Pizza catering in West Flanders
At a glance
Five regions, one oven
The coast, the Bruges polders, the Houtland, the Lys valley and the Westhoek each call for a different approach. We tune the set-up, timing and menu to the place where you are celebrating.
Tasting in rounds
With pizza à volonté the pizzas are sliced and passed round, so guests get to know six to ten varieties without anyone being stuck with one fixed plate.
Sea wind accounted for
It blows more often and harder by the sea than inland. We think ahead with you about a party tent or canopy and place the oven out of the wind.
A province with five faces
West Flanders is not a uniform party province. On the coast, much revolves around second homes, villa gardens and terraces that fill up in July and August. Around Bruges and Damme lie polders with long tree-lined lanes and farms built around a courtyard. The Houtland around Torhout and Roeselare is greener and more enclosed, with farmsteads between rows of trees. In the Lys valley around Kortrijk and Waregem you find sleek new-builds, converted flax barns and business sites instead.
In the Westhoek, between the IJzer and the hills around Kemmel, parties often take on a rural character: a tent in the meadow, a barn with long tables, family travelling in from afar. Each time we ask the same three questions: where does the oven go, how will the evening unfold and what do the guests like to eat. The answer differs from region to region, and that is what keeps the work interesting.
What a wood-fired evening looks like
Roughly ninety minutes ahead of your first guests, we are on site already. The wood is burning, the oven floor is heating up and the work tables are being set up in the 3×3 or 4×4 metre tent. If you choose the Aperitivo, it opens with focaccia hot from the fire, a few bruschetta and a generous board of antipasti, while the Aperol goes round and the first stories get told.
The pizzas then follow in rounds. Each pizza is sliced and passed around, so tables end up debating which flavour was the best. A speech or an opening dance? Then we simply pause the baking rhythm. Serving takes two to two and a half hours in all; the Full experience closes it with tiramisu and cannoli and, for those who want one, a little glass of limoncello.
Venues we often come across in the province
Many parties take place in private gardens behind villas, but just as often on farms that open up their barn for a wedding, in historic courtyards in Bruges or on business sites along the Lys. It makes little difference to us, as long as the tent can stand on level ground and we can wheel the equipment in through a 2.5-metre clear access.
By the sea we allow for sand blowing in everywhere and for wind that pushes smoke the wrong way. In the polders the ground is sometimes soft after a wet week. A few photos of the spot with your request let us judge that beforehand. That way nothing needs to be sorted out on the day of the party itself.
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