Shepherd Neame launches first pub pizza wagon

Independent family brewer and pub company Shepherd Neame has unveiled its first pizza wagon, Little Tom, offering handmade sourdough pizzas to eat in or take away at its pubs.

The wagon, titled Little Tom due to its tomato-red colour, has been adapted to incorporate a bespoke pizza oven along with fridges for the ingredients, and two hatches for the team to serve customers. 

All pizzas are made fresh to order, using handcrafted sourdough bases. 

Little Tom is currently situated at the Ship and Trades in Chatham Maritime, where it will be open from 4pm this Friday (23 August) and from 12 noon on Saturday (24 August). 

It will then be moving to The Limes in Faversham where it will be open during the Hop Festival weekend from 11.30am to 7.30pm on Saturday (31 August) and from 11.30am to 6pm on Sunday (1 September). 

Sang Nguyen, Shepherd Neame’s head of food, said: “Pizza is always a popular choice with our customers, and now the Little Tom pizza wagon can allow us to offer fresh, handmade pizzas at any of our pubs and hotels. 

“Our teams have been trained in making the perfect sourdough for the base, and we are using the finest ingredients, locally sourced wherever possible for the toppings. We have seen a great reaction to the wagon, which is a real talking point wherever it goes.”