Team Building Activity - Contemporary French

45 reviews

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What You’ll Do

Prepare an exotic four-course meal in the French tradition.

Seize a rare opportunity to learn how French natives cook and enjoy their everyday meals. From planning a menu and choosing the ingredients to putting into practice a variety of cooking techniques, Chef Marlène will instruct you and your teammates in the art of French cuisine. Using classic techniques instilled in her family home and global influences perfected in her culinary education, Chef Marlène will share all the skills and tricks needed to create high-end fusion cooking with French flair.

Join your teammates in crafting a sophisticated menu to impress. Chef Marlène’s adventurous menu combining Italian and Thai flavors will challenge your group in its originality and complexity. Begin with lacy Parmesan tuiles, a prawn ravioli with spicy broth, a cod or chicken dish, and finish with a luxurious chocolate fondant with citrus confit.

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

Your Menu

Parmesan Tuile with Crab

Prawn Ravioli with Chili Lemongrass Broth

Black Cod Brûlée or Chicken Ballotine

Choose one

Black cod brûlée with potato mille-feuille
Chicken ballotine with parma ham, mushrooms and zucchini purée

Chocolate Fondant with Kumquat Confit

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 4
Maximum Guests 16
Meal Courses 4
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Corporate, French, Gourmet, Italian, Pescatarian

Meet your chef

Chef Marlène

45 reviews

In France, food is a religion. Before becoming a chef, I grew up in France, cooking with my mother and father. I love learning about new ingredients, traveling and sharing my passion with my students. My experience stems from high-end restaurants in London, as well as being a private caterer and cooking instructor. What you will learn with me is not what you find in the books, but what my whole family cooks everyday.

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What You’ll Do

Prepare an exotic four-course meal in the French tradition.

Your Menu

Parmesan Tuile with Crab

Prawn Ravioli with Chili Lemongrass Broth

Black Cod Brûlée or Chicken Ballotine

Choose one

Black cod brûlée with potato mille-feuille
Chicken ballotine with parma ham, mushrooms and zucchini purée

Chocolate Fondant with Kumquat Confit

Details

Minimum Guests 4
Maximum Guests 16
Meal Courses 4
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Corporate, French, Gourmet, Italian, Pescatarian

Reviews

Reviews guests left for this experience

Julie

05 Oct 2017

Lauren

08 Sep 2017

Chef Marlene was a wonderful host. She was prompt in her communication, found a lovely site to have the event in, and had an appetizer already prepared for us to munch on as we cooked. We look forward to receiving the recipes and photos from our day! Note: This is a very hands-on experience where the chef will tell you the next few steps, demonstrate if you'd like, and then leave you to it.

William

24 May 2017

Chef Marlene was amazing! This class was an off site for my work team and everything went above and beyond expectations! Chef Marlene was an amazing teacher, the format gave everyone a chance to work together (making for an exceptional team building exercise), and the meal was fantastic! I would definitely recommend to anyone looking to get their team out of the office to do something fun and educational.

Bernadette

06 Apr 2017

What a fantastic team building, bonding, educational afternoon for our team! Working with Chef Marlene was easy and informative and she made the time fly by! The work was engaging and the end result was an incredible French meal fit for royalty. Thanks for making this a wonderful learning experience!

Courtney

03 Apr 2017

Marlene was very helpful and accommodated our team building event. The venue was a little small, but there were a lot of tools available and it was very cozy and intimate. Everyone enjoyed themselves and she did a great job explaining what the dishes were and how the ingredients enhanced the flavors.

Reviews guests left for other experiences with Chef Marlène

Belinda

21 Oct 2017

Chef Marlene was really amazing! We had a great experience learning French cuisine from her. Not only that all the courses were delicious, she also told us insight story behind one of the dish. This was a bridal shower event and the bride really loved the experience and time spent together cooking with her girlfriends. Will recommend to anyone who is looking for a bonding/ teamwork event.

Margaret

18 Sep 2017

We had an excellent meal and fabulous cooking experience. Chef Marlene was a good instructor and we so enjoyed her company. We would highly recommend this experience. Great quality for the price. Our thanks to chef Marlene.

Vlad

11 Sep 2017

Great experience with Chef Marlene. She was able to accommodate rather a large group of us and did it with ease. She was very pleasant and gave clear instructions during the class. The food turned out to be delicious. Working on booking at cozymeal.com was also easy. I worked with Ms. Rosario Jimenez on my booking and she made the booking experience very simple. She was very responsive and accommodating.

Kayla

31 Aug 2017

Marlene was a treat! The food was yummy and Marlene was very attentive. Would recommend her to anyone else with a large party.

Lori

23 Jul 2017

Did an EXECELLENT job. Was very patient, saved us from a few goofs and really made sure that we had a good time.

Michelle

19 Jul 2017

This class was amazing!! It was perfect for a birthday celebration - thanks Marlene!

Rio

21 Jun 2017

Our group had a great time. They enjoyed a couple nice bottles of wine…and cooked some delicious food. Chef Marlene was very cool. Not only did they have a good time working with her in the kitchen, but shared some good conversation when they all sat down to eat together. All in all a very good event.

Shannon

06 May 2017

We had a great time with Chef Marlene and the other members in our group. Recipes were delicious and just the right skill level.

Amir

29 Apr 2017

It was great and fun experience.

michael

26 Apr 2017

Fun. Relaxed atmosphere. Well organized. Good instructions and supervision. Great ingredients. Delicious result.

Colin

14 Mar 2017

Chef Marlène took great care of my team during our team event. We cooked a delicious and very hearty meal, traditional French style, talking with Marlène about her experience with different foods. It was a very intimate session, with all 5 of us cooking at the same time (no boring moments!) and learning. Don't worry that there's no location - Marlène will find a great place, included in the cost. In our case, we cooked in a real restaurant's kitchen, and we had the whole place to ourselves! This was very cool. Marlène was very accommodating of food preferences, although you might need to tell her if you are particularly inexperienced with cooking: I think if your group isn't able to do basic things like chopping vegetables or knowing how to sautee, etc, she'd need to know. Overall, a great experience, I have only good things to say about Chef Marlène!

Candace

02 Mar 2017

Fun experience! Chef Marlene was very nice and welcoming. I enjoyed learning how to cook new things using her recipes.

Dhruv

25 Feb 2017

Great class and had a lot of fun working with Chef Marlene!

Brent

16 Jan 2017

Marlene was approachable and so much fun to work with. The meal turned out excellent!

Kathryn

12 Jan 2017

Awesome experience! Would definitely book again. Chef Marlene was a wonderful teacher and so patient with us.

Eugene

10 Jan 2017

Great experience! Lots of hands-on cooking and direction. Wonderful meal.

May

05 Jan 2017

We had a great time! Chef Marlene was friendly and the cooking instructions were easy to follow.

Philbert

03 Jan 2017

I had a great time learning to cook French cuisine with Chef Marlène! It was different than what I had expected since the class was around 9 people. We split up doing various cooking tasks so I didn't get to learn about each portion of the meal however conversations with the other guests was very enjoyable and the food turned out fantastic.

Mark

30 Dec 2016

We had a fantastic time, cannot wait to try cooking this wonderful food at home - thank you Marlene!

Amelia

19 Dec 2016

This was a great team building and bonding experience. The entirety of the three course meal was made from scratch by us, with direction from Marlene, and in the end it was a delicious feast with great company.

Laura

22 Nov 2016

We had such a great time cooking together to celebrate my husband's birthday! Chef Marlene gave us great direction and was very easy to work with...mushroom soufflé was our favorite!

Antonio

21 Nov 2016

Fantastic experience, she was so delightful, helpful and knowledgeable. Highly recommend her

Rick

20 Nov 2016

Marlene did a nice job of managing the 10 people who were in attendance at her cooking class. It was lots of fun. I would add a caveat that it's a modified cooking class in that each couple only had limited cooking responsibilities. We did not learn a great deal about French cooking in general. That was not made clear on the Cozymeal website.

Katie

07 Nov 2016

Chef Marlene was amazing -- Personable, witty, and extremely knowledgable. She was also very confident in us and had us execute on 100% of the recipes. The menu was fancy, yet approachable and we were impressed with the results! Would highly recommend her class and her skill. Wonderful Saturday treat!

Vicky

07 Nov 2016

Very fun and personal! Loved learning about the Chef and loved cooking with her!

Daniel

27 Aug 2016

Chef Marlene was charming and very knowledgeable. We had a very pleasant evening and a great meal.

McKay

24 Aug 2016

Marlène was a great host for our cooking class and I really enjoyed the experience

robert

21 Aug 2016

Great time with Marlene learned a bunch and had a great meal. We arranged for a Dad and Daughter night and it was great. Marlene was fun and a perfect hostess. Definitely going to do it again.

David

04 Aug 2016

Marlene was great! It was a perfect evening. We spoke about the menu ahead of time to make sure there weren't any allergy issues, she arrived right on time, she did an excellent job teaching us about all of the food we were making, and we had an all around great time with her! I'd highly recommend to anyone!

Brenda

17 Jul 2016

Marlene was great and so professional. My friend, daughter-in-law and visiting sister had such a good time cooking with Marlene at my home. I will definitely take another class from Marlene.

Joy

08 Jun 2016

I enjoyed the evening . . . Marlene is a lovely person, easy to be around. She had a full house w/our group and dealt well w/late arrivals. The 4 course meal had good flavors, was quite ambitious for the evening, and the taste was good. Meat could of been more tender.

Sheryl

08 Jun 2016

I have been to cooking programs before and I must say that this was really lacking. Marlene was a delight but the space and equipment was not fitting the meal we were preparing. Also, we needed something to nosh on while cooking and drinking wine.

Joan

08 Jun 2016

Marlene was absolutely fantastic and highly recommend her. The restaurant we were in was just so-so and was fine but there were no wine glasses. We all brought very expensive wine to drink and we were cooking beautiful French cuisine and drank our wine out of plastic Solo cups. Did not enhance the experience to say the least. Overall good but venue could have been a bit more upscale given the nature of the meal and the chefs should provide wine glasses if they know the restaurant does not serve alcohol.

Dilip

23 May 2016

Chef Marlène was amazing!! She was very friendly, fun and knowledgeable. We had a great night out with friends while learning how to make some delicious meal. I would certainly recommend a class with Chef Marlène.

Charles

21 May 2016

Marlene was great! She took us through all the dishes and explained all the subtleties along the way, we learnt a lot! Would definitely recommend her

Wei

30 Mar 2016

Cooking foie gras was an eye-opening experience

Tony

27 Mar 2016

It was a really enjoyable experience with Chef Marlène. The cooking was fun, and the food (i think) was delicious.

Vanessa

27 Mar 2016

Really enjoyed the night with Chef Marlene. I'll actually try some of the things I learnt at home.

Kevin

18 Feb 2016

Chef Marléne was great!! Really nice, full of knowledge and was so willing to share.

Melissa

02 Feb 2016

I had such a blast in Chef Marlene's class! Step by step, she taught us how to create daube a la provencal and gratin dauphinois! One thing I loved about her cooking class (besides the delicious food), was how knowledgable she was of the French cuisine. I really appreciate her tips on where to buy the best meat and produce in the city. I look forward to her next class!