Chef Dirk’s deep passion for food and global cuisine stems from his travels to more than 20 countries. Classically trained as a gourmet chef and hospitality manager in Germany, his native country, Chef Dirk has served celebrities and worked at five-star restaurants. His vast culinary, hospitality, and leadership experience, and enthusiastic personality make for deeply engaging, entertaining, and truly unforgettable classes.
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WHAT YOU’LL DO
Join Chef Dirk for a vibrant and fun culinary team building experience like no other.
In this hands-on team building cooking class with Chef Dirk, you and your team will learn how to prepare a colorful four-course menu that is built on the principles of a contemporary plant-based diet. You and your team will begin by building a garden salad with a homemade five-vinegar, three-oil vinaigrette. Then, learn how to prepare two plant-based entrées brimming with fresh, colorful vegetables, herbs and seasonings. Lastly, you'll enjoy a seasonal fruit salad featuring a homemade apple cider maple syrup marinade.
Guests are welcome to purchase wine and beer from the venue.
Your Menu
Farm-to-Table Seasonal Greens Garden Salad
With onions, Napa cabbage croutons and homemade European vinaigrette
Fried Saffron Basmati Vegetable Rice
With garlic, onions, turmeric, green peas, bell peppers and fresh herbs
Seasonal Fruit and Mint Salad in an Apple Cider Marinade
With maple syrup and lemon juice
Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
No prior cooking experience needed
All ingredients and equipment are provided
Dietary accommodations available upon request
Private classes available for groups and special events
Chef Dirk’s deep passion for food and global cuisine stems from his travels to more than 20 countries. Classically trained as a gourmet chef and hospitality manager in Germany, his native country, Chef Dirk has served celebrities and worked at five-star restaurants. His vast culinary, hospitality, and leadership experience, and enthusiastic personality make for deeply engaging, entertaining, and truly unforgettable classes.
The experience was excellent! Chef Dirk was a top notch instructor and I had a great time. I would absolutely take another class from Chef Dirk in the future.
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Chef Dirk was great. He was direct but funny and made the experience go smoothly without wasting any time. He explained things and helped us to understand the process!!
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Everyone had so much fun - 10/10 experience!
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Everyone had a great time—thank you, Chef Dirk, for a fantastic experience and a fun evening!
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I got fantastic feedback from our team! Everyone had a great time. Thank you to Chef Dirk for a fantastic experience.
Michelle E.
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We loved our evening with Chef Dirk! He is funny, thoughtful, knowledgable, and a delight to spend time with. Book with Chef Dirk and you won't regret it :)
Anirudh V.
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Awesome class!
Diamond D.
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Incredible chef and amazing experience with delicious German Swiss Austrian cuisine! What more could you ask for?!
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Such a fun experience, would love to do something like this again! It was me and my partner's first time booking with Cozymeal and would love to do it again. Chef Dirk was so fun, engaging, funny, and ensured our experience was as enjoyable as possible. Loved sipping on wine and eating our creations.
Paul R.
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Well organized so there is always non stop activities to keep participants active: chopping, spice throwing bucket brigade and dumpling making.
Ajay Sabhlok@rubrik.com .
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Chef Dirk was very engaging and detail oriented. Making pasta from dough was a unique experience. The food tasted great and we all enjoyed dinner after cooking
The kitchen was in a house and a bit congested for 8 people.
A quick demo on how the fresh pasta dough was made would have been helpful too. We asked the chef to share the recipe afterwards so we could repeat the effort at home.
Ted Strawser .
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Super fun. Great food. Great experience. And we learned some things. Chef Dirk’s passion shines through from end to end
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Chef Dirk was excellent. A very personable and relatable chef.
Jill M.
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Chef Dirk was great! The menu was new and interesting, not something I have prepared before. Chef gave good instruction, used really fresh ingredients and used a lot of nice herbs and spices. He was very accommodating to allergies, and really went out of his way to make that work for my son. The only reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 was the venue. It was really situated best for 4 guests, but we had 6. 2 people had to sit by themselves in the kitchen, and 4 on the other side of the kitchen. Parking in the immediate area is also very difficult.
I left chef a cash tip, that is the only reason I am not adding additional tip here.
Elizabeth A.
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We had the most amazing time!!! Chef Dirk was such a wonderful entertainer, teacher, food educator and host. We walked away feeling like accomplished chefs because the food was amazing!!!! My team was thrilled and is still talking about the experience today.
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