Corporate Team Building Events
at Blue Ribbon

Blue Ribbon Cooking & Culinary Center is Seattle's premier provider of corporate team building events.

How it Works

Themes from any of our classes can be transformed into corporate team activities for groups of up to 125. We provide instructors for every 12 guests. Participants receive hands-on cooking instruction and then feast together on whatever they've created. It's fun, educational and builds morale.

Classes last about 3 hours and can be arranged to cover any topic. Each class is custom-designed with your company's needs in mind. Classes are held at our 5,200-square-foot waterfront culinary center on Lake Union. Sign up now for corporate team activities by calling owners Mike or Virginia Duppenthaler at 206-328-2442.

Current Favorites

Appetizers:
Dungeness Crab Cakes with Creamy Chipolte Dipping Sauce
Gourmet Cheese Platter with Artisan Breads

Soup or Salad:
Mixed Green Salad with Red Grapes, Gorgonzola and Pistachios
or
Mushroom Soup with Chestnuts and Roasted Fennel

Main Entrée:
Game Hens with Marsala, Pomegranates and Orange
Homemade Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Brown Butter Sage Sauce
Lemon Butter Green Beans with Pine Nuts

Dessert:
Trio of Dessert Crepes:
Brandy Flambéed Apples, Hot Chocolate Ganache, and Amaretto Black Cherry

» Menu Suggestions for Private Events

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Events

Iron Chef Competition

Objective: Guests will be divided into teams of 4-5 people. In those teams, guests will then be given 1 ½ hours to plan, cook, and garnish a meal that would serve 8 people. Each team will be given a grocery bag full of ingredients to work with and the team that designs and prepares the most well-rounded and delicious meal wins.

Logistics: Each team's grocery bag will have several sample recipes that could be made using the ingredients included. Teams will be expected to prepare an entrée and a dessert out of the included groceries. Each team's grocery bag will consist of different ingredients.

Example of One Type of Grocery Bag:

Grocery Bag

Recipes Included

Host Your Baking Party at Blue Ribbon

Invite your friends or co-workers to enjoy our waterfront holiday paradise as they make mouth-watering treats for gift giving. Our 3-hour holiday bakes include a buffet of homemade soups, artisan breads, gourmet cheeses, fresh salad, spiced apple cider and creamy hot chocolate. You’ll pre-select any 3 holiday treats from the list below for your holiday bake. Each guest leaves with 3 beautifully wrapped packages containing the sweet treasures they’ve created. Cost: $95 per guest with a 15-guest minimum. With wine and beer: $10 additional per guest.

Cookies:
Old Fashioned Gingerbread Men, Palmiers, Thumbprint Cookies, Gourmet Iced Sugar Cookies, Peppermint Pinwheels, Chocolate Meringues, Italian Biscotti, Springerle – German cookies, Amaretti, Russian Tea Cakes, Pistachio Christmas Ribbon Bars, Pizzelles - Italian waffle cookies, Lavender Shortbread, Irish Rum Balls.
* Gift packages include 1 dozen cookies, wrapped in cellophane and tied with a French ribbon.

Cakes & Tarts:
Pumpkin Cheesecake, Pumpkin Roulade, True English Trifle, Pecan Pie, Pear-Almond Tart, Cranberry Upside-down Cake, Creole Fruit Cake.
*Cakes and tarts serve 4 to 6 and are packaged in decorative bakery boxes.

Candies & Chocolates:
Chocolate-Hazelnut Kisses, Peanut Brittle, Gourmet Chocolate Truffles, Peppermint Bark, White Chocolate Truffle Bar, Chocolate-Dipped Cherries, Hand-Painted Chocolate Lollipops, Chocolate Fudge.
*A half dozen gift chocolates are packed in decorative boxes tied with French ribbon. Cellophane bags filled with about 1 pound of candy are tied with French ribbon.

Breads & Other Savories:
Spiced Nuts, Cranberry Infused Vinegar, Pumpkin Bread, Morning Glory Banana Bread, Vanilla Extract, All-American Cinnamon Rolls.
*Breads and rolls serve 6 and are packed in decorative boxes. Vinegar is bottled in 8-ounce bottles; vanilla is bottled in 4-ounce bottles. Six-ounce bags of spiced nuts are packaged in cellophane bags tied with ribbon.

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Clients & Testimonials

Some of the companies that use Blue Ribbon Cooking are Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, Adobe Systems, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Amgen, Apple Physical Therapy, AT&T Wireless, Ater Wynne LLP, Avanade, BD&A, Bayer Lab, Berk & Associates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Bowhead Holding Company, Bradlee Distributors, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Captura, Chicago Title, Chiron, Clarion Partners, Communication Matters, Inc., Construction Systems Management, Inc., Costco Wholesale, Cozen O’Connor Law Firm, CXO Media, Davis Wright Tremaine, Deloitte Consulting, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Eli Lilly, Expedia, First Tech Credit Union, First Union Securities, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Fostars, Foster, Pepper & Shefelman, PLCC, Genetech, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Graham & Dunn, Grant Thorton LLP, Hackworth Architects, Hapag Lloyd, Hewlett Packard, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, Hines, HomeStone Mortgage, Horton Lantz & Low, icos, IDX Systems, KPMG, UW, Lighthouse Properties, Lumberman’s, Management Northwest, Inc., Merck Human Health, Merrill Corp, Microsoft, Microsoft Press, Monet Mobile Networks, New York Times, nbbj, O’Dea High School, Onyx Software, Organon Pharmaceutical, Overlake School, Paragon Real Estate Advisors Inc., Pemco, Perkins Coie, Pfizer, Pharmacia, Point B Solutions, Precious Little Ones Daycare, Premera Blue Cross, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle Primary Physicians, Radiant Research, Riddell Williams, Rockwell Automation, Schering-Plough, Soft Resources, St. Joseph School, Starbucks, The Ki Group, LLP, Time Inc, Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Travelocity.com, University Child Development School, University Prep, University of Washington, Voyager Capital, Washington Dental Service, Washington Mutual, Washington State Employees Credit Union, Washington State University, and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.

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Reservations

Contact us via email info@blueribboncooking.com or call 206-328-2442 for class reservations.

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Driving Directions

Blue Ribbon is located in Seattle's beautiful Eastlake neighborhood.

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