Le Temps Est Venu

Le Temps Est Venu's homepage runs a widget of Google reviews, 9 of them visible at once, and 8 of the 9 read the way caterer reviews always read: a couple or a client thanking the team for a good day. The ninth is different. It is signed "Stéphanie (Paola Wedding)" and it opens like this: "J'ai eu le plaisir en tant que Wedding Planner de collaborer avec le temps est venu" (I had the pleasure, as a wedding planner, of working with Le Temps Est Venu). She goes on to say the team did more than her own brief asked of them on a large wedding she was running, and that she recommends the business to anyone who wants quality food and a team on top of things. It is dated 26 August 2024, carries a full 5-star rating, and it is the only one of the 9 that is not a client talking about their own day. It is a colleague talking about a business she chooses to keep working with.

That distinction matters more than it might look. A couple's review says the food was good and the day went well. A wedding planner's review says something else: that a professional who compares caterers for a living, across other people's weddings, rates this one highly enough to keep bringing them back. Paola Wedding turns out to be a real, currently operating one-person wedding-planning business, confirmed on its own site: run by a wedding planner and designer based in Belmont-sur-Lausanne, a commune next door to Lausanne, first-person copy throughout ("En tant que Wedding Planner, je m'occupe d'organiser votre mariage selon vos désirs"). One small gap is worth naming rather than smoothing over: the Google review is attributed to "Stéphanie Matthey," while Paola Wedding's own contact page gives its founder's name as Stéphanie Hidalgo Fernandez. The review names the business by name and no other Paola Wedding exists to confuse it with, so this write-up treats it as the same person under a different Google account name (a maiden or married name is the ordinary explanation), without claiming more certainty than that.

A château the caterer names, and a client's review confirms

Le Temps Est Venu keeps a separate page, "Lieux d'exceptions," listing the venues it already works in rather than leaving a couple to find one alone. It names 22 of them, from a shared theatre and social hall in Lausanne to a working wine estate outside Geneva to a private domain across the border in Divonne-les-Bains, France. 8 of the 22 are called château: Lucens, du Châtelard, de l'Aile, de Vaulruz, de Crassy, d'Eclépens, de Bavois and La Sarraz. That last one turns out to be more than a name on a list. A separate Google review, from Stéphane Hillebrand and dated 22 July 2024, thanks the caterer for a wedding held "au château de la Sarraz" and praises the food, the servers and the cooks by name of role if not by name of person. A caterer's own claimed venue relationship, confirmed independently by a client's account of actually marrying there, is a firmer kind of evidence than a partner-venue page usually gets to offer.

Benjamin Pihourquet's kitchen, since 2010

The person behind the food is named on the site as Benjamin, from the southwest of France, a graduate of hotel school, running the kitchen since 2010. The Mentions légales page gives his full name, Benjamin Pihourquet, listed as the publication's own director, and the legal entity behind the business as LE TEMPS EST VENU SÀRL, registered at Avenue des Baumettes 9 in Renens. That address is worth flagging on its own: the site markets itself in its own page title as "Lausanne, Vaud," which is true in the loose regional sense that most of Vaud's catering business runs through Lausanne, but the caterer's actual kitchen and legal seat sit a few kilometres away in the neighbouring town of Renens.

A couple of things the site states about its own scale and sourcing are worth taking at face value because they are specific rather than decorative: it runs more than 200 events a year, and it publishes a traceability policy naming HACCP compliance and a preference for local, seasonal and organic ingredients bought through short supply chains. Neither claim can be independently checked against a Swiss commercial register from here: Zefix's own robots.txt blocks every automated visitor outright, Moneyhouse names this agent specifically and blocks it, and so does business-monitor.ch. That is a real gap, stated rather than papered over: the SARL's name, address and founder are sourced only to the caterer's own legal-notices page, and nowhere independent of it.

What 6 menus actually cost

Most Swiss wedding caterers price everything on request, which makes Le Temps Est Venu worth pausing on: it publishes a sample menu and a per-person figure for 6 different services, and every one of them names a real dish. An apéritif runs from 20 guests at CHF 25 a head, 9 pieces per guest, built around things like Thai-style prawns and smoked-salmon millefeuille. A cocktail dînatoire, aimed at a slightly more festive brief, starts at the same 20 guests but CHF 38 a head. A weekday corporate lunch delivery, ordered at least 72 hours ahead, runs from 20 guests at CHF 25 a head, composed to order from a starter, a main and a dessert. A private family buffet, the kind booked for a birthday or a christening rather than a company event, starts at 20 guests and CHF 72 a head, with a menu built around burrata and slow-cooked veal fillet. An at-home private chef, the smallest-scale product on the list, starts at just 6 guests and CHF 170 a head, and includes the cook, a server and the dishwashing as part of that price, for a menu that runs to foie gras and scallop carpaccio. Corporate catering at the other end of the scale spans 50 to 500 guests at CHF 62 a head for its own sample menu, built around gravlax and free-range chicken.

The wedding page itself is the one product on the site with no such example: no guest minimum, no per-head figure, no named menu of its own. That is worth stating plainly rather than treating as unusual, since wedding pricing on request is the Swiss norm this brief warns against making a finding out of. What the other 6 examples do give a couple, in the absence of a wedding-specific one, is a real sense of register and format: this is a kitchen that plates a starter, a main and a dessert rather than running a single buffet line, and that happily serves parties as small as 6 or as large as 500 depending on the occasion.

Vaud first, and a canton that drops off the wedding-specific list

The homepage states the caterer's general working area as canton Vaud (naming Lausanne, Morges, Montreux, Vevey, Yverdon, Nyon and Rolle specifically) plus the cantons of Geneva, Valais, Fribourg and Neuchâtel. The dedicated wedding page states its own, narrower area: "des mariages dans les régions de Lausanne, Vaud, Valais, Genève et Neuchâtel." Fribourg is on the general list and absent from the wedding-specific one. That could mean nothing more than an older page that was never updated to match a newer one, but it is exactly the kind of small, checkable discrepancy this catalog states rather than resolves by guessing, and it is worth a direct question to the caterer if a couple's own venue happens to sit in Fribourg.

In French only, and no terms page to read

Every page checked on the domain runs in French, tagged lang="fr-FR" with no English toggle, no hreflang alternate and no language claim anywhere in the copy. The site simply does not say whether planning or the day itself can run in English, which for a couple organising a Swiss wedding from abroad is worth confirming directly before booking rather than assuming either way. The same goes for money: nowhere on the domain, checked page by page, is there a terms-of-sale, deposit or cancellation page of any kind, only the 2 standard legal pages (Mentions légales, a privacy policy) alongside the service pages themselves. A couple paying a Swiss vendor from abroad, wiring a deposit ahead of a date they can't easily change, should get those terms in writing before they commit rather than assume a standard they haven't seen published.

The verdict

What Le Temps Est Venu earns on its own site is an unusually well-corroborated professional reputation for a business this size: a full 5-star rating from 63 Google reviews rendered directly on its homepage, a StarOfService "Top Pro 2023" badge built on 25 further reviews, a named venue partner a client's own review independently confirms, and, distinctly, an endorsement from a wedding planner rather than only from couples. Set against that: a legal-entity claim this write-up could not verify against an independent register, a wedding page that publishes none of the pricing detail its sister pages do, a canton that quietly drops off the wedding-specific service list, and total silence on English-language service and on payment terms. None of those gaps is disqualifying on its own, but a couple planning from abroad should ask about each of them directly, in writing, before deciding whether this is the caterer for their day.