Pizza catering in Tremelo
At a glance
Festival feel at home
Long tables on the grass, bunting between the trees and a wood-fired oven spreading smoke and aroma: in Tremelo a garden party becomes a small summer edition.
Big groups welcome
There is room for plenty of people here. Around 150 guests is when a second baking station joins in, so everyone keeps eating hot pizza.
No fixed seating plan
Guests wander, sit down wherever they like and grab a slice as it passes. Just like at a summer festival.
Meadows, woods and the village of Damien
Tremelo is known to many as the birthplace of Father Damien, but those who live there know it above all as a green municipality of woods, meadows and generous plots. Together with Baal it adjoins the wooded Keerbergen, and just across the border lies Werchter, where thousands of festival-goers gather every summer. That festival spirit readily drifts over to private parties here.
Anyone hosting a party in Tremelo often has a piece of land big enough for a marquee, long tables and a dance floor. A party meadow next to the house, an orchard behind an old farm, a lawn that runs out into the edge of a wood: all places where a wood-fired oven feels at home and the party gets a character of its own.
A summer evening in the open air
The party begins while the sun is still high. Guests arrive by bike or car, are handed a spritz or a glass of Italian wine, and discover the aperitivo: focaccia from the oven, bruschetta, olives and a board of salumi. Children are already playing on the grass while the adults stay standing around the oven.
Then we switch to pizza à volonté. We bake one kind at a time, cut it into slices and carry it round along the tables. At a wedding or a big birthday we tune the rounds to the programme: a speech, a performance or a game. Between two rounds there is time to talk or dance.
Dolci such as tiramisu and cannoli end the meal, but not the party. After some 150 minutes of service, the music often only really starts. On a warm evening in Baal or Tremelo the group heads for the dance floor on the grass, and the last limoncello is poured under the bunting between the trees.
A level spot on roomy ground
There is plenty of space, but a level spot matters. For the oven we choose a stretch of meadow or lawn that lies even and is firm enough for a tent about four metres wide. A passage of roughly two and a half metres up to that spot makes delivery easy. The smoke has to drift away across the meadow, so there is no closed tent around the oven: open air, or a canopy without side walls.
For a summer party we also plan for a thunderstorm. A party tent next to the oven or a shelter by a barn lets us keep baking. We are there long before the first cyclists arrive, and afterwards we clear up so thoroughly that the meadow is simply a meadow again the next day.
Geweldige ervaring! Helemaal van Antwerpen naar Limburg gekomen. Communicatie vooraf supervlot, heel vriendelijk koppel met een prachtige pizzabar. En de pizza’s… écht overheerlijk! Absolute aanrader!
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