Our grandparents come from Italy. Will they recognise this pizza?

Our Neapolitan pizza starts on a sourdough that proofs for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, goes into a wood-fired oven and is topped with ingredients from Italy. Every Italian family has its own habits, so do tell us what you like to eat at home. Then we tailor the menu to it.

Does the set-up fit in the garden of a mining cité?

Usually, yes. We put up a 4×4 metre tent, or 3×3 if the garden is narrow, on a level spot, and the oven goes in open air or under an open canopy. What matters is that we can get the equipment into the garden through a side gate or back lane.

What do you offer guests who don’t eat meat?

Vegetarian pizzas are always part of the offering. Ask for vegan or gluten-free pizzas and we prepare them apart from the rest; the allergen list reaches you before the party. That way, in a mixed company, everyone simply joins in, without anyone needing a separate plate.

How many guests can one oven handle at a big family party?

One oven is plenty for roughly a hundred and fifty guests. Italian-Limburg family parties do sometimes outgrow that; then a second baking station goes in. There is no minimum, so a birthday with fifteen people in a cité garden is welcome too.

Pizza catering in Genk

In Genk many families still know pizza from an Italian grandmother’s kitchen. Pizza catering from Prestigio brings Neapolitan sourdough and a wood-fired oven to your party, for guests who know how it should taste.

For discerning tasters

Anyone who grew up in a Genk family with Italian roots will taste the difference. Our dough spends two to three days rising, yeast-free apart from the sourdough culture.

Aperitivo like at home

Antipasti, bruschetta and focaccia from the oven, paired with an Aperol or Italian wine: that is how a party the whole family recognises begins.

From garden district to party hall

A birthday in the garden of a cité or a large family party: there is no minimum, and once about 150 people are expected a second baking station is added.

A city with Italian roots

After the Second World War, thousands of Italians came to Limburg to work in the coal mines. Genk, with the mines of Winterslag, Waterschei and Zwartberg, became one of their main homes. Today their children and grandchildren live here, and at family parties Italian can still be heard between the Dutch and the Limburgish.

You notice it at the table. Guests in Genk often have strong opinions about pizza: how thin the base may be, how much tomato belongs on it, whether the crust should puff up. For such a company, a Neapolitan pizza from a wood-fired oven is no gimmick but a moment of recognition. We take that seriously and build the menu together with you.

Genk is also home to people of dozens of nationalities, and you see that at every party. That is why we go through dietary wishes beforehand. Vegetarian pizzas are part of the standard offering, for vegans and anyone eating gluten-free we work in a separate zone on request, and guests who avoid certain cured meats get a menu that takes that into account.

How the family party goes

We begin with aperitivo: antipasti, bruschetta and warm focaccia, while the oven climbs to its highest temperature. The team has already been on site for a while by then, since the oven is lit some hour and a half before the first guests arrive. If you like, an Aperol goes with it. The limoncello we usually save for the end of the evening.

Then Pizza à volonté gets under way: six to ten varieties, always in slices on platters. Grandparents stay seated, children run back and forth to the oven. The evening’s service stretches over about two hours or slightly longer, and in the Full experience the dolci follow, such as tiramisu and cannoli. Speeches or a cake simply fit into the rhythm.

Garden districts, mining sites and forest edge

Many people in Genk live in the former mining cités, garden districts with terraced or semi-detached houses and a deep garden behind. Those gardens are perfect for a party: the tent goes at the back on the grass, the oven outside next to it, so the smoke can drift away freely. We do need a side gate or back lane to get the equipment in.

For something bigger, Genk also has event venues on former mining sites and estates on the edge of the Hoge Kempen. There the oven often stands on an inner square or among the trees. In rain we move under a party tent or canopy, in consultation with the venue. In every case the ingredients come straight from Italy.

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!
— Melissa V.View on Google

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