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Hog Roast Catering in Emmer Green, Reading
Roasted for hours, carved to order and served hot: a hog roast in Emmer Green and the surrounding area.
- Festive gatherings
- Wakes and memorial gatherings
- Garden parties and barbecues
Planning an event in Emmer Green?
Hog roast hire for your event in Emmer Green
We provide a fully catered hog roast: we roast, our chef carves and our staff serve. For confident cooks, the machine can be hired on its own. Typical bookings include clubhouse events and wedding breakfasts and evening food, serving hog roast rolls, rotisserie chicken and new potatoes.
There may be a hall or playing field near Emmer Green if the garden is small; any can host a hog roast with permission. Timings are planned around your event, working back from when you want to eat.
Common questions in Emmer Green
Is Emmer Green close to London?
About 37 miles from central London, and we cover it as standard.
Can you cater after a service at St Barnabas Church Hall?
Yes, at a nearby hall, home or venue with room to cook outside. Food is generally served at the reception venue rather than the church. Send us the address.
Can we have lamb or chicken?
The hog is the centrepiece, but lamb and chicken can be added.
What is hog roast hire?
We handle the roasting, carving and serving. All we need is a place to cook outdoors.
How big a hog will we need?
We plan quantities from the numbers you give us, and we’ll talk it through when we quote.
What about guests who don’t eat pork?
There are lamb, chicken, vegetarian and vegan options: spit-roast lamb, rotisserie chicken, halloumi and vegetable skewers or a vegan burger or sausage. Please note we don’t offer halal meat.
Is mains power needed?
Not to cook, because the roaster is gas-fired. Tell us what’s available and we’ll plan around it.
What’s the price?
Each event is priced on its own, based on numbers, menu, service time and distance. Tell us about your event for a quote.
What a hog roast costs
Every booking is priced individually, and the price depends on a few things:
- Time on site
- Whether you want china
- Busy dates such as summer Saturdays
- How many people are eating
Cost depends on numbers, menu choices and service time, plus travel and access. There is no one-size price, so we quote each one individually.
Details that help
A few details help us give you an accurate quote. Here’s what’s useful:
- A photo of the cooking area
- Where the event is
- Rough numbers
- Allergies we should know about
Every event is quoted on its own, because numbers, menu, serving time and travel vary. Tell us about your event for a quote: fill in our quote form.
Full catering or machine hire?
You could roast a hog yourself, but it is a long day’s work, from setting up and lighting the roaster to carving. A catered hog roast means you can enjoy the day.
You could go for a cold buffet, but nothing beats hot pork and crackling carved in front of you.
Bringing a hog roast to Emmer Green
Emmer Green is about 1 mile north-east of Caversham, in Reading. Emmer Green and the surrounding area are covered for events. We cater 34 places across Reading, from the larger towns to small villages.
For a fundraiser at a school like The Hill Primary School, the roaster can cook on a pitch agreed with the school. Coming by train? The closest railway station is Reading station, roughly 1.7 miles south of the centre.
Wherever your event is in RG4, we can roast on site for your guests. Local streets include Kiln Road, Grove Road and Barnes Road; an event on any of them works well with outdoor space and a way in. Close by, we cover events in Caversham (1 mile south-west), Caversham Park Village (1 mile east), Littlestead Green (1 mile north-east), Dunsden Green (1 mile north-east) and Chalkhouse Green (1 mile north-west). Further out, we also cater in Norcot (3 miles south-west), Tilehurst Within (4 miles south-west), Shinfield (5 miles south), Arborfield Garrison (7 miles south), Horncastle (4 miles south-west) and Whitley Wood (5 miles south).
A little further out are Broad Street Mall (2 miles south) and Royal Berkshire Hospital (2.2 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Sonning Hill and Fobney Island Wetland Reserve.
- Local schools include Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre (0.6 miles west) and Chiltern Nursery Nurse Training School (0.7 miles south)
- Local pubs include The White Horse pub (within half a mile west)
Perfect for your event in Emmer Green
It is generous, hearty food that most people love, and lamb, chicken and vegetarian options look after the rest.
These are some of the most popular hog roast bookings near Emmer Green:
- Parties at home
- Gatherings after a funeral
- Milestone birthdays
- Fêtes, fairs and shows
If you’re gathering after a service at a church like St Barnabas Church Hall, a nearby hall or garden suits a hog roast.
Comparing caterers
- Who carves and who serves
- How they handle allergens and dietary needs
- The space, cover and access they need
- VAT, if it applies
What we serve, dish by dish
Halloumi and vegetable skewers (V)
For vegetarians, halloumi and vegetable skewers are cooked separately from the meat, a hot, filling option of their own.
Salads, potatoes and coleslaw
Salads, new potatoes, coleslaw and roast or jacket potatoes turn rolls into a full meal.
What the cooking area needs
Planning the cooking spot is the key. Check these:
- A level, open spot outdoors for the roaster
- Permission from the venue or landowner
- A sheltered place for people to eat if it rains
If in doubt, send us a picture of the spot and we’ll advise before booking.
From the roaster
- Apple sauce
- Crackling
- Spit-roast lamb
- Stuffing
- Halloumi skewers (V)
- Vegan burger or sausage (Ve)
- Roast or jacket potatoes
- Rotisserie chicken
- New potatoes
- Coleslaw
- Salads
- Hog roast rolls
Diets, allergies and alternatives
A little planning helps everyone eat safely. Here are a few tips:
- Put the menu on the invitation
- Collect allergies with your RSVPs
- Give us numbers for vegetarians and vegans for the halloumi skewers and vegan option
- Label the vegetarian and vegan food clearly
Slow roasting needs attention, which is our job, not yours. You can relax and enjoy the day.
We also hire out the roaster for DIY hog roasts.
Towns and villages near Emmer Green
Other occasions in Emmer Green
A hog roast or other catering?
Compared with a plated meal, a hog roast needs no kitchen and fewer staff, which frequently makes it better value. A hog roast is often good value for a crowd, because one whole roast feeds a lot of people. The menu, extras such as china and the serving time all affect the final price.
Why Emmer Green hosts choose us
- Carved by our chef in front of your guests
- Planned to your running order
- Slow-roasted at your venue, not reheated
- Lamb, chicken and vegetarian options alongside
Take a look at how we price or what a hog roast costs.
The process
A typical booking goes like this: we arrive, set up under cover and start roasting, the pork cooks slowly for hours, and our chef carves it when you’re ready. Around midsummer it stays light in Emmer Green until about 9:25pm; by late September sunset is nearer 7:05pm, so summer evening service is typically in daylight. In December it is dark by about 3:55pm, so the cooking and serving area needs lighting.
- First, tell us about your event.
- We check the date and the cooking spot, then send a quote.
- Timings and the cooking area are agreed in advance.
- We roast slowly on site, then carve for your guests.
- Our staff serve and clear, then we pack away.
Getting ready for the day
- Make sure the cooking area is away from walls, tents and trees
- Gather dietary requirements early
- Let us know about tight access
Getting a price
Tell us your date, venue or postcode and roughly how many people, plus when you’d like to eat. We will check the date and send a quote. Send us your details through our quote form.
Related guides
- Slow-roasted on site for hours, outdoors at your event
- Carved to order by our chef, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling
- Lamb, chicken and vegetarian options alongside the pork
- Staff to serve at the agreed time, then clear away