King County
Wood-fired pizza catering in Kirkland
Lakefront town with a strong summer event calendar and a city-run venue that allows outside caterers.
Lakefront town with a strong summer event calendar and a city-run venue that allows outside caterers.
Just under an hour from Tacoma. We cover all of it — downtown Kirkland, Juanita, Houghton, Marina Park, Totem Lake — and the oven sets up anywhere a trailer can park and a fire marshal will approve.
What follows is not a directory scrape. We read each venue's published catering policy on 2026-08-31, and the notes below say what their own site actually states.
70 guests. City-owned; approved outside caterers allowed, and a caterer’s liquor licence can substitute for a banquet permit.
Books through the Seattle Food Truck platform, rotating nightly.
June to September. 2026 applications closed.
Forno Via, based in Lynnwood, lists Kirkland in its service area and is the most price-transparent competitor in the market at $32 to $44 per guest with a forty-guest minimum.
We publish this because you will find these operators anyway, and comparing openly beats pretending they do not exist. Our own comparisons are on the compare pages.
Kirkland sits in King County, so temporary food service runs on a Temporary Food Establishment permit, applied for through Public Health — Seattle & King County. Open-flame and propane cooking is approved city by city. Seattle itself requires a Seattle Fire Department permit, with cylinders kept at least ten feet from tents and the public and no more than five on site. We carry our own licensing and insurance and handle this side, but venues will ask, and it is worth knowing the answer exists before the day.
We arrive early enough to site the oven, light the fire about an hour before service, and cook continuously — a pizza roughly every ninety seconds once the oven is at temperature. Guests watch the whole thing happen. When service ends we break down, pack out and leave the site as found. One invoice, the address on it.
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Prefer to talk? Call (206) 379-0409 or email galileospizzaco@gmail.com.