Can the oven go on the terrace of a holiday apartment?

No, a wood-fired oven needs space, smoke extraction in the open air and easy access for the equipment. Balconies and small terraces on the sea wall are not suitable. We would rather help you find an alternative, such as a rented villa or family’s garden.

Do we need to book long in advance for a party in August?

In summer many parties are scheduled, so asking early gives you more certainty. Mention the date, venue, guest count and kind of party, and you will receive a proposal from us with a menu and the practical side neatly written out.

Do you come all the way to the coast?

Yes, we work throughout Belgium. For Knokke-Heist we plan the journey generously, especially on busy summer days. Our crew arrives roughly ninety minutes before the first round, since the wood fire needs that long to bring the oven up to heat.

What if the birthday falls on a rainy summer day?

The oven keeps working. In consultation we provide a party tent or find an open canopy, and the guests can eat indoors while we bake outside. By the sea the weather sometimes turns quickly, so we always keep a plan B up our sleeve.

Pizza catering for your birthday party in Knokke-Heist

Many families are on the coast together in July and August, and a birthday sometimes falls during the holiday. Pizza catering with a wood-fired oven turns such a party in Knokke-Heist into an evening without cooking, even if your apartment has no garden.

Everyone already by the sea

The family is in Knokke-Heist for the holiday anyway. Gathering around a wood-fired oven for one evening is then simpler than organising a party back home.

Without a garden of your own

An apartment on the sea wall rarely has room for an oven. We help think through a rented villa, a hotel garden or the grounds of family or friends.

A summer evening that runs on

By the sea it stays light late in summer. The oven burns through the golden hour, and afterwards the dolci and the limoncello arrive at the table.

Birthday during the summer holidays

You see it in Knokke-Heist every summer: grandparents renting an apartment, children and grandchildren joining for a week or two, friends coming over for a weekend. If a birthday falls in that period, the whole clan is already on the spot. So why not celebrate there? The one thing you don’t want is to spend a holiday day in the kitchen.

That’s where we come in. We bring the wood-fired oven, along with dough proofed on sourdough for two to three days and ingredients from Italy, and bake on the spot. The birthday guest needn’t do anything except blow out the candles. After the last pizza has left the oven, a little under two and a half hours in, we clear everything away, so the holiday can simply carry on the next day.

Apartment on the Zeedijk, party elsewhere

Most holiday lets in Knokke-Heist are apartments on or near the sea wall, with a balcony but no garden. A wood-fired oven on a balcony is not an option, so for the party itself you have to look elsewhere. Think of a rented villa in Duinbergen or Het Zoute, the garden of a coastal hotel, or friends’ yard in the polders behind Knokke.

With a rented villa, we ask you to check beforehand that the owner agrees to a wood-fired oven in the garden. Some villas have a thatched roof; in that case we choose a set-up spot with sufficient distance. A level place for the tent and a passage of some 2.5 metres to the garden make the rest of the organisation simple.

An evening that runs late

A summer birthday by the sea has a rhythm of its own. Guests arrive with sand on their feet, the sun is still high, and the party starts gently with an aperitivo: focaccia, antipasti and an Aperol Spritz. Only when the shadows lengthen do the pizzas go round, in slices to share, so nobody has to sit down early.

If you want to make it a proper celebration dinner, choose the Full experience with dolci such as tiramisu and cannoli. For the adults there can be limoncello or an Italian wine alongside. Children mostly love watching the pizzaiolo slide the dough into the oven and pull a pizza out again in no time.