Team Building Activity: Team-Building Pasta Battle
Swap a boring team building activity for a hands-on cooking competition focused on classic Italian cooking staples. Chef Natalie will provide your team with an expert's lesson in making fresh pasta before letting everyone loose to make dishes of their own. Whether you prefer a classic angel hair pasta with creamy Alfredo or a vegetarian-friendly option, turn the blank canvas of fresh pasta into a masterpiece!
The group will split into teams and work together to compete for the title of Pasta Prodigy. Friendly competition will invigorate the room as everyone combines their unique skills to create a stand-out dish with their choice of pasta shape, sauce and toppings. In the end, dishes will be judged on creativity, appearance and overall quality. Let the team have some quality fun and see who will earn office bragging rights!
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All necessary utensils will be provided by the chef. The venue is required to have access to sinks nearby, tables set-up to prep and garbage containers. Chefs are able to arrive a minimum of 30 minutes in advance.
Pasta Dough
With flour, egg, olive oil, salt and water
Marinara Sauce
With crushed tomatoes, onion, garlic, basil, oregano and salt
Alfredo Sauce
With heavy cream, garlic, butter, parmesan cheese and flour
Various "mix-in" Ingredients
With chicken, sausage, shrimp, mushrooms, spinach and more
- Minimum Guests 10
- Maximum Guests 50
- Event Duration 2 hours
Reviews Guests Left For This Experience
Beverly
01 Dec 2022
It was a great class. The team enjoyed it from start to finish.
Reviews Guests Left For Other Experiences
Susan
23 Feb 2023
This class was terrible. We were crowded at tables that were too small for the group, it was dark and hard to see, and we didn’t actually make the pasta or the filling or the sauce. There wasn’t enough equipment for each participant to use. There were only a couple of pots of water on hot pots, that were not boiling yet and Natalie insisted I take my pasta out before they were done so someone else could have a turn. My pasta was not cooked. We put jarred sauce on top which tasted terrible. I ate one bite and couldn’t eat more. I was also concerned about the fillings not being properly chilled since they sat out for over an hour in a Tupperware. I really wanted to know how to make pasta start to finish; including make the dough and the filling and the sauce and having the recipes to do it myself. This was insultingly terrible and we should be refunded.
Heather
12 Jan 2023
*** This is just short of a scam. *** The chef and her sister are kind and personable, which is a plus. This is not a cooking class at all. It’s a project you might give 3rd graders to keep busy. This class is hosted in a venue that is entirely inappropriate and unsuitable for cooking. Premade dough, premade sauces, premade beef are given to you. You will roll out 2 balls of dough —using a pasta press that is unsteady and flying metal parts—and crimp the filling into the dough. Then stand in a 45 min line while the chef boils it for you. Ours was so undercooked to the point that the dough seemed like melted cheddar, stretching from the fork and falling towards the table. We went to eat at Longhorn immediately after this event. Very haphazard. It seemed more about getting business into the bar for the beer to be sold. Gravely misrepresented. $10 a person, maybe. Over $100 is a scam.
Meet your chef
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Chef Natalie decided to follow her passion and went on to gain what is now more than a decade of professional culinary experience. Currently lead event chef for one of Orlando's top full-service catering companies, Chef Natalie also has experience teaching as a chef's assistant in one of New York City's top culinary schools, as a personal chef for cancer patients, and so much more.
