall | Interactive Food Stations

Forget table service. Forget queuing at a buffet table. Grazing stations and carts are how modern events are done — interactive, photogenic, and genuinely fun. At Salt Wind Catering, our grazing cart stations are one of the most popular things we do. Once you've seen a crowd around the donut dunking bar, you'll understand why. Our Grazing Cart Collection We've built a collection of interactive food stations that work for any event. The donut dunking bar lets guests dip warm donuts into melted...

J Chef Jago

29 Mar 2025 3 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Fowey | Steep Streets, No Problem — Just Ring Us

Catering in Fowey — Harbour Town, Daphne du Maurier Country, Proper Food Fowey is one of Cornwall's most beautiful harbour towns — steep streets tumbling down to the river, the Royal Regatta every August, the du Maurier Festival drawing literary crowds each May, and sailing boats filling the estuary all summer long. It's a town that celebrates in style, from weddings at waterfront venues to birthday parties in Polruan, sailing club socials, corporate hospitality on the water, and literary...

T Tristan

28 Mar 2025 4 min read

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Giant Pan Catering Cornwall | Live Paella, Tagine & Street Food

Giant Pan Catering — Dinner and a Show There's nothing like watching your meal being cooked live in a massive pan right in front of you. The sizzle, the smell, the theatre of it — giant pan catering turns food into an event. At Salt Wind Catering , we cook fresh paella, tagine, noodle dishes, and more in oversized pans on-site at your venue. What We Cook Spanish paella loaded with seafood and saffron rice. Moroccan tagine with slow-cooked lamb and apricots. Asian-style noodle stir-fry cooked...

J Chef Jago

25 Mar 2025 3 min read

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Festival & Outdoor Event Catering Cornwall | BBQs, Hog Roasts & Street Food

Festival & Outdoor Catering That Can Handle a Crowd Cornwall runs on outdoor events — village fetes, music festivals, food fairs, county shows, beach parties, and everything in between. When you need to feed hundreds of people outdoors, you need a caterer who can handle the scale, the weather, and the logistics. Salt Wind Catering has been doing exactly that from our base in Redruth. What We Bring to Outdoor Events Our BBQ catering and hog roast catering are built for the outdoors — charcoal...

L Chef Lowen

24 Mar 2025 2 min read

Event Catering

Anniversary Party Catering Cornwall | Silver, Gold & Diamond Celebrations

Whether it's a silver wedding, a golden anniversary, or a diamond celebration, the food should match the milestone. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide anniversary party catering across Cornwall that's elegant, generous, and completely stress-free — from intimate gatherings of 20 to full celebrations of 150 or more. Planning Food for an Anniversary Anniversary parties tend to span a wide age range — grandchildren through to elderly friends. The food needs to suit everyone without feeling like a...

D Demelza

23 Mar 2025 2 min read

Event Catering

School & Charity Event Catering Cornwall | Fetes, Fundraisers & Fairs

Schools and charities in Cornwall run events year-round — summer fetes, fundraising dinners, sports days, award ceremonies, open days, volunteer appreciation lunches, and end-of-term celebrations. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide professional catering for schools, charities, and community organisations at prices that respect tight budgets. School Event Catering School events come in all shapes and sizes. Summer fetes need food that can be served outdoors to hundreds of visitors. Award...

L Chef Lowen

18 Mar 2025 2 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Padstow | Skip the Restaurant Queue, Hire Us

Catering in Padstow — Cornwall's Foodie Capital, Properly Fed Padstow needs no introduction. This fishing harbour on the Camel Estuary has become one of Cornwall's most famous foodie destinations — restaurants lining the quay, the Padstow Christmas Festival drawing thousands each December, and the legendary Obby Oss May Day celebrations that take over the entire town. It's beautiful, it's busy, and it takes its food seriously. Salt Wind Catering covers Padstow from our base in Redruth — about...

T Tristan

12 Mar 2025 2 min read

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Cream Tea Delivery Cornwall | Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam Delivered

Cream Tea Delivery — Fresh Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam, Delivered Across Cornwall There are few things more Cornish than a cream tea. Fresh scones still warm from the oven, a generous pot of proper Cornish clotted cream from a local dairy, and strawberry jam — cream first, obviously. Salt Wind Catering delivers cream tea platters across Cornwall for everything from baby showers to retirement parties, office treats to hen weekends, and holiday cottage welcomes. What's Included Every cream tea...

S Senara

12 Mar 2025 2 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Bude | North Cornwall's Coast, Properly Fed

Catering in Bude — North Cornwall's Surf Coast, Properly Fed Bude is Cornwall's northernmost seaside town — a proper surf destination with dramatic cliffs, golden beaches, and a growing reputation for destination weddings and outdoor events. Summerleaze Beach, Crooklets Beach, and Widemouth Bay draw thousands of visitors every summer, and the Bude Canal running through the town centre gives the whole place a relaxed, waterside character that makes any event feel special. Salt Wind Catering is...

T Tristan

12 Mar 2025 2 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Perranporth | Sand Between Your Toes, BBQ on the Go

Catering in Perranporth — Three Miles of Beach, One Great Caterer Perranporth has one of the best beaches in Cornwall — three miles of golden sand stretching from the village out past the dunes at Perran Sands. It's a proper surf and holiday town with the Watering Hole right on the beach, Perranporth Airfield on the cliff above, holiday parks bringing families in from Easter to October, and a local community that stretches through Goonhavern, St Agnes, Bolingey, and the surrounding villages....

T Tristan

9 Mar 2025 4 min read