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Hog Roast Hire in Fir Toll
From the hours of slow roasting to the last roll, a hog roast turns the food into a centrepiece of your event in Fir Toll.
- Weddings and receptions
- Corporate events
- Garden parties and barbecues
Book a hog roast in Fir Toll
Working with your venue
Booking for a club or group? A single point of contact keeps things simple, particularly when timings shift.
If the event is on someone else’s land, the landowner needs to agree to cooking and vehicles. Sort that first.
Hog roast hire in Fir Toll, carved to order
Our hog roast hire is fully catered: we roast, our chef carves and our staff serve. For confident cooks, the machine can be hired on its own. For weddings, day or evening and gatherings after a funeral, we can cook hog roast rolls, coleslaw and crackling for your guests.
In a hamlet or village like Fir Toll, a farmyard or a neighbour’s field can make a good cooking spot. Gates, verges and soft ground are worth mentioning when you enquire. Everything is cooked on the day, at your venue, low and slow, for hours.
Fir Toll: your questions answered
Do you come out to small places like Fir Toll?
No, we come to small places too. Tell us about lanes, gates and the ground.
Can you cater after a service at Church of St Nicholas?
Yes, at a home, hall or venue nearby with an outdoor spot for the roaster. Churches rarely have space for a hog roast, so the food is typically elsewhere. Tell us where you’ll gather.
Can we hire the machine and cook it ourselves?
Yes, we hire out the hog roast machine. We’ll confirm what comes with it and how to use it.
Is there a non-pork option?
We can add lamb or chicken, plus halloumi skewers for vegetarians and a vegan burger or sausage. We don’t provide halal meat.
Do you clear up?
Our staff clear the serving area, and we take our equipment with us.
How much room do you need?
Enough level ground outdoors for the roaster and a serving table under cover, and a way to wheel everything in. A photo helps.
Do we need our own staff?
Our chef carves and our staff serve, then clear the serving area afterwards.
How do you work out quantities?
We plan quantities from the numbers you give us, and we will talk it through when we quote.
Hog roast hire around Fir Toll
Fir Toll is about 5 miles west of Ashford, in Kent. From village halls to gardens and fields, events around Fir Toll suit a hog roast. Fir Toll is one of 922 towns and villages in Kent we cover. Our nearest city page is Canterbury, about 16 miles away.
If you are gathering after a service at a church like Church of St Nicholas, a nearby hall or garden suits a hog roast. Coming by train? The closest railway station is Pluckley station, roughly 0.8 miles south of the centre.
This part of Kent takes in TN27. If your venue is just outside Fir Toll, we also cover Pluckley Thorne (1 mile north-west), Pluckley (1 mile north), Chambers' Green (1 mile south), Little Chart (2 miles north-east) and Mundy Bois (2 miles north-west). Larger places within reach include Maidstone (12 miles north-west), Ashford (5 miles east), Sittingbourne (12 miles north), Faversham (12 miles north-east), Davington (12 miles north-east) and Foley Park (12 miles north-west).
Well-known places in the area include Romden Castle (2.3 miles south-west).
- Nearby, you will find The Black Horse Inn (0.5 miles north)
How the day works
We get there well ahead of service, since slow roasting can’t be rushed. The smell typically brings people over long before we carve. In Fir Toll, the sun sets at about 9:15pm in late June and about 7:00pm in late September, so a summer evening hog roast is normally carved in daylight. In December it is dark by about 3:50pm, so the cooking and serving area needs lighting.
- First, you send us your date, address, numbers and serving time.
- We check the date and the cooking area, then send a quote.
- On the day, we set up on the agreed spot and start roasting.
- At serving time, the chef carves and the team serves.
- We clear the serving area and pack away.
How to prepare
- Give us final numbers a week or so before
- Have a covered area for eating in case of rain
- Give us a contact number for the day
Getting a price
It is easy to get a price: tell us when, where, how many and what time you’d like to eat. We will reply with a clear price and what’s included. Use our quote form.
Related guides
The menu, dish by dish
Stuffing and apple sauce
Sharp, sweet apple sauce and savoury sage and onion stuffing are the traditional pairing. Stuffing normally contains gluten.
Rolls and gluten-free rolls
Soft rolls hold the pork, stuffing and apple sauce together, perfect for eating on the move. Ask for gluten-free rolls if you need them.
A hog roast or other catering?
Compared with food vans, a hog roast serves plenty of people from one roast. Most of the cost is the meat, the staff and the time on site. A long, slow roast means an early start, and the quote reflects that.
Why Fir Toll hosts choose us
- Serving and clearing done for you
- Lamb, chicken and vegetarian options alongside
- A choice of salads and potatoes
- Fresh carving at the serving station
Take a look at our pricing or our hog roast cost guide.
Prices and what affects them
We do not use a fixed price list, because every event is different. What matters most:
- Menu choices and extras
- Plates or china
- The number of people
- Site access
Compare like for like: the menu, sides, service time, staffing, crockery and travel. The cheapest quote is not always the best value.
Details that help
To check availability and the cooking area, we will need:
- What the outdoor space is like
- Dietary requirements
- Rough numbers
- The date and time of the event
A quote from us sets out the menu, timings, staffing and what’s included, so it is easy to compare like for like. Fill in our quote form.
Perfect for your event in Fir Toll
It is generous, hearty food that most people love, and there are alternatives for everyone else.
People around Fir Toll book us for everything from small get-togethers to big outdoor events. For example:
- Christmas fairs
- Weddings and receptions
- Parties at home
- Birthdays and anniversaries
For a fundraiser at a school like Pluckley Church of England Primary School, the roaster can cook on a pitch agreed with the school.
What to look for in a quote
- Payment terms and cancellation policy
- Exactly what’s included in the price
- If the price includes VAT
- The menu, including sides and any extras
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Looking after everyone
Rolls and stuffing normally contain gluten, so ask for gluten-free rolls if you need them. A few more tips:
- Ask us to keep the vegetarian food separate and labelled
- Ask for gluten-free rolls if anyone needs them
- Give us numbers for vegetarians and vegans for the halloumi skewers and vegan option
- Stuffing normally contains gluten, so ask for the allergen list
On the day, you shouldn’t have to think about the food. We arrive hours ahead, set up, roast, carve and serve, and our staff clear the serving area afterwards.
We can supply china instead of standard plates, quoted separately.
Should I cook it myself?
A barbecue is the other obvious choice, but someone ends up cooking in batches all afternoon. A hog roast cooks in one go and is carved for everyone.
DIY hire works best when someone in the family loves cooking. For weddings and bigger events, a catered roast is generally easier.
- Roasted slowly at your venue, outdoors and under cover
- Carved by our chef into rolls with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling
- Vegetarian and vegan choices, plus lamb or chicken if you like
- Staff to serve at the agreed time, then clear away