Spitting Pig

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About Us

Spitting Pig Sussex

Buongiorno, I’m Marco and I’m the catering manager at Spitting Pig Sussex. I make sure your hog roast is cooked to perfection and the service we provide at your event is top tier. I’m originally from Southern Italy and I add my own Italian vibrance into my cooking and service.

I decided to venture into the hog roasting and catering world because no day in this role is ever the same! After working in hospitality for 14 years, I decided that I needed a new challenge which would reignite my motivation. Being a catering manager isn’t just about making delicious food. I love meeting new people every day and seeing them enjoy themselves, celebrating something or someone they love.

When I’m not hog roasting, I like to travel with my family to places all over the world, watch exciting sporting events and enjoy homemade meals with a good red wine to relax with.

Style And

Substance

If you’ve never enjoyed a Hog Roast dining experience before then prepare to be in for a treat. Our dining is quite like anything else you’ll find in catering; we put an onus on creating a real experience out of our service, one that is as much an event as the rest of the day. To us, dining isn’t just another element of an event; it’s an integral part of creating the overall experience for guests.

That is why Spitting Pig Sussex go the route of bringing style and spectacle to our dining. How do we do so, you might ask? Well with our namesake hog roast and all the brilliant trimmings that it brings, of course.

The hog roast is a dish that exudes style and spectacle at every turn – with, of course, plenty of deliciousness too! It is a dish that has been enjoyed at events across the world for centuries. Great community celebrations, kingly parties, cultural events, would all have enjoyed the immense sight of a whole roasted pig sitting atop a spit, turning and roasting to a perfect level of golden texturing.

The tradition of hog roasting is no less brilliant now as it was back in those days, only now our version is much more suited to the modern event. Our mobile roasting machines are incredible pieces of equipment designed by us to make hog roast catering easier than ever before. You get the full spectacle of the whole hog roast experience, only now it is easier to move and manage for events out at any location. We can cook a hog roast fresh at your event for the full effect, and then serve it fresh from the roaster too for the ultimate dining experience. It’s style, with more than enough substance to back it up!

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The Sussex Team Behind

Your Hog Roast

You now know all about what our service provides to your event, so now it is time to learn about the brilliant people behind it. Hog Roast Sussex is made up of some of the best chefs in the game along with incredibly dedicated servers that can conjure up a solution to any issue at your event. Then there’s the folk back at our manufacturing houses working day in day out to continually iterate on the best hog roasting technologies available. And we can’t forget about our team in the office that work with our customers in the first place to put together their event and schedule out all of our work.

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with Hog Roast Sussex

You’ll get to work with some of the most experienced chefs in their craft. You’ll also everyone on our team warm and friendly, and ready at a moment’s notice to help you with anything you need from your event. Spitting Pig Sussex 
want to create the most perfect dining experience for your event, and that only comes with an openness on both sides to create something brilliant, together.

At Hog Roast Sussex you will find an abundance of menus and services designed to suit the demands of just about any occasion. Weddings, corporate events, private parties; you name it and Hog Roast Sussex have the dining to suit it. When coming to us we will simply need to know a little about the occasion and your preferred style. That could mean you want a formal dining experience, or it could mean you want a laid-back service for your outdoor summer swing. We have the menus for both and much more.

We’ll talk you through your options and offer you opportunities to customise all you like until you have the event dining service you crave. Pick your favourite roast, or go for our gourmet barbecue to set the summer sizzling. It’s all up to you! All that we ask is you start with one simple call to the Hog Roast Sussex team today!

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Meat & Vegetable Options

Quality

From The Start

We know that the best food can only start with the best ingredients so all our spit roast and barbecue meats are fresh and locally sourced from trusted suppliers before being cooked to perfection.

Nothing adds to the pleasure of good food more than good services. Spitting Pig’s trained chefs and waiters/waitresses ensure that the food is prepared and presented to your guests’ satisfaction.

For your further reassurance, all Spitting Pig Staff hold the Food and hygiene Certificate from the Charted Institute of Environmental Health.

At Spitting Pig, we have a Passion for food.. and we love to share it.

We are a hands-on, proprietor-run Company. So can offer flexibility as well as personal commitment.

Founded in 1986, Spitting Pig quickly become the UK’s number one Provider of spit and hog roast catering.

Stephen Marsden,MD, has built the reputation of Spitting Pig on consistent reliable service and over the 20 years has perfected the best catering equipment and methods. Spitting Pig is now offering this to people wanting to profit from their own successful business. Our equipment is built in-house to the highest standard using the finest materials and latest manufacturing techniques, enabling us to guarantee you a first rate product and a responsive maintenance service.

“On my journey, I have learned a great deal about the importance of service. A good event leads to a recommendation but a great event leads to many more. Attention to detail is critical: Consider the difference between how turning up professionally in named chef whites looks, rather than appearing in a dirty shirt and shorts. I believe the package is not only about the equipment, but also about providing a helping hand to our partners, sharing the wealth of knowledge gained through my long standing experience in the catering industry.”

The Spitting Pigs illustrious machine manufacturing journey began over thirty years ago. With Stephen and Adam at the helm, the boys initially began by modifying existing machines. These hog roast machines were built around the basic spit roasting concept and were effective in their desired arena, that of outdoor and indoor mobile hog roast and spit roast catering. However, due to Steve and Adam’s extensive experience of re-fitting obsolete trucks and thus making them roadworthy, the men set to work improving, modifying and re-modelling the machines.

Equipped with saws and power-tools, it wasn’t long before the machines had effectively become different entities from the objects which they started life as. Approaching each and every problem with a positive attitude, the many design failings found within the original machines were ironed out. This resulted in the Spitting Pig Company becoming very popular, very quickly indeed.

Back then, the founders of the Spitting Pig Company lived a life of freedom and fun, not often seen today with many of us working long hours for most days of the week. At the start, Adam and Steve would do catering jobs at functions and parties and earn enough money to go surfing in Cornwall or Devon. Using their own adapted machines at the events which they catered for, not only were people fast becoming hooked on the taste of beautifully cooked, slow roasted meat, but also highly intrigued by the lightweight, powerful and hugely capable machines that the guys were using. Through this scenario of catering and self advertisement of the machines, the interest in the mobile roasting units quickly manifested itself as orders coming in on behalf of customers wishing to become owners of the machines themselves. Utilising the skills of local engineers for a time, the men started to sell more and more machines.

Through this, investment was put back in to the development of the machines themselves. This scenario continues today just as it did 20 years ago. Soon after the first major orders had been serviced, it became apparent that manufacture was best done by us instead of contracting out to others. This way we could control every aspect of the process, from design to manufacture. Believing wholeheartedly in sound engineering, along with having a huge respect for Britain’s history as a leader of design and engineering innovation, our own manufacturing facility allowed us to implement immediate changes in the design of our machines as different catering scenarios presented themselves out in the world of catering at functions.

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vixxsin
6 days ago
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I can't sing the praises enough of Geordie, Marco, and everyone involved at Spitting Pig. From the very first steps of enquiries and planning, they were friendly, communicative, thorough and professional throughout. They ensured all our questions were answered and ensured that they covered every little detail with us, some of which we hadn't always considered due to the volume of wedding planning in general! So we are very grateful for them supporting us in that respect too. On the day, their set up was so quaint and accessible and they ensured everyone was catered for and accommodated all dietary and allergy requirements. The food was absolutely DELICIOUS and myself and my new husband received so many compliments about the variety and taste both on the day and the day after. The pulled pork and Mac and went down particularly well with everyone, and we were lucky enough to be able to try some of the vegetarian halloumi skewers left over the following day, which were outstanding. I would highly recommend Spitting Pig for all the above reasons and beyond! They are perfect for daytime or evening catering, whatever you're looking to go for.
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Heather Field
57 days ago
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Very tasty food, great staff on the day and smooth planning, our event was a great success and we loved the food and staff – recommend!
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Megan Highfill
68 days ago
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We had an absolutely lovely catering experience with Spitting Pig Sussex. We opted for their BBQ menu for our Board Retreat final celebration dinner. They brought all of their own materials, including a grill, and were a joy to chat with while we watched the cook. The food was prepared exactly on time and was hotel, delicious, and plenty! They brought lots of condiments and made sure we were well take-care-of, including taking out the compostable rubbish at the end so we did not even have to clean-up. They left all the food for us and we enjoyed the left-overs well into the next day. Thank you Spitting Pig, Sussex for making our retreat so memorable!
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Paul Stevens
78 days ago
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We opted for the Classic menu (slow roasted free range pig) together with marinated chicken thighs which more than comfortably fed 28 people with plenty to spare (food allergies also catered for including extreme gluten sensitivity). Everything was seamless from setting up to serving and then clearing away such that we had absolutely nothing to do other than provide the venue. The two ladies who did our catering were absolutely excellent and the food was delicious. Couldn't have asked for better and I'd highly recommend them.
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Chloe Drew
93 days ago
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Spitting pig from the moment you arrived self sufficient and set up easy, food was incredible, delicious, plenty of food, friendly staff accommodating just all round brilliant to work with and would happily hire again!
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Jo Wheeler
93 days ago
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Spitting Pig catered for my husband's 60th birthday party – food was amazing, everyone commented how lovely it was. Great service from start to finish, emails responded to quickly and contact from Marco who was overseeing our event on the day, and all very helpful on the actual day too. Couldn't have asked for more. Would highly recommend!
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Julie Tricker
290 days ago
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We have used this company twice for 2 Xmas events for over 70 people, food was excellent (Hog roast and Turkey including veggie option), food was served hot and so much of it!! Servers were lovely and communication was great!! Would have no hesitation using them again!! Thank you all
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michael nash
292 days ago
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After doing some research on the internet i found "The Spitting pig co." They had some good reviews so gave them a go for a birthday bash in December. Very swift boking process, and helpful to ensure we could fulfill our requirements for the event. Very good communication directly with the team leading up to the event also. Taking place in the middle of December in a pub garden at 6pm, i will admit i was a little worried, about the weather. On the day the staff arrived, of whom where an absolute asset, very polite and helpful on the day, they had a very good idea on there area requirement, and was prepared for any weather eventuality's. At no hesitation swiftly began to set up and prepare for the 140 guests. Prompt and on time food service begun, i had chosen the festive menu, with a tweak – fresh juicy pork, and beautiful crackling, stuffing, pigs in blankets, the most fab potatoes and a great selection of veg, and creamy cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire puddings, breads, wraps and Gravy, along with the usual condiments. All steaming hot, within 45 mins or so, all the guest's had been suitably feed, even some having seconds. Even the last people to be served receiving as good quality and hot food as the 1st. Once they had double check all the guest's had be satisfied, they briskly cleaned down and packed away with no fuss. For the rest on the evening and days following, all people could comment on was how good the food was, the taste, quality and also selection. There was something for everyone. This certainly made this fabulous value for money, and would 100% recommend that anyone looking for a Hog roast should use The Spitting Pig co.
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Andrew Wood
320 days ago
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Great food, great people, and great service!, we had a hog roast for 100 people which was perfect, with all dietaries catered for (gluten free, vegetarian and vegan), the service before, during, and after was seemless and cannot recommend enough!
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Kate Keable
376 days ago
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Our event catering was amazing from start to finish. The Spitting Pig team who attended were fantastic from the moment they arrived. Stacie and Leanne were brilliant and so helpful. They made the preparation, serving and clearing down appear completely effortless. The food itself was so delicious, fresh and tasty, I’ve had so many lovely compliments from my guests and I expect you’ll be getting more event bookings from them in the future. I will most definitely be recommending you to friends and family. Thank you so much!

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