Smoke&Braai

17/07/2026

25/05/2026

🔥🔥🔥Happy Africa Day🔥🔥🔥

With a busy summer ahead and a lot of new and exciting news to share over the course of summer and beyond!!

We dedicate this post to all our Day 1’s who have shared this journey with us and who will also continue to share all the lies ahead for us!!!

All what we do continues to evolve around paying respect to all the different cultures and cuisines that cook with fire in the world of low and slow BBQ or the pure braai vibes which is our roots and comfort, all the above have helped shape us and our journey 🔥❤️🔥

Stay tuned as our next open public event is a complete takeover of Northamptonshire Best fire cooking restaurant where will be showcasing our set menu which features some of our greatest hits as well as some new dishes!!

This is a massive opportunity for us to be able to have this platform that allows us to explore and do the things we love!!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

Massive thanks to all

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30/12/2024

🔥🔥🔥🔥2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥

So do try to and summaries this year…………
😂🥵🥰🤔😮😢🔥❤️🙏🏾👏🏽💪🏽💩⚠️🫣🤫🫨🫢🤗😱🙄😬🫤😯😮‍💨😦🥴🤐🤤😲😮😧🤘🏽✌🏽👌🏾🤌🏽🤛🏽

Like most small food related businesses, private/corpoate caterers, public events businesses and vendors….. the list is endless!!! It’s been nothing but a rollercoaster some insane and crazy highs mixed with some nail biting and crunching times!!!

This year saw us dive into new areas and ventures including more corporate and private events from local and further a field. They range from 40 people to big corporate events for 500- 600 covers!! From Henley on Thames to Warwickshire / Leicestershire.

Each and every event we have tailored a menu that best fits that individual event. From individually branding 600 burger buns by hand with bespoke logos or freshly hand pressing masa corn tortillas for tacos.

Massive shoutout to the team who have come through and gone the extra mile across all events

Special thanks to all the amazing companies we have worked with this year who have supported us and continue to make this dream reality!!















cactus.bbq

06/10/2024

Massive massive………… MASSIVE!!!!
shoutout out to the team today!!!🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

A very early start to bang out some breakfast buns/bagels and then switch over to lunch

Thank you for all the support we had from fellow traders and the events team !! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Always amazing to see old friends and faces as well meeting new faces and customers we use this opportunity as well to ofcourse network!!!

After some quality time off with family the past month this event reminded us why we do this!!🔥🔥🔥

13/03/2024

**** Smoked Lamb Birria Tacos****

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These will be featuring at some of our events this year.

A bit about our Lamb Birria Taco….

We source some amazing locally reared lamb shoulders from . We then dry rub them in our own house dry rub and allow to marinade overnight.
The next step is to smoke the lamb shoulders over Oak wood for as long as it takes sometimes 10 hours sometimes 12 hours every cook is different as is every shoulder.

Once done we pull these shoulders and then toss them in more of our house rub to season them further.

Next step we make the smoked lamb broth using the lamb bones from neck, ribs, and other trimmings from the lamb these are also smoked over Oak wood before being added to a massive stock pot with onions, garlic, carrots, celery, herbs etc….. this is given several hours to extract all that flavour and then reduced down before we finally add some of our house BBQ sauce.
Once chilled we separate the lamb fat from the stock and reserve the smoked lamb fat to brush our corn tortillas in the lamb fat before warming in the flat top.

Now for the build……
1. Corn tortillas brushed in smoked lamb fat
2. In- house mixed cheese blend
3. Smoked Pulled Lamb Shoulder
4. House Fire Roasted Salsa Roja
5. House Pickled Red Onions
6. Fold loaded tortilla half and watch the cheese melt 😍😍
7. Fill a small bowl of smoked lamb broth with fresh sliced coriander
8. THE REST IS HISTORY………😜😜😜

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25/01/2024

2024 here we go🔥🔥🔥🔥

So it’s been a while and to be honest had taken some time to map out and plan the year ahead.

We got some new events, venues and projects in the works and yes ofcourse new menu items for all the different events from private events to corporate events we got you covered.

Stay tuned for announcements over the next few weeks and months especially as the year unfolds.

Thank you for the love and support!!!

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#2024