Can you bake on a castle estate in Berlaar with no kitchen on site?

Yes. We bring the wood-fired oven and our own working equipment. No kitchen is needed. What does matter is a flat place for the tent and open air extraction, so the oven can stand outside or under a shelter.

The whole family is coming, from Berlaar to Gestel. Is one oven enough?

A single oven comfortably handles a party of around a hundred and fifty. If the family is larger, or neighbours and friends join, a second baking station goes up next to it.

When are you on site on the day of the party?

We turn up about ninety minutes before the first bite, because the oven needs that time to get properly hot. From then on pizzas keep coming for around two hours, sometimes a little more. When it ends we tidy up and take all the waste with us.

Can we have Italian wine served with the meal?

Of course. Besides Aperol and limoncello we have Italian wines that go with the pizzas and antipasti. The tailor-made proposal shows which drinks we suggest for your group.

Pizza catering in Berlaar

Along the Grote Nete, Berlaar and Gestel have farms with a yard big enough for a whole family. Our pizza catering turns such a yard into an Italian terrace, with a wood-fired oven that keeps burning from aperitif to dessert.

Long tables in the yard

On a farm, guests like to sit together at one long table. We serve the pizzas in slices that pass from hand to hand, like at a Sunday family meal.

Room for speeches

At an anniversary or wedding we bake in waves. During a speech the oven pauses for a moment, then the next round arrives hot at the table.

Dolci at dusk

Tiramisu and cannoli close the full experience just as the Nete valley fades into twilight and the string lights come on.

A party day on a Berlaar farm, hour by hour

A farm party in Berlaar has its own timetable. Guests drift in during the late afternoon, look around the old barn or the orchard and find a spot in the shade. By then we have had the oven fired up for a while. The aperitivo is ready: antipasti, bruschetta and focaccia that is still steaming, with an Aperol or a glass of prosecco beside it.

After an hour or so everyone sits down. Then the rounds of pizza à volonté begin, with six to ten flavours taking turns. Anyone who wants to stand up and catch up with someone simply does; the next round is coming anyway. Only when the last slices go out do the dolci appear. That way there is always something to look forward to.

Anniversaries, weddings and the pace of the evening

Family parties in Berlaar often have an official moment: a golden wedding, a fiftieth birthday, a wedding with witnesses reading something aloud. Tell us beforehand when those moments fall. We time the baking rounds around them, so nobody has to listen to a speech with a hot pizza on their lap, and nobody waits long afterwards.

The wishes of the hosts themselves also find a place on the menu. A favourite combination of the guest of honour, a pizza with the cheeses the couple discovered on their travels: we are glad to discuss it. Vegetarians eat from the regular rounds, and anyone eating gluten-free or vegan gets their own pizza from a separate work zone.

Where on the estate the oven stands best

Farms and castle estates around Berlaar usually have space enough; the question is mainly where. A cobbled yard is solid but uneven, a lawn is flat but may be soft after rain. Our tent, three or four metres square, wants level ground, and the oven itself goes under open sky or at most a shelter without walls, because the wood smoke has to go somewhere.

Do send a few photos of the yard or meadow, and of the access road too. An old gate or a narrow bridge over a ditch can be tight; we count on a clear width of 2.5 metres. With that information we plan a layout that looks good and lets your guests walk freely around it.