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BBQ food trucks in South Africa

Browse bbq food trucks across South Africa, with menus, photos and the towns they trade in, and send your event details straight to the truck.

listed: 42; listed
towns: 14; towns
for hire: 40; for hire

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Asado Spitbraai

Asado Spitbraai caters spit braais for functions around Cape Town in the Argentine asado style, with lamb on the spit as the speciality and traditional flat spit as well. They bring their own spit braai machine, charcoal, tables and staff to your venue, for a minimum of 35 guests. Chops, sausage, chicken and snoek are also on the menu, with salads and rolls.

Cape Town, Western Cape

South AfricanSpit BraaiBBQ

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BeefUp Spitbraais & Smokehouse

BeefUp Spitbraais & Smokehouse is a mobile spit braai caterer based in Grassy Park, Cape Town. They cook wood-fired whole and half lamb on site for weddings, birthdays, team builders and year-end functions. The menu also covers smoked beef brisket, ribs, steak, beef potjie, whole spitbraai chicken and starters such as mussel soup and buffalo wings. Private cooking lessons with the spit braai chef are also offered. Menus and quotes are booked through their website.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Braai Boss Catering

Braai Boss Catering is a halaal spit braai caterer in Durban. They set up at your venue and braai on site, with whole-animal spit roasts, grilled chicken and braai meat served buffet style from chafing dishes. Photos show their work at private homes, corporate events and functions around the Durban area. Contact them to arrange a quote for your event.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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Braaiery

Braaiery is a handcrafted boerewors business that trades from a food truck outside Alberton Hardware on Saturday mornings, serving wors rolls. Flavours include traditional boere wors, cheese, chilli cheese, curry, green pepper, jalapeno and mango. They also sell frozen packs of wors, patties and mince through their website, and have run limited-stock mystery flavours at the truck.

Alberton, Gauteng

South AfricanHot DogBBQ

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Chef Frans Catering

Chef Frans Catering is a Centurion caterer that takes spit braai functions to client venues in Centurion and Pretoria, with whole spit-roasted lamb, pork or beef carved at the fire. Spit braai packages are for groups of 35 guests and up, alongside boerewors, sosaties and potjie. They also cater corporate events, team building, high teas and platters, and offer a mobile bar and waiters on request.

Centurion, Gauteng

South AfricanSpit BraaiBBQ

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Craft Mobile (Craft Kosher Mobile Eatery)

Craft Mobile is a kosher gourmet street food business, certified kosher under the Beth Din. The menu includes lamb arayes, smoked brisket, biltong burger sliders, a steak stacker and a biltong burger. It trades from the Hinei Studio on Anne Street in Sandringham on weekdays and delivers across Gauteng. Orders are taken online or on WhatsApp, and the team also caters at events.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

AmericanBurgerBBQ

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Die Braaibus

Die Braaibus is a food truck built into a converted bus, with a braai grill on the back. It trades at markets and school and sports events around Vereeniging and also does private events, serving food such as burgers and pancakes. It catered at the SA Caravan Rally in 2026. Call the number on the bus to book.

Vereeniging, Gauteng

South AfricanBBQBurger

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Die Wors-Rol

Die Wors-Rol is a Stellenbosch-based street food trailer run by chefs Beau du Toit and Craig Cormack. It serves gourmet boerewors rolls and hot dogs made with handcrafted sausages, and the team also cooks over open fire for larger catering jobs. The trailer works markets, festivals and sporting events across the Western Cape, and is available for hire at weddings, corporate functions and private celebrations, with menus tailored to each event. Bookings are handled by phone or WhatsApp.

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

South AfricanHot DogBBQ

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Durban Braai Company

Durban Braai Company brings spit braai and traditional braai catering to the client's venue in Durban and surrounding areas. Packages are built around lamb on a charcoal spit machine, with sausages, chicken drumsticks, potato salad, baked bean salad, Greek salad and rolls, plus chefs, chafing dishes, tables, cutlery and crockery. Group sizes run from about 25 to 60 guests, for corporate and private functions, parties, team buildings and family celebrations. They state that all their meat is halaal. Bookings go through the website calendar or by phone.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

South AfricanSpit BraaiBBQ

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Ember and Ash

Ember and Ash, formerly known as Eat Braai Like, is a wood-fired food truck in Cape Town that trades from Sunningdale Car Wash & Detailing on Waterville Street, Sunningdale. Its grill turns out braai food such as ribs, chicken, lamb, boerewors rolls and cheese grillers, as well as breakfasts, slow-roasted meats, tacos and canapes. The truck caters weddings, birthdays, office parties, year-end functions and film shoots for 30 to 650 guests, and bookings are essential.

Sunningdale Car Wash & Detailing, Waterville Street, Sunningdale, Cape Town

South AfricanBBQ

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Grillicious Food Truck

Grillicious is a Mediterranean street food truck in Gqeberha. It serves pulled lamb, 12-hour beef brisket, grilled chicken or falafel on flatbread with slaw and tzatziki, with chips fried in tallow. It trades at markets such as Crossways Village Market and UP Market, and at Filthy's in Walmer, and takes bookings for corporate and private events.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

MediterraneanBBQSandwich

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Henry's Spitbraai

Henry's Spitbraai is a family-run spit-braai caterer in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) that cooks at weddings, private functions, corporate events and parties across the Eastern Cape. Menu options are a lamb and chicken spitbraai, a pork spitbraai, a three-meat spitbraai, a traditional braai, potjiekos and a three-course roast, and spitbraai rental is also offered for indoor or outdoor events. Menus are for a minimum of 30 guests and can be customised.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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About BBQ food trucks

BBQ food trucks cook over coals, wood or gas. Some keep it South African, with boerewors, chops and braai plates off the grill; others run smokers for American-style brisket, ribs and pulled pork. This group also includes many spit braai caterers, who roast whole lamb or pork at your venue.

Popular dishes

Boerewors rolls and braai plates, ribs and wings, smoked brisket, pulled pork and pork belly, burgers, and whole lamb from the spit braai caterers in this group.

Events and venues

BBQ trucks and caterers work weddings, birthdays, year-end functions and corporate events, and some also trade at markets and festivals. Almost all of them take bookings.

Contact a BBQ truck or caterer directly with your date, venue and guest numbers to get a quote.

BBQ food trucks in South Africa

All BBQ food trucks

Asado Spitbraai

BeefUp Spitbraais & Smokehouse

Braai Boss Catering

Braaiery

Chef Frans Catering

Craft Mobile (Craft Kosher Mobile Eatery)

Die Braaibus

Die Wors-Rol

Durban Braai Company

Ember and Ash

Grillicious Food Truck

Henry's Spitbraai

Jango Cafe

Kalahari Spitbraai & Catering

Kennedy Spitbraai & Caterers

Mad About Spit Braai

Magalies Spit Braai & Catering

Meat MyKitchen Food Truck

Monty's Spitbraai & Catering

Na J's Grills

Nyama Catering

Oor die Kole Spitbraai & Catering

Oupa Mike se Kos Wa

Rack n Grill

Red Bird Catering & Spit Braai

Republic of Braai

Smokey Bros

Spit-Braai King

Spitbraai Boss

Spitbraai Functions

Talladega Grill

The Wing Republic

Theo's Spit Braai Catering

TJ Spitbraai and Catering Services

Tjop Tjop Spit n Braai

TurnUp Food Truck SA

Ultimit Spit Catering

Wings Nama Things

Woodstock Food Truck

Wunder-Bar

Yo-Yo Spit Braais

Ziggy's Burger Joint

About BBQ food trucks

Popular dishes

Events and venues

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