Bespoke Cuisine

I went here with my wife for a belated company holiday party. This event restaurant space is fun and entertaining if you enjoy cooking or would like to learn how to cook better. A staff member gives a presentation when everyone is gathered and then has everyone pick a piece of paper out if a bowl to be assigned to a team. This is a good idea to mix up the party members and not having the men fighting over who will be cooking the meat. We had three team: appetizers and bread, salad and dessert, and meat and starch. Each team is assigned a staff chef who explains and helps everyone complete the recipes. So if someone really doesn't like to cook it would be okay if the other team members pick up the slack. This did happen at our event but there were others who were happy to pitch in to cover. Our menu included grilled shrimp with homemade pesto, parmesan cheese puffs, balsamic pear salad, filet mignon with a bordelaise (red wine) sauce, and chocolate flourless cake. Our team made the appetizers and as soon as we had them prepared we passed them to our coworkers. Amazingly all of the food prepared was either very good to excellent in taste. The talk in the room was that it was a great experience and those involved would like it to be repeated at a future company meeting.

The cooking class was a fun group activity and the staff were awesome. Getting to enjoy the fruits of your own labor and picking up a new recipe or two made this a unique experience. Our group had a Mexican inspired menu and everything turned out delicious. My favorites were the tomatillo and poblano salsa and the plantain foster dessert.

We were disappointed with this experience. There were 32 people in a small space and I walked away learning very little as to technique because there is only room to focus on one food course…and each small station has from 6-10 people standing around. The meal came out like a bad home-cooked attempt at a new recipe. We have attended different cooking parties at other locations and always learned something new and enjoyed the food, not so here….as they say, too many cooks, spoil the stew.