Location Catering on SAS: Skye’s the limit for Red Radish
We spent just under seven weeks location catering just off the beautiful Isle of Skye for SAS: Who Dares Wins.
We spent just under seven weeks location catering just off the beautiful Isle of Skye for SAS: Who Dares Wins.
We’ve adapted to a new way of catering since COVID and now provide packaged meals and contactless hot box food delivery.
The stars aligned for our Radishes, who were at Jodrell Bank 50 years on from when the observatory played a key role in tracking the Apollo 11 mission.
We’re taking care of crew and artist catering at the pièce de résistance of Brighton & Hove Pride. There’s no better choice for bringing the pizzazz backstage!
We’re preparing to feed the UK’s most famous festival once again. Red Radish will be heading to Glastonbury Festival for another year of frolics and fantastic artist and crew catering.
Some of our team were in Manchester when the terror attack happened in May 2017. Not long after, Ariana Grande announced One Love Manchester, and the BBC dropped us a line to see if we could provide the backstage catering…
When we first got the call from IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion and events around the world, asking if we wanted to quote for the backstage artist and crew catering at one of their festivals we were more than a little excited, but once the details emerged that it was for Jamie Oliver and Alex James’s Big Feastival in the beautiful Cotswolds we almost couldn’t contain ourselves in our desire to cook in the same field, never mind feed, some of these uber-talented culinary geniuses and hardworking crew.
It might have taken a couple of months of toing and froing, careful menu planning and countless emails but late yesterday afternoon (in Minsk!) we got the perfect start to the weekend (not that we ever get one of those of course!) when we finally received the email confirming Red Radish had been chosen as the official crew and artist caterer for ‘The 2015 Big Feastival’.
When Jamie and one of his mates decided to get into festivals it was only ever really going to focus on one thing. Food! Food, glorious food (albeit it with great music) and being part of that is all a bit of a dream come true for Red Radish and a pair of PROPER foodies like us.
So picture the scene… Jamie Oliver, the legend that is Raymond Blanc, Masterchef’s Monica Galetti, Ashley Palmer-Watts, the executive head chef for the Fat Duck group (Yes THAT FAT DUCK!!!) and a host of other wonderful chefs and foodies with delicious ingredients all cooking up a storm on the same beautiful idyllic farm as Red Radish and our very own team of extremely talented chefs.
Some might say that the pressure is well and truly on with this one, but we love a bit of that anyway and literally can’t wait to get cooking for ’em all!
So….. The TPi Event award for favourite tour catering company went to…. someone else! OK, OK, so Red Radish (the UK’s fastest growing crew catering company) LOST! That’s right, we didn’t win the award, but to be honest we were excited and chuffed to have even made the shortlist alongside great, established UK caterers like Eat to the Beat, Sarah’s Kitchen and Popcorn in the first place. As usual, Eat to the Beat (Global Infusion Group – GIG) won best caterer, which was no surprise after their excellent thirty-year service to the touring and crew catering industry. Sadly we couldn’t make the actual awards ceremony on the night as we knew we wouldn’t win we were unloading our catering truck into an arena-touring gig with Live Nation in Oslo, Norway on the same evening.
We heard it was a great event though and as Red Radish goes from strength to strength, winning festival after festival we are sure our time will come. So from one great caterer to another, well done Eat to the Beat and watch our lads because we’re on your tail!
Thanks also, by the way to everyone who voted for us. Your cheques are in the post!
Email info@red-radish.com or call +44 (0)7532 427033 if we can help you with some festival, tour or crew catering.