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Smoking Beetle

4.6 | 7 Reviews
Natural food - BBQ'd. We cater parties and weddings using quality local ingredients! We can provide wood fired Pizzas, Kebabs and Burger in the evening for your guests as well as a VW camper photobooth and If you need it, a dry hire bar with great staff!
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About Smoking Beetle

The Smoking Beetle family lives deep in the Sussex countryside. Our favourite thing is grilling and baking using only charcoal on our unique VW Beetle barbecues and locally copiced wood in out pizza ovens. We are nuts about good food. We also love mama nature so we make sure all that we do is kind to her too.

We serve excellent, natural food for weddings, birthdays, corporate events, private festivals, music festivals, food festivals and parties of all kinds. We can manage the bar and any other services you might need including experienced waiting staff.

Typical Clients

Our main business is Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, corporate events, and private parties. We're available for fetes and fundraisers so please do get in touch!

Reviews

Smoking Beetle

4.6

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5 Star Review

Delicious food displayed very well

Nick and his team were absolute superstars on our wedding day, despite being the hottest day of the year. He is a true professional and cares about the food and overall enjoyment of your day. We came to him with some unique requests as my wife is Latvian, and he managed them very well with new ideas to support all dietry requirements. I would thoroughly recomend Nick and the Smoking beetle company to anyone looking for a reliable caterer for their event. Thank you again Nick for your support, wishing you all the best. Alex & Dana

Reviewed by: Alexander C
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18th Sep 2023
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Ran out of food before everyone was fed!

We had a BBQ for 90 guests. Only 40 burgers were bought to the event, all food ran out before all guests were fed. Looks the part with the beetle, but terrible calculations on how much food to bring.

Reviewed by: S A
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4th Sep 2023
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Response from Smoking Beetle
We agreed that there would be 90 portions of food available for guests, 40 of which were burgers, 40 were chicken and salad options with the remainder being a vegan and vege option. All of the burgers were gobbled up and some guests were offered portions of both as there was also a pizza vendor there as well. Sadly not everyone was able to get what they wanted from us and in hindsight there could have been more food on offer. We only had 2 vegan/vege guests on the day which also impacted the calculations.
5 Star Review

Wonderful food!!

Nick and his team did a fantastic job with their BBQ for my wife's 50th birthday! The food was amazing and our guests spoke highly of it! Would certainly use them again!!

Reviewed by: Nick B
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21st Aug 2022
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Response from Smoking Beetle
Thanks for the review. I hope you enjoyed the rest of the evening! All the best, Nick
5 Star Review

Delicious food and great service with a smile.

The food was fresh and cooked superbly. The menu (it was a BBQ) was really interesting and varied - great salads, meat dishes etc. The food was delightfully fresh, cooked superbly - just delicious. Feedback from guests was overwhelmingly positive. (The only suggestion from one of the vegetarians was for something with a bit more substance - perhaps just by adding to the salads). Nick and the team were wonderfully friendly, co-operative and 'just got on with it'. For someone who is not an events organiser (and we have around 110 guests), they were a godsend!

Reviewed by: David W
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31st Aug 2022
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Response from Smoking Beetle
Thanks David, it was a fun night. I can guess who the vege was who wanted more options, but a vege paella, 3 salad options and grilled vegetables, they had more choices than the meat eaters! All the best for the rest of the season, Nick
5 Star Review

Highly recommend

Nick and his team provided a barbecue for my daughter’s 18th birthday party. He catered for 70 guests on barbecues in our garden (we couldn’t fit the Beetle in unfortunately). The food was delicious and plentiful, served efficiently and with good humour. I would highly recommend Smoking Beetle.

Reviewed by: Debbie R
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