Wedding catering Cape Town: spit braai event catering

Wedding catering with a spit braai

Consider a spit braai for a reception where the guests eat from a buffet. The food is cooked at the venue, and the chef carves it at the buffet. Like the other events we cater, a wedding is priced per person, and the premium package is the wedding menu on the rate card.

The premium wedding package is R272 per person. Every rate, this one included, comes with the garlic potatoes and bread rolls, the spit, rod and fuel, a gazebo over the spit, chafing trays and serving utensils, setup before the event and clean-up after it. The other menus and their rates are on the spit braai prices page.

Sample menus for the reception

These sample menus for wedding events are built from the rate card. Each starts with the premium wedding package and adds food from the extras list.

• The premium wedding package (R272 per person) with its garlic potatoes and rolls, plus a green salad and a coleslaw at R15 a head each
• The same menu with a Greek salad (R20 a head) and fruit salad for dessert (R30 a serving)
• The same menu with pap and gravy (R15 a head) and ice cream (R20 a serving)

Every menu adds more food on top of the per-person rate, so pick only the extras the guests will eat. The meats themselves, and how lamb on the spit is cooked, are on the lamb on the spit page, and the salads are on the braai salads and sides page.

Before you book wedding caterers: questions for the venue

For a spit braai reception, check the venue first. Put these to each of the wedding venues on your list before you book the food.

• Does the venue allow an outside caterer?
• Is a spit or open fire allowed on the grounds?
• Where can the spit stand, away from the guests and out of the wind?
• Can a vehicle get close enough to unload the spit and the gazebo?
• Where does the food go if it rains?
• Is there a table for the food near the spit?
• Are other events booked at the venue on the same day?
• Who serves the drinks, and where is the bar?

Travel to wedding events in Cape Town

Travel to wedding events up to 30 km costs nothing. From 30 to 50 km the fee is R500 to R800, from 50 to 100 km it is R1,000 to R1,500, and travel over 100 km is quoted per job.

The chef stays on site for the whole cook and carves at the buffet for the bridal party, the rest of the wedding party and the guests. Two other services are charged on top: cutlery and crockery at R15 to R25 a head, and an extra member of service staff at R850 per person, per function.

The extras list adds food to the reception: salads, pap and gravy, and dessert. Choose the food for your events from that list, and leave off anything the guests will not eat.

Wedding menu questions

To check your date, send the venue and the guest count with the spit braai quote form. What every booking includes is on the spit braai Cape Town page.