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The
Ultimate Spit Roast From
The Hog Roast Service
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The Hog Roast Service's Catering
Facilities
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We use 4.5m x 3m Marquees Which Can Be
Erected In Any Combination |
9m x 4.5m Combination |
23.5m x 3m Combination |
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Serving Facilities Supplied With Our
Catering...
We supply a 4.5m x
3m marquee without charge assuring that, whatever the weather, the
food service will be protected. At Shows and larger Events, we
provide a covered facility appropriate to the
occasion.
We offer hog roasts & barbecues as
required, a barbecue accompaniment being popular for children's
provision & vegetarian options.
We are based
in Rutland, with a satelite service in Hertfordshire, and will work
from London to York.
HOME-REARED
PORKERS, VENISON, BOAR & SO MUCH MORE...
Informal eating is fun, it’s primal and sweeps away
social inhibition: pick up a drumstick, gnaw at a rib or suck on a
crab claw; this decadently informal eating is a subliminal bond for
friends and lovers. If this sounds good, if you're up for informal
dining, what could be more primal than the hog
roast?
Throughout history carcasses sizzling,
dripping, crisping over an open fire, have been at the heart of
celebration. Today we offer this service at its best
providing:
a most amenable and proficient team to serve our
customers;
the finest meats available, roasted to
perfection;
total peace of mind through our professionalism and
dependability;
sensible pricing.
We have a long
history in catering for christenings, weddings, significant
birthdays and corporate events. We also offer a great drinks
service. Whatever your event, whatever number of covers you require,
whatever your budget, trust us to deliver the catering for your big
occasion.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR
COSTINGS
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Sizzling, dripping, crisping over an open
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Why Always Chickens? Let Us Roast Spits
Of Local Game For You |
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THE ULTIMATE ROAST STARTS WITH THE ULTIMATE
MEAT
We have bred pigs for many
years, farming them for our restaurant and then for our hog roasts
farming traditional breeds and early hybrids: Berkshires, Large
Blacks, Old Spots...
Beer Fed
Pigs
Their diet made our
pigs special: they loved their beer and were given 32 pints a week
from the cleaning of beer lines. They also emptied our drip trays,
and demanded the ullage from every cask, and they revelled in it.
Generosity Cured The Hog
A restaurant owned pig is like the butcher’s
dog, but our pigs have always been bred too well. Our first animals
exceeded 80kg and we had to take the shoulders off them to fit them
on the spit. The three gilts pictured being served their beer had
just been brought in from natural foraging in woodland for
fattening.
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Pigs foraging naturally in open woodland:
taste the difference... |
Jenny feeds some of our gilts a pale of
fine ale... |
Cheers... |
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Our hog roasts became so popular that we
eventually sold our restaurant to devote ourselves to our Hog Roast
Service.
Of course we offer more than just hogs; why
not try wild boar, venison or a rotisserie of chickens or game
birds.
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Venison & Wild Boar
We believe we ran the foremost game restaurant in
Britain. A flavour of our kitchen can be sampled by clicking the
'Catering History' link.
WILD BOAR is a
leaner meat than farmed pork, especially pub-farmed pork. As our
native pig species it has a natural pork taste that is best
described as being the way pork ought to taste.
In
season we can provide genuine wild game boar from the forests of
Europe; out of the game season we offer a farmed
version.
WILD VENISON is a healthy natural meat with
less fat than skinned chicken breast, and it is very low in
cholesterol. It is an incredibly rich source of iron and omega 3 and
a free range animal, that has foraged for natural food will be free
from the drugs, antibiotics and growth promoters.
The
taste of venison varies according to the breed and how long the meat
has been hung.
RED DEER has a
dark and fairly heavily grained meat and has the most robust flavour
of our native deer.
FALLOW DEER
has a good depth of flavour but a finer grained meat than the red.
Both of these meats can be compared to prime beef.
ROE
DEER is lighter in colour and a sweeter meat.
MUNTJAC is the most pale and delicate of our familiar
venison meats.
Don't mistake
our wild game with Supermarket venison, which will have been farmed,
probably in New Zealand. The organic drug free assurances of native
free-range meat cannot be assumed in in the farmed proiduct.
Imported venison is also likely to have been in cold storage for
months.
Whilst some people might be sensitive about
tucking into Bambi it needs to be understood that the liberty our
native deer enjoy would not exist without responsible herd
management. There has to be control and it would be criminal to cull
these animals and not respect their rightful place in the food
chain.
If you are an animal lover your best action
is to eat venison with a clear conscience, whilst driving
responsibly in areas where deer are likely to bound out in front of
your car.
John is pictured checking fallow deer
carcass on the game dealer's scales.
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Fallow Deer Are Ideal For The Spit
Roaster |
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The Venison Persuasion...
You don’t have to venture beneath Sherwood’s merry
canopy, in green tights, to enjoy a good spit roasting: venison or
boar, and a whole lot more, can all be delivered to your
door.
HOG ROAST OPTIONS &
COSTINGS
ALL INCLUSIVE PRICES include the delivery of
the hog roast oven locally with the meat and gas, install beneath
our food service marquee, cook, carve and serve including buns,
stuffing, crackling, apple sauce, disposable plates and serviettes.
Additionall covers can be costed individually, up to 9. 10 and above
additions moves to the higher rate, ie 51 covers £437.10, 60 £495.
Costings as follows:
Up to 50
covers £430, additional covers £7.10
Up to 75 covers £495, additional covers
£6.30
Up to 100 covers £630,
additional covers £5.60
Up
to 125 covers £680, additional covers £4.90
Up to 150 covers £730, additional covers
£4.50
Up to 175 covers £780,
additional covers £4.20
Up
to 200 covers £830, additional covers £4.00
We
offer generous discounts to hotels, schools, pubs and
clubs.
Delivery is inclusive within 15 miles. We
charge a token £1 per mile, one way, for greater distances. To
calculate delivery charges we use the AA Route Planner on line:
enter LE15 8TU as the starting point and your own postcode as the
destination. This will give you a route and the distance. Simply
take 15 off the mileage given and that number in pounds, if greater
than 0, is our delivery charge: ie 69.6 miles is charged at £54.60
(of course we travel the return journey too meaning we cover a total
£139.2 miles, within that cost and pay staff during the journey
times, which is upwards of 5 hours, so you will appreciate we
deliver at less than cost).
TERMS: We ask
for a £100 booking fee when scheduling our services. This is
returnable only if cancellation is 8 weeks or more prior to the date
of the event. For the balance we ask for a cheque 10 days prior to
the event or cash ON ARRIVAL at the event.
We
offer a salad bar where required at an additional £1.95 per head.
For bar options or the supply of ales by the cask, please click on
the Bar Services tab of this site.
BARBECUE
SERVICE: A selection of meats and vegetarian options, as agreed with
the client, served with buns, a salad bar and all sauces and
disposables @ £8.95 per head. We can also offer these selections as
a pan-cooked alternative prepared in our 36" diameter Frying
Saucer.
As these options do not employ a solitary
spit-roasted animal, numbers are not critical and we can be very
flexible with selections and serving times.
SELF SERVICE: take £100 off our full service charge but
the hirer supplies there own buns, stuffing, sauces, plates
etc.
BARBECUE OPTION: We will deliver a
professional barbecue with a gas cylinder, barbecue tools and a
barbecue cooking tips sheet; we collect at the end of your event and
clean back in our yard: £105
N.B. These are
all inclusive prices and we will supply Gel-fuelled baine maries and
cooking temperature probes where required.
For
prices and availability of Venison or Wild Boar roasts, etc please
email John at john@thehogroastservice.co.uk
. Remember that wild game is subject to seasonal availability.
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If you wish to self serve we will deliver
the hog roast oven with the carcass fixed and partially cooked ready
for you to complete and carve. |
Professional barbecue as provided at
events or supplied on hire. |
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Please submit details of your event for a quotation.
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Find Us On Location
The Hog Roast Service can be experienced at events
throughout the country. If you organise the catering at a County
Show, Game Fair, Point to Point, Street Fair, Street Market or event
we will happily provide our service for you.
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Naturally Delicious, Succulent, Crisping, Blistering:
Meat As It Ought To Be...
The
English preference is to see the roast as a large joint of meat,
where many, particularly across the Atlantic, prefer a bit more
theatre in the presentation of their hog.
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Ready to Carve... |
A More Transatlantic
Presentation |
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Venison At Market
Though The Hog Roast Service sources its carcasses from
registered game dealers John has always been a sucker for an
auction. He regularly brings home a carcass or two to put on vension
roasts for friends and family.
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John Examines A Fallow Deer
Carcass |
Muntjac Carcasses and a Fallow
Deer |
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Wild Boar Are Back In Great Britain
Wild Boar were hunted to extinction in Great
Britain centuries ago, but there has been a successful
reintroduction programme and Wild Boar are now also farmed in
England.
The farming of Wild Boar makes this
delicious and healthy meat available to us with some dependability.
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Wild Boar Piglets, |
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Based In Rutland but welcome enquiries from all over
the UK
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Treat Your Guests To A Touch Of Class
We've all seen it, the barbecue where
somebody is cooking up burgers on a metal foot-scrapper in half an
oil drum, where charcoal is flaring up with dripping fat, coating
the food in a sickly soot. If you're a celebrity in the jungle, and
being paid handsomely to experience inconvenience for TV, this
approach might be seen as luxury. If you're back in the UK and
treating guests, make sure they feel treated: use the Hog Roast
Service.
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