Pizza catering in Zandhoven
At a glance
Eat inside, bake outside
The oven stands at the hall’s entrance or on the yard next to it. That keeps the smoke outdoors and brings every pizza steaming to the table.
Five villages, one approach
Whether your party is in Pulle, Pulderbos, Viersel, Massenhoven or Zandhoven itself: we look at the hall or farmyard beforehand and adapt the set-up.
An evening in phases
Aperitivo on entering, rounds of pizza at the table, and tiramisu and cannoli just as the music gets louder. The rhythm follows your programme.
Five villages, each with its own hall
Zandhoven, Massenhoven, Pulderbos, Pulle and Viersel together form one municipality, but the people who live there feel first of all like residents of their own village. Each has its church, its football club and often a parish or party hall where families celebrate the big moments. Alongside, along the Nete and in the open landscape, there are farms with spacious yards that you can also rent or borrow from family.
A party in a hall has advantages: tables, chairs, toilets and a roof are already there. What is often missing is a kitchen designed for a hundred hot meals. That is where our oven comes in. It stands outside, in the car park or the little square in front of the hall, and we carry the food inside to the tables.
Dine inside, bake outside
The team arrives ninety minutes before the doors open and finds the best baking spot together with the hall manager. A strip of paving next to the entrance is ideal: close to the tables, with the smoke free to rise. Under a porch without side walls works too. The tent (3×3 or 4×4 metres) shelters our work area if the weather turns.
Your guests notice little of that logistics. At the door, platters of focaccia, bruschetta and antipasti are already waiting, and anyone thirsty chooses between a spritz and Italian red or white. Then the pizzas come to the tables in wedges, six to ten flavours across the evening, so grandparents can stay seated while the youngsters are already mingling. Speeches and presents fit between two rounds.
Parties on a farmyard along the Nete
Not every party in Zandhoven takes place indoors. On a summer day many families prefer the yard of a farm or a big garden on the edge of the village. There the oven becomes the centrepiece: guests stand around it with a glass, children watch the pizzaiolo stretch the dough. From 150 guests upwards we set a second baking station on the yard.
On grass we watch the ground, especially in the lower parts by the Nete where it can turn boggy after rain. For the equipment we need a passage two and a half metres wide. Vegetarian is in the rounds as standard; gluten-free or vegan we make on request at a screened-off work area, with the allergens on paper beforehand.
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.
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