Team Building Activity - Handmade Pasta Competition

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What You’ll Do

Test your crew's collaboration skills with a team building pasta-making cooking class.

Preparing pasta becomes a team building challenge in this hands-on cooking class with Chef Desmond. He'll get your group working on a traditional Italian meal with a hearty dash of competition in the mix.

Your team breaks into smaller groups before assembling a classic tomato and basil bruschetta appetizer. The pressure mounts as your iron chefs prepare their own homemade pasta and topping selections, plus a batch of lemon curd Napoleons for dessert. Teams will sample each other's creations as Chef Desmond assesses and ranks their pasta presentations.

Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.

Your Menu

Tomato and Basil Bruschetta

With fresh bread and cheese

Homemade Pasta and Sauce

Ingredients may include assorted cheese, eggs, cream, sweet Italian sausage, bacon, pancetta, chicken and salmon

Lemon Curd Napoleons

With sugar, butter, phyllo dough and fresh raspberries

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.

Details

Minimum Guests 16
Maximum Guests 24
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Cooking Competition, Corporate, Fun, Group, Italian, Pasta Making

Meet your chef

Chef Desmond

17 reviews

Chef Desmond loves using inventive methods to teach others about food and nutrition. Heâ€™s even created educational rap lyrics on the subject! He holds a master's degree in nutritional studies from Cambridge, has co-created several textbooks and is currently working his own cookbook. Heâ€™s also been featured in print and television, including "Best Leftovers Ever" on Netflix. Chef Desmond is excited to share his creative energy with aspiring chefs of all skill levels.

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For your selected date, , you will receive a refund minus a cancellation fee of $685 if you cancel. The noted cancellation fee is to cover the venue, which is non-refundable. For bookings cancelled within 48 hours of the event start time, the full amount is non-refundable.

What You’ll Do

Test your crew's collaboration skills with a team building pasta-making cooking class.

Your Menu

Tomato and Basil Bruschetta

With fresh bread and cheese

Homemade Pasta and Sauce

Ingredients may include assorted cheese, eggs, cream, sweet Italian sausage, bacon, pancetta, chicken and salmon

Lemon Curd Napoleons

With sugar, butter, phyllo dough and fresh raspberries

Details

Minimum Guests 16
Maximum Guests 24
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Cooking Competition, Corporate, Fun, Group, Italian, Pasta Making

Reviews

Verified guest reviews for other experiences with Chef Desmond

Brian

07 Feb 2022

Chef Desmond was prompt and prepared. He walked us through the entire process and was incredibly entertaining with stories along the way. He was professional and a joy to host.

Obria

03 Feb 2022

Had a great experience with Chef Desmond when I booked for my boyfriendâ€™s birthday! He was flexible when a snowstorm hit and food was amazing. He is a great conversationalist and helped make the weekend amazing! Would book again!

Bailey

22 Jan 2022

Chef Desmond was great! The meal was amazing! The whole experience was a really good one.

Andrew

17 Jan 2022

Chef Desmond is a class act! Great personality, great chef, great overall experience. Loved learning and eating Chef's meal.

Jason

15 Jan 2022

We had a great time learning from Desmond and the food was amazing!

devin

31 Dec 2021

Excellent! Absolutely amazing experience learning to cook from Chef Desmond. The recipes were delicious and he was an excellent teacher. You will not be disappointed!

Connor

01 May 2022

Chef Desmond was amazing and we had a wonderful evening! Would highly recommend and look forward to the next chance to spend a meal with Chef!

Gaddiel

25 Feb 2022

Chef Desmond was great. He was on time, very entertaining, a great teacher and the food was great. It was such a fun date night with my husband!

Marcy

21 Feb 2022

Chef Desmond was wonderful with my nieces and me. Thank you for an amazing experience preparing a delicious meal!

Colin and Jess

23 Jan 2022

We had a great time! Chef Desmond is a talented, fun, and down-to-earth teacher, and the food was delicious!

Summer

08 Jan 2022

Chef Desmond was awesome! He exceeded our expectations in every way. He was professional, but outgoing and made learning to cook so much fun. I am going to recommend this experience to all my friends and family. Andâ€¦ the food â€¦. AMAZING!!! Best food weâ€™ve ever had!

Nicki

01 Jan 2022

Chef Desmond was amazing! He was personable and fun and was so flexible when our parties plans changed last minute. The menu he put together was delicious, the tuna was perfect! Would hire him again in a second (FYI our party chose to tip in cash so we arenâ€™t adding it in the app!)

Reviews Chef Desmond received outside of Cozymeal

Jonathan

09 Dec 2021

Chef Desmond, is a fantastic Chef. As my senior, though I wasnâ€™t fortunate enough to work with him directly, I was privileged enough to observe him when conducting his classes. His technical skill as well as his wide range of knowledge and wisdom followed by his intense passion in his craft and profession has nurtured him to become a force to be reckoned with. Proud to know and have learned from his example

Chris

09 Dec 2021

Passion! Passionate culinarian, passionate educator, passionate director. Desmond is an outstanding combination of smart, enthusiastic, attention to detail, open minded, top down manager, systems and controls installer, salesmanship and team developer. You will not out work Desmond. Boundless(really!) energy and enthusiasm that he applies with a deft hand. Smart, very knowledgeable about education, culinary, tourism, management and cost controls.

David

09 Dec 2021

I have known Desmond for many years. In all of the time I have known him, he has presented himself as a very professional and progressive thinking culinarian. I have had the distinct pleasure to see his program up close. I am very impressed with the facilities, the students, and the curriculum. I have seen him do presentations and found them to be thorough and educational. All in all, I have the utmost respect for his abilities and accomplishments. I would be honored to have him on my team any day.

Bridget

03 Dec 2021

Chef Desmond is fantastic! He is a consummate professional and has a wealth of culinary knowledge. He was so engaging and we learned so much from him. I highly recommend Chef Desmond to anyone in the Philadelphia area thatâ€™s looking for a great culinary experience!

Zite

25 Sep 2022

Overall, the food was good and Chef Desmond was very kind. I wouldâ€™ve given 3.5 stars if I could. The reason for less stars is 1) because we felt very rushed throughout the meal. We barely had time to finish each course before chef desmond was taking our plates and serving new ones. I donâ€™t know if he had somewhere else to be but it felt like he was just itching to get out of our house and so we couldnâ€™t really take our time to enjoy the meal. 2) the main course wasnâ€™t really seasoned. the tuna was bland, the green beans were bland, and some of the potatoes were uncooked, which doesnâ€™t feel right considering how much we paid. I think maybe the rushing may have contributed to that. 3) he wouldnâ€™t leave our house without a tip, and I was planning to give him one anyway through cozymeal, but it just felt odd the way he went about it. Overall, not a bad experience, but I likely wouldnâ€™t do it again. At least not at this price point.