Wedding Food Vans and Mobile Bars in Sussex

Eat The Street has been catering since 2013 and calls Midhurst the place where it all began. It runs a fleet of seven restored vehicles, among them a wood-fired pizza truck, a vintage fish and chips truck, a 6m Airstream and two old Citroën vans that can serve food or drinks. For weddings it offers festival-style feasts, sharing boards, barbecues, bowl food and canapés, as well as street food such as pizzas, burgers, tacos and curries.

Its smallest event is 50 people, though it says it may take smaller groups outside the busy season, and it has catered for up to 400. Every event is paid for in advance; guests do not pay at the van. A 25% deposit holds the date and the rest is due two weeks before. Travel is free for the first 10 miles, then £60 for every 10 miles after that.

Practical points from its own pages: the trucks carry their own water but need a power supply, the team arrives two to three hours before service, food is usually served for two to four hours, and it asks for your guests' allergies a month ahead.

Stone & Skillet cooks wood-fired pizza and barbecue food from vintage Rice horseboxes. It was started in 2020 by Craig, the head chef, and Pippa, who runs the events. Its wedding menus cover a canapé hour, barbecue, sharing platters, festival-style food, desserts and evening food, and it can also run a bar service.

It publishes a minimum spend rather than a price per head: £750 from October to April and £1,000 from May to September, with VAT added. Events outside the Chichester area carry a call-out fee of £100 to £200, depending on where you are. A non-refundable 20% deposit secures the date and the balance is due two weeks before the wedding.

Staff to serve the food are included in the quote; extra staff for drinks or clearing up cost more, as does hiring crockery and glasses.

Dough & Deer serves wood-fired pizza from an ex-RAF Land Rover Defender. Its pizza kitchen is in Upper Beeding, and from there it covers West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey and Kent; it also has a base in south-west London. You choose four pizzas plus its garlic bread, and you can add seasonal salads and desserts. Pizza can be served buffet-style by the slice or as whole pizzas made to order.

Prices are set as a minimum spend counted in pizzas: weekend lunch from £895 for 60 pizzas, weekend evenings from £1,295 for 70 pizzas between October and April, and from £1,500 for 80 pizzas between May and September. The standard package is a two-hour service.

It is open about how many people one oven can feed: about 70 to 80 pizzas an hour, and it can bring up to three ovens. Its wedding page warns that serving fresh pizza to 130 or more guests all at once is close to impossible, so plan an evening slot or more ovens for a large wedding. Gluten-free bases are available but not guaranteed safe for people with coeliac disease. Paper plates and napkins are included, and cancelling up to two weeks before carries a £100 admin charge.

Flame Made is a family business run by Carl and Lou, making Neapolitan-style pizza in a wood-fired oven. It started in 2024 with a converted vintage horsebox and now works from a converted van whose oven cooks four pizzas at a time. For a wedding you pick four pizzas with them.

Of the pizza firms here it has the lowest published starting price: wedding packages from £500 for up to 50 guests. It also runs regular pop-ups at Broad Oak near Brede, Horam and Herstmonceux, which is a simple way to taste the pizza before you book. It does not publish how far it travels, so ask if your venue is outside East Sussex.

Bus & Bug has been running since 2017. Its best-known vehicle is Isla, a 1972 VW campervan that works either as an ice-cream van, serving farm-made ice cream in six flavours plus a sorbet or vegan choice, in cones or tubs, or as a coffee van with a barista, teas, hot chocolate and chai. It also has a waffle van, a mini campervan ice-cream bar and Mini Peggy, a small VW bar for dry hire.

Ice-cream van hire starts at about £410 for one hour and up to 50 guests (its pages give £410 and £415), with each extra hour at £110. The coffee van starts at £460 for the same hour and numbers, with extra hours at £75. The mini bar starts at £199 for dry hire, which means you supply the drinks: Bus & Bug is not licensed to sell alcohol. It says its prices are a guide and may vary, and a small travel fee is added.

A battery lets the ice-cream and coffee vans serve for up to six hours without a power supply, which helps in a field. Its vehicles are based near Horsham; its food hygiene rating is listed by Arun District Council under an address in Findon.

Raise Your Glass is run by Sally and Rich, who both hold personal licences to sell alcohol. It has two converted horsebox bars, Dolly and Betty, plus pop-up bars for indoors. Beer, cider, Pimm's and Prosecco are served on draught alongside wines, spirits, cocktails, mocktails and soft drinks. Used together, the two horseboxes have served events of more than 400 guests.

It offers four ways to pay. A paid (cash) bar costs a £250 booking fee and needs £1,500 to be taken over the bar; you pay a £500 deposit towards that, returned in full once £1,500 is reached. A free bar, where you pay for your guests' drinks, starts at £39.50 a head. A token bar is also possible, and dry hire, with no staff, is £695.

If your venue has no alcohol licence it can apply for a Temporary Event Notice for you, and the cost is included in the booking fee. Delivery and set-up are included within 30 miles; beyond that it charges £1.50 a mile. It needs a standard household plug within reach of its 45m lead (a generator is possible at extra cost), and card payments need good wifi or 4G, otherwise the bar is cash only.

Rustic Mobile Bars' main bar is a 1972 Citroën HY van, restored and extended, with six taps, 24 optics and room for five staff to serve at once. The taps usually pour Birra Moretti, Camden Hells and Thatchers cider. It also runs cocktail bars, gin, Pimm's and rum bars, and freestanding bars for dry hire.

Unusually, it publishes its bar prices: in its January 2026 list a pint of Birra Moretti is £6.80, Camden Hells or Thatchers £5.80, a spirit and mixer £6.80, a cocktail £9.50 and a glass of wine £5.80. For a cash bar it brings the bar, staff, glasses and stock and asks for a £100 deposit, refunded afterwards if its terms are kept. If the venue has no licence it charges £21 for one. You can also pay for drinks in advance with tokens at £5.50 each, bottles of wine for the tables from £12 and bottles of fizz for the toast from £22. Prepaid packages of three, four or up to six hours are priced on request.

Dry hire of a freestanding bar runs from £150 for a 1.8m front bar to £370 for a 2.5m front bar with a back bar, fridges and an optic wall, with a £150 deposit and a charge for delivery and collection. It does not publish how far it travels or how many guests it can serve, so ask.