Raclette, melted at your event
We'll bring a 1980 horse trailer, a couple of grills and a whole load of cheese to your wedding, birthday or Christmas party. The original masters of melting, serving it hot while your guests' jaws drop.
What is raclette?
An Alpine cheese that's meant to be melted. Raclette comes from the French racler, to scrape. You may be familiar with the tabletop raclette machines for dinner parties. Well we place half wheels of cheese under special grills, wait for the face to bubble away and scrape it straight on your food. The molten, creamy avalanche can be served over spuds or fries and is a real theatrical treat.
Weddings
Evening food that gets people talking and dancing into the evening. Melted raclette over fries or new potatoes, served from The Raclette Bar to 50 to 150 guests.
Birthdays and milestone parties
Take a load off, no kitchen needed, we'll sort the food. I arrive 2 to 3 hours before service, typically serve 60-80 portions an hour and pack down in about an hour.
Corporate and après-ski parties
Something they've never seen before and easy for the organiser: one price per person, everything included.
The food
Menu 1
Traditional Raclette: melted Raclette over new potatoes with cornichons. + sausage
Menu 2
French Poutine: melted Raclette over rosemary fries with onion gravy. + sausage
Both are gluten-free and vegetarian as standard. Smoked French sausage can be added as an optional extra. Allergens: lactose, mustard seeds.
£13.99 per person for one menu, £15.99 for both, inclusive of food, gas, staffing, palm-leaf trays and bowls, birch-wood cutlery and napkins.
How it works
- Tell me your date, postcode and guest count.
- I send you a price within a week.
- I arrive 2 to 3 hours before service and take care of everything.
Saturdays only, due to other commitments.
Private bookings
I serve from The Raclette Bar, a converted 1980 Rice horse trailer, at private events only: weddings, milestone birthdays, corporate parties and après-ski parties, for 50 to 150 guests. Saturdays only.
Based in Haslemere, Surrey. No travel charge within 10 miles; beyond that, £1.50 a mile one way.
Please use the below enquiry system and we will contact you directly within a week.
Enquiry form
Low-impact raclette, from a horse trailer
Where Le Rac Shack stands on sustainability, and where it came from.
Where I am today
I no longer hold carbon-neutral certification, and I don't buy credits. I'd rather be plain about that than let an old badge do the talking.
What I do keep is the habit. Le Rac Shack is a small, one-person operation and I run it the way I'd want a caterer to run an event I was at:
Very little food waste. I cook to the number of guests and the pace of the queue, not to a guess.
Limited fossil-fuel use. Two gas-fired grills and a trailer that arrives, serves and leaves. No generators running all night.
Considered choices. Palm-leaf trays and bowls, birch-wood cutlery and napkins, and Annecy raclette from 8kg wheels, which means less packaging per portion.
How it started
Le Rac Shack began in 2011. By 2017 I was asking what a growing street food business was doing to the places it served, and I started measuring. From 2019 to 2022 it was carbon neutral, which I believe made it the first street food trailer in the UK to be.
In 2022, after the last Glastonbury, I stopped doing festivals and public events and moved to private catering. Fewer miles, fewer one-off setups, and a better chance of doing the job properly.
Why it matters to me
Away from the trailer I work in carbon: since 2019 I've worked in carbon credit and carbon removal markets, helping companies work out what they can cut, what they can't, and what to do about the rest.
That has made me a bit allergic to big claims. So on this page you'll find what I actually do, what I used to do, and which is which.
Planning an event?
Tell me your date and I'll tell you how I'd keep it low impact.