Why Choose Us

Quality Food

Our chefs are all professionally trained exceptional chefs and our front of house team always smile

We love what we do

Ask anyone we already work with, we work hard and absolutely love feeding and looking after people

Nothing is to much trouble

Separate MandM’s by colour for an insane rider, have an orchestra playing during dinner? We’re in

On Budget

Creative, innovative food delivered on time, and on budget. We’ll exceed your expectations

About Us

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About Us

Husband and Wife team, Faye and David Penfold manage the crew catering operation The Occasional Kitchen and have been successfully providing crew food for a number of years at various festivals and events in the UK.

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We Care

We absolutely love what we do and really care about delivering good quality food in a sustainable and ethical way. We absolutely always use free range eggs, where possible we use Red Tractor Assured meats and organic produce.

Our Services

Festivals

Festivals

We love being part of the team catering in a field, ready to help deliver some of the best and most fun events in the world

TV & Film

TV & Film

Restaurant quality food delivered to strict deadlines and flexible enough to roll with changes as and when they happen.

On Tour

On Tour

Life on tour can be pretty tough and our crew will ensure you are loved and looked after in our home away from home

Weddings

Weddings

Wedding food will be the best food you’ll ever eat in your life, let us help you make sure it is the food of your absolute dreams

What our customers say

Rupert BassadoneOperation Director

Womad Festival

Dave and Faye Penfold have been employed as our crew catering management team for a number of years and in that time I have found them to be a professional, creative and inventive operation and would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending them to anyone looking for a Crew Catering team...Continue Reading

Jenna HyndOwner & Operator

Aveling Adventure

We approached The Occasional Kitchen to cater for our crew at our annual Adventure Festival, we had tried their food at another event and were really impressed by what they could offer on site. From that first meeting we knew that we'd booked the right people, they were friendly and warm, making us feel...Continue Reading

Our Team

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Faye Penfold
Managing Director
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Dave Penfold
Executive Chef
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Alfred Wells
Chef
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Derek Jones
Chef

Latest News

On Location

Oxfam

We are as proud as punch to be looking after the wonderful people at Oxfam this year at the most well known festival in the world Glastonbury Do you fancy …

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Our Details

The Occasional Kitchen Ltd
33/34 Horton Street
Frome
Somerset
BA11 3DP
01373 467481
info@always.cooking
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