Ginger & Noosh GmbH

A small Bern caterer run by a restaurant chef

Ginger & Noosh GmbH is a catering and events business at Freiburgstrasse 139c in Bern, run by Oliver Ebert, who is listed on the site as its Geschäftsführer (managing director). It cooks for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, baptisms, lunches and company events, indoors or outdoors, morning, noon or evening, and it builds every wedding menu individually rather than selling a set package.

Ebert's own account of his career on the About page is short and specific. In 1999 he stood behind a restaurant stove for the first time and, as he puts it, has not stopped since. He cooked for the guests of the Marzilibrüggli and of Restaurant Ringgenberg, then spent eight years as head chef of a catering company, where he says he deepened his knowledge and skills every day. Going independent, he writes, meant freedom: to cook for people with market-fresh, seasonal and sustainably produced products from the region, to surprise them with creative dishes, and to give them a few hours of space for the things that matter in their lives.

The company's line on the About page is that its heart beats for good, seasonal, sustainably produced food that is handled with respect. The homepage motto runs along the same lines: "Produkte von bester Qualität. Zubereitet mit Respekt und Leidenschaft. Serviert mit Freude." (products of the best quality, prepared with respect and passion, served with joy). The homepage adds that the team considers the job well done only when the hosts had nothing to worry about.

How the wedding menu is built

The wedding page is clear that there is no template. The menus, it says, "entstehen nicht nach Vorlage, sondern werden speziell für euch entwickelt" (are not made from a template but developed specifically for you). The team wants to learn the couple's wishes, ideas and personal stories first and then compose a menu from them. The page names the range it has in mind: classic and elegant, modern, vegetarian or unusual. From the apéro to the dessert, it says, every detail should reflect the couple's style.

The buffet page makes the same point in its price list. Next to the priced buffets sits a line for a "Hochzeitsmenü" with the price left blank as "Fr..", followed by the explanation that for the most beautiful day of your life the company does not want to offer a ready-made menu, and that the right offer is found in a personal conversation. For a couple abroad, that means a quote only arrives after a meeting or a call, not from a form.

The wedding page also names three past couples, Sheryl & Tom, Sandra & Lukas and Jasmin & Daniel, though it reproduces no comments from them in text.

The Froschkönig partnership

The wedding page opens with the company's main wedding credential: Ginger & Noosh is proud to be the catering partner of the Froschkönig event venue in Detligen. The page says the collaboration brings its passion for food together with the venue, working "Hand in Hand" on each celebration. Froschkönig is a separate venue; Ginger & Noosh does not describe itself as running it. For couples who have already chosen Froschkönig, this is the caterer the venue works with. Couples marrying elsewhere should note that the site does not say whether that partnership limits which other venues the team cooks at. The homepage does say its food is matched to "Anlass, Zeit und Ort" (occasion, time and place), and the events page lists indoor and outdoor jobs, so catering away from the partner venue is clearly part of the business.

What the published prices show

The apéro and buffet pages publish a sample of the range with prices per person, which is more than many Swiss caterers put online. The apéro list runs as follows:

• Apéro klein, CHF 15: focaccia with scamorza and basil aioli, crunchy flaxseed sticks, smoked pepper hummus with feta crumble.
• Apéro mittel, CHF 25: adds a beef pastrami and chard tart, a pepper and feta cream with pistachios, and taralli on a pea and tahini cream with Belper Knolle cheese.
• Apéro vegan, CHF 25: chickpea vegetable cakes, a rice-pop tartare with ciabatta chips, avocado and tahini cream, fava with rocket.
• Apéro kalt & heiss, CHF 35: Vietnamese summer rolls, marinated cucumber with mirin, beef and vegetable dumplings from the bamboo basket, Thai curry rice balls in panko.
• Apéro-riche, CHF 65: the largest selection, from quiche and beetroot hummus to beef and vegetable momos, chicken yakitori with satay sauce, ratatouille, a lime cream and a chocolate tart with tonka bean.
• Tapas, CHF 28: padrón peppers stuffed with cream cheese and chorizo, marinated octopus, beef empanadas, saffron arancini, manchego with olives.

The buffet page lists "Nooshig" at CHF 40 per person (seasonal salad with pomegranate, tomato and cucumber salad, flatbread with hummus, a vegetable tajine with chickpeas, beef kofta with harissa, aubergine with feta, falafel with tzatziki) and a BBQ at CHF 68 per person with honey ribs, beef flank steak, chicken yakitori, baked potatoes and grilled seasonal vegetables alongside several salads.

The pages call these "eine kleine Auswahl" (a small selection) and say the offer changes regularly because the kitchen cooks by season. They are a guide to style and price level, not a fixed catalog.

What the site leaves open

Several things a couple planning from abroad would want are not on the site. It publishes no price for a wedding menu, only the blank line described above. It states no minimum or maximum guest count, no lead time for booking, and no deposit or cancellation terms (the footer links to the company's general terms, the AGB, without summarizing them). It does not say whether service staff, tableware or drinks are included in the per-person prices; a separate Drink section and a Sweets section appear in the menu without further detail.

Language is the other open point. The navigation uses English labels such as Home, About, Events and Wedding, and the contact line reads "Let's talk", but every menu description and all the running text are in German. The site does not say whether consultations can be held in English, so that is a question for the first message.

Contact is by phone on 031 822 14 14, shown on every page, or through the Kontakt page.

Who it suits

Ginger & Noosh fits couples marrying at Froschkönig in Detligen, and couples in the Bern area who want a menu written around them by a chef with restaurant and catering-company experience rather than picked from a brochure. The apéro range is broad, with a vegan option at the same price as the mid-level apéro, and the pages show a kitchen that draws on Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Asian dishes rather than a classic Swiss banquet.

The caveats are practical. Budgeting from abroad is harder when the wedding menu price only comes after a conversation, and the German-only menus mean a couple who does not read German will need to ask for the proposal in English. Couples marrying far from Bern should confirm early that the team will travel to their venue.