Can you bake on a farm in Rijmenam without electricity?

Yes, the oven is wood-fired and we bring all our own equipment. Baking needs no electricity at all. For lighting in the tent you arrange your own.

How do you fit the pizza rounds around the speeches?

Send us the programme in advance, with the moments when people will speak. We bake in waves and keep the oven quiet during the speeches, so the next round arrives hot at the table as soon as the speech is over.

How much time should we allow for the meal?

Expect the oven to deliver pizza for two hours or a little longer. Our van pulls into the farm while the guests of honour are still at home putting on their best clothes, a good ninety minutes before the welcome. That gives the family a whole evening with nobody having to stand in the kitchen.

Can we surprise the guests of honour with their favourite pizza?

Gladly. In the tailor-made menu we include a combination dear to the couple, or one that recalls a trip to Italy. Let us know when you enquire.

Pizza catering in Rijmenam

In Rijmenam the Dyle winds between meadows and farms, and on those farms the big family moments are celebrated. Our pizza catering puts a wood-fired oven beside the marquee for an anniversary that brings the whole family together.

Golden wedding, big gathering

An anniversary unites children, grandchildren and friends from long ago. Pizzas in slices make sure everyone eats, from the youngest to the guests of honour.

Room for memories

Speeches, a photo montage, a song from the grandchildren: we bake around those moments and hold the oven still when it is needed.

A farm as party hall

The barn, the yard and the meadow by the Dyle together form the setting. The oven goes where everyone can reach it easily.

Parties on the farms of rural Bonheiden

Rijmenam is the rural side of Bonheiden. The Dyle meanders between wet meadows, and scattered across the village lie farms with a yard, a barn and often a stretch of grassland behind. Whoever celebrates an anniversary here puts up a tent on the meadow, borrows tables from the neighbours and invites the whole family. Plenty of room, even for a hundred guests or more.

At a party like that, food is a shared moment. Pizza à volonté suits the mood: the pizzas arrive at the table in rounds and are passed along, just as at a Sunday family meal. Guests who have not seen each other for years start talking as they share a slice with aged prosciutto.

How an anniversary party runs

The party begins with the welcome. The couple of honour are greeted, glasses are clinked and the aperitivo is ready: antipasti, bruschetta and focaccia from the oven. That first hour is ideal for group photos on the yard, with the Dyle valley behind, and for a first speech from the children.

Then the pizza rounds start. We follow the programme for the day and time the rounds around the speeches, a quiz or a slideshow. During those moments we pause the baking, so nobody gets a cold pizza on their plate. After the last round come the dolci, with a limoncello to toast the next fifty years.

Set-up by the Dyle: meadow, yard and weather

A meadow by the Dyle can be soft after a wet spell. So we prefer a spot on the yard or a firm part of the grassland for the oven and the tent around it, which is three or four metres wide. The oven burns wood and stays outside or under an open shelter; the barn itself is therefore not an option.

One oven suffices for a company of about a hundred and fifty. If the family is bigger, we put a second baking station beside the first. Vegetarians eat from every round, and anyone who cannot tolerate gluten or eats vegan gets a pizza that we bake for them in a separate zone.

Leuk concept. Correct en discreet koppel, alles is volgens afspraak verlopen. Zowel hapjes, pizza’s en desserts waren heel lekker. Alles vers bereid en dat proef je. Wij konden genieten, Prestigio zorgde voor de rest. Echt een aanrader ook…
— Lily B.View on Google

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