Pizza catering in Stockel
At a glance
Classmates from many countries
Expat families celebrate here with friends from international schools. Pizza is the dish no child ever needs explained.
Parents like to linger
While the children play, the parents discover antipasti, focaccia and an Aperol. That turns a children’s party into a neighbourhood reception too.
Eating habits in advance
An international guest list brings allergies and preferences. We ask about them beforehand and give you an allergen overview to pass round.
The international heart of Woluwe
Stockel is the eastern tip of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, where metro line 1 ends and Brussels gives way to Kraainem and Wezembeek-Oppem. Around Place de Stockel there are shopping streets, and behind them quiet avenues with family houses and villas with gardens. Many residents work for the European institutions or an international company, and the schools in the area draw families from all over Europe.
You notice it in the way people celebrate. A birthday party in a Stockel garden is often a gathering of nationalities: children who speak English or French at school, parents who talk Spanish, Polish or Dutch at home, grandparents who flew in specially. Catering then has to be, above all, accessible. Nothing is as universal as a pizza you watch take shape in a wood fire.
A children’s party that works for parents too
We begin with the children. As soon as the friends have arrived, a first round of margherita and a simple ham pizza comes out of the oven, in small pieces that little hands can hold easily. They may watch from a safe distance as the dough slides into the oven, which is often more exciting than the food itself.
For the parents an aperitivo runs alongside: focaccia with olive oil, bruschetta, olives and Italian cheese, with a glass of wine or an Aperol. After that come rounds with bolder flavours, six to ten in total, each cut for sharing. Vegetarian is always represented, and for a friend who eats vegan or gluten-free, we make something separate on request. The birthday song we schedule between two rounds.
Choose the Full experience and the party ends on tiramisu and cannoli; the children are usually already looking forward to the cake you provide yourself. On a Wednesday afternoon in Stockel, when many children’s parties fall, we wrap up before the parents come to collect their little ones and the street goes quiet again.
Getting a Stockel garden ready for the oven
Gardens in Stockel are mostly walled or hedged, with a lawn and a terrace by the house. For the oven we look for a level patch where we can put up a tent of about four metres, without the smoke blowing in on the neighbours. If there is no side gate, we ask how we can get the equipment round the back.
Stockel is inside the Brussels low-emission zone, while Kraainem just over the border is not; for you that makes no difference, we manage our vehicles. We plan the drive outside rush hour on the ring road, unload smoothly and have finished setting up roughly ninety minutes before the party. After about two hours of baking we pack up and take our waste away.
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