Eco Caters Washington, DC
Eco Caters’ Washington, DC location was founded in 2012 with a mission to provide the highest quality event catering to our community. As our name implies, our talented chefs and event design teams work to incorporate organic ingredients and sustainable practices into our business every day. The result? Forward-thinking, crowd-pleasing menus presented with style and sophistication.
Our award-winning catering and event design company credits much of its success to the help of friends. With kitchens and connections in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, our catering teams understand that great dishes prepared from fresh ingredients are crucial to a fantastic event. We work closely with local organic growers, sourcing food from the surrounding areas and using sustainably produced ingredients. Community farmers are like family to the Eco Caters chefs.
Our goal is to ensure that your event thrills the senses and delights the palate. You’ll also experience peace of mind, because, simply put: the company behind it all cares.
Event Catering
Creating a personalized experience for each of our clients fills us with pride. With more than a decade of experience, Eco has catered all manner of weddings, black-tie events, intimate cocktail parties and corporate lunches. Our goal is to provide exceptional catering that shows off your style and hospitality.
Eco Caters’ knowledgeable and creative Chefs design custom menus based on the personal tastes/dietary needs, traditions and budgets of our clients. The emphasis is on naturally healthy ingredients, whether it’s organic hors d’oeuvres, a vegetarian or vegan plated menu, or lunch menus custom designed for your company. Dairy-, gluten-,nut- and sugar-free selections are always available at Eco.
Bring on the special requests and out-of-the box ideas. Our goal is to make you shine! And, since we love keeping a big network of friends, we’re happy to introduce you to any of our preferred venues or partners who can help make your event stand out, too!
Wedding Catering
A wedding dinner is a memorable and poignant meal, the kind that serves to bond two families together forever. Over glasses of chilled champagne, friends and family come together to celebrate the undeniable love story of two people, and to toast to the lifetime of joy and happiness that is ahead. We’ve poured our hearts into our food and our service as a dedication to the love of the people who allow us into their worlds to share their special day.
As it turns out, our secret isn’t so secret, after all. It’s the reason people are open to sharing their special celebration with us, and it’s the reason guests keep coming back for more. Our ultimate goal is to prepare a wedding menu with food so good, you just have to share it with the people you love. And we love helping create that perfect backdrop, too. If you need ideas or introductions to some of D.C.’s best venues we’d be happy to connect you.
LUNCH CATERING
Lunches that please the palate and have real nutritional value can spark the appetite and energize mind and body for the afternoon ahead. Eco Caters makes beyond-the-box lunches from organic, sustainably sourced ingredients, using eco-friendly practices.
Fresh, homemade, baked to order and delivered on time – everybody loves lunch when it’s this easy.
- Free onsite consultation to assess your lunch catering needs.
- Chefs available to cook at your onsite kitchen.
- Chef-prepared meals are delivered at the specified time (if no kitchen facilities).
Lunch catering is available for a minimum of 20 people.
SUSTAINABILITY
We’ve worked hard to establish a coast-to-coast standard of excellence that supports award-winning sustainable practices in our kitchens. The strong relationships we have developed with local growers and farmers help support our relationships with the most important people of all – our clients.
With organic and sustainable practices second nature to our business, Eco Caters can devote its full attention to the values, taste and preferences of each individual client. From the initial planning phase, we will work collaboratively with you to ensure your event reaches well beyond its full potential.
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Nick Brune
Owner/CEO
Raised in the kitchens of Louisiana, Nick Brune grew up in a family that viewed a home-cooked meal as one of the greatest acts of love. That simple trust in the power of good food to gather friends and family around a table inspired Nick and his wife, Emily, to create their organic catering company.
Emily Brune
Owner
Emily manages the family of Eco Caters kitchens across Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington D.C. Her infectious energy fuels the entire Eco team so whether your event is once in a lifetime or an excuse to celebrate a milestone, Emily and her team will make your experience an occasion to remember.
Rob Turner
Los Angeles, Head Chef
Emily manages the family of Eco Caters kitchens across Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington D.C. Her infectious energy fuels the entire Eco team so whether your event is once in a lifetime or an excuse to celebrate a milestone, Emily and her team will make your experience an occasion to remember.
Christine Sheffield
Los Angeles, Lead Catering Coordinator
Christine’s love for food and her excellent event management skills made her a natural for a career in hospitality. Between 2016 and 2018, Christine helped to open and run the Eco Café in the commissary at The Culver Studios to provide high quality, organic food to the production studio’s employees and clients. She’s now made the transition into corporate sales and events.
Jessica Sleep
San Diego, Lead Catering Coordinator
Jessica lives, breathes, sleeps hospitality with over five years’ experience in catering and event planning, and a stint volunteering at a USDA Organic Certified Farm. She’s a stickler for detail to ensure that your event is the stuff of dreams. Her sunny personality make her a real hit with clients.
Ernie Acosta
San Diego, Head Chef/Simply Lunch
When at the age of 5 and a mother who was of age 21, he found it necessary to cook for himself, and started to love what he was doing. Knowing he had to become an adult At the age of 14 he connected with great chefs that pushed him to becoming one of the greats. From there he grew to push himself. Being a big part of many booming companies like running the San Diego convention center to opening up restaurants like ballast point. He has landed to Eco Caters to help build and grow it to something great.
Stacy Im
Los Angeles, Lead Sales
Stacy’s energy is the driving force behind the love between our kitchen and clients. Since childhood, she had a love affair with cooking, hosting parties while being extremely efficient and resourceful. Born with an adventurous spirit, she has traveled to over 30 countries to discover the different flavors around the world and to connect with a diverse groups of people. Stacy’s passion for food and love for hosting parties is the perfect combination to help clients achieve their extraordinary events. When she isn’t obsessing over perfecting events or romantic walks to the fridge, she can be found at the gym, hiking, practicing yoga and maybe jumping out of a plane.
Marina Macias
San Diego, Lead Sales
Marina’s bright personality makes it a wonderful experience to all clients. With over 5 years of experience in customer service, she is dedicated to making sure all clients needs and wants are met. You can be reassured that your event will be one to remember.
Rick Borba
San Diego, General Manager
Rick has been in the hospitality industry for the past 20 years. With the passion of Customer Service and Operations, Rick brings A well balanced attack to our Eco Family.
Jase DiNardo
San Diego, Head Chef
From a young age Jase has been surrounded in the culinary field. With a chef as a dad he has been instilled the virtues of hard work and efficiency in every day life. Which helped get this young chef into the role that he is in today. With a fine dining background from working his way up in Las Vegas, to building his career in catering in San Diego he has built up a well rounded set of skills that will bring you the best experience possible for any of your needs.
Chef Robert Wood
Co-Owner/Executive Chef
Whether it was at his first post on Tybee Island at Georges’ in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia or his current position as Executive Chef of Eco Caters DC, Chef Wood has always believed in highlighting the ingredients. Over the years, he has cooked from San Diego to Nantucket to the Bahamas and DC, all while maintaining an affinity for simple presentations of well-procured foods. Chef Robbie uses the integrity of his ingredients as the foundation for a great variety of nutritious and delectable preparations. He continues to reinvest in the communities around him by giving his time and wares to a variety of non-profit organizations in the DMV that maintain similar interests.
John Boozer
Partner and VP
Originally From Charlottesville, Virginia, John grew up working construction on a farm and bussing tables on the weekends. It was during this time that he developed a deep passion for sustainability and a continued commitment to the health and longevity of our communities, environment and the planet as a whole.
After graduating from The University of Virginia’s Business School, John spent the next 20 years growing his skill set and expertise in sales. He has held executive level roles in multiple organizations, within multiple industries, all focused around growth and optimizing efficiencies within each organization. John served as the youngest Department head in the Omni Corporation, directing recruitment, training, spearheading marketing initiatives and managing the F&B program.
John has focused on start-ups for the majority of the past 15 years, working with some of the largest and fastest growing companies in the world, including WeWork and Vonage. While with WeWork, he directed sales for both the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest markets simultaneously while successfully surpassi