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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 —...

L Chef Lowen

24 Mar 2025 3 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 —...

T Tristan

12 Mar 2025 7 min read

Catering Services

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...

S Senara

12 Mar 2025 3 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...

T Tristan

12 Mar 2025 7 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

Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Wadebridge | Royal Cornwall Show Country, All Year Round

Catering in Wadebridge — Show Country, Camel Valley, Always Ready Wadebridge is the gateway to north Cornwall — a busy market town on the River Camel where the A39 and B3314 converge, sitting between the coast at Rock and Polzeath and the moorland above Bodmin. The town punches well above its weight for events. The Royal Cornwall Show just outside town draws over 100,000 visitors every June to the showground at Wadebridge. The Camel Trail brings cyclists and walkers along the old railway line...

T Tristan

26 Feb 2025 6 min read

Catering Services

Next Day Buffet Delivery Cornwall | Order Today, Eat Tomorrow | Salt Wind Catering

Next Day Buffet Delivery — Sorted by Tomorrow Sometimes catering doesn't come with a fortnight's notice. A meeting lands in the diary. A birthday creeps up. A bereavement happens and a family needs to feed fifty people by tomorrow afternoon. That's where Salt Wind Catering comes in. We offer next day buffet delivery across Cornwall — order before 2pm and your food will be freshly made and ready the following day. Everything is freshly prepared in our Redruth kitchen. No frozen platters....

E Elowen

19 Feb 2025 2 min read

Event Catering

Wedding Catering Cornwall | Buffets, Hog Roasts & Grazing

Planning a wedding in Cornwall means you've already nailed the setting. Now you need food that lives up to it. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide everything from elegant grazing spreads to hearty hog roasts for weddings across Cornwall and Devon. Based in Redruth, we know this county inside out — and we know what works at a Cornish wedding. Wedding Buffet Options That Actually Work Our event and party catering collection is built for weddings of every style. For a relaxed wedding breakfast,...

D Demelza

6 Feb 2025 4 min read

Catering Services

Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests in Cornwall | What You Need to Know

Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests — What Works at Each Scale The catering that works for 30 people doesn't necessarily work for 150. The logistics change, the food choices shift, and the way you serve it matters more the bigger you go. Here's how we approach it at Salt Wind Catering . Up to 50 Guests Delivered buffets are perfect at this size. Our sandwich platters , savoury platters , and hot buffet platters arrive ready to set out. No staff needed, no equipment, no fuss. Add a grazing...

M Morwenna

25 Jan 2025 2 min read

Catering Services

Buffet Catering in Cornwall | Event Buffets Done Properly | Salt Wind Catering

Buffet Catering in Cornwall — No Packet Food, No Shortcuts A buffet should be the highlight of your event, not an afterthought. We've all been to parties where the food is a sad spread of supermarket platters still in their plastic trays — sweaty cheese, limp sandwiches, and a bowl of crisps someone tipped out at the last minute. That's not catering. That's giving up. At Salt Wind Catering, everything is freshly prepared in our kitchen at 37 Fore Street, Redruth. Proper ingredients, locally...

K Chef Kitto

10 Jan 2025 3 min read

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