Hidden Pizza

Since 2013, we’ve been delivering exceptional catering for weddings, private parties, and corporate events across the South of England. Our passion for pizza is matched by our commitment to sustainability. We work exclusively with local artisan producers who champion ethical, sustainable practices, and our sourdough pizzas are crafted using only the finest ingredients. Whether you’re hosting 50 guests or 1,000, we’ll keep the pizzas flowing until everyone is happily satisfied.

We can serve our pizza as a self-service buffet; which great for catering large numbers of guests quickly. Or we can serve as individually ordered pizzas, you choose. Why not enhance your package with sharing boards, sides, and fresh salads to create a well-rounded feast. We cater for all dietary requirements, including vegan and gluten-free options, so every guest can enjoy our food.

For morning events, we can serve barista-quality coffee alongside bacon rolls and pastries, freshly baked in our wood-fired oven. Planning a late-night celebration? Treat your guests to expertly made espresso martinis.

Choose to be served from our beautifully converted horsebox or our sleek 3m x 3m street food gazebo. With skilled pizza chefs and the theatre of our wood-fired oven, we create a vibrant, interactive experience your guests will remember long after the last slice is served.

Many moments have had to collide for Hidden Pizza to come into being! A childhood love of eating pizza that led into a childhood love of making pizza. A young adult followed the pizza thread and learnt to build pizza ovens from earth. A career break from ‘building work,’ that led to an experience of the south asian street food scene, all coalesced into the birth of Hidden Pizza in 2013. For the first few years it was our passion project, side-hustle! But by 2017 we went full-time and haven’t looked back since.

From the beginning we built everything ourselves; ovens, trailers, stalls, harnessing the skills from our previous careers. Where we could, always repurposing and recycling materials. Finding ways to improve the sustainability of our business has always been key; from where we source our ingredients to the supply of wood for our ovens, we are constantly looking for ways to minimise our impact.

Once our first oven was built, we set ourselves the task of tasting as many of the pizza styles as possible, in our search for the finest. We are proud to make sourdough ‘Romana-style’ pizza. We believe the thin base allows for the full flavours of the topping ingredients to be fully expressed. We may be a little biased, as James’s father in law, Enrico was a proud Italian from Rome!

For the first few year’s we were fairly small scale, with one oven. We did a Friday night pop-up in our local town of Gillingham, Dorset and a smattering of local events and weddings. All the while building our loyal following. However by 2016 we were offered a pitch at Glastonbury, and this took us to another level of output. We now have the ability to trade at 4 events concurrently, and we have made and cooked over 2000 pizzas in one day (sunday at Glastonbury festival 2024). We pride ourselves on the speed that we can get the pizzas out, with our two oven set-up we can achieve 350 pizzas per hour! Although we still cater some large music and sporting events, we are more focused these days on smaller private events, and local public events

We cater for all types of events; corporate, weddings, private parties, wakes, charity events, schools............ You name it we have catered it. We also cater lots of public events, festivals and shows.

NCASS members since 2017