Team Building Activity: Fiesta Frenzy Cooking Challenge
Turn a regular team building activity into an exciting iron chef-style cook-off with the help of Chef Natalie. As the group's culinary expert, Chef Natalie will give everyone a lesson on flavor pairings within guacamole and salsa before they split into teams to compete in a flavorful fiesta-themed competition!
Divide and conquer to see whose Mexican sauces reign supreme. Teams are encouraged to take full creative liberty to impress the judges — let the ingredients speak for themselves with a smoky roasted tomato salsa, or take it to the tropics with a mango habanero salsa. Enjoy quality camaraderie and leverage your leadership and problem-solving skills to win bragging rights at the office.
Expect lots of laughter, collaboration and a new display of innovation in this hands-on cooking competition. Plus, everyone will get to enjoy plenty of good eats!
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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.
Guacamole
With avocado, garlic, salt, pepper and lime
Salsa
With tomato, onion, cilantro, garlic and jalapeño
Various "mix-in" Ingredients
With green chili, habanero peppers, corn, mango, tomato and more
Various Dippers
With tortilla chips, veggies and more
- Minimum Guests 10
- Maximum Guests 50
- Event Duration 2 hours
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.
Dixie
12 Jan 2023
Fun class with lots of nice people there. The pasta was fairly easy to make and the fillings were great. Natalie or one of her assistants was always available to make sure you got your a question answered or got what you needed. Dustin the bartender was terrific!
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.
