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The 5 Best Cooking Classes for Team Building in San Francisco

Even in a bustling city like San Francisco, it’s difficult to lock down a perfect team building event. You need an activity that is fun and engaging for all involved, caters to team members’ tastes, and heck, maybe their appetites too. Cooking classes make ideal team building activities due to being demanding (but not impossible) while inspiring creativity and experimentation. In this post, we’re going to serve up our selection of the 5 best team building cooking classes in San Francisco, picked based on vibes, culinary flexibility, and overall deliciousness.

 

A group of people learning how to cook from a cooking class.

Let’s cook up some fun with your team!

1. Sidewalk Food Tours Cooking Classes

Sidewalk Food Tours offers in-depth team building cooking classes in their first rate kitchen locations situated around San Francisco. You and your team are in full control of choosing your favorite cuisine, with dietary accommodations available. From there, you can enjoy a fun and informative cooking event led by a professional chef and his staff. This is a complete experience with snacks, a knife skills demo, and the ability to eat the “fruits” of your labor when all is said and done. 

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a group of people standing next to a person

Let’s get cookin’!

2. Sidewalk Food Tours Cooking Competitions

Sidewalk Food Tours also offers competition style cooking classes, though these get their own spotlight since they really turn up the heat compared to the classic options. Your possible choices include The Art of Plating, the Dumpling Challenge, Taco: Impossible, and Pasta Wars. Each of these individual challenges asks you and your team to bring you’re A-Game to a certain culinary skill or cuisine (somewhat hinted at in each title.)

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Chef dicing vegetables in the kitchen for a cooking class,

Slicin’ and dicin’!

3. Hands On Gourmet

Hands On Gourmet offers interactive cooking parties where you and your team can work with a professional chef in groups as small as 10 or as large as 300. While there is a minimum purchase of $3000 required, you and your team will get to enjoy a vast menu selection including Mexican, Hawaiian, Italian, and more.

 

a piece of cake sitting on top of sushi on a table

Top notch!

4. Parties that Cook

Parties that Cook is a mobile culinary event company that can provide anything from corporate teambuilding to private cooking parties. You can choose from small plates (reception style cooking parties), chef’s table (a seated dining experience), sushi showdown (sushi-making competition), and more. They also provide a few recipes online for free which can give you a bit of an appetizer for the type of cooking you and your team might sink your teeth into.

 

Cooking Classes

Chef it up!

5. The Story of Ramen

This one goes out to the Ramen enthusiasts. The Story of Ramen specializes in providing a journey into Japanese cuisine combined with an engaging teambuilding activity. This hands-on Ramen making class will guide you and your team members towards creating authentic Ramen from scratch. You can also optionally add sake or tea tasting, custom aprons to commemorate the event, and even a celebratory cake. We know this is a niche option, but the fact that it’s so niche means that the story of Ramen can really dig into the details for any Ramen-loving teams out there.

While there are plenty of cooking events in San Francisco that sound good, what’s really important is making sure they are good (and taste good too!) This pick of our five favorites should help ensure you and your team members have a delicious, informative, and engaging time. The exact kind of experience that will forge strong bonds and facilitate greater collaboration in the work force.

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