Big Roast was established in 2006 to provide first class hog and lamb roasts to customers in and around London.
We were one of the first companies to professionally address the ever popular market for hog roast catering at events - and since starting we have grown to be a the leading choice for both corporate and home events. We are based out of a 6000 sq ft warehouse in Wimbledon, London and can cater for events from 20 to 400 people - while also doing parties at peoples houses.
We offer a range of spit roast options as well as a wide variety of salads, vegetarian options and desserts which allow you to use us for all parts of your events. Please enjoy our website but feel free to call us or email
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Are you hosting a dinner party and don’t know what to cook? Instead of watching Come Dine With Me and flicking through countless recipe books, why not take a leaf out of BigRoast.com’s cook book and delight your dinner guests with a main course of spit roast?
A spit roast will be an exciting way to entertain your guests as well as feed them. You can roast all sorts of meats, so find out which meat is the most popular amongst your guests, we’ve found a spit roast chicken to go down quite well, and cook that particular meat.
If you have vegetarians attending, no worries, simply roast a variety of vegetables such as peppers and aubergines and serve with delicious salad options and fresh bread.
You can hire a company to prepare, cook and serve the spit roast for you if you would rather spend your time entertaining your guests with your witty humour and sophisticated wine selection, but if you would prefer to get your hands dirty and make this a labour of love so to speak, you can always hire a spit roast machine and cook it yourself.
Prices for hire of a spit roast machine vary depending on whether you hire the machine and return it clean or unclean and of course whether you want the machine and the meat or just the machine. If you would like more information on spit roast machine hire from BigRoast.com please click here.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.
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In this day and age it’s all too easy to get swept up in the processed, pre-packaged, microvavable meals and food as they are so accessible and cheap. They suit our busy lifestyles and are the easiest thing to cook, after all you simply throw it in the microvave. Enduring the commute home from work each day in horrific London traffic is bad enough, by the time we get home, the last thing we want to do is cook.
Enter Marks & Spencer pre-cooked ready meals, they are a god send! Pick a few of those up and you’re right for the week. The only thing is, how healthy are they really? Are you really doing the right thing by your body by purchasing these meals instead of making your own? We’re not talking about making an elaborate lamb roast every night, but you should start to think about the nutrion your body needs and whether or not the microvave meals are making the cut.
Having a small peice of meat (lamb, beef, chicken, fish) along with steamed vegetables will provide you with a very healthy and nutritious mean, as long as you don’t coat the meat in crumbs or batter or pour melted butter all over the veggies.
It’s a high protein, low fat meal you know is going to do your body the world of good. Red meat can build and maintain muscle, help you gain strength and vitality and will power you through a busy day as it contains iron, calcium, enzymes, Vitamin B12 and amino acids. So do the right thing by your body and eat more meat!
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450
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There’s one day of the year that Australians love probably more than any other national holiday and that’s Australia Day. Celebrated annually on January 26, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia. So as proud British citizens we should feel somewhat involved and get amongst the celebrations right here in the UK.
Most Australians will celebrate the day with a BBQ at a local park or at a mate’s place, play some backyard cricket and probably have a dip in the pool. It’s a day of relaxation and celebration! So while we’re over here in the UK, why not celebrate the national holiday of our sister nation with a yummy hog roast?
A hog roast is the perfect way to combine your love for food and friends. Invite your friends and family around and feast on delicious slices of pork and scrumptious salads. You can hire a hog roast machine and cook and serve it all up yourselves, or you can hire a hog roast company to come around to your place, set up, cook the roast, serve and clean up for a fairly reasonable price.
If you have a look online you will find quite a few companies that service the London area, the best thing about hiring a company to do it for you is that they are professionals in what they do, so you can sit back, relax and enjoy the day with no fuss while they take care of everything for you.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.
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If you would like to have a hog roast for an important upcoming event, there’s no doubt you want to choose the best company out there to provide your guests with quality meat and a high level of service at an affordable price.
So how to do you ensure the company you choose is the best one? There are a few things you need to do to ensure you get what you pay for. The first thing to do is to have an idea in your head of what you want, that way it will be easier for you to match a company with your needs and wants.
So write down how many people you are expecting to cater for, what type of roast you want – hog, spit or lamb, and whether you want sides and salads or whether you will provide them yourself. You will also need to decide if you want to supply the plates and cutlery etc or whether you want the company to.
Once you have all of this in your mind you should start doing some online research. Get yourself a list of five companies that look credible and have easy to use websites with plenty of information on them. Once you have your shortlist, see if you can find some customer references, if they have them it is a good sign the company is good at what they do. Now you can start the phone calls and obtain quotes.
When you’re on the phone with the company you can usually gauge how good the company is by how you are treated on the phone. Is the person you are speaking to knowledgable, curteous and helpful? Write comments down next to the company name about how the customer service was. Just becuase you call up and get a really cheap quote doesn’t mean they are the company for you. Did they run through the set up with you? Or let you know how long it would take them to cook and serve? What about the quality of their meat? Where is it sourced from?
You want people to answer all your questions and do so in a professional and polite manner. If they sound professional on the phone and have a professional site with customer references available to view, chances are the company should be able to provide you with a quality hog roast service.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450
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This year promises to be bigger and better than 2009 – there’s so much to look forward to, new designs for cars, clothes and appliances as well as new never before seen holiday destinations!
But what’s surprising is that spit roasts are fastly becoming the catering option of choice for many corporate and sporting events for 2010. It shouldn’t really be surprising in actual fact as spit roasts are the perfect way to feed a large amount of hungry guests in a creative and different way.
A popular way to serve village people back in the day, it seems the humble spit roast has made a massive comeback as they are becoming hugely popular in the UK at the moment and will continue to be over the next few years no doubt. They are popping up all over the place and can be seen at most of the summer music festivals as well as family days in the park.
The spit roast can cater for events between 10 to 100 people and as there are smaller cuts of meat cooking simultaneously the serving time is less than what it would take for a hog roast.
Big Roast is able to spit roast a variety of meats including lamb, chicken, turkey and goose and have even been asked to cook cuts of beef for customers. Please feel free to let us know what cut of meat you would prefer.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.
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How are you going to spend New Year’s Eve? Are you having a massive party or maybe attending one? No matter what your plans are you should look into getting a hog roast to welcome in the New Year especially if you think there will be lots of people at the event.
A hog roast is the best way to cater for large numbers of people and it provides a feeling of togetherness as people need to work together to cook and serve it up. Here at BigRoast.com we’ll be having a lamb roast to see in the New Year, along with some roast potatoes, mint and basil peas and delicious gravy.
A lamb roast is better for smaller events, although if you are having a large party we can of course cater to your numbers with a lamb roast, no worries. The same applies to hog roasts, if you are having a smaller event we can certainly help you out with a hog roast in that event in anycase.
If you would like some ideas on how to make your New Year’s Eve function a winner with a Hog Roast, please feel free to contact BigRoast.com on 0845 500 5450 or email us on contact@bigroast.com and we will be happy to assist you with ideas and answer any questions you may have.
Happy New Year everyone!
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It’s already Christmas, who can believe this year has gone as fast as it has? With 2009 behind us it’s time to focus on 2010 and what we hope to achieve throughout the New Year. 2009 was a roaring success for BigRoast.com we saw an increased number in bookings around the summer period and a surprising amount of Christmas bookings.
2010 will be a big year for us here at BigRoast.com as we will be looking towards providing new and improved products, side dishes and salads as well as work on continuing the high class quality of our current meat selection.
Although we’ve had hundreds of happy customers providing us with wonderful feedback on our hog roasts, lamb roasts and spit roast varieties, we always strive for the best so we will be continuing to aim for the stars to provide you with the best quality meats.
As we’re always on the lookout for new and interesting ideas, if you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see us provide in the way of meat, salads or side dishes please feel free to drop us a line at contact@bigroast.com all comments welcome!
BigRoast.com would like to wish all of its customers and suppliers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.
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Big Roast is ready to provide delicious Christmas dinners
Here at BigRoast.com we are busy all year providing quality Big Roasts for the lovely people of London, but there comes a time every year that keeps us extra busy, the festive season.
This time of year sees us providing massive amounts of big juicy lamb roasts, hog roasts and spit roasts to people all over this glorious city of ours, particularly for office Christmas parties and functions.
We do a lot of parties on the office premises and even events at the home of boss. Already we have a large amount of roasts booked in for corporate Christmas functions and we are predicting there will be more to come at the last minute as people realise the need for hearty food!
What is it about this type of food that fits so perfectly with this time of year? It must be the comfort food stigma, the thought of a lovely lamb roast around a toasty fireplace conjours up images of a white Christmas. People love to have roasts at this time of year because it’s traditional and what’s associated with Christmas.
Whether you are having a staff, office or family function to celebrate this time of year, you can be sure a roast from BigRoast.com will satisfy the hunger of all your guests.
For more information on our spit and hog roast services please call us on 0845 500 5450 or email contact@bigroast.com
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It’s that time of year again, the silly season, where people get dressed up as Santas and drink copius amounts of egg nog and other assorted beverages, usually rendering them legless. But it’s also the time of year where, if you are in charge of organising the staff Christmas party, it’s time to get your thinking cap on and decide where you’re going to have it and more importantly what kind of party you want it to be.
You could opt for the catered office party, where you simply bring the food, drink and music to the office. This option is a less expensive option as you won’t have to fork out venue or room hire fees and makes it easy for the staff as they don’t have to get themselves anywhere. Although this option can sometimes be seen as a little ’slack’.
A great idea for a staff party is to look into hog roast hire and have a hog roast in a nearby park. That way you can all get out of the office and still enjoy food and drinks in a party environment. If people want to party on afterwards they can head to a local pub or bar without too many hassles.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450
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Everyone loves a classic lamb roast recipe, but these days people chop and change the classic recipes around to make them all snazzy and end up losing the traditional taste that we all know and love in the process. So here at BigRoast.com we’ve decided to share a recipe that we think produces one of best roast lambs you’ll ever taste! This recipe serves four.
Roast Lamb is the perfect Christmas dinner dish
What you need:
1.6kg leg of lamb
3 garlic cloves, halved
2 tbs fresh rosemary leaves
60ml olive oil
1kg chat potatoes, halved
300g frozen baby peas
20g butter
2 tbs shredded fresh mint
Wine gravy
2 tbs plain flour
375ml chicken stock
125ml dry white wine
What you do:
1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Cut six slits, 2cm deep and 2cm long, into the lamb. Press one piece of garlic into each slit. Place the lamb in a large roasting pan. Sprinkle evenly with rosemary and drizzle over one tablespoon of oil. Season with salt and pepper and roast in oven for 15 minutes.
2. Remove from oven and place the potato, in a single layer, around the lamb. Drizzle the remaining oil over the potato. Season with salt and pepper. Roast in oven for a further 1 hour for medium or until cooked to your liking.
3. Cook peas in a saucepan of boiling water for 3-4 minutes or until just tender. Drain and return to pan then add the butter and mint and toss to combine.
4. Transfer the lamb to a plate and cover with foil. Set aside for 10 minutes to rest. Turn potato and roast in oven for a further 10 minutes or until crisp. Transfer to a bowl and cover with foil to keep warm.
5. For the gravy, place the roasting pan over high heat. Add the flour and cook stirring for one minute or until the mixture bubbles. Gradually add the stock and wine, and cook, scraping the pan to dislodge any bits that have cooked onto the base, for 5-8 minutes or until the gravy thickens.
6. Thickly slice the lamb across the grain and serve with potato, peas and gravy.
Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.
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