Private parties from 15 guests
Birthday catering Berlin – the party stays at your place.
A warm buffet from 15 guests in your garden, flat or rented room. No power supply needed, with setup and next-day collection – you celebrate with your guests, we take care of the food.
What to expect
A milestone birthday needs no commercial kitchen.
Our chafing dishes run on fuel paste – the garden table or living room is plenty. Vegetarian, vegan and halal are equal choices, and the whole buffet can be lactose-free on request. We even take the washing-up away with us.
Garden, flat, hall
No power supply
Setup & collection
First completed catering job
Private garden party, 20 guests, Berlin-Biesdorf.
August 2026. Enquired through the form on this website. Prepared lactose-free apart from the naan — at no extra charge, with no power supply on site.
20guests
6warm dishes
0sockets needed
€0surcharge, lactose-free
What was typical about this job.
The enquiry arrived with one unknown
Date, venue and guest count were fixed; the menu was not. We confirmed the framework first and built the menu together afterwards — not the other way round.
Lactose was the real question
The host wanted to know which dishes contained milk. Rather than removing dishes, we converted the buffet: korma with coconut milk instead of cream, curries without butter or yoghurt, rice without ghee. Only the naan stayed as it was, at her explicit request. No surcharge, and barely a difference in taste.
No power, no problem
The party was in a rear-courtyard garden. Our chafing dishes run on fuel paste, so the question of outdoor sockets and extension leads never arose — nor did the wet-weather fallback indoors.
Two tables, not one
For six warm dishes plus rice we advise 2 m × 80 cm, plus a second small table for plates, bread and papadom. Details like that are better settled beforehand than on the evening.
The invoice, unchanged.
We show it because "price on request" helps nobody plan a budget. The VAT split is the one that is correct for catering: food and its ancillary services at 7%, the pure rental of the chafing dishes at 19%.
| Warm buffet with setup 20 × 17.00 € | 340.00 € |
| Chafing dishes incl. fuel paste | 40.00 € |
| Delivery & setup · up to 15 km · Köpenick, Treptow, Biesdorf | 45.00 € |
| Equipment collection | 25.00 € |
| Net | 450.00 € |
| VAT 7% 410.00 € | 28.70 € |
| VAT 19% 40.00 € | 7.60 € |
| Total | 486.30 € |
24.32 € per guest, including delivery, setup, warming and collection.
What we changed because of it.
Eleven emails. Nine of them belonged here.
The job took eleven emails, and nine of them answered questions that belong on this website. Menu, prices, the power question, table space, deadlines and collection are therefore now published here — so the next conversation starts at the menu instead of the logistics.
How your order runs
Four clear steps to the first plate.
Briefing
Date, guests, venue, dietary needs and service goal.
Quote in 24 hours
A transparent proposal with menu and logistics.
Free tasting
Check taste and flow together before you book.
Delivered & set up
We set up, keep warm and collect everything again.
Booking terms
Deposit and cancellation
Two sets of terms. Which applies is decided by how far ahead you book and by the order value — not by the occasion. A company summer party booked eight months out sits in the second tier exactly like a wedding; a wedding booked for next Saturday does not.
Short-notice booking
Booked less than 30 days before the date, order value up to €750.00 gross
- No deposit — you pay after the event.
- Free cancellation up to 72 hours before the event.
- Inside the last 72 hours: 80% of the order value.
Booked ahead
Booked 30 days or more before the date, or order value above €750.00 gross — weddings, summer parties, Christmas parties, company events
- Deposit of 30% of the order value on confirmation. It holds your date and is credited against the final invoice.
- More than 30 days before the event: the deposit is refunded in full.
- 30 to 8 days before the event: the deposit is retained (30%).
- 7 to 3 days before the event: 50% of the order value.
- Inside the last 72 hours, or no-show: 80% of the order value.
If your plans move, talk to us before you cancel — we would rather reschedule than lose your event.
Dem Kunden bleibt der Nachweis vorbehalten, dass kein oder ein wesentlich geringerer Schaden entstanden ist.
The customer remains entitled to prove that no damage, or substantially less damage, has occurred.
TASTING IN KÖPENICK
Experience Masalas in our restaurant first.
Meet the kitchen and the team in person. Before you book, we align taste, menu and flow over a free tasting.