0451 115 552
info@pizzaalFresco.com.au
CUSTOMER SERVICE: MON-SAT 9am-5pm
HOW IT WORKS & FAQ
What happens at your event?
Once you've booked Pizza Alfresco for your event, we do the rest.
1. We arrive 15-45 minutes before your entrée service time with our woodfired oven already primed and ready to cook.
2. When you say "go", we begin our catering service with delicious entrée pizzas.
3. Our friendly chefs bring the pizzas to a designated table so your guests can serve themselves (included in the price) from paddles.
4. Then the mains are served, and served, and served... until everyone is full and guests have slowed down eating. When there are a few leftovers...
5. We then tidy up the savoury toppings and switch to the sweet. Our desserts look and taste amazing and is the best way to finish your party.
6. Once all your guests are no longer eating, we leave you with left over pizza, a fully tummy, wonderful memories and a successful event people will remember.
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Please note: We have provided the above as a guideline for the service that works best with hand-made pizzas. Please read all emails and requirements thoroughly before your event and ask any question you like. We prepare for each event as per the instructions in the emails or our discussions. If you make a style change without our knowledge, your event will not run as you expect and we cannot be held responsible for the outcome.
Our pizzas are delicious!
Your guests will first be served our delicious entree pizzas, like the bruschetta and garlic cheese crust. Just enough are served for all guests to have a slice or two, to tempt the taste buds and prepare for the mains.
The mains pizzas come out on rotation three at a time every 3-5 minutes, going down the menu so your guests can try them all or just their favourites. These keep coming until guests slow down!
Imagine your first taste of BBQ Meatlovers with the crispy pepperoni, tender ham and the tangy BBQ sauce, baked to perfection. Or the roasted sweetness of potato, carried by the tartness of sour cream and rosemary, balanced by a salty pieces of ham; our Patata pizza. Or the always favourite margherita with its stretchy cheese, flavoursome tomato and basil blended base, all with an added hint of a charcoal that only wood fire can give.
After this, the dessert pizzas are slathered in sweet nutella with strawberries, or caramel and banana, or traditional apple crumble. Your guests will love the sweet ending to an amazing meal.
We can also do a full vegetarian, halal, vegan or customised menu for you as well!
AND THEY'RE SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY
We've got the dough!
At Pizza Alfresco the dough is everything!! We use a 100 year old recipe handed down for generations in Carlo's family pizzerias in Naples, where the dough is matured, kneaded, stretched and formed by hand.
We only use the hand-tossing technique which is essential to create a crust that is soft, light and full of flavour. Rollers stiffen the dough, making the final product tough to eat once it's been baked. Stretched dough is the only way to get the best pizzas!
When you book Pizza Alfresco for your next party, function or event, you can be sure you are bringing a slice of Naples to your door.
IT'S WHAT MAKES OUR PIZZAS GREAT!
Why Woodfired Is Superior
ELECTRIC OR GAS OVENS JUST DON'T CUT IT!
If you want great pizza made in the traditional Italian way, you need to go woodfired. Our commercial woodfired ovens reache 400 - 450 degrees Celsius, so our pizzas are cooked in the extreme heat quickly while still maintaining the ingredients' taste and integrity. They only spend about 60 seconds in there, which absorb the subtle smoky flavour from the wood, and the dough is tinged with a hint of charcoal so that every bite, from the centre to the edge, teases your taste buds. These unique flavours make your corporate event or private party a raving success.
A big party? A large corporate event?
NEED TO FEED A HORDE? THAT'S OUR SPECIALITY.
No matter the size of your event, from 20 to 400, we can make sure every one of your guests are filled to the brim. Our mains pizzas are all-you-can-eat until guests are full, and are served every 3-5 minutes so even the largest events can be catered quickly.
The benefit of hand-made pizza is we can be flexible even on the day. If you have speeches or cake cutting and need to pause your service, we can easily pause ours.
We also do more than just pizzas!
WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING ON THE SIDE
Recommended for parties of 45 guests or more. If you'd like your meal to have something extra, we also have available a range of salads, pastas, meat dishes and finger food. They're all hand-prepared and cooked fresh by our head chef so you're guaranteed an authentic taste that adds that something special to the side of your pizzas.
When you book your event or party with us, ask about our side dishes, or click below to see them listed under our menu.
Event Formats
Extensive experience in party catering has shown us that guests are fed most quickly and evenly with a 'smorgasbord-style' format. However, if you'd like your guests served directly in a cocktail-style, we may be able to provide wait staff to serve the pizzas at your event. We need minimum three weeks notice to arrange staff, so be sure to book early!
(Buffet is self-service from a table. Cocktail is a standing party.)
1. FULL BUFFET STYLE: your chefs bring the pizzas to a table for your guests to help themselves ‘buffet-style’. This is included in the price.
2. PART COCKTAIL, PART BUFFET: Some pizzas are served to a table and others to your guests. Guests can help themselves to the table if the wait staff is serving elsewhere. Recommend 1 x wait person per 60 guests.
3. FULL COCKTAIL: all guests served directly. Recommend 1 x wait person per 40 guests. Please note, a table will still be required for the left-over pizza.
4. SERVICE TO GUEST TABLES (FULLY SEATED): This style does not work with hand-made pizza because it slows the distribution, limits selection and may have certain pizzas run out. Unfortunately we cannot accept parties that have this format.
5. GUESTS CHOOSE PIZZAS: Unfortunately we cannot offer this service for our regular catering as some guests wait too long for their selection.
Wait staff are paid separately at the party in cash (between $160 - $250).
Please contact us for costs and further info!
OTHER FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
WHAT DO I NEED TO PROVIDE?
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A designated table for us to place the pizzas.
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Access to a power point. We bring a 20m extension lead to connect. If no power is available, we can use our generator for an extra $60.
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The equivalent of 2-3 car parking spaces for our equipment on firm, relatively flat space.
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Access to a tap (outside preferred). During summer, we require a hose attached to comply with our RFS fire ban exemption.
CAN I REDUCE MY MENU TO ONE OR TWO COURSES?
Yes! We are happy to adapt our menu and do less courses for you. For corporate lunches, we find dropping the entrees is a good way to compact the service time. The price per head remains the same as people still eat the same number of pizzas.
WHAT AREAS DO YOU COVER?
We are based in Western Sydney and stay predominately within Sydney metro, which is the area between Palm Beach and Cronulla to Narellan and North Richmond. Only for parties of 100 people or more we may travel to Wollongong, the Southern Highlands, the Blue Mountains and the Central Coast, plus the travel fee. Please note it's not always possible to travel if we have other bookings that day or our limited resources cannot stretch to cover the time, so we may decline even if given notice.
WHEN DO YOU ARRIVE TO SET UP?
Our oven comes hot and our toppings ready, so we only need 10 mins to set up. We arrive at the venue 20-45 minutes before the event to set up. Then, the first pizzas are served at your allocated time or when you give the go ahead. For example, if you have a 7:00pm function, we arrive at the venue between 6:15 - 6:45 with the first pizzas being served fresh and hot at 7:00.
START TIMES ON SATURDAYS?
We cannot take bookings that start between 2:00pm - 5:00pm due to a high chance of booking clashes.
DO YOU HAVE A TIME LIMIT?
Yes and no. You have us until your guests have stopped eating and there are a few left over pizzas, which for most functions is 1 to 3 hours. While other pizza catering services have a time limit of 3 hours, we are flexible according to your guest numbers. If you're having an all-nighter, we leave you with some for later. If you want service beyond people being full, or arrival more than 45 mins prior, we charge $200 per hour.
IS THERE A MINIMUM PRICING PER PARTY?