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 BBQs with premium cuts, whole hog roasts turning on the spit, and all the sides and trimmings. For something with real theatre, our giant pan cooking delivers fresh paella, tagine, and more cooked live in front of your crowd.

Street Food Style

Our grazing cart stations work brilliantly at outdoor events — the donut dunking bar and NYC bagel bar draw queues everywhere they go. Add hot buffet platters for something more substantial. Our Pimp Your Prosecco station adds a drinks element that keeps queues coming back.

Scale & Capacity

We cater outdoor events from 50 to 500+ people. The setup changes depending on numbers — a single hog roast and BBQ station works perfectly for up to 150 guests, while larger events might need multiple cooking stations running simultaneously. For a breakdown of what works at different scales, see our guide to catering for 50, 100 or 200 guests. We bring additional staff for larger events and can run multiple food offerings at once — a hog roast at one end, a giant pan paella at the other, and grazing carts dotted throughout. For a rough idea of costs at scale, check our pricing guide.

Types of Outdoor Events We Cover

Music festivals and multi-day events where we serve from dawn to midnight. County shows and agricultural fairs where we run high-volume service for hundreds per hour. School and charity fetes where the budget matters and the food has to appeal to kids and adults alike. Sports club presentation nights held in clubhouse car parks on warm summer evenings. Beach parties, clifftop celebrations, and garden parties that grow from 20 to 80 people when the neighbours hear the music. We've also handled outdoor film and TV catering for productions shooting on location in some of Cornwall's most remote spots.

Weather-Proof Catering

Let's be honest — this is Cornwall, and outdoor events don't always mean sunshine. We've cooked in horizontal rain, 30mph winds, and mud deep enough to lose a wellington boot. Our equipment is built for it. Gazebos protect the cooking stations and serving areas. The hog roast keeps turning regardless. The giant pans don't care about drizzle. If your event is outdoors in Cornwall, we're the caterer who turns up whatever the forecast says. We hold a 5-star hygiene rating and NCASS accreditation, which means our outdoor food safety standards are exactly the same as our indoor ones.

We Handle the Logistics

Outdoor events mean generators, gazebos, wind, rain, and mud. We've catered in all of it. We bring everything we need — you just tell us where and when. From fields to beaches, car parks to clifftops, we've set up in places that would make most caterers turn around and go home. We're completely self-sufficient — no kitchen, no power, no water supply needed from your venue.

Feeding Cornwall's Events

We cover festivals and outdoor events across the county — from Wadebridge (Royal Cornwall Show) to Porthleven (Food Festival), Perranporth (beach events), Newquay (Boardmasters and beyond), and across into Devon for larger events.

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Book Festival Catering

Call us on 01209 206255 or request a quote. Whether it's 50 or 500, we'll feed them properly. See also: hog roast catering · summer party catering · giant pan catering.