Corporate Team Building
“Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale." -- Elsa Schiaparelli |
Book your event today for the hottest team building experience in Minnesota!
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Unique Challenge
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Custom Menus
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No Skills Needed
Grande Cru makes it simple for you to host an interactive, four-star cooking event.
It’s the perfect setting to create great memories working together with your colleges for a remarkable team-building experience.
Take your next meeting or office party out of the conference room and into Grande Cru elegant kitchen. Each unique event is a tour of the senses – gaze upon beautiful Lake Minnetonka, smell savory soups and sauces, taste the haute de cuisine you prepared with your team, and listen to entertaining music and upbeat conversation.
Grande Cru is regularly featured in print and broadcast media. We are thrilled that our team building events and private parties have been such hits with Fortune 500 and other great companies.
How Team Building Events Work
Guests are divided into culinary teams to prepare recipes from your custom menu. Guests then enjoy their creations, with our professional chefs on hand to serve them.
Each cooking-event option focuses on fresh seasonal ingredients and your custom menu. All you have to do is come, participate and enjoy -- together we will create your most memorable event with outstanding food and service. Grande Cru provides everything from setup to cleanup!
Choose Your Event Style:
There are five appetizing interactive cooking class event options to choose from:
# 1 The Brasserie
Definition: a café doubling as a restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes. It has professional service and a printed menu, unlike a bistro which may have neither. The word 'brasserie' in French, by extension means "the brewing business”.
This cooking class event highlights seasonal gourmet dishes created and passed, hot from the oven, tapas-style. |
# 2 Kitchen Table
The best seat in the house is in the kitchen! With this event guests will be cooking an haute de cuisine menu comparable to any four star restaurant in town.
This tour de force cooking event is a gourmet four-course sit-down dinner. |
# 3 Chef Competition
Put your culinary skills to the test a la 'Iron Chef'. Your group will be divided into teams in a heated and timed challenge.
This interactive cooking event offers a fun spirited competition, complete with judging and award ceremony.
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# 4 Wine & Cheese Ice Breaker
With countless varieties of both cheese and wine, the possibilities are endless. Yet certain rules apply. Often, pairing the regional wines with local cheeses makes and ideal combination, such as Muenster with Gewurztraminer, chevres with Sancerre, or Roquefort with sauternes. Each class pairs world class cheeses and tasting pours of wine in an elegant setting with a tutorial focus. In addition, local artesian bread and coffee are served. |
# 5 Custom Event
The Details
Cooking Event Agenda
Choose the event format that fits your occasion. From our tapas style event, to a sit-down dinner where we serve you, or our extremely popular Chef’s Competition –Grande Cru takes care of serving and cleaning up so you can enjoy the event!
Event length
• 2.5 hours for Brassiere and Wine & Cheese Tasting.
• 3.5 hours for Kitchen Table or Chef’s Competition.
Guests are welcomed with canapés and a host-selected beverage, meet, greet and mingle with custom music selection and take in the spectacular view from Grande Cru’s upper floor.
Your personal event chef gives an informative and interactive cooking demonstration and shares practical cooking tricks of the trade. Guests are divided into teams to create their tantalizing menus at fully equipped cooking stations.
Each recipe and cooking station has detailed instructions and all of the necessary ingredients and cooking tools. Throughout the hour of cooking, our chefs are on hand to coach you.
After the event, we will send you the recipes from your event and digital photos to all your guests.
Why choose Grande Cru for your team-building event?
We offer a positive interactive cooking experience that will inspire your team to have an improved dynamic while building camaraderie. At Grande Cru, we find that coworkers communicate better after attending one of our cooking events.
Companies like Cargill, Wells Fargo and General Mills are using cooking events as the latest team building experience. It’s no secret that cooking is results orientated. It takes teamwork, organization and planning to produce a great meal. These culinary skills translate directly into successful business concepts.
Chef’s at Grande Cru have been featured in Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, Minnesota Monthly, Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, City Pages, Kare 11, Fox 9, WCCO, received local awards, and have worked in top European and local restaurants and cooking schools.
Services
Our summary of services is listed below.
- Instruction and guidance of professionally trained chef(s).
- Supplying all cooking equipment for use during cooking (chef knives, cookware, cook’s tools, measuring cups & spoons, etc.)
- Arrangement of cooking stations to accommodate the event.
- Custom Menu and Event Planning
- Dish clearing, washing and kitchen cleaning.
- Commemorative copies of the recipes of your event.
- Aprons and hand towels for all participants during the event.
- Arrangement and delivery of special event rentals if requested (plates, stemware, tables, chairs, linens, etc.)
- Arrangement for and delivery of flowers, decorations, event favors/keepsake aprons, valet service, live music, and/or beverages.