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Event Catering

Christening Catering Cornwall | Baptism Buffets Delivered

A christening is a family occasion, and the food should feel like that — warm, welcoming, and suitable for everyone from great-grandparents to toddlers. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide christening and baptism buffets across Cornwall that are elegant, plentiful, and completely fuss-free. Light & Elegant Options For a church hall or garden reception after the service, our sandwich platters paired with fruit platters and sweet platters create a beautiful afternoon spread. Our afternoon tea...

S Senara

7 Jan 2025 2 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Porthleven | Storm-Watching Outside, Hog Roast Inside

Catering in Porthleven — Cornwall's Foodie Harbour, Properly Catered Porthleven has become one of Cornwall's foodie destinations — the harbour, the annual Porthleven Food Festival , the restaurants clustered around the quay, and a community that takes its food seriously. It's a working harbour town with a dramatic coastline, and when the storms come in it draws crowds just to watch the waves smash over the harbour wall. Salt Wind Catering covers Porthleven from our base in Redruth — about 20...

T Tristan

14 Dec 2024 7 min read

Event Catering

Christmas Party Catering Cornwall | Festive Buffets & Hog Roasts

Christmas Catering — Festive Food Without the Stress December hits and suddenly everyone needs feeding. The office Christmas party. The family get-together. The work lunch that someone forgot to organise until the second week of December. Salt Wind Catering takes the food off your plate — literally. We provide Christmas catering across Cornwall for everything from intimate dinners to 200-guest corporate events. Festive Buffets & Hot Fork Lunches Our Christmas hot fork lunch is the...

L Chef Lowen

13 Dec 2024 2 min read

Catering Services

Grazing Platters Cornwall | Stunning Sharing Boards Delivered

Grazing Platters — The Centrepiece Your Table Needs There's a reason grazing platters have taken over. People photograph them, gather around them, and talk about them for weeks after. A good grazing platter isn't just food — it's the first thing guests see when they walk in, and it sets the tone for the entire event. At Salt Wind Catering , our grazing platters are built by hand in our Redruth kitchen using quality charcuterie, artisan cheeses, fresh fruit, nuts, olives, chutneys, and proper...

J Chef Jago

10 Dec 2024 2 min read

Catering Services

Cornish Seafood Catering | Fresh Seafood Platters Delivered Cornwall

Cornish Seafood Catering — Straight From the Coast to Your Table You're in Cornwall. The seafood here is some of the best in the country, and it makes no sense to serve your guests anything less. At Salt Wind Catering , our seafood platters are built around what's fresh and local — Cornish dressed lobster, crab, shell-on king prawns, smoked salmon, smoked mackerel pâté, and more. It's a genuine taste of the coast. What's on the Platter Cornish dressed lobster. Dressed Cornish crabs. Shell-on...

L Chef Lowen

26 Nov 2024 2 min read

Catering Services

Emergency Catering Cornwall | Last Minute Food When You Need It

Emergency Catering — When Plans Change and People Need Feeding Plans fall through. Caterers cancel. A death in the family means fifty people arriving tomorrow. A client meeting appears from nowhere and someone needs to sort lunch in three hours. It happens, and when it does, you need a caterer who picks up the phone and gives you a straight answer. At Salt Wind Catering , we handle last minute and emergency catering across Cornwall seven days a week. We can't always do same day — but if we...

D Demelza

16 Nov 2024 2 min read

Event Catering

Village Hall Catering Cornwall | Buffets & Party Food Delivered

Cornwall runs on village halls. Birthday parties, wakes, quiz nights, charity fundraisers, parish meetings, sports club presentations, harvest suppers, and wedding receptions — if it's happening in your community, it's probably happening in a village hall. At Salt Wind Catering, we deliver ready-to-serve buffets to village halls across Cornwall. You don't need a kitchen, you don't need to heat anything, and you don't need to spend your evening making sandwiches instead of enjoying the party....

L Chef Lowen

13 Nov 2024 2 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Looe | East Meets West, Both Sides Fed Brilliantly

Catering in Looe — Twin Towns, One Brilliant Caterer Looe is one of Cornwall's most characterful harbour towns — East Looe and West Looe sitting either side of the river, connected by the old stone bridge, with fishing boats working the harbour and narrow streets climbing the hillside in both directions. It's a proper working fishing port with a thriving summer tourist trade that fills the town from Easter through to October. The annual Looe Music Festival, carnival week, New Year's Eve...

T Tristan

7 Nov 2024 5 min read

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Office Lunch Delivery Cornwall | Working Lunch Catering for Businesses

Office Lunch Delivery — Feed Your Team Without the Faff Someone's got a meeting. Someone's running a training day. Someone's just decided the team deserves a decent lunch instead of the usual sad meal deal. Whatever the reason, Salt Wind Catering delivers proper working lunches to offices, meeting rooms, and business venues across Cornwall. What We Deliver Our sandwich platters are the go-to for working lunches — freshly made, varied fillings, ready to put out on the table. Add savoury...

E Elowen

3 Nov 2024 2 min read

Event Catering

New Year's Eve Catering Cornwall | NYE Party Food & Buffets

New Year's Eve Catering — Feed Your Party From First Glass to Last Dance New Year's Eve is one of the biggest party nights of the year, and the food needs to last from the first glass at 8pm to the midnight toast and beyond. Salt Wind Catering provides NYE party catering across Cornwall that keeps your guests fed right through to the early hours. Whether you are hosting 20 friends in a village hall or 200 in a marquee, we plan the food around your evening so there is always something to eat...

M Morwenna

21 Oct 2024 3 min read

Event Catering

Garden Party Catering Cornwall | BBQs, Hog Roasts & Buffets

Cornish summers were made for garden parties. A milestone birthday in the back garden. A family reunion in a farmer's field. A christening in the churchyard. An anniversary celebration on the lawn. Whatever the occasion, Salt Wind Catering brings everything we need and leaves nothing behind. No kitchen required. No power. Just a flat patch of grass and we'll handle the rest. Live Cooking in Your Garden Our hog roast is the ultimate garden party centrepiece — a whole hog slow-roasted over...

L Chef Lowen

18 Oct 2024 3 min read

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Liskeard | East Cornwall's Reliable Hog Roast Hire

Catering in Liskeard — East Cornwall's Market Town, Properly Fed Liskeard sits at the heart of east Cornwall — a proper market town with a strong community and a busy events calendar. From Stuart House arts centre to St Martin's Church, the Liskeard Agricultural Show, and the surrounding countryside stretching towards Bodmin Moor and the Looe Valley, there's always something being celebrated here. Weddings at country estates, birthday parties in town, rugby club presentations, school fetes,...

T Tristan

6 Oct 2024 4 min read

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