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Paella Catering for Anvil Green events
We cook live paella catering, cooked fresh in giant pans at your event across Anvil Green and Kent, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal options.
- Fairs, fêtes and festivals
- Office lunches and staff parties
- Milestone birthday parties
Planning an event in Anvil Green?
Paella catering for your event in Anvil Green
Two or three pans side by side cover every guest: a meat or mixed paella, a seafood paella and a vegetable or vegan one. Each is cooked separately, so diets are easy to manage. For engagement and anniversary parties and leaving dos and retirements, we can cook seafood paella, vegetable paella and mixed paella.
Somewhere like Anvil Green, a field or garden is often the perfect setting. Mention gates and soft ground when you contact us. We cater for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal guests, with each paella cooked in its own pan and clearly labelled.
Perfect for your event in Anvil Green
Paella is quick to serve and suits mixed diets, which is why it works for so many occasions. It also gives guests something to watch and talk about.
Whatever the occasion, live paella can be the centrepiece. We often cook for:
- Company summer parties
- Engagement and anniversary parties
- Retirement and leaving parties
- Festivals, fairs and school events
For a christening or wedding at a church such as Church of St Bartholomew, a paella lunch or reception nearby is an easy way to feed everyone.
What to look for in a quote
- If the price includes VAT
- How late numbers can change
- The deposit and payment dates
- The wet-weather plan
Places near Anvil Green
What else we do in Anvil Green
The menu, dish by dish
Paella Valenciana
In Valencia, the recipe is fiercely debated. The classic version is chicken, green beans and butter beans with saffron.
Vegetable and vegan paella
A vegetable paella isn’t an afterthought: artichokes, beans, peppers and saffron.
What affects the price in Anvil Green
Your quote will be clear and itemised. What affects it most:
- Guest numbers
- Waiting and bar staff
- Your choice of paellas
- The length of service
Live paella pricing depends on the event. A simple paella lunch costs less than a wedding with canapés, three paellas and waiting staff. We itemise everything in your quote.
Details that help
We can quote more accurately with a few details. Here’s what’s useful:
- The address or venue name
- Approximate guest numbers, including children
- What the venue already provides
- A photo of the space, if you can
Tell us your date, venue or postcode and roughly how many guests, plus any dietary needs, and you’ll get a menu idea and a price. Just use our quote form.
Before you choose a spot
Every venue is different, so we’ll ask about yours before we confirm. Generally, we look for:
- Somewhere close to park and unload
- The venue’s permission for live cooking
- Clearance from fences, hedges, branches and anything flammable
Not sure about your space? Send us a photo and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we offer
- Seafood paella
- Mixed paella
- Vegan paella
- Vegetable paella
- Chicken & chorizo paella
- Paella Valenciana
- Black rice (arroz negro)
For event organisers in Anvil Green
Venues often have their own rules about outside caterers: where cooking is allowed, access times and the paperwork they need. Send us your venue’s requirements and we will follow them.
If your event is in a public space, such as a park, check what permission you need first. We can send whatever the landowner or council needs from us.
Can I cook paella for a crowd myself?
Not sure whether to cook yourself or book a caterer? Consider your numbers, your guests’ diets and your own time. Ask us for a quote and compare.
Plenty of people try cooking paella for their own party. Common mistakes are mismatched pans and burners, overfilling and stirring. If you’d rather enjoy the party, let us cook.
How it works
When the rice goes in, it’s left alone. That is how the grains cook evenly and the toasted base, the socarrat, forms. Your guests will smell it before they see it. In Anvil Green, the sun sets at about 9:15pm in late June and about 7:00pm in late September, so summer evening service is normally in daylight. For winter events, when it’s dark by about 3:50pm, we need lighting at the cooking spot.
- Send us your date, numbers and venue.
- We plan the menu with you, including every diet.
- We arrive in good time to set up.
- The paella cooks as guests gather round.
- We serve hot from the pan and clear our cooking area.
Preparing for the day
- Give us a contact for the day
- Ensure the spot is clear of anything flammable
- Send us final numbers and dietary needs in good time
Ask for a quote
Planning paella catering in Anvil Green? Send us the details and we will come back with ideas and a quote. To contact us, send us your details through our quote form.
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Anvil Green questions
Which station should guests use for Anvil Green?
The closest is Chilham station, roughly 3.1 miles away.
Do you come out to small places like Anvil Green?
Not at all. We cater in villages and hamlets as well as towns. Tell us about lanes, gates and parking.
Do you cater for coeliacs?
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.
Do you do desserts?
Yes. Spanish desserts such as churros or crema catalana, or you can serve your own cake.
Can you feed a lot of people?
Very much so. We size pans and serving points to your guest list.
Can you cater for vegetarians and vegans?
Yes, and meat eaters often go back for seconds. They have their own pans, stock and spoons.
Can you cook halal paella?
Yes, we do. Halal paella is cooked with halal chicken and no pork or alcohol, in a separate pan.
Which areas do you serve?
We cater across London and the South East, Kent included. Find your area.
Paella compared with other options
Barbecues cook in batches, so food comes off in waves. Paella is cooked as one big dish and served together. Tapas, desserts, sangria, staff and crockery are optional extras, so you only pay for what you want.
What you get with us
- Tapas, canapés and desserts if you want them
- Everything cooked fresh at your event
- Drinks service on request
- No hidden extras in your quote
Paella catering around Anvil Green
Anvil Green is about 5 miles south-west of Wincheap, in Kent. We bring paella catering to homes, gardens and venues in Anvil Green and nearby villages. We cater in 922 places in Kent, from the larger towns to small villages. Our events stretch from Anvil Green to Canterbury (about 6 miles away).
For guests coming by train, Chilham station is about 3.1 miles away. Anvil Green is within about 4 miles of the Kent Downs National Landscape. Check your venue’s rules on vehicles and cooking.
We cover events in every part of the CT4 postcode area and the streets around it. Nearby, we also cater events in Petham (2 miles north-east), Garlinge Green (2 miles north), Mystole (3 miles north), Upper Hardres (3 miles east) and Shalmsford Street (3 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Ashford (8 miles south-west), Canterbury (6 miles north-east), Dover (13 miles east), Sittingbourne (15 miles north-west), Folkestone (11 miles south-east) and Whitstable (10 miles north).
Other landmarks nearby include Chilham Castle (3.5 miles north-west) and Kent and Canterbury Hospital (5.1 miles north-east).
- Pubs nearby include Compasses Inn (0.7 miles west)
- 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