The Old Skool Bus & Kitchen

05/01/2025

CONGRATULATIONS 🎊 to all newly engaged 💍 couples and those getting married this year! ❤️

Happy new year 🎉 ✨️

We had such a fabulous 2024 catering with our food truck for weddings across Sussex & Kent and we're totally looking forward to looking after our and on their this year!

If you'd like to enquire about our menus just fill in the short form at www.oldskoolbusevents.com

We specialise in the less formal wedding catering... sharing feasts, BBQ'S, buffets, street food and desset stations. However, we still do some beautiful canapés and our food presentation is top notch 👌

We have a little availability for 2025, but are taking bookings for 2026 and even 2027!

18/12/2024

✨️ Sequins everywhere! ✨️

Thanks The Argus for the nice little piece in yesterday's newspaper 📰 🏆



Thanks Quirky Weddings 🏆🥰✨️

11/12/2024

🎄✨️ Today's event feedback! 🎄✨️

"Thank-you to you and your team for a fantastic Christmas lunch, all ~70 staff had a great time. The food was delicious, you are our caterer of choice.

From all the Directors, Managers and Staff"

❤️ WOW ❤️

A very big thank you to our client who has had us cater three times outside their work site in Brighton this year!

We served all these from our food truck ...
🎄 Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
🐽 Pulled pork, bacon & stuffing brioche baps
🦃Turkey, stuffing & cranberry baps
(Plus vegan and veggie versions of each, of course!)

Merry Christmas 🎅

Today's team: Libby, Kate & Billy - thanks team!

05/12/2024

✨️It's Christmas party time and we're looking forward to our festive events coming up! 🦃🍬🎄🍭

If you're still arranging last minute Christmas celebrations 🍾 🥂 check out this article for food, drink 🍸 and party advice!

Christmas party catering - all you need to know! As we speed towards the end of the year, there’s one word on all of our lips: Christmas! And when it comes to Christmas parties, we sure know how to deliver an unforgettable culinary experience. For us, a festive feast with seasonal drinks is

22/11/2024

What a week it has been!

✨️ Exciting meeting on Tuesday about an amazing 2025 job!

✨️ New website launched on Wednesday! www.oldskoolbusevents.com

🏆 WINNER of the 'Most unique catering' category at the UK 🇬🇧 Quirky Wedding Awards last night! ✨️ Thanks Quirky Weddings for an incredible night and to the judges for selecting us as the winner!

Well done to all other finalists and winners! ⭐️🇬🇧♥️🥂✨️🏆🇬🇧

20/11/2024

We are so excited to announce that our NEW WEBSITE is now live! ✨️🎊

It's been a crazy busy year developing new menus, serving at new venues, renovating our second bus, creating new staff training, buying new shiny catering equipment.... AND trying to get this website written!!!!

I want to thank the five amazing photographers 📸 who contributed to the images and photoshoots for the new site, they are amazing! Lynsey Nicol Photography for the beautiful food photos taken at Great Betley Farmhouse, Amy Davies Photography for one amazing wedding shoot, and Amy Faith Photography for another! The images are awesome 👌 Thanks to Sorcha Bridge Photography for her incredible festival images, and to Beatrici Photography for her glorious images of Kate & Tom's wedding we worked at together! ♥️🥂

Feel free to take a look at the new website www.oldskoolbusevents.com and for full effect of the beautiful large images, take a look on your laptop or PC!

Thanks Leon for your patience 🙏 and creating the lovely new website!

And thanks to all our staff this year for delivering great events so far! Lastly, thanks to our clients for booking us, we've loved every wedding and event, and thanks so much for your great reviews and testimonials!!!

www.oldskoolbusevents.com

30/10/2024

Haha, looks like our local newspaper spotted that we've been nominated as finalists in the Quirky Weddings UK Wedding Awards 2024 competition! It's nice to be recognised I guess! :)



https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24679000.hove-woman-bought-two-american-school-buses-reaches-awards-final/

16/10/2024

Do you know a team in Brighton who deserve to receive a lunch delivery next week in support of this year's 'Wear it Pink!' 🩷 breast cancer awareness campaign?

We, at The Old Skool Bus & Kitchen, are running a fundraiser with businesses, schools, and Universities next week, offering a lunch delivery service by our big yellow American school bus food truck! Managers can order their team (minimum of 10) a lunch at £10 each and all profits go direct to the charity. That's £8 a meal to charity, as we're kindly being donated produce from Rogmans Butchers and Coburn & Baker, and we have staff volunteering!!! 💖

However, we're also offering ✨️ONE LUCKY TEAM✨️ a THANK YOU meal delivery for a wonderful nominated team, of a FREE meal each! (up to 10 people)

💕 Nominate a team who do a great job for the community of Brighton to receive a FREE LUNCH to say thank you for all their kind efforts and hard work! Tell us how and why they deserve a 'thank you' lunch!

💕 Tag or copy in any local team you know who may wish to support the 'Wear it Pink' campaign for breast cancer awareness by ordering their workers lunch deliveries next week to your office, warehouse, factory, co-working space, universities and schools!

💕Order for a minimum of 10 co-workers with you, within the Brighton area with drive up avcess, and we will book you in a delivery slot on our rounds next week!!!! 💖💕💞
Please help us raise awareness for and raise funds for research and family support! 🙏💕

👉 Subject to bus accessibility
👉 Please inform of any allergies & intolerances
👉 First come first served... limited time slots available
👉 Bookings are paid for in a group, in advance. Email receipt confirmations available
👉 To increase charity earnings by 25% gift aid, please sign the charity sheet on the day
👉 Menu is posted in the thread below and can be sent to you direct
👉Products subject to availability and specific cake & biscuit types to be confirmed fresh each day
👉 Orders must be at least 48hrs in advance
👉 As long as we have easy & safe access to your work place, the delivery will be made by one of our yellow American school buses!

10/10/2024

"Wolfie" our American school bus has been busy in movies and photoshoots since we bought her last year!

This original American junior school bus was shipped to the UK for sale in London, she was rusty, needed a fair bit of work to get her through the MOT, and she still had graffiti all over the children's seats in the bus!!! (I've left my favourite couple of tags in, where I only know where they are! 😉)
Thankfully we had Shred & Butta in Cobham to work their magic ✨️

Whilst still in the garage I had a call from Jim of Shred & Butta ... "Kate, someone wants your bus for a vampire film being shot next week down in Shepperton, is that OK?!" Why not eh?!
I must remember look up that movie!

Now that the whole of the outside has been resprayed, an awesome job by Alex at Dave's Autos, also in Shepperton, she's immaculate on the outside (but still with original badges and logos) and due to have the internal refit completed over this winter!

Wolfie, named that because she's a 2001 International Wolfington 3800 from the USA 🇺🇸, has now been in several theming shoots, and now front page star of an 'unconventional wedding' magazine article!

Thanks to Quirky Weddings for inviting us to cater at your wedding fayre and be part of the "Disco Cowgirl ✨️ Wedding " photoshoot! What a fun article by Unconventionalwedding.co.uk ❣️🎶🇺🇸🐎🌾👢💍📸🥂🍾
Unconventional Wedding







https://unconventionalwedding.co.uk/disco-western-wedding-ideas/

Get inspired by this unique 'disco western' wedding theme that combines rustic charm with dazzling disco sparkle.

07/10/2024

✨️We are so thrilled to have been shortlisted as FINALISTS in the UK Quirky Wedding Awards 2024... in the 'Most unique caterers' category! ✨️

The team have worked their arses off this year and over a busy summer season developing NEW menus, new event set ups, being recommended at new venues and it seems that's been recognised... Nationally! I can't be more proud of our small but perfectly quirky little team! 🎊🌈

We aren't expecting to win the category, but the team at Quirky Weddings do organise an amazing event, so we can't wait to go and mingle with lots of other awesome suppliers from across the UK next month! 🎶✨️🎊

BOOM 💥 Well done chefs 👩‍🍳 KP's, serving staff and everyone else who has helped transform our business this year❣️✨️

23/09/2024

Check out these amazing images of our newest bus, "Wolfie!" in a photoshoot by Amy Davies Photography!

Wolfie is an American 2001 International Wolfington junior school bus, and although still mid-conversion, she should be finished on the inside over winter. She has had a total exterior re-furb by Dave's Autos in Shepperton, so she's a pretty bus on any event site!

Recently the truck has been used at two local weddings using our pop-up gazebo infront to build either a kitchen service area or a bar. Watch this space to see how the inside is going to develop!

09/09/2024

Creating bespoke cocktails for the bride & groom is a fun and engaging part of wedding planning ❣️🍸 We loved it❣️


Cat & Hakim asked us to come up with a Hibiscus 🌺 style cocktail as a nod to his Ethiopian heritage and for the family guests who had flown all the way to Sussex for the cultural celebration in our local woodland at The Enchanted Glade in Ardingly! A cocktail 🍸 that could be served non-alcoholic and a fully punchy one!

We produced a Pomegranate & Hibiscus Spritz, with chambord, vodka & cointreau, fresh fruit & mint 🌿 which was long, fruity & refreshing!

The Pomegranate & Hibiscus Mocktail 🌺 had a double shot of the orange spice Seedlip spirit, which added a boost of lemongrass and spiced botanical flavours! Seedlip Drinks

The Ethiopian family dress, robes, beaded head dresses and garlands all looked absolutely stunning on the sunny 🌞 afternoon at the Enchanted Glade, and the guests loved their own wedding bespoke cocktails and cocktails to wash down their canapés!

We love serving our food and drink menus in these stunning, rustic venues across and beyond!

www.oldskoolbusevents.com

02/09/2024

Wow... what an amazing TWO events this weekend!!! Not one, but TWO dream teams out in action, and two buses serving bespoke menus!

"Bella" our food truck was serving 150 guests for three days in a field near Uckfield for a corporate summer glamping party... brunch, lunch and dinner. What a fabulous setting!

"Wolfie", who is our newer bus and mid-conversion, was serving 100 wedding guests at the stunning Gote Barn in Ringmer from our new field kitchen ... We love that venue and the beautiful old barn❣️ Congratulations to the beautiful couple ❤️
We served a middle eastern style sharing feast in the afternoon, and then fish and chips & loaded fries for late night snacks, which all went down very well indeed!

We are so proud of our staff for smashing it at both venues, receiving fantastic feedback and many, many compliments to the chefs! Well done everyone... you rock!

15/08/2024

Want sunshine on a plate that looks and tastes great? Then look no further than our delicious halloumi and tofu skewers made to make your mouth water! 😋 Yes, that's right - we cater for vegetarian and vegan weddings too, and are always happy to discuss dietary requirements to design your day just as you like it 😎

01/08/2024

Happy August! We thought we'd kick this month off with our first meet the team feature - starting with Kate, the wonderful owner of The Old Skool Bus and Kitchen. She is hard-working, enthusiastic and passionate about her work! Have a read about how she got into the industry, her favourite event and what she does in her spare time :)

14/07/2024

Love is in the air at in Sussex.... every good hash brown starts with a heart ❤️ shaped potato eh?!!!!

27/06/2024

🔥 What a scorcher at Glastonbury! 🔥

We are back in our favourite pitch in the east campervan fields. The smoothies, iced coffees, breakfasts, and late night toasties and loaded fries are flowing out!

We loved ❤️ the Glastonbury Festival ✨welcome✨️️ fireworks last night!!!

If you'd like to book our food truck for an event please email [email protected]