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Christmas Hog Roast in Styants Bottom
Planning a hog roast for your Christmas party in Styants Bottom? We bring the roaster to you, cook outdoors under cover and our staff serve at the time you choose.
- Christmas family parties
- End-of-term celebrations
- Office Christmas parties
Book a hog roast in Styants Bottom
Full catering or machine hire?
Timing is the tricky part of roasting your own: a whole hog takes hours, and it needs to be cooked through safely. If you’d rather not worry about it, let us cook.
DIY hire works best when someone in the family loves cooking. For bigger or more formal events, catering takes the pressure off.
About our Christmas hog roast in Styants Bottom
Christmas fairs and lights switch-ons in Styants Bottom suit a hog roast stall: hot food in the hand on a cold evening. Whether it is boxing Day and New Year gatherings and winter fairs and markets, we can cook apple sauce, rotisserie chicken and hog roast rolls and more.
Near Styants Bottom, country lanes are dark in winter, so tell us about the route and lighting at the spot. Our chef carves in front of your guests, so the pork is hot and the crackling is crisp, and nothing sits in a hot cabinet.
What comes off the roaster
Salads, potatoes and coleslaw
Salads, new potatoes, coleslaw and roast or jacket potatoes turn rolls into a full meal.
Roast turkey
A carved roast turkey makes it feel like Christmas, served alongside the pork and crackling.
Who books Christmas hog roast in Styants Bottom?
Turkey and pork together cover everyone.
However big or small the event in Styants Bottom, a hog roast feeds a crowd well. Bookings frequently include:
- Christmas markets
- Club and society Christmas parties
- Year-end thank-yous
- Staff Christmas do’s
If you’re organising a Christmas fair for a school like Ightham Primary School, hot rolls go down well.
Questions to ask before booking
- Allergen information for every dish
- If the price includes VAT
- Arrival time and how long the roast needs
- How many staff will carve and serve
Your questions about a hog roast for your Christmas party in Styants Bottom
Can you do a hog roast in Ivy Hatch Nature Reserve?
Only if the landowner, normally the council, allows it. Ask them first.
Is Styants Bottom close to London?
About 21 miles from central London, and well within our area.
Do guests have to eat outside?
Cooking is always outdoors; guests can eat inside.
Do you cover Styants Bottom?
Yes. We cater across London and the South East, Styants Bottom and the rest of Kent included. Send us the address for a quote.
Can you work around our timings?
Because the roast takes hours, we plan from your serving time, and a cooked roast can be held for a while if things run late.
What if it rains?
We cook under a gazebo, so rain isn’t a problem for the roast. A marquee, hall or barn for eating makes all the difference.
What do people get?
The classic: pork in rolls with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling. Your quote lists any sides and extras.
How do we prepare?
Just the agreed spot and a contact on the day. Everything for roasting and serving comes with us.
The process
A hog roast is always cooked outside, under a gazebo on level ground, away from buildings, marquee walls and overhanging branches. We will agree the spot with you beforehand. Late-December sunset in Styants Bottom comes at about 3:55pm. Evening Christmas parties need a well-lit carving station.
- Ask early for a December date.
- You get a quote with the menu.
- We arrive while it’s light and set up under cover.
- We serve hot rolls and turkey if you’ve chosen it.
- We clear the serving area and go.
Before we arrive
- Name a contact for the day
- Choose a level, open spot outdoors for the roaster
- Make sure the cooking area is away from walls, tents and trees
Get a quote
For a quote, send us a few details: the date and serving time, the venue or TN15 postcode, rough numbers and which extras you’d like. Send us your details through our quote form.
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A hog roast or other catering?
Mix and match: pork for the crackling fans, turkey for traditionalists. The main driver is numbers: bigger groups typically cost less per head, because the roaster, staff and travel cost much the same either way.
What you get with us
- An itemised quote
- Staff to serve, so you do not have to
- Roasted on site, slowly, for hours
- Sides to make it a full meal
Take a look at our prices page or what a hog roast costs.
Places near Styants Bottom
What else we do in Styants Bottom
Organising for someone else?
Event organisers frequently ask caterers for paperwork such as a risk assessment. Tell us what you need and we’ll tell you what we can send.
Marquee hire companies frequently have rules about cooking near their tents, so let them know about the roaster. The roaster stays a safe distance from the marquee.
What affects the price in Styants Bottom
A few things make the biggest difference to the price:
- The serving time and how long we’re on site
- Plates or china
- Site access
- Which meats and sides you choose
Weekday and off-season dates can be easier to book, and the menu you choose makes a difference too. Ask us and we’ll suggest the best fit for your budget.
What we need to know
These are the details we need:
- Anything the venue has asked for
- Where the event is
- The date and time of the event
- Your menu choices
To get a quote, just tell us the date, where the Christmas party is and roughly how many. A photo of the cooking area helps. Send us your details through our quote form.
Styants Bottom in December: what to know
Styants Bottom is about 3 miles east of Sevenoaks, in Kent. From village halls to gardens and fields, Christmas parties around Styants Bottom suit a hog roast. We cover all 922 towns and villages across Kent, from the larger towns to small villages. You can also see our page for London, about 21 miles away.
For colleagues travelling by train, Kemsing station, about 1 mile north-west, is the nearest station. If a church like St Lawrence is running a Christmas fair, hot pork rolls are a welcome sight on a cold evening. The Kent Downs National Landscape is within about 5 miles of Styants Bottom, where winter lanes can be dark and narrow, so tell us about the route.
Christmas parties anywhere in TN15 start with an outdoor spot for the roaster and a serving time. Other places close to Styants Bottom we cover include Oldbury (1 mile east), Ightham (1 mile south-east), Stone Street (1 mile south), Ivy Hatch (1 mile south-east) and Bitchet Green (2 miles south). We also serve nearby towns such as Maidstone (12 miles east), Dartford (11 miles north), Sevenoaks (3 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (10 miles south), Gravesend (11 miles north-east) and Tonbridge (6 miles south).
Nearby you’ll also find Ightham Court (1.3 miles north-east) and Sevenoaks Hospital (2.8 miles west). The countryside around Styants Bottom includes Dryhill Nature Reserve.
- Nearby schools include Wrotham School (2.4 miles north-east)
- Local pubs include The Harrow Inn (0.8 miles south-east)
Before you choose a spot
Before the day, it helps to think about where the roaster will go. The ideal spot has:
- A level spot outdoors with lighting nearby
- Clearance from walls and tents
- A hall, office or heated marquee for guests
If you are unsure, send a picture of the space and the way in, and we’ll say what we think.
What we serve
- Vegan option (Ve)
- Rotisserie chicken
- Roast potatoes
- Roast turkey
- Halloumi skewers (V)
- Hog roast rolls
- Crackling
- Stuffing and apple sauce
- Salads
- Roasted on site for several hours, outdoors under cover
- Our chef carves the pork, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling on the side
- Options beyond pork, including lamb, chicken and vegetarian dishes
- Served when you’re ready, and we tidy the serving area afterwards