The 5 Best Cooking Classes for Team Building in Washington, DC
The problem with team building is that it’s a corporate activity in and of itself. This can make it hard for team members to forget about the underlying corporate politics enough to focus on strengthening bonds with their coworkers. Thankfully, we know the solution: finding team building activities that are so completely fun and demanding that they force groups to be mindful, present, and accidentally forge some stronger connections as well.
And in our minds, no team building activity achieves this more effectively than cooking classes.
Hence why we’re going to outline our picks for the 5 best cooking classes available for corporate teams in Washington DC. These classes are the perfect mix of engaging and enlightening – resulting in an unforgettable experience and improving team member relations.
Traditional French toast with berries: blueberries, currant, raspberries and icing sugar for perfect sweet breakfast.
1. Sidewalk Cooking Class
Sidewalk Food Tours emphasizes the enjoyment there is to be found in cuisine – whether that’s through tours of cities across the nation or through bringing food and culture to a venue of your choice. In particular, the Sidewalk Cooking Competition allows you to split into teams to create perfect dishes in a two-hour, pro chef-led extravaganza. You pick the culinary style and dietary restrictions to accommodate, while Sidewalk Food Tours will provide the chef, class structure, and a tasty welcoming snack.
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Winner gets a free day off? 👀
2. Sidewalk Food Tours Iron Chef-Style Cooking Competition
No this isn’t Deja Vu, Sidewalk Food Tours is also our number two. The Iron Chef-Style cooking competition sets itself apart from regular cooking classes. Instead of allowing you and your team to pick the cuisine of your choice, Sidewalk Food Tours surprises with a pantry full of thematically related ingredients, only for teams to decide on the spot what dish they want to prepare. This, paired with a pro chef acting as a judge, creates “as seen on TV” challenge that truly brings out the fun available in cooking classes.
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Yum!
3. Recipe for Success
Recipe for Success is a culinary teambuilding experience that can create a pop-up kitchen in any location to provide you and your team with the proper venue for your ideal corporate teambuilding cooking activity. They offer several different types of challenges such as ice cream making challenges, food truck challenges, winery team challenges, and more. They’re a solid pick for any team that enjoys stretching their creative muscles.
A good choice for your vegan friends!
4. Nourish Culinary
Nourish Culinary offers hands-on cooking classes in addition to group workshops and private culinary lessons, making them capable of invoking any sort of atmosphere you want out of a team building cooking class. You can choose specific dietary plans such as vegan or keto to help shape the ideal experience for your team.
Learn a new recipe!
5. Cosmopolitan Plated
Cosmopolitan Plated offers creative group cooking classes that they formulate with you during a discovery process, where you can relay the needs and goals you have in mind for your team. This helps ensure that the cooking workshop Cosmopolitan Plated serves up for your team will adequately engage and entertain all your team members.
Washington DC has plenty of cooking class options available, but what’s really important is reaching out to each company and assuring they’re able to cook up an experience that will best serve your team building goals. If you ask us, “fun” and “delicious” are the ideal ingredients for a proper (and successful!) event.