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Hog Roast Hire for Pratling Street
Hog roast hire in Pratling Street: pork roasted slowly for hours at your venue, carved to order and served in soft rolls with crackling.
- Work summer parties
- Club events and presentations
- Fêtes, fairs and shows
A hog roast near Pratling Street
Prices and what affects them
We do not use a fixed price list, since every event is different. The main factors are:
- The menu and extras such as lamb or chicken
- Travel to Pratling Street
- How easy it is to reach the spot
- The serving time and how long we are on site
What you pay covers the meat, the chef and staff, and hours of roasting. Slow roasting means we’re on site for much of the day, which is built into the price.
What we need to know
We can quote more accurately with a few details. Here’s what’s useful:
- Roughly how many people
- Anything the venue has asked for
- Your menu choices
- Dietary requirements
We price every booking individually, based on numbers, menu, timings and distance. Ask us for a quote for your event: use our quote form.
How our hog roast hire works in Pratling Street
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. We are often asked to cater wedding breakfasts and evening food and big birthdays and anniversaries, serving halloumi skewers, spit-roast lamb and hog roast rolls.
In a small place like Pratling Street, a hog roast often goes in a field, a farmyard or a big garden. Tell us about narrow lanes or long drives, and level, firm ground is the key. Your quote spells out what’s included: the date, the serving time, the menu and the plates.
Planning a hog roast in Pratling Street
Pratling Street is about 3 miles north-west of Maidstone, in Kent. Hosts in Pratling Street book us for events of all sizes. We cover all 922 towns and villages across Kent. Our bookings stretch from Pratling Street to Canterbury (about 25 miles away).
If guests are travelling by rail, Aylesford station is about 1.4 miles away. Within reach of Pratling Street are historic houses such as Starkey Castle (4.3 miles north). Estates like these tend to have strict rules for caterers, so check before booking. The Kent Downs National Landscape is within about 7 miles of Pratling Street, and some venues there have rules about cooking and vehicles on site. Check your venue’s rules on outside caterers.
We cater events across ME20 and the streets around it. Your event could be at a house on Old Mill Lane, Pratling Street and St Michaels Close or the roads around them, as long as there is somewhere outside to cook. For events just outside Pratling Street, we cover Forstal (1 mile south-west), Eccles (1 mile north-west), Burham (2 miles north-west), New Hythe (2 miles west) and Larkfield (2 miles west). Larger places within reach include Maidstone (3 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (11 miles east), Dartford (15 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (14 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (15 miles south-west) and Gravesend (10 miles north-west).
Well-known places in the area include Fremlin Walk (2.4 miles south-east) and Allington Castle (1.1 miles south-east). Open spaces near Pratling Street include Burham Down and Boxley Hills.
- Schools near Pratling Street include Aylesford School (1.5 miles west)
- Pubs nearby include The Bush pub (0.6 miles west)
Space, access and the venue
Planning the cooking spot is the key. A quick checklist:
- Cover for your guests in bad weather
- A level, open spot outdoors for the roaster
- Vehicle access close to the cooking area
If in doubt, send us a picture of the spot and we’ll advise before booking.
Popular choices
- Spit-roast lamb
- Stuffing
- New potatoes
- Salads
- Apple sauce
- Roast or jacket potatoes
- Rotisserie chicken
- Crackling
- Vegan burger or sausage (Ve)
- Hog roast rolls
- Coleslaw
- Halloumi skewers (V)
Should I cook it myself?
Buying in a cold buffet is another option, but nothing beats hot pork and crackling carved in front of you, especially outdoors.
A barbecue is the other obvious choice, but someone ends up cooking in batches all afternoon. With a hog roast, one roast feeds everyone at once.
About the food
Roast pork
Hours of slow roasting make the pork soft and full of flavour, and our chef carves it to order.
Vegan burger or sausage (Ve)
Our vegan option is a vegan burger or sausage, in a roll, with salad on the side.
A hog roast compared with other options
Compared with a barbecue, one roast feeds everyone at once, so nobody stands at a grill all afternoon. See our guide to hog roast or barbecue. Distance is part of the price: travel is included in your quote, with any London charges listed. Give us the address so the quote is accurate.
Why us?
- Halloumi skewers and a vegan option too
- Salads, potatoes and coleslaw to go with it
- Timed around your day
- Roasted on site, slowly, for hours
Take a look at our prices page and what a hog roast costs.
Pratling Street questions
Do you come out to small places like Pratling Street?
Not at all. We cater in villages and hamlets as well as towns. Tell us about lanes, gates and the ground.
Which station is closest to Pratling Street?
Aylesford station, about 1.4 miles west of the centre.
Can you be flexible on serving time?
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.
Is it just pork?
It’s built around the hog, with lamb and chicken as extras.
Do you clear up?
Our staff clear the serving area, so you are not left with the mess.
What space does the roaster need?
Enough level ground outdoors for the roaster and a serving table under cover, plus a step-free route to wheel the equipment in. Send us a picture if you are unsure.
What should we sort out beforehand?
Just the agreed spot and a contact on the day. We bring the roaster, cover and serving kit.
What happens when we hire a hog roast?
We roast on site, carve to order and serve, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling.
For planners, venues and organisers
Venues frequently have rules for outside caterers, from approved lists to where a gas roaster can go. Ask early, and tell us what they ask for.
Booking for a club or group? One clear contact makes everything easier, particularly when timings shift.
Events we cater in Pratling Street
There is very little for you to organise: an outdoor cooking spot and a contact on the day. Everything else comes with us.
However big or small the event in Pratling Street, a slow roast goes a long way. Bookings frequently include:
- Milestone birthdays
- Garden parties and barbecues
- Wakes and memorial gatherings
- Village fêtes and school fairs
If you are organising a summer fair for a school like St Peter's Church of England Primary School, a hog roast is a crowd-pleaser.
Comparing caterers
- The space, cover and access they need
- What crockery is supplied
- Whether travel is included
- What the price includes, item by item
How it works
We arrive hours before you want to eat, since slow roasting can’t be rushed. Your guests will smell it long before they see it. Light matters for a long roast: around Pratling Street, it stays light until about 9:15pm at midsummer, but by late December it’s dark by about 3:50pm.
- Send us your date, numbers and address.
- We look at the cooking area and send a price.
- We get the roaster going hours before you eat.
- Our chef carves and our staff serve.
- We clear up and go.
Getting ready for the day
- Check there is a route to wheel the equipment in, without steps
- Name a contact for the day
- Pick a flat, open area outside for cooking
Getting a price
Send us the date, the address or ME20 postcode and rough numbers, plus when you’d like to eat. We will check the date and send a quote. Fill in our quote form.
Related guides
Other occasions in Pratling Street
- Slow-roasted on site for hours, outdoors at your event
- Carved by our chef into rolls with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling
- Options beyond pork, including lamb, chicken and vegetarian dishes
- Served by our staff at the time you choose, then cleared away