Small Plates

Reception-style Cooking Party

Your team will mix and mingle while cooking up spectacular international appetizers, cocktail-style!

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Social Team Building Cooking Event

With upbeat background music and a festive atmosphere, the Small Plates event is a great mix-and-mingle format, as guests cook together and share their creations with the rest of the group. Team members naturally develop stronger relationships and build trust and confidence in each other throughout the event. Food is the universal language and nothing brings people together better!

Our Small Plates experience is more than hors d'oeuvres on a platter – it's cooking as a social event that takes you around the globe with colleagues and friends. Delight your taste buds with the perfect meal of hearty appetizers. 

How the Small Plates social group cooking event works

  • Your team is greeted with soft beverages and a complimentary appetizer.
  • Guests watch a chef demo and are divided into groups.
  • Guests work together to prepare a spectacular menu of international tapas.
  • Once the cooking is finished, everyone shares dishes with each other cocktail party style!
  • One week after your event, you will receive a keepsake: the recipes and group photo to share with your team!

Event Duration: 2 1/2 Hours

Pricing varies based on guest count, menu and venue rental fee.

Call 1.888.907.2665 or Book Now

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Small Plates Menu

Our Small Plates Menu incorporates the best seasonal, local ingredients with internationally inspired recipes. In effort to create the perfect culinary journey for your group, please consider the dietary restrictions of guests when selecting recipes.

We can accommodate a variety of dietary restrictions from vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and +more to ensure that all guests get to enjoy the selected menu.

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What's included?

Cost is all-inclusive: professionally trained staff, ingredients, venue rental fee, party rentals, travel fee (if applicable), non-alcoholic beverages, service fee and complimentary antipasto platter **not included with Cupcake Challenge. Beer and wine is not included in the cost. Depending on the venue selected, you can BYOB, source wine/beer from the venue or from our local purveyor. Ask us about event enhancements including appetizer and menu upgrades, custom logo aprons, wine education sessions, meeting facilities, specialty rentals and more.

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