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Festival Paella Catering for Waddon events
Treat your guests to live paella at your event in Waddon. Everything is cooked fresh on the day, and serve it straight from the pan.
- Food and music festivals
- Feeding crew and volunteers
- Charity and school events
Festival paella catering for Waddon events
How the day works
It is a relaxed, well-organised set-up. We agree arrival and serving times in advance, set up our cooking area, and get on with cooking and serving. At midsummer, events in Waddon stay light until about 9:20pm, which helps evening trading. Winter markets, dark by about 3:55pm, need a well-lit pitch.
- Organisers send us the event details, dates and pitch information.
- You get our menu, pitch requirements and paperwork.
- On the day, we arrive and set up our pitch.
- Pans cook in full view and we serve throughout the event.
- At the end, we clear our pitch.
Before we arrive
- Give us your final numbers and diets
- Check the venue allows live cooking
- Share the running order, including any speeches
How to get a price
Each quote is tailored to your event. Give us your date and numbers, and we will confirm whether we’re available that day.
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Festival paella catering in Waddon, cooked live
We can trade as a stall or cook for crew, volunteers and VIP areas. Popular choices include churros, vegan paella and giant-pan paella, and typical bookings are for school fairs and fundraisers and food and music festivals.
In Waddon, a paella pan suits street parties and school fairs, as long as the road closure or site permission is in place. Each paella is cooked from scratch on the day, never made in advance and reheated, and served as soon as it is ready.
- Where
- Waddon (CR0, CR2, SM6)
- Region
- Greater London
- Dietary options
- Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal
- Also available
- Tapas, desserts, sangria, staff
- Price
- Ask us for a quote
- Last updated
- 23 October 2026
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Planning for every diet
Dietary needs are easy to plan for with a little notice. Our advice:
- Ask about peak-time capacity
- Ask traders about packaging and waste
- Give traders a single information pack
- Schedule crew meals
We keep our pitch tidy and safe throughout the day.
Crew, volunteer and VIP catering.
Why live cooking beats a buffet
Food that sits in a hot cabinet is not much to look at. A giant pan cooking in view sells itself. Cost depends on guest numbers, the menu and the courses, plus any staff, crockery and travel. We quote for each event individually.
What you get with us
- We cover Waddon and the whole of Greater London
- Paella cooked from scratch on site
- Hot food served quickly from the pan
- Separate pans for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal guests
Take a look at Our prices page Or Our guide to catering costs.
Running an event in Waddon
Waddon is about 1 mile west of Croydon, in Greater London. Events in Waddon are planned around your venue and timings: a quote, a plan and live cooking on the day. We cater in all 764 towns and villages in Greater London. Our nearest city page is London, about 9 miles away.
For visitors coming by rail, Waddon has its own station, Waddon station. If you’re organising a summer fair or fundraiser for a school such as Aerodrome Primary Academy, a paella stall is a crowd-pleaser.
For festival paella catering in CR0, CR2 and SM6, we plan around your venue and your guests. Local streets include Abbey Road, Alton Road and Epsom Road; an event at home on any of them works well with live paella. Neighbouring places where we cater events include Old Town (1 mile north-east), Bandonhill (1 mile west), Beddington (1 mile north-west), Russell Hill (1 mile south-west) and Roundshaw (1 mile south-west). We also cook in nearby towns such as London (9 miles north), City of Westminster (11 miles north), Marylebone (11 miles north), Kensington (10 miles north), St Pancras (11 miles north) and Shoreditch (11 miles north).
Nearby you’ll also find County Borough of Croydon (0.8 miles north-east) and Croydon Airport Visitor Centre (0.6 miles south-west). Not far away are Duppas Hill and Roundshaw Downs.
- Nearby schools include St Andrew's CofE School (under half a mile north) and Rutherford School (1.4 miles east)
- Nearby, you’ll find The Waddon Hotel (under half a mile north-west)
What affects the price in Waddon
Every event is priced individually, based on a few main things:
- How many staff you need
- Timings and hours
- The number of people
- Parking and unloading
Larger events usually cost less per head, since the set-up is much the same either way. Give us your numbers and we’ll quote.
What we need to know
To check availability and price, we need:
- The date and time of the event
- Approximate guest numbers, including children
- What the venue already provides
- Which courses you have in mind
To get a price, send us your details through our quote form. Tell us about your event in Waddon, and we will suggest paellas and extras to suit.
Common questions in Waddon
Could we have live paella in Duppas Hill?
Only with permission from the park’s owner, typically the council. Ask them first, and we’ll send any information they need.
Do you trade at school fairs around Waddon?
Yes, with the school’s permission. Tell us the date and pitch details.
Can vegans eat at your stall?
Absolutely. The vegan pan is cooked separately.
What about pudding?
We do. Spanish desserts such as churros or crema catalana, or you can serve your own cake.
Which areas do you serve?
London and the South East: Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight, including Waddon.
Do you do crew catering?
Yes, timed to your schedule. Tell us numbers and timings.
What space do you need to cook?
A level space for the pans, burners and a serving table, outdoors or in a marquee or well-ventilated area, and the venue’s permission for live cooking.
Do you cater for vegetarian guests?
Yes. We cook vegetarian and vegan paellas in their own pans.
What’s in the pans
Giant paella pans
A pan the size of a cartwheel, full of saffron rice.
Vegan paella
A proper vegan main, in its own pan.
Cook it yourself or book a caterer?
Plenty of people try cooking paella for their own party. The usual problems are a pan too big for the burner, too much rice and stirring once the rice is in. If you’d rather be with your guests, we’ll do the cooking.
For a small group, cooking yourself can work well. For larger numbers, mixed diets or a wedding, a caterer takes the pressure off, and keeps vegetarian and allergy-safe pans separate.
What we need at the venue
We cook in large pans over gas burners, so we need a suitable spot. These are the things we check:
- Spacing from tents and other structures
- Vehicle access before and after the event
- Room for our cooking and serving area
As a London location, Waddon is inside the Ultra Low Emission Zone, and parking takes planning: let us know about permits, bays or off-street parking.
Not sure about your space? Send us a photo and we will tell you honestly.
Popular choices
- Tapas
- Churros
- Chicken & chorizo paella
- Giant paella pans
- Seafood paella
- Vegan paella
For planners, venues and organisers
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.
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.
- 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