Team Building Activity: Hand-Crafted Pasta Cook-Off
Combine chef-approved homemade pasta with friendly competition in this fun team building activity. Which team will whip up the best pasta dish and come out on top?
Culinary expert Chef Nabeelah will teach everyone how to make and shape expertly-prepared fresh pasta dough. She'll also teach everyone authentic sauce recipes before letting groups work together to compete for the win. Using problem-solving skills, teamwork and creativity, teams will shape their own pasta dough and select from various mix-in ingredients including shrimp and mushrooms to take their dishes to the next level. In the end, everyone will enjoy top-notch plates of pasta, while one team will enjoy culinary 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 Other Experiences
Amanda
13 Feb 2023
So this experience was very strange and i do not recommend it. There were multiple instances where it seemed the chef did not know what she was doing (she had someone read out the recipe and had to restart 2 of the 3 tables that she was working with). She also said some pretty offensive things to our table, whom she also ignored for most of the time we were there. She blamed us for not "doing it right" but also did not spend any time with us (of the almost 2 hour long experience, she didn't even spend 10 minutes with us). She used her experience with language learning as justification for saying that our whole table was "from the short bus" (stating that she was allowed to say that because she came to the country not able to speak English). Then, when we were getting the bowl of our finished noodles, she asked us all our star signs and made assumptions about our relationships based on those signs. Very weird and not at all pleasant experience. Not sure if 3 tables were too much for her or if she doesn't fully understand the impact of what she says or does but I do not recommend going to her class until she spends more time developing herself. The sauce was good=2 stars
Leonor
03 Feb 2023
Chef Nabeelah was so much fun! I really enjoyed her style & personality. The pasta was yummy.
Kayla
03 Feb 2023
She was amazing! Very kind and informative.
Meet your chef
Chef Nabeelah is a Manhattan-based South African model and entrepreneur whose life revolves around cooking, especially after six years as a private chef for multiple families. She runs a meal prep company in Jacksonville, Florida, which began during her culinary management studies at Florida State College at Jacksonville. Chef Nabeelah's focus since 2020 is curating her recipe book and expanding her social media presence as a chef. Her love of travel and Cape Malay cooking informs her culinary sensibilities.
