
Pizza food truck in Sint-Antonius
At a glance
End of the bike ride
A ride through Zoersel and Halle ends with a pizza from the wood-fired oven: the truck is ready in the yard or car park where the group arrives.
Far from sockets
An open spot at the forest edge has no facilities. The truck arrives with water, cooling, worktops and wood of its own.
Wide village roads
The roads in Sint-Antonius are spacious, so the truck can drive easily right up to the yard or party meadow.

Green, cycling and being outdoors
Zoersel likes to present itself as a green municipality, and Sint-Antonius is proof of it. Zoerselbos, an old deciduous forest with tall beeches and oaks, lies close by. Cyclists and walkers pass through at weekends, and many clubs and companies choose the area for a bike ride, walk or team day.
At the end of a day like that everyone wants to eat, preferably outdoors and without having to relocate to a restaurant. A food truck takes care of that: it is already waiting when the group arrives, with a burning oven and pizzas going round in slices. Bikes leaning against a tree, helmets on the table, a slice of pizza in hand.
Where the truck can stand
Most places to set up in Sint-Antonius are private: a farmyard, a friend’s meadow or an association’s grounds. No municipal paperwork is involved. A neighbourhood party on the little square by Sint-Antonius church is public space, though: then the neighbourhood committee asks the municipality of Zoersel for a permit to use it. Our sheet with dimensions and weight goes into the file.
Forest tracks and sandy lanes are less suited to a heavy truck. So we choose a paved spot or a solid strip of grass, and an access road of 2.5 metres in width at the minimum. A photo of the route and the spot helps us judge everything in advance.


Rhythm for groups stepping off their bikes
A group coming off a bike ride is hungry and arrives all at once. We tune the baking schedule to that: the oven is hot as soon as the first cyclists roll in, and the first pizzas leave the hatch straight away. The truck copes alone with groups of about a hundred and fifty; for more participants a second baking station comes along.
We arrive well ahead, roughly ninety minutes before the expected arrival, and from then on pizzas keep coming for two hours or so. If you want something more elaborate, start with an aperitivo of focaccia and antipasti or finish with dolci. Vegetarian pizzas are always in the selection.
We waren super tevreden en hadden een geweldig communiefeest! Van de hapjes, pizza’s tot de desserts, alles was tot in de puntjes in orde. Heel tevreden en een echte aanrader!
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