Joli Mont

Joli Mont's own ingredients list for its wedding grill buffet does something most Swiss caterers never bother to do: it names, item by item, which farm actually grew or raised what lands on the plate. Under a heading the site calls "Die Zutaten, von hier" (the ingredients, from here), the vegetables go mainly to joli mont's own biohof, "ergänzt durch" 2 named organic neighbours, Biohof Dittlige in Längenbühl and Biohof Dähler in Seftigen. The beef, pork, sausages and skewers come from the farm's own organic Grauvieh cattle and pasture pigs. The flour, hemp nuts and protein peas are the farm's own, and the sauces and dips are homemade on site. Then, on the same list, one line breaks the pattern: "Berner Alpkäse AOP konventionell," alpine cheese from Alp Hore in Leissigen, canton Bern. Konventionell, conventional, is the site's own word, and it appears nowhere else on that page. On a buffet built almost entirely from a certified organic farm and its named organic neighbours, the cheese is the one animal product joli mont itself flags as neither home-grown nor organic-certified. The crêpe menu's own sourcing list makes a second, quieter admission: the milk, oil, cinnamon and lemon in the batter and fillings come from Coop, the supermarket chain, not the farm at all.

Joli mont is 2 linked businesses under one name: joli mont biohof, the working farm, and joli mont manufaktur GmbH, the catering and production company, both run by Ursina Steiner and Stephan Jaun. Steiner, a trained farmer and agronomist, founded the company in 2013 as a market stall selling frozen yogurt; Jaun, an agronomist and communications specialist, co-founded it with her. Switzerland's commercial register confirms the 2013 date and lists the pair as the company's registered management today. In 2015 they moved the whole operation to a farm in Wattenwil, canton Bern, where it grew into the catering business described here. According to the operator's own homepage, they moved again on 1 January 2026, to a larger farm called the Kardenhof in Kerzers, canton Fribourg, while a different person, Mirjam Walde, has taken over what the site now calls "the joli mont biohof in Wattenwil."

The Kerzers farm the site now describes as home covers a stated 43 hectares, 29 of them family-owned and 14 leased, worked to Bio Suisse's organic rules. It carries 13 Rätisches Grauvieh cattle, an old Swiss breed, plus calves and a breeding bull named Rocky, fed on grass and hay rather than grain or corn silage, and 16 pasture pigs raised as a single group. These are the same animals the catering menu's own sourcing lists credit by name.

For a wedding, joli mont sells 4 separate formats rather than a single fixed package. An apéro buffet of farm bread, hemp-nut butter, hummus, fresh cheese and Alpkäse starts at CHF 18 a person for a minimum of 30 guests, with a meat add-on from the farm's own cattle and pigs at CHF 5 more, or a fuller "Apéro Riche" from CHF 28. A grill buffet, plain, burger or vegetarian, runs CHF 43 a person, also from 30 guests up. A crêpe buffet is CHF 30 a person for both sweet and savoury crêpes made to order, plus CHF 15 for a salad course and another CHF 15 for a dessert-crêpe course, for parties of 30 to 100; above that, crêpes become one stall in a larger food market instead, priced on request. The frozen yogurt bar, joli mont's original product, costs CHF 15 a person for 50 to 100 guests, and is priced on request above that. None of those figures include travel, an hourly service charge of CHF 45, dishware, table linen or Swiss VAT, and children under 3 always eat free. The small print says children aged 3 to 12 pay half price everywhere except the grill page, which caps the discount at age 7 for reasons the site does not explain.

The signature dessert comes from someone else's dairy

The frozen yogurt is the product joli mont built its name on, badged as "Gfrornigs Joghurt" and made to order at the event from a house recipe. But the site is direct about where the yogurt itself comes from: not the Kerzers farm, but Madleina and Martin Zbinden's Riedackerhof, an organic farm in Rüschegg-Heubach, where the couple turns milk from their own cows and sheep into yogurt and other dairy products. Martin Zbinden developed the specific recipe joli mont uses. It's a small, named supply chain across 2 farms, not an in-house dairy, and joli mont says so plainly rather than letting its own "vom Biohof" branding imply otherwise.

The topping list carries the same honesty further. Alongside seasonal fruit, homemade compotes and a hemp-nut granola credited to the farm, it also names items the site itself marks "nicht bio": Oreos, a Swiss party-mix candy called Vili vili Bunti, and an M&M's-style sweet the page spells "Äm & Äms." Pineapple is labelled "partly not organic, but fairtrade," and a grape variety is flagged "not organic-certified." For a buffet that opens on a Grauvieh steak from the couple's own pasture, closing on branded candy the site admits isn't organic is a small but genuine gap between the farm story and the full dessert bar, one joli mont discloses rather than smooths over.

One farm, 3 addresses, and a land registry stuck in 2015

Where joli mont is actually based is a genuinely open question, not a typo. The site's Kontakt and Standorte pages both give the current postal address as Kardenhof 1, 3210 Kerzers, for both the farm and the manufaktur GmbH, matching the 2026 move announced on the homepage. The site's own Impressum, its legally required disclosure page, instead lists Huepel 2, 3665 Wattenwil, the old canton Bern address. Switzerland's commercial register lists a third address again: Wydimattweg 15, 3665 Wattenwil, sharing the postcode but not the street name, last updated on 13 October 2015, the date of the original move to Wattenwil, with no later filing recorded for the move to Kerzers. All 3 sources agree on the company's UID, CHE-373.856.286, and on Steiner and Jaun as the people running it, so there's no doubt this is the same business. A couple checking the Impressum for a legal address, or the register to confirm who they're dealing with, would currently land on 2 different Wattenwil street names, neither of which matches the address the operator's own booking contact gives out today.

German only, and a delivery radius that ends around Bern and Fribourg

Nothing on joli-mont.ch is written in anything but German. Every page checked, all 24 of them, carries the German language tag with no toggle and no separate English section, and none of the copy says whether Steiner, Jaun or their team can run a tasting, a contract or the wedding day itself in another language. A couple planning a Swiss wedding from abroad who wants this particular menu should expect to correspond, quote and contract in German, or bring a translator to the tasting.

The business also doesn't reach far. Its own 2025 tour schedule lists markets and festivals almost entirely in cantons Bern and Fribourg: Bern city, Belp, Aarberg, Wangen an der Aare, Münsingen, Rüeggisberg, Fribourg, Riggisberg, Steffisburg and Kerzers among them, and the per-kilometre travel surcharge on every catering page points the same way. This is a caterer built around one specific farm's own cattle, pigs and fields; a couple marrying well outside the Bernese Seeland or Emmental, or wanting an English-run kitchen, is looking at the wrong business, whatever the reviews say about the food itself.

What past weddings actually looked like

Joli mont publishes 7 client testimonials, several of them specifically about weddings rather than corporate events. Nadine Arnold's wedding ran an apéro, a fire grill, salads, a gratin and the frozen yogurt dessert for 80 guests. Katja and Philippe Schädeli married in Steffisburg with an apéro, vegetarian crêpes, a vegetarian grill and frozen yogurt for 50 guests, and specifically praised the kitchen for handling a mixed table of meat-eaters and vegetarians without friction. Neither review states a price, but both confirm the formats described above have actually run at real weddings, at group sizes squarely inside the minimums the site quotes.

What the site does not publish anywhere in its navigation, checked across the homepage, the catering and farm sections, the about pages and the Impressum, is any deposit amount, cancellation ladder or payment schedule. A couple who wants that in writing before booking will need to ask directly rather than find it online. For a couple already set on marrying in the Bernese Seeland, comfortable working in German, and happy with a menu that credits its own cows, pigs and fields by name, alongside a cheese and a yogurt it's equally upfront about sourcing elsewhere, joli mont is a specific, well-documented choice. For anyone hoping for an English-speaking planner or a caterer willing to travel far from Bern and Fribourg, it plainly isn't.