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Crafting Culinary Memories for Your Wedding Day
Planning your wedding means creating unforgettable moments—and your food should be no exception. Fat Hog and Big Pan Catering specializes in delivering a unique, rustic-style dining experience that’s as interactive as it is delicious. Based in Portsmouth, their professional mobile catering service covers Hampshire, West Sussex, and Berkshire, bringing expert culinary craftsmanship right to your celebration.
A Feast for the Senses
Imagine the mouthwatering aroma of slow-roasted meats filling the air, or watching skilled chefs prepare fresh dishes in large pans right before your eyes. Fat Hog and Big Pan Catering turns your wedding meal into a vibrant, sensory experience. Their on-site cooking not only guarantees freshness but also creates a relaxed, engaging atmosphere where your guests can connect over great food.
Bespoke Menus Tailored to Your Tastes
Your wedding menu should reflect who you are as a couple. Fat Hog and Big Pan Catering works closely with you to design a personalized menu from a wide range of options, ensuring every bite feels just right. Their versatile offerings include:
- Hearty Mains: Choose from succulent hog roasts, American-style smoked BBQ, traditional Hampshire slow-roasted meats, flavorful paellas, and a variety of ‘big pan’ street food dishes.
- Elegant Beginnings: Greet your guests with rustic-style canapés or interactive tapas boards that set the perfect tone for your celebration.
- Sweet Endings: Delight in charming jam jar desserts or opt for savory cheese boards and unique cheese wedding cakes to finish your meal memorably.
- Evening Delights: Keep the party going with street food bars featuring burritos and fajitas, classic fish and chip cones, or stone-baked pizzas—perfect for late-night cravings.
Seamless Service and Expert Support
Fat Hog and Big Pan Catering offers a fully mobile service, bringing all the equipment you need—including their own catering tent if a kitchen isn’t available. Their team of qualified chefs ensures every dish meets the highest standards. Couples consistently praise their attentive, organized staff for not only serving delicious food but also helping the day run smoothly. With their expert support, you can relax and enjoy every moment of your wedding.
Experience
Describe your style in 5 adjectives.
Rustic, street food, hearty portions, professional
What about your business are you most proud of?
The feedback from customers. It means everything to us and every review and late night thank you really makes all the hard work worthwhile.
What is your No.1 wedding planning tip for couples?
Don't put pressure on things that you can't control being perfect e.g. weather, it will all come together on the day.
What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?
Personalisation and sharing each others version of 'how they first met', 'their engagement' and 'what they hope the wedding day will be'.
Describe your typical process with a couple.
Customers will enquire and if interested to find out more we will meet with them (we pencil in the date at this point), after we have met we will send a formal quote and it gives them an opportunity to see if we are the right caterers for them, if they want to book we ask for a fee to save the date and if not we ask they let us know so we can open up the date to others. At the beginning of the wedding year we send them information for how it works which includes asking for an event sheet to be complete with all the information we need for the day, we also ask them to confirm their final numbers and food choices. Sometime we may have an online or telephone appointment to go through everything. They can change these up to 6 weeks before there big day.
How would you wow the Judges on Masterchef?
Tasty food, cooked well and served in a rustic style and with lots of sides that allows them to make it their own - food is such a personal thing, there is not one dish that will suit everyone which is why our menu is designed for guests to have several options to make the meal they want.
What is the most innovative dish you have created for a wedding?
It varies the street food is our style and when we have people/family try their traditional dishes and compliment us its a very proud moment. We had the Caribbean themed wedding which included our big pan street food Caribbean curry with rice and pea and all the guests loved it.
What is the food of love?
Cheese - We have savoury cheesecakes and the Godminister heart goes on top for the couple to then take home and share together post wedding.
What is your secret ingredient?
Being professional and being prepared. We often find we are the preferred caterer for places due to this. Its a basic but at a wedding you can't be anything less.