Surrey · England
Corporate Paella Catering for Send events
Cooked live, served hot and made to share: paella catering for office lunches, staff parties, team days and client events for events in Send and across Surrey.
- End-of-year celebrations
- Away days and office lunches
- Team-building days
Corporate paella catering near Send
How our corporate paella catering works in Send
Live paella makes lunch an activity, not just a break from it. Whether it is conference lunches and christmas and end-of-year parties, we can cook vegan and vegetarian paella, paella lunches and canapé tapas and more.
Around Send, team days can be at rural venues or the office. Paella suits all of them. Everything is cooked from scratch at your work event, never made in advance and reheated, and served as soon as it’s ready.
Working with your venue
If you are booking for a business, tell us how you’d like to handle the booking and payment, and we will explain how it works. We are happy to liaise with facilities on access and timings.
For big numbers, we plan pans and serving points to keep queues short, so guests are fed quickly. Let us know how long the food break is.
Common questions in Send
Is Send close to London?
Roughly 24 miles from the centre of London, and we cover it as standard.
Could we have live paella in White Rose Lane?
Only if the landowner, normally the council, allows it. Check with them, and we will provide our paperwork.
Can you do sangria?
We can make sangria, and we can staff a bar with your drinks.
Can you do gluten-free paella?
We can, if you tell us in advance. The rice is gluten-free, but stocks and chorizo can contain gluten, so we make a separate gluten-free pan.
How long does the paella take?
That depends on your menu and numbers. We will agree arrival, cooking and serving times with you.
Can you cater for children?
Yes, children are easy to cater for. Let us know numbers and ages, and we will plan a pan with them in mind.
Will there be enough food?
We plan quantities from your guest numbers, timings and other courses, with a sensible margin. Accurate numbers help.
What areas do you cover?
London and the South East: Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight, including Send.
Events we cater in Send
It feeds plenty of people quickly, ideal for a tight schedule.
Almost any gathering can work with live paella. People in Send book us for occasions like:
- Client and customer events
- Company summer parties
- Team lunches
- Open days and launches
Central London is about 24 miles from Send, so it is a practical spot for away days and team events.
Comparing caterers
- The deadline for final numbers
- How dietary needs and allergies are handled
- Space, access and power needs
- Exactly what’s included in the price
Step by step
Here’s how the day generally runs: we arrive, set up and start cooking, your guests watch the rice cook, and we serve straight from the pan when you are ready to eat. For a Christmas party in Send, it’s dark by about 3:55pm, so the cooking and serving areas need good lighting. Summer events have daylight until around 9:20pm.
- We start with your date, venue, headcount, timings and diets.
- We send a menu, a price and the paperwork for your venue.
- Access, parking and set-up are agreed with you or facilities.
- We cook live on the day and serve on schedule.
- We clear our cooking area away and leave the space as we found it.
How to prepare
- Let us know the timings for the day
- Tell us where to park and unload
- Send us final numbers and dietary needs in good time
Ask for a quote
Send us the date, your venue or GU23 postcode and guest numbers, plus any dietary needs, and you’ll get a menu idea and a price. To get started, use our quote form.
Planning help
How we price corporate paella catering
Live paella pricing is straightforward once we know the basics:
- Plates, cutlery and glassware
- Staff: cooks, waiting staff and bar staff
- How many courses
- The length of service
Tapas, desserts, sangria, staff and crockery are optional extras, so you only pay for what you want.
What we need to know
For a quote, it helps to have:
- The courses you’d like
- Any dietary needs and allergies
- Expected numbers
- A photo of the space, if you can
Getting a quote is simple: share your date, venue, numbers and diets. We’ll come back with a clear quote and a suggested menu.
Can I cook paella for a crowd myself?
If you do cook yourself, test the pan and burner together beforehand, keep the stock hot, and do not stir once the rice goes in. Keep a clear zone around the burner.
DIY catering keeps costs down, but the host spends the party cooking. With live paella catering, you get the theatre without the work.
Towns and villages near Send
Other catering in Send
Planning for every diet
Paella is one of the easiest dishes for mixed diets, because every paella has its own pan. A few tips:
- Have water and soft drinks available
- Provide shade and seats outdoors
- Get facilities approval early
- Add a diet question to the sign-up form
Staff can serve canapés or bowl food during a reception.
Churros or Spanish desserts to finish.
Live paella or other catering?
For catering that’s part of the event, live paella stands out. Compared with a plated meal, live paella is often good value, because it needs no kitchen and fewer staff. Ask us for a quote.
Why choose Love Paella in Send
- Sangria, plus bar staff for your own drinks
- Live cooking, not reheated food
- Crockery and waiting staff if you need them
- Starters and desserts to complete the menu
Read How we price Or What paella catering costs.
Business events near Send
Send is about 3 miles south-east of Woking, in Surrey. Tell us where your work event in Send will be, and we’ll plan the journey and set-up. We cater in all 395 towns and villages in Surrey.
Historic houses near Send include Clandon Park (2.9 miles south) and Hatchlands Park (3.4 miles south-east). For a client event at a historic house or estate, ask early about catering rules and where cooking is allowed. For staff and clients coming by train, Clandon station is about 2.2 miles away. With the Surrey Hills National Landscape within about 6 miles, rural team days are easy to arrange.
Anywhere in GU23, we can cook for your guests. That could mean a work event in a garden on Sandy Lane, Farm Lane and Sandfields. Nearby, we also cater work events in Send Marsh (1 mile east), Burntcommon (1 mile east), Sutton Green (1 mile south-west), Mayford (2 miles west) and Pyle Hill (2 miles west). Further out, we also cater in Guildford (3 miles south-west), Woking (3 miles north-west), Camberley (9 miles west), Epsom (12 miles east), Farnham (13 miles south-west) and Ewell (13 miles east).
Well-known places in the area include Send and Ripley History Society Museum (1.8 miles east) and Woking Community Hospital (2.1 miles north-west). Open spaces near Send include Boldermere Lake and Papercourt Marshes.
- Schools near Send include St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School (1.5 miles north-west) and St John the Baptist School (1.5 miles north-west)
- Pubs nearby include The New Inn (0.5 miles north-west)
A closer look at the menu
Vegan and vegetarian pans
Cooked separately with their own stock.
Paella lunches
Two or three paellas served from the pan, quick to serve to a big team.
- Cooked live in giant pans at your event
- Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal options
- Paella, tapas, canapés and desserts
- Sangria, bar staff, crockery and waiting staff