Can the wood-fired oven stand in our barn if it rains?

Not in a closed barn, because the smoke has to be able to escape. The oven can, however, stand under an open canopy or just outside the barn door while your guests stay at the tables inside. That way everyone eats dry and the smell of wood stays nearby.

Do you drive to Loenhout or Gooreind?

Certainly, and just across the border in the Netherlands too. All of Belgium and the Benelux falls within our working area. Give us the exact address and, if you can, a tip about the access, because country roads and farm tracks aren’t always equally clear on every map.

Our family is large. How many guests can you handle?

A family party of eighty or a farm party of two hundred: both are possible. With over 150 guests we build a second baking station; the rounds then keep flowing without a gap. There is no minimum, so a small group is welcome too.

Can you take into account a cousin who can’t have gluten?

Yes. We make gluten-free and vegan pizzas on request, at a work area kept separate from the rest. We send an allergen list beforehand. Vegetarian flavours come back in every round anyway, so those who don’t eat meat are well catered for.

Pizza catering by Prestigio in Wuustwezel

Pizza catering in Wuustwezel

Wuustwezel is farming country: fields to the horizon, long-fronted farmhouses, and a national border you only notice by the different road signs. Our pizza catering brings an Italian harvest evening there, with the wood-fired oven on the farmyard and long tables in the barn.

Long tables

In a cleared-out barn or under an open hangar, family and neighbours take their seats at long tables while our pizzaioli bring round the slices.

Flavours of the season

After the harvest, hearty flavours such as funghi or quattro formaggi suit. In midsummer we keep it light with tomato and basil.

Guests from both sides

Family from Dutch Brabant drives onto the farmyard as easily as the neighbours from Loenhout. For the oven, that border makes no difference at all.

The quiet north of the province

North of Brecht and Brasschaat the landscape opens up. In Wuustwezel, Loenhout and Gooreind maize fields, pastures and small woods alternate, with here and there a farm that has stood in the same place for centuries. It is an area where people still know what a harvest party is, and where a birthday or wedding party quickly takes place on your own farmyard or an uncle’s.

A farmyard like that is a rewarding place. There is room for parked cars, a barn that becomes a party hall with a few strings of lights and a patch of hard standing where our oven can stand safely. The neighbours are far enough away to let you sit on late. What you provide yourself is tables, chairs and atmosphere; we take care of the food.

A harvest evening on the farmyard

The evening starts at the barn door. While the last cars are still crunching over the gravel, our team hands out focaccia fresh from the fire, with antipasti and bruschetta alongside. A spritz or a glass of Italian red wine goes round. People who only know each other from church or football start chatting naturally.

As soon as everyone is seated, the rounds begin. We carry the pizzas in slices to the tables, so nobody has to get up and grandmother can taste as well as the cousins. Between rounds there is time for a word from the anniversary couple. Whoever chooses the Full experience gets tiramisu and cannoli to finish, and the last piece of focaccia traditionally disappears into a napkin for the road.

What the countryside asks of us

On a farm the distances are greater than in a villa garden. We want to put the tent as close to the barn as possible, on a flat patch of four by four metres, with a track at least two and a half metres wide. An earth yard can turn soft after a wet week; concrete or paving by the stables is then worth its weight in gold. For the oven itself we look for open air, or at most a canopy open at the sides.

For the drive to the north of the province we allow plenty of time, so the wood has been burning for a full ninety minutes by the time the first guests arrive. Past 150 guests, a second baking station goes up beside the first oven. Afterwards we sweep our corner of the farmyard clean and take everything with us, down to the last bag of waste.

Voor mijn verjaardagsfeest heeft prestigo catering voor het eten gezorgd. Gestart met bruschetta en de focaccia - die beide in de smaak vielen bij iedereen. Daarna de pizza’s, dit als echte pizzaliefhebber met een perfecte korst en lekker…
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