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Fuel your Manchester film crew with the very best film set catering, ensuring everyone stays energised and happy! Poptop brings you an incredible selection of 186 top-tier film set caterers in Manchester, offering everything from hearty hot meals and healthy snacks to delicious street food and gourmet coffee. Perfect for productions across the city, from studios in Salford Quays to on-location shoots in the Northern Quarter, discover your perfect catering partner today.
We bring the highest finest ingredients to you and work alongside other small business to source great local food to make sure your grazing tables look the best.
This is where passion meets presentation. Bringing joy, flavour, and unforgettable memories through live dessert experiences. We create moments that leave a lasting impression.
We offer cold, finger buffets with various options available across our sandwich range to our savoury choices. We also have a selection of sweet treats available.
We serve delicious soft serve with fun toppings, vibrant setups, and great service, bringing joy, flavour, and unforgettable moments to every event!
This is a Super Kids Party menu that they will love. It's a cold-finger buffet of children's favourite party food, sweet treats, and healthy options thrown in for good measure.
All our brownies are made from scratch using the finest free range ingredients. We have taken years of practice to perfect our recipes
Great food makes great memories and nothing says memorable more than a beautiful grazing table artfully created with seasonal produce, continental cheeses, charcuterie and a whole lot more.
With 5 years of experience, we craft fresh, golden mini Dutch pancakes, served from a customisable cart, blending taste, style, and detail for an unforgettable dessert experience.
We offer your favourite party food with menus to suit every occasion. Enjoy an impressive buffet spread with reliable, friendly service—delivered straight to your venue, office or home.
With 5 years of experience, we craft fresh, golden Belgian waffle sticks, served from a customisable cart, blending taste, style, and detail for an unforgettable dessert experience.
We would love to cater for your event, large or small, we have a small and adaptable team that can deliver a clean and tidy service, using only sustainably sourced packing and disposables.
We always use the highest quality ingredients. Delicious ice rolls for your guests where they can even have a go at creating the ice rolls themselves!
Our luxury dessert station offers more than just treats — it’s an elegant, curated display designed to elevate your event with sweetness, style, and unforgettable flavour.
We are offering a 2 hour service which is a very unique vintage ice cream cart, not only does it look amazing but our ice cream tastes more delicious too.
Be sure I will keep the highest quality of buffet service whilst also sticking to your time frame and keep out of your way as much as possible.
Offering award-winning pizza and friendly service at a competitive price. We can't wait to feed your guests!
As a chef, Fabio always puts food quality first, weaving home cooking with the latest innovations in the kitchen.
We serve our ice creams in either a waffle cone or popular viral trays, with a wide selection of sauces and toppings to choose from. This service is perfect for anyone craving a sweet treat!
Our freshly made gourmet burgers are the perfect choice for any event or celebration. We use only the finest ingredients, 100% beef patties and succulent buttermilk chicken breast (one of the best chicken burgers you'll taste!) plus we can cater to both vegans and vegetarians. We guarantee our hearty burgers will leave you and your guests fully satisfied! WE ALSO HAVE PIZZA AVAILABLE
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We are a family-run business who have been working catering industry for over 12 years. We take great pride in providing both a personal and professional service and we love sharing our delicious meals with guests and being a part of special celebrations
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Manchester shoots move quickly and they need food that keeps pace. When you book film set catering in Manchester with us, you get hot food that turns up on time, craft tables that stay stocked and service that flexes with your call sheet. We plan the menu around your schedule, we work quietly around camera, and we make sure everyone is fuelled without slowing the day. It is straightforward, reliable and tailored to the way crews actually work up here.
The city’s a mix of modern studios and heritage mills, short travel times and occasionally tricky access. You might be bouncing between a canalside unit and a city office in one afternoon. Weather can switch in minutes, which is why hotboxes and sealed containers are our friends. Dietaries are common, coffee is essential and crew numbers can swell with extras on the day. We prepare for all of it and build in spares so you can keep rolling without hunting for a sandwich at the worst possible moment.
We collect dietaries early and bring a buffer for the person who remembers late. Every dish carries a simple card with ingredients and allergens spelled out. If you need a no-onion or low FODMAP run for a few key crew, we will cook to spec. Cross-contamination procedures are standard, not optional.
Typical spend ranges from 5 to 35 pounds per person per day. The lower end covers a lean craft table with a simple main, the upper end adds premium proteins, multiple hot rounds, barista coffee and extra dietaries. Price moves with crew size, split units, overtime, access difficulty and how far food needs to travel.
Ways to stay on budget without cutting quality:
Poptop is the most reliable way to get film set catering in Manchester sorted quickly and securely. You get instant, all-in pricing, vetted suppliers and support that actually answers. The benefits are simple and they matter on set.
On the day, we run the line, refill craft between takes and clear as we go. You focus on the shot list while meals and snacks appear exactly when needed.
Breakfast on arrival with yoghurt pots, pastries and fruit. Hot lunch with a roast-style chicken main, vegan tagine, potatoes, greens and salads. Coffee window at 10:30 and 15:00. Craft leans savoury. A compact hot round appears if you cross 19:00.
Pastries, fruit and straight coffee early, then a precise 30 minute hotbox lunch with a meat and a plant-based main, grains and slaw. Labels are big, allergens clear, trays served fast. Wrap sweets and a small slice run if you push into the next hour.
Bowls with rice or quinoa, grilled chicken or tofu, charred veg, pickles and bright dressings. Gluten-free wraps for handheld eating. Water stations in two spots, fruit and nut mixes on craft, no sticky sauces near kit. Quick clear-downs keep the path safe.
Handheld lunch with noodle pots and salad boxes, followed by staggered pizza trays if the golden shot takes longer than expected. Craft stays colourful and light, wardrobe stays calm because the food is spill safe.
Midnight “breakfast,” hot rounds at 02:00 and 04:00, craft leaning savoury. Tea wagon energy without the wagon. Quiet service, quick clear-downs, happy neighbours.
We minimise waste by planning portions sensibly, using recyclable or compostable packaging and running refill points for water. Leftovers are offered to crew first, then handled responsibly. Routes are designed to cut empty miles. We work clean and leave locations better than we found them.
Good catering keeps a Manchester set moving. It feeds the crew well, respects the schedule and stays tidy around camera. That is exactly what we deliver. Tell us your date, numbers and postcode and we will show instant options for film set catering in Manchester that match your plan and your budget. Pick your format, confirm your dietaries and lock your timings. We will coordinate with your team and keep you updated at every step. Book with us today for food that arrives hot, craft that stays interesting and a shoot that runs exactly as promised.