Catering in Sidmouth — Devon Event Catering from Salt Wind Catering Sidmouth is a Regency seaside town with one of the largest annual folk festivals in the UK — the Sidmouth Folk Festival has run every August since 1955. The festival feeds thousands across the seafront, The Ham and The Lawn, and the rest of the year the town hosts a steady programme of garden parties, weddings and community events along its East Devon clifftops. Festival catering and garden-party catering both happen here, often in the same week. We're set up for both. Salt Wind Catering is based at 37 Fore Street, Redruth — around 1h 55m (100 miles) from Sidmouth via the A30 to Exeter, then A3052 across the East Devon coast. We travel into Devon regularly for weddings, corporate events, festivals and film/TV productions. We're fully self-sufficient — we bring our own kit, our own fuel, our own everything. Cook on-site, serve on-site, clear up on-site. No venue kitchen needed, no awkward conversations with in-house chefs. A note on travel — Devon is a travel supplement area. We're based in Redruth, and crossing the Tamar adds a real cost to the day in fuel and crew time. The supplement is calculated to your exact postcode and confirmed upfront in your written quote. There are no surprises on the day, no hidden charges added at the end. You'll know what you're paying before you book, and the figure won't change. What We Bring to Your Sidmouth Event Every event we cater in Sidmouth is freshly prepared and cooked on-site. Here's what we offer: Hog Roast Catering — Whole hogs sourced from trusted farms, cooked low and slow on-site through the day until guests are arriving and the smell does the marketing for you. Best for 60+ guests, smaller pigs available from 30+. Proper crackling, apple sauce, fresh rolls — no shortcuts. BBQ Catering — Premium charcoal BBQs with proper meats, vibrant fresh sides and real smoke flavour. Forget the supermarket sausage. We bring the kit, the fuel, the food, and we cook it on the spot. Giant Pan Catering — Live paella, tagines and curries cooked in our giant pans in front of the guests. The cooking itself is part of the event — the smell, the colour, the showmanship. Built for crowds; one big setup feeds a lot of people fast. Venues and Locations We Cover Around Sidmouth Whether your event is at a known venue or a private home, we handle the catering logistics. Here are three Sidmouth-area venues we know well: Connaught Gardens — A clifftop public garden licensed for outdoor wedding ceremonies, hired through East Devon District Council. The setting — clifftop, sea views, formal planting — calls for elegant outdoor cooking with a charcoal BBQ or giant pan for receptions. Kennaway House — A Grade II*-listed Regency mansion in the heart of Sidmouth, hosting weddings and private events for up to 100 guests. The lawn handles a hog roast; the courtyard suits giant pan or BBQ catering. Sidmouth Folk Festival sites — The Ham & The Lawn — The seafront festival sites that come alive every August for the Folk Festival. Giant pan cooking for the crowds, hog roast for the larger events programme — feeding several hundred at a time is exactly what these setups are built for. We cover the surrounding villages too — Sidford, Otterton, Newton Poppleford, Salcombe Regis. EX10. Why Salt Wind Catering for a Devon Event We're 5-star food hygiene rated, FSB members and NCASS registered. Everything's freshly prepared in our Redruth kitchen using locally-sourced produce — no packet food, no warmed-up trays from a warehouse, no pre-portioned plastic anything. Our hog roast and BBQ setups are fully self-contained: we don't need your venue's power, water or kitchen facilities. We arrive, set up, cook, serve, clear and leave the space as we found it. Most of our team has been doing this work for years — and the kit, the experience and the standards travel with us across the Tamar. We've provided catering support for organisations including the NHS, National Grid, Cornwall Council, WWF and Savills — clients who need reliability, professionalism and food that doesn't let them down. The drive into Devon doesn't change any of that. We plan our Devon days around the journey: prep starts earlier, the team leaves earlier, and the cooking on-site is timed exactly the same as it would be for an event ten minutes from our kitchen. We're not a national chain. We're not running fifteen events at once and slotting yours in between. When we book a Sidmouth job we commit to it properly — proper crew, proper kit, proper food. Guests notice. Venue managers notice. Production managers notice. And on the back of that, we get asked back. Not Just Weddings — Corporate, Festival and Production We cater for everything in Sidmouth. Corporate days, supplier events, summer parties on the company grounds, awards dinners, Christmas hospitality. We feed film and TV crews on shoot days — breakfast on the unit base before call, hot lunch on schedule, hot dinner if the day overruns. We work festival sites, community gatherings, charity fundraisers and milestone birthdays. Funeral wakes too — handled with care and discretion, always. If it needs feeding properly, we'll cater it. How Booking Works Send us an enquiry through the website with your event date, postcode and rough guest numbers. We'll come back with a tailored quote — including the Devon travel supplement calculated to your exact postcode — within a working day or two. For weddings and large events we recommend booking 4-6 weeks ahead; for corporate orders we can usually turn a quote around within 48 hours. Every menu accommodates vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free guests as standard, and any specific dietary requirements are built in at quote stage rather than as an afterthought. Frequently Asked Questions — Catering in Sidmouth Do you actually travel from Cornwall to Sidmouth? Yes — regularly. We're based in Redruth and we cover the whole of Devon as standard. Sidmouth is around 1h 55m from our kitchen via the A30 to Exeter, then A3052 across the East Devon coast It's a familiar drive. How does the Devon travel supplement work? Devon is a travel supplement area. The supplement is calculated to your exact postcode based on distance and crew time, and it's confirmed in your written quote upfront. No surprises on the day, no hidden charges. You'll know exactly what you're paying before you book. What's the minimum guest count for a hog roast in Sidmouth? For a whole hog you'll typically want around 60 guests to make it worthwhile, but we can roast a smaller pig for groups of 30+. For BBQs and giant pan cooking there's no real minimum — we scale the kit to the booking. Do you need a kitchen at the Sidmouth venue? No. Our hog roast, BBQ and giant pan setups are fully self-contained. We bring our own gas, our own charcoal, our own water if needed, and our own serving kit. All we need is reasonable vehicle access and somewhere outdoor to set up. No venue kitchen, no power, no fuss. Get a Quote for Catering in Sidmouth Tell us what you're planning in Sidmouth and we'll put together a menu that fits — with the travel supplement calculated and confirmed upfront. Request a free quote at saltwind.catering, call us on 01209 206255, or email info@saltwind.catering. We're at 37 Fore Street, Redruth — around 1h 55m from Sidmouth via the A30. See also: Exmouth and Honiton.
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