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Afternoon Tea Catering in Cornwall | Delivered to Your Venue | Salt Wind Catering

Afternoon Tea Catering in Cornwall — Proper Cream Tea Country Cornwall wrote the book on cream teas — jam first, obviously. But a proper afternoon tea goes beyond scones and clotted cream. It's finger sandwiches with real fillings, homemade cakes and pastries, fresh fruit, and a spread that looks as good as it tastes. Whether it's a baby shower, a hen party, a milestone birthday, or a retirement celebration, afternoon tea catering brings a touch of class without the stuffiness. Salt Wind...

S Senara

4 Aug 2025 2 min read

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BBQ Catering in Cornwall | Charcoal BBQ for Events | Salt Wind Catering

BBQ Catering in Cornwall — Proper Charcoal, Proper Cuts, No Messing About There's a big difference between a BBQ and a good BBQ. Anyone can chuck some cheap sausages on a disposable grill from the petrol station. What we do is something else entirely — premium cuts of locally sourced meat cooked over proper charcoal, homemade sides and salads, and food that makes people come back for seconds and thirds. Salt Wind Catering BBQ is built for outdoor events across Cornwall. Garden parties,...

L Chef Lowen

6 Jun 2025 2 min read

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Grazing Platter & Cart Catering Cornwall | Interactive Food Stations

Forget table service. Forget queuing at a buffet table. Grazing stations and carts are how modern events are done — interactive, photogenic, and genuinely fun. At Salt Wind Catering, our grazing cart stations are one of the most popular things we do. Once you've seen a crowd around the donut dunking bar, you'll understand why. Our Grazing Cart Collection We've built a collection of interactive food stations that work for any event. The donut dunking bar lets guests dip warm donuts into melted...

J Chef Jago

29 Mar 2025 3 min read

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Giant Pan Catering Cornwall | Live Paella, Tagine & Street Food

Giant Pan Catering — Dinner and a Show There's nothing like watching your meal being cooked live in a massive pan right in front of you. The sizzle, the smell, the theatre of it — giant pan catering turns food into an event. At Salt Wind Catering , we cook fresh paella, tagine, noodle dishes, and more in oversized pans on-site at your venue. What We Cook Spanish paella loaded with seafood and saffron rice. Moroccan tagine with slow-cooked lamb and apricots. Asian-style noodle stir-fry cooked...

J Chef Jago

25 Mar 2025 3 min read

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Festival & Outdoor Event Catering Cornwall | BBQs, Hog Roasts & Street Food

Festival & Outdoor Catering That Can Handle a Crowd Cornwall runs on outdoor events — village fetes, music festivals, food fairs, county shows, beach parties, and everything in between. When you need to feed hundreds of people outdoors, you need a caterer who can handle the scale, the weather, and the logistics. Salt Wind Catering has been doing exactly that from our base in Redruth. What We Bring to Outdoor Events Our BBQ catering and hog roast catering are built for the outdoors —...

L Chef Lowen

24 Mar 2025 3 min read

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Cream Tea Delivery Cornwall | Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam Delivered

Cream Tea Delivery — Fresh Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam, Delivered Across Cornwall There are few things more Cornish than a cream tea. Fresh scones still warm from the oven, a generous pot of proper Cornish clotted cream from a local dairy, and strawberry jam — cream first, obviously. Salt Wind Catering delivers cream tea platters across Cornwall for everything from baby showers to retirement parties , office treats to hen weekends , and holiday cottage welcomes . What's Included Every cream...

S Senara

12 Mar 2025 3 min read

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Next Day Buffet Delivery Cornwall | Order Today, Eat Tomorrow | Salt Wind Catering

Next Day Buffet Delivery — Sorted by Tomorrow Sometimes catering doesn't come with a fortnight's notice. A meeting lands in the diary. A birthday creeps up. A bereavement happens and a family needs to feed fifty people by tomorrow afternoon. That's where Salt Wind Catering comes in. We offer next day buffet delivery across Cornwall — order before 2pm and your food will be freshly made and ready the following day. Everything is freshly prepared in our Redruth kitchen. No frozen platters....

E Elowen

19 Feb 2025 2 min read

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Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests in Cornwall | What You Need to Know

Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests — What Works at Each Scale The catering that works for 30 people doesn't necessarily work for 150. The logistics change, the food choices shift, and the way you serve it matters more the bigger you go. Here's how we approach it at Salt Wind Catering . Up to 50 Guests Delivered buffets are perfect at this size. Our sandwich platters , savoury platters , and hot buffet platters arrive ready to set out. No staff needed, no equipment, no fuss. Add a grazing...

M Morwenna

25 Jan 2025 2 min read

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Buffet Catering in Cornwall | Event Buffets Done Properly | Salt Wind Catering

Buffet Catering in Cornwall — No Packet Food, No Shortcuts A buffet should be the highlight of your event, not an afterthought. We've all been to parties where the food is a sad spread of supermarket platters still in their plastic trays — sweaty cheese, limp sandwiches, and a bowl of crisps someone tipped out at the last minute. That's not catering. That's giving up. At Salt Wind Catering, everything is freshly prepared in our kitchen at 37 Fore Street, Redruth. Proper ingredients, locally...

K Chef Kitto

10 Jan 2025 3 min read

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Grazing Platters Cornwall | Stunning Sharing Boards Delivered

Grazing Platters — The Centrepiece Your Table Needs There's a reason grazing platters have taken over. People photograph them, gather around them, and talk about them for weeks after. A good grazing platter isn't just food — it's the first thing guests see when they walk in, and it sets the tone for the entire event. At Salt Wind Catering , our grazing platters are built by hand in our Redruth kitchen using quality charcuterie, artisan cheeses, fresh fruit, nuts, olives, chutneys, and proper...

J Chef Jago

10 Dec 2024 2 min read

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Cornish Seafood Catering | Fresh Seafood Platters Delivered Cornwall

Cornish Seafood Catering — Straight From the Coast to Your Table You're in Cornwall. The seafood here is some of the best in the country, and it makes no sense to serve your guests anything less. At Salt Wind Catering , our seafood platters are built around what's fresh and local — Cornish dressed lobster, crab, shell-on king prawns, smoked salmon, smoked mackerel pâté, and more. It's a genuine taste of the coast. What's on the Platter Cornish dressed lobster. Dressed Cornish crabs. Shell-on...

L Chef Lowen

26 Nov 2024 2 min read

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Emergency Catering Cornwall | Last Minute Food When You Need It

Emergency Catering — When Plans Change and People Need Feeding Plans fall through. Caterers cancel. A death in the family means fifty people arriving tomorrow. A client meeting appears from nowhere and someone needs to sort lunch in three hours. It happens, and when it does, you need a caterer who picks up the phone and gives you a straight answer. At Salt Wind Catering , we handle last minute and emergency catering across Cornwall seven days a week. We can't always do same day — but if we...

D Demelza

16 Nov 2024 2 min read