5 TIPS FOR UNIQUE OUTDOOR CATERING
Summer is the time of the year when many special occasions, social events and celebrations move from the indoors to the outdoors. If you are interested in putting together an outdoor event that will be remembered for a long time, you need to think outside the box a little. Especially when it comes to your options for outdoor catering.
Finger buffets are all well and good, but they’ve been done a hundred times before. Formal sit down dinners are not suitable for an outdoor environment. So, what do you do? In the following post, we are going to offer up 5 great tups for unique outdoor catering that will hopefully help you with your plans for your event or celebration to stand out from the many others. As well as discussing menu and food ideas, we also offer some practical tips to keep in mind too.
Rather than serving traditional food up in a traditional manner, you could follow the popular trend of hiring some food trucks as the outdoor catering for your event. Not only does it make for a nice talking point among your guests, but it’s also easier to mingle and socialise when everyone is moving between food trucks and queuing. In a similar way to finger buffets, the food itself is also ideal for an outdoor party situation because it doesn’t require lots of cutlery.
HOG ROAST OR SPIT ROAST
For some real drama and theatre at your outdoor event, you should think about having a hog roast or spit roast. This is another form of catering that is a talking point in itself, due to the visual feast and all those strong, sweet, and meaty aromas that will start to grow and spread from the moment your hog roast catering team gets there.
PLAN FOR ALL WEATHERS
Even with all the best-laid plans, disaster can still strike. Especially if you are planning an outdoor event and it looks like it's going to be an untypically warm and dry British summer’s day and night only for the weather to change its mind and the rainclouds to start opening up and pouring down. That’s why you must plan for all kinds of weather. Even if you don’t have an indoor venue where you can all go into, by choosing to place food stations or seating under large marquees or a similar covering, when the weather turns, you and your guests have somewhere to take shelter.
CONSIDER USING A CATERER WHO SOURCES LOCAL AND IN-SEASON INGREDIENTS
One way to instantly make your outdoor catering event stand out from the crowd is by insisting that the caterer you hire only uses in-season and local ingredients and food. This will give it a very distinctive atmosphere and will act as a tribute to the area where your party is taking place.
PLAN THE MENU AROUND YOUR GUESTS
Although we have said that you should push the boat out and do something individual, you don’t want to go too far. Always try to provide something for everyone. It’s hard to please everyone to the same degree, but if there are vegans or other strict diet followers if you want everyone to have a nice time you need to accommodate those guests too.
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