Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
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On-site catering means a cook team arrives at your Devon venue, sets up, cooks from scratch, and packs down. No transit containers, no reheated trays. This guide covers the full range of services, honest travel costs, what your venue needs to provide, and answers the questions Devon event planners ask us most.
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Cornish Recipes
Traditional Cornish pasties, saffron buns, crab linguine, stargazey pie and more — written by our kitchen team for home cooks who want the real thing.
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.
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Get a free quote 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.
Unit base is where the production lives. It is the staging point — the parked trucks, the costume tents, the production office on wheels — and it is where the crew comes to eat. Get unit base catering right and the day runs to schedule. Get it wrong and you have 80 hungry people standing in a layby in Bodmin Moor wondering where lunch is.
Catering for dietary requirements is not a favour — it is part of the job. We take allergen management seriously because the consequences of getting it wrong are serious. Here is exactly how we handle dietary information before and during events, and what you should expect from any professional caterer.
Feeding an international cast and crew on location in Cornwall is less glamorous than it sounds and more precise than you'd think. Here is what a full day on set actually looks like from the catering truck — and the small details that keep a German TV production running on time.
It is the first question everyone asks and the one most caterers refuse to answer properly. The honest answer is: it depends on several things that are genuinely important to understand before you book. Here is what actually drives the cost of catering in Cornwall — and the questions you should ask any caterer before you sign anything.
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