Aldred’s Fine Cheese

24/08/2024

Such a beautiful day at North Shire for Maria and Jason’s wedding.

We served:
Lots of Canapés
Hot buffet platters: including pie, peas, wood fired potatoes, Deep South chicken jambalaya, rosemary and garlic belly pork with a variety of salad.
Evening: Aldred’s BBQ with all the trimmings

17/08/2024

A huge congratulations to our wonderful couple today❤️ and such a beautiful wedding and location at Redcliffe Farm Shop

16/08/2024

We’re back from annual leave, it’s been an amazing time with our kids that was so needed.

We’re starting to work through our emails/voicemails, if you’re waiting to hear from us email or call reply we should have got through all our admin over the next few days.

Becky & Matt

14/08/2024

Family time in the highlands 🏔️

06/08/2024

Thank you for everyone’s kind messages. The last 2 days have been the strangest we’ve ever had in business. On one hand we had a hard day of things going wrong and received a vitriol of endless abuse and threats from multiple accounts but it appears to all be one person. On the other hand we’ve felt so much love and support from all of you, Thank you.

Interesting plot twist to the odd scenario, we’ve had a few businesses reach out to us, to share similar experiences with this person, it appears he is happy to go into hospitality businesses with the aim of not paying or claim he’ll only pay what he thinks it’s worth 🤷‍♀️ and then barrage the owners from multiple accounts and routes with claims of poor service, claiming food is overpriced and they’re horrible people, getting very personal and constant, basically trying to create a negative review s**t storm of panic for business owners. It also appears to only be businesses owned or run by women, interesting!

Needless to say, we won’t be engaging anymore with this guy but businesses please be aware.

Thank you again so much for your kind words, messages and support, they really have meant the world to us and have diluted the other drama and terrible few days, Thank you 🙏

04/08/2024

Absolutely drained and heartbroken 💔 🍕

This isn’t a post I thought I’d be writing but after the abuse we have received all day, much of it on a very personal level I want to be open and honest about the disaster we had yesterday that led to huge wait times in a way that we have never experienced before or wish to, ever again.

Yesterday, on route to the festival one of our trailer brakes ceased, we were very nearly there, we could see the car park, but the trailer was entirely stuck, not wanting to let anyone down we dragged it the last hundred yards and managed to cost ourselves more than we turned over yesterday in the bill to fix it. The wheel was so damaged that we had to take it off and jack the trailer up higher than normal at the back to take the weight, this left the trailer not level and with the fire in the oven a few inches further over than usual, that few inch is very important in fitting 4 12” pizzas in the oven.

The result was only 2 12” pizzas at a time able to fit, which doubled our make time and obviously wait time.

Further issues added to the situation, we found out after arriving that we were the only savoury caterers as the others had cancelled, to try and make up for this we quickly made more pizza dough.

We started service at 12noon by 1pm we had 35 back orders that we were struggling to keep up with due to the oven's reduced capacity. We closed orders to let the kitchen catch up but we had a lot of complaints from people wanting to order, trying to keep everyone happy we opened orders again but told everyone it was going to be a long wait. I couldn’t judge it exactly as I was working at half-oven capacity.

For our poor staff member yesterday, it was her first shift with us, not an ideal one to start work on but she did amazing and threw herself in the deep end trying everything from taking orders to restocking ingredients and trying her hand at cutting pizzas, all in 54c-56c heat from the pizza oven and how hot it was yesterday. We didn’t stop all day and worked our absolute socks off in the toughest of conditions I have experienced in 5 years of doing this.

In hindsight, we should have stopped taking orders till the kitchen had fully caught up but we always try our hardest to please everyone and we didn’t want to let anyone down.

Today we have been attacked non-stop across social media platforms on both a business level and a very personal level.

To say that we are heartbroken is an understatement, we always try to go above and beyond for our customers. We tried our hardest yesterday with so many obstacles in the way and when many would have stopped trying at the broken wheel. We wanted to explain the backstory of yesterday’s delays and to apologise for the wait times.

The depth of abuse we have received today from one person has just been too much. If we are a little quiet on here, we’re just taking some time out from the pressure of social media.

Becky & Matt

04/08/2024

What an amazing day a Burniston Rocks!! And amazing community ❤️ Burniston & Cloughton ❤️

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped to make the ABC project nearer to being possible 🛹 🏀

Thank you to everyone who bought pizzas yesterday and kindly worked with us on the insane timescales from the sheer amount of orders we had 🍕

We didn’t want to let anyone down or halt ordering, till we absolutely had to, to catch up, with 25-30 orders in continually for the rest of the day! Absolutely amazing guys and thank you to everyone for being so patient.

Becky is looking a tad beetroot fire tanned from 54c heat in the festival trailer all afternoon 🤣🔥 and has told me very clearly that she will never do a full day summer event in the trailer again 🤣🔥 (it’s just too hot) so we’ll be there next year with our gazebo kitchen instead of the festival trailer and we might even do hog roast again. 🐖🍕

I’m so proud of our team for dealing with the heat and making pizzas non stop all day!

What an event, what a team, what an amazing local community ❤️ Burniston & Cloughton ❤️

02/08/2024

Who is excited for Burniston Rocks ! tomorrow at Burniston & Cloughton Village Hall 12noon till 9pm with great music, food and fun.

It’s one of our favourite festivals of the year and the weather is looking awesome ☀️

We’ll be there serving our wood fired pizzas 🍕

31/07/2024

We’re so sorry to hear what a horrific situation our friends at Pinewood Park have had to deal with this week. Kerry and Dave are the most amazing, kind hearted and genuine people we have ever had the pleasure of working alongside. They are both absolute stars ⭐️ as people and in business and they go above and beyond for their guests.

JUST BEEN VERBALLY ATTACKED AT OUR BUSINESS & HOME TODAY!......WHEN WE THINK WE'VE HEARD IT ALL HERE!!

We've just been called RACIST!
How insulting & disgusting!

After 18 years of creating & owning Pinewood & after over 32 years in business, you can imagine that we have interacted with hundreds of thousands of people.
The VAST majority of our customers are ABSOLUTELY lovely.
Many have become friends & we are so honoured to have a huge amount of returning customers.

But here's what happened yesterday & this morning:

1. We received a call from a customer who was offended because another customer had a large Palestinian Flag flying next to their Cabin.

2. We were out at the wholesalers, so not on the park. We apologised & explained that we do not have politics or religion here & that being on holiday is about escaping the news & all the problems going on. We promised to check this out when we returned.

3. On our return we went to the cabin/guests in question & we couldn't find a Palestinian flag. The guests were out. We presumed that the offended guests had had a word with the guests with the flag & that they had removed it.
We did see some trunks of wood at this same cabin, which had been removed from our log piles without asking us, but we just removed these, & that was that.
We don't see the point in confronting the guests staying in this cabin, on their return, to chat about a flag which was no longer there, or 'tell them off' for taking our wood!
We didn't want to put a dampener on their break, unnecessarily.

4. On check out this morning, these guests, together with their friends, asked me about the flag.
We explained that a customer had complained, as they were offended & that when we went up to check this out, that the flag was not there.
They then accused us of removing the flag ourselves.
We explained that had the flag still been there, that we would have removed it & brought it down to reception.
But don't appreciate being called liars & thieves, especially by guests who had stolen our logs!!
We explained that we cannot be political here, & that this is a holiday park to escape problems going on in the world!

We explained that we are proud British people, but as a business we have to remain unpolitical & that we'd like to fly a British flag & a Yorkshire flag at the front of the business, but we can't because we don't want to offend anyone!

Let's be honest though - no one in the country should feel ashamed, or be called racists, for being a proud Brit!

We were then shouted out & called Racists!
And then promised "bad reviews would be coming very soon"!

HOW DARE THEY CALL US RACISTS!

HOW DARE THEY THREATEN US WITH BAD REVIEWS BECAUSE WE ARE PROUD BRITISH PEOPLE?
(until this flag incidence they had told us what a great time they were having)

HOW DARE THEY THINK IT IS OKAY TO OFFEND OTHER GUESTS?

Like we said; we thought we'd heard it all!

What is the world coming to when 3 families, coming with small children, can't enjoy a holiday without feeling the need to protest?
We are absolutely astonished!

We welcome EVERYONE here.
We are NOT racists.

Simple as that.

Our apologies for this post.
We have had no choice, after being threatened with bad reviews.
How sad!

16/07/2024

We’re thrilled to say that Aldred’s pizza sales at Lindhead School summer fayre raised £290 which we have donated to Lindhead School to support the purchase of new equipment and educational materials for the children.

We are proud to have supported the community event raising funds for young people’s education in the local area and giving our time and stock cost over to a good cause. Raising funds through the power of pizza 😁

11/07/2024

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11/07/2024

What a brilliant wedding , we were honoured to be a part of such an amazing day for Joey & Spud 🎶

We served for the wedding breakfast: Hot Buffet - Louisiana Chicken Jambalaya, Chicken Goujons, Mac N cheese, Halloumi and woodfired Veg skewers, Pie, Chips and peas, Falafel and Cous-Cous with a variety of side salads.

Evening Food: Wood Fired Pizza Buffet

10/07/2024

We’ve got new packages available to help streamline your catering booking and to help navigate our very large menus.

We do have lots of other options available, but we have found that choosing can sometimes be rather overwhelming when faced with so many choices. These packages are our most popular and can cater for 50 people to 350+.

Call or message us for your bespoke quote 😊

10/07/2024

A beautiful wedding that survived the crazy weather that yesterday offered 🌧️

We served chicken or beef burritos, loaded cheese nachos, lamb kofta, spicy chicken wings, fries and individual eton mess desserts for 100 guests.

02/07/2024

Lindhead School - Wednesday 3rd July from 3.15pm. We’ll be serving wood fired pizza during the summer fair.

All our proceeds will be gifted to Lindhead School to buy new equipment and support young people’s education.

You can support by simply buying a pizza and
not having to cook 🍕 what’s not to love 🍕

General public welcome to purchase pizzas too, see you all tomorrow 😊

24/06/2024

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16/06/2024

Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing men out there.

All you dads, grandfathers, uncles, god fathers, step fathers and father figures, whomever you are or how ever you refer to yourself as you care for and be there for the young people in your life. We hope you’ve had a great day ❤️

15/06/2024

We’ll be serving pizzas here today, it looks like an amazing community event that we hope becomes an annual celebration in the local events calendar 😊

Who’s attending today?

If you have any unwanted gifts, we are asking for tombola prizes to raise funds for our 3rd residential trip for disadvantaged families.
Please drop donations into Gallows Close Centre your support is greatly appreciated 🥰
Stalls available inside at our festival on Saturday, PM Gallows for further information 😊

11/06/2024

Join our FOH events team

With a busy events season underway we’re looking for a FOH team member. You will be working in a fast-paced FOH environment with some food prep assistance. We are mainly based around wedding catering, parties, and corporate events in the Scarborough area.
We are looking for:
🧀 A positive and personable team member
🧀 Some experience would be helpful but full training will be given
🧀 Minimum 16yrs
🧀 Own Transport needed due to locations
🧀 A good sense of humor

Shifts will be mainly evening and weekend based with events shifts available throughout the year. If you’re looking for a fun additional job or work around college/uni this could be the one for you.
There could be further shifts available too for the right person as a kitchen assistant too or events chef.

🧀 Competitive hourly rate
🧀 Full training given
🧀 Weekly Pay

If interested please pop us an email with your CV or listed experience through to [email protected]

Becky & Matt

08/06/2024

The most exceptional day North Shire

We served woodfired Chicken and Quorn Bhuna curry with rice, salad, naan breads and onion bhajis alongside woodfired pizzas and chips for the children 🍕 160 guests fed, happy and content 🙌

We had a few allergy requirement meals that hadn’t been pre-booked with us but we made special dishes last minute to ensure everyone had a beautiful meal.

What a view while cooking 😊 looking onto the game keepers hut and we even had Fawkes the peacock keeping us in check and occasionally trying to sneak in, he gave his approval on the pizza 🍕

08/06/2024

Sunday 9th June

Join us at Pinewood Park to see their beautiful wedding venue and meet the suppliers. We’ll be there chatting all things wedding and we’ll have pizza samples for you too 🍕
Wood fired pizza
Hog roast
BBQ
Hot buffets: add a wide variety to your day
Cold Buffet
Afternoon tea platters
Hog roast and pizza combo
Ice cream
Canapes
And much more….

We can’t wait to meet all you lovely couples ❤️

05/06/2024

Within 2 minutes of a trip to France being mentioned, Becky is planning how many cheese makers we can visit on a round trip 🤣🙈

The cheese shop was her dream and one that left us both heart broken when it failed. Yet, we always have cheese plans for the future, it’s just finding the right place.

01/06/2024

Why you’re safe with us as allergy safe caterers.

Our story:

Taking this picture and realising how at ease I felt was abnormal. Feeling relaxed while the kids played and not on high alert, looking over my shoulder every second brought with it happiness and sadness. Happiness at how happy the kids were and how relaxed I was. Yet sadness that this is not the norm.
The difference in this picture to normal, this is a no dogs allowed campsite. Let me explain……

We understand the suffocating pressure that allergies create to normal everyday experiences and how that boiling pot of pressure can make everything a challenge. As caterers, we try to take away that pressure where many won’t, and sadly, we know this from experience on a personal level.

How do we know this? Because we live it every day. One of our children has had food allergies since birth and a few years ago we discovered another cause to our hospital trips, environmental allergy to dog dander, so severe that we’re on first name terms with many A&E/children’s ward staff.

His food allergies we’ve nailed. Although extra precautions on food items that we eat regular are always checked, as many companies change ingredients to cheaper options without highlighting this on the packet, so we can never become complacent thinking it’s something we’ve eaten before and it’s safe.

His dog dander allergy is a different story altogether and one that we sadly find very limiting on our family life. Dog dander lives for 9-12 months in a space once a dog has been in there, it lives in grass and mud from dog urine and no dog is allergy safe as daft advertising would have us all believe. If I had a £1 for every time I’ve had to ask someone to not let their dog wander near my child and have them respond ‘yeh but it’s hypoallergenic’, I’d have paid off my mortgage years ago.

Every aspect of our lives is limited, we cannot go on public transport, we can’t go on planes, we can’t stay in hotels, we can’t go to friends and families houses who have dogs, we can’t go to most restaurants, museums, children’s play areas and days out without constant fear of anaphylaxis. Family and friends understand the pressure we’re under and kindly change their clothes to fresh, just out the wash clothing before visiting our house, limiting any cross-contamination from dogs they may have come across during the day.

With all this said, we’ve tried to take a positive from our experiences towards our business. We understand the pressure allergy sufferers and allergy parents experience in every aspect of their lives, and we take every step possible to ensure every dietary requirement is catered for with Aldred’s.
We’ll discuss in advance precautions we are taking and create separate prep stations to reduce the risk of any cross contamination. Not always easy in a mobile kitchen and one that we’ve never seen any another mobile caterer do, but we take allergies very seriously and with a very clear reason as to why we do this.

This is our personal story with allergens and one that we hope can bring some ease and comfort to others in a similar situation when we’re catering for you.

We get it, we see you, we know the pressure, we understand.

Becky & Matt

26/05/2024

We love making cheese tower cakes 🧀 Weddings at Scarborough Spa

20/05/2024

Yet another addition to our pizza oven and outdoor kitchen range ❤️ I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited for the arrival of Big Bertha 2.0

02/05/2024

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25/04/2024

We’re excited to be attending wedding fayre tonight 6pm - 8pm at The old parcels office, Scarborough.

We’ll be to there to talk about all our catering options
Woodfired pizza
BBQ
Hog Roast
Buffets (hot and cold options)
Hog Roast & pizza combo
Grazing tables
Dessert tables
Ice creams
Doughnut walls
Canapes

How many of you lovely couples are we going to see this evening?

23/04/2024

Hi all,

It’s been a while since we showed the faces behind the messages, calls, emails and pizza oven👋

I’m Matthew, co-owner of Aldred’s alongside Becky, the one who spins all the plates and knows everything that’s happening.

I found a passion for cooking at a young age and always felt at home in the kitchen baking with my grandma but unfortunately never thought of cooking as a career early on. Leaving school I followed in the family trade and became a builder/joiner. I was never too happy in the building industry and when Becky suggested doing the business together I leapt at the chance.

I’ve always had an intrigue about any foods that were ‘different’ to your usual menu choices and this intrigue in exploring various food cultures has certainly made its way onto our menus with new options always appearing.

When I’m not cooking at events or baking behind the scenes, I love archery, BBQ cooking at home or having a family day out.

We have two young children age 4 & 5 who often accompany us if we’re catering at festivals and can usually be seen with a pizza in hand.

Matthew 👋

21/04/2024

When a trained Cheesemonger creates your grazing table, balance and beauty happen.

It takes knowledge and skill to know what flavour profiles work together and what styles of cheese will add interest to your table in both flavour and colour pops.

Anyone can create a dull supermarket spread but it’s the years of knowledge that creates the beauty and the experience that your guests will still be talking about in years to come.

16/04/2024

If you want see what we do when we’re not catering in our organic grow your own garden, including all the wins (and fails 🙈) you can on Instagram at

We’re passionate about food and where your food comes from. In 2014 -2016 Becky was training to become a cheesemaker and was regularly shocked that so many people didn’t know how cheese was made, or in some cases, that it was made from milk. I know right 🤦‍♀️

It was during these conversations with many family and friends, bemused that she was making cheese, that the conversation would often turn around to veg and fruit growing, and why did she like gardening? She had many shocked moments during these chats, when it became apparent that a lot of children especially, didn’t know how food was grown and had no connection at all as to how food arrived in the supermarket.

It was these conversations that led us to turn a vast amount of our garden into a veg plot, when we had children of our own, we were determined to teach them about growing food from seed and also to show them the enjoyment and range of flavour that comes from growing you own fruit and veg.

Here’s our sunflowers from 2023 that got all a bit Jack and the bean stalk.