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Catering in Wadebridge | Royal Cornwall Show Country, All Year Round cover image
Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Wadebridge | Royal Cornwall Show Country, All Year Round

Catering in Wadebridge — Show Country, Camel Valley, Always Ready Wadebridge is the gateway to north Cornwall — a busy market town on the River Camel where the A39 and B3314 converge, sitting between the coast at Rock and Polzeath and the moorland above Bodmin. The town punches well above its weight for events. The Royal Cornwall Show just outside town draws over 100,000 visitors every June to the showground at Wadebridge. The Camel Trail brings cyclists and walkers along the old railway line...

T Tristan
6 min read
Next Day Buffet Delivery Cornwall | Order Today, Eat Tomorrow | Salt Wind Catering cover image
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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 prepared from scratch in our Redruth kitchen. No frozen platters....

E Elowen
2 min read
Next Day Buffet Delivery Cornwall | Order Today, Eat Tomorrow | Salt Wind Catering cover image
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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 prepared from scratch in our Redruth kitchen. No frozen platters....

E Elowen
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Wedding Catering Cornwall | Buffets, Hog Roasts & Grazing

Planning a wedding in Cornwall means you've already nailed the setting. Now you need food that lives up to it. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide everything from elegant grazing spreads to hearty hog roasts for weddings across Cornwall and Devon. Based in Redruth, we know this county inside out — and we know what works at a Cornish wedding. Wedding Buffet Options That Actually Work Our event and party catering collection is built for weddings of every style. For a relaxed wedding breakfast,...

D Demelza
4 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
2 min read
Buffet Catering in Cornwall | Event Buffets Done Properly | Salt Wind Catering cover image
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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 made from scratch in our kitchen at 37 Fore Street, Redruth. Proper ingredients, locally...

K Chef Kitto
3 min read
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Christening Catering Cornwall | Baptism Buffets Delivered

A christening is a family occasion, and the food should feel like that — warm, welcoming, and suitable for everyone from great-grandparents to toddlers. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide christening and baptism buffets across Cornwall that are elegant, plentiful, and completely fuss-free. Light & Elegant Options For a church hall or garden reception after the service, our sandwich platters paired with fruit platters and sweet platters create a beautiful afternoon spread. Our afternoon tea...

S Senara
2 min read
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Catering in Cornwall

Catering in Porthleven | Storm-Watching Outside, Hog Roast Inside

Catering in Porthleven — Cornwall's Foodie Harbour, Properly Catered Porthleven has become one of Cornwall's foodie destinations — the harbour, the annual Porthleven Food Festival , the restaurants clustered around the quay, and a community that takes its food seriously. It's a working harbour town with a dramatic coastline, and when the storms come in it draws crowds just to watch the waves smash over the harbour wall. Salt Wind Catering covers Porthleven from our base in Redruth — about 20...

T Tristan
7 min read
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Christmas Party Catering Cornwall | Festive Buffets & Hog Roasts

Christmas Catering — Festive Food Without the Stress December hits and suddenly everyone needs feeding. The office Christmas party. The family get-together. The work lunch that someone forgot to organise until the second week of December. Salt Wind Catering takes the food off your plate — literally. We provide Christmas catering across Cornwall for everything from intimate dinners to 200-guest corporate events. Festive Buffets & Hot Fork Lunches Our Christmas hot fork lunch is the...

L Chef Lowen
2 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
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
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
2 min read