Can you also cater a dinner for a dozen guests?

Yes. There is no minimum, and a small company suits Afsnee perfectly. We adjust the number of varieties and the pace so every pizza arrives fresh at the table. The team, the oven and the dough are the same as for a big party.

Our garden slopes down to the Leie. Where should the oven stand?

On the most level part, usually near the house or on the terrace, and not right at the bank. The oven needs to stand stably and be able to vent its smoke. With a few photos of the garden we find a spot where your guests still keep a view of the water.

How do you get the equipment into a garden without a driveway?

Via the path or passage beside the house, as long as the way is 2.5 metres wide. In Afsnee we deliberately work with a compact set-up. Send us photos of the route from the street, and we will check beforehand whether everything can come in smoothly.

Can a wedding by the water have pizza too?

Certainly. After the ceremony and an aperitivo on the bank comes Pizza à volonté, and with the Full experience you end on dolci and limoncello. Only with a hundred and fifty guests or more does a second baking station enter the picture, although weddings in Afsnee tend to be smaller.

Pizza catering in Afsnee

Afsnee is small: a white church on the Leie, a handful of streets and country houses with gardens down to the water. Pizza catering works best here in an intimate form, with a compact set-up and an evening at the pace of the river.

Small and intimate

A dinner for twelve or a birthday with thirty guests: with no minimum number of guests, the wood-fired oven suits a small company too.

Compact set-up

Gardens on the Leie aren’t always reachable with large equipment. Here we work with the smallest tent and an oven that can come in along a narrow path.

An evening by the water

Aperitivo on the bank, pizzas while the light changes over the Leie and dolci as the first lights come on across the water.

The village on the bend of the Leie

Afsnee is one of Ghent’s smallest outlying districts. The village lies on a bend of the Leie, with the white village church right by the water. All around are country houses and villas with gardens running down to the river, some with their own landing stage. It is a place where you barely notice the city any more.

A party in Afsnee is therefore rarely a big happening. It is a birthday with family, a dinner with friends or a small wedding by the water. That calls for catering that adapts to the scale of the village: no massive set-up, but a wood-fired oven glowing in the garden and a team quietly going about its work.

Because we apply no minimum number of guests, that works perfectly. A dinner for twelve gets the same sourdough, after its two to three days of resting, and the same Italian ingredients as a big party. We only adjust the pace and the number of varieties, so every pizza gets the attention it deserves.

An evening at the river’s pace

We begin with aperitivo, on the bank or the terrace if possible: antipasti, bruschetta and focaccia fresh from the wood-fired oven, with an Aperol or a bottle of Italian wine going round. Anyone living on the Leie knows how lovely the light is around sunset; we like to plan the aperitivo so that moment falls in the middle of it.

Then come the pizzas in shareable slices, on platters passed around the table. With a small company everyone can watch at the oven and put in a request for the next pizza. With the Full experience the evening closes with tiramisu and cannoli. Service lasts a couple of hours, without hurry.

Setting up compactly by the water

Gardens on the Leie are beautiful, but not always easy to reach. Access often runs along a narrow path beside the house or across a lawn sloping down to the bank. That is why in Afsnee we work with a compact set-up: the smallest tent, three by three metres, and an oven that can stand on a level patch in the open air, some way from the water.

The equipment does have to get in through a gap 2.5 metres wide; photos of the path and the garden help us judge that in advance. Vegetarian pizzas are never missing, and vegan or gluten-free ones we prepare on request in a zone kept apart. If it rains, we shelter in consultation under a party tent or canopy.

Wij hebben niets dan lof voor Prestigio. Prima communicatie, duidelijke afspraken en heerlijke antipasti en pizza’s. Wij zijn Mathieu en Chloë dankbaar dat ze ons op zo’n korte termijn konden helpen. Woensdag eerste contact en zondag erna…
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