Private Events

Private Events & Formats

The world-renowned De Gustibus Cooking School by Miele offers a variety of private culinary events for your group event needs, including corporate events, team-building, and personal celebrations. We provide an end-to-end, seamless experience including space rental, staffing, food sourcing, chef selection, set-up and clean-up. We offer a variety of events, including chef demonstrations, hands-on classes and curated wine tastings. We can also customize events to the specific needs of your party. Classes can take place in house and/or virtually via video streaming (yes, we save the event for posterity). We look forward to bringing your culinary event vision to life!

Chef Demonstrations/Classes (In-House & Virtual)

A celebrated New York chef will demonstrate and serve a multi-course menu.

Guests: Can currently accommodate up to 48 guests with classroom style seating.
Event Duration: Up to 2 1/12 hours

Event begins with hors d’oeuvres passed with sparkling wine while guests are able to mingle throughout the kitchen and culinary space and watch the chef(s) prepare and plate

4-course menu is served with white and red wine pairings, and bottled S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water and Acqua Panna® Natural Spring Water

Guests savor each dish while the chef demonstrates each recipe, and are able to ask questions while the class is moderated by owner Sal Rizzo

Customized recipe booklet for guests to follow during the demonstration, which includes offers from our various partners

Post demonstration guests are able to have a meet & greet with the chef(s)

Virtual classes can include delivery, for an additional charge based on location, of dishes on the day of the event and guests are able to ask real-time questions via chat.

Wine Tastings (In-House & Virtual)

Noted wine professional will tailor a customized tasting for your guests.

Guests: Can currently accommodate up to 48 guests with classroom style seating.
Event Duration: Up to 2 hours

A fun way to learn the fundamentals of wines: We’ll go over judging color, aroma, flavor, body and finish
Flesh out your vocabulary so you can judge if wines are dry, tannic, flabby, austere, fruit bomb, vegetal etc.
Bottled still and sparkling waters provided by S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water and Acqua Panna® Natural Spring Water
Customized tasting booklet for guests to follow during the demonstration, which includes offers from our various partners

On-Location Classes

A unique experience in which guests cook a meal alongside a chef and their team inside the kitchen of a noted restaurant

Guests: TBD - based on kitchen size
Event Duration: 4 hours

Class broken into smaller groups, each preparing a course overseen by the executive chef and their team
Guests are then seated for a four-course meal they prepared along with sparkling, white and red wines
Coffee and light breakfast upon arrival
Customized recipe booklet for guests to follow during the demonstration, which includes offers from our various partners

Hands-on Classes

Perfect for corporate team building.

Guests: TBD
Event Duration: 3 hours

Class broken into smaller groups, each preparing a course to be served
Evening begins with passed hors d’oeuvres with sparkling wine
3-course meal served with paired white/red wine and bottled S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water and/or Acqua Panna® Natural Spring Water
One-year subscription to Food & Wine magazine and various discount offers from our partners
Customized recipe booklet for guests to follow during the demonstration, which includes offers from our various partners

Charity Benefits

You decide which organization receives the funds raised and what percentage you are allocating. This is a great opportunity for photoshoots with a giant check that tells the story (your charity, the money raised, etc.). The non-profit organization often promotes the event, which results is more amplification around the event.

Guests: Can currently accommodate up to 30 guests with classroom style seating.

Event Duration: 3 hours

Evening begins with passed hors d’oeuvres with sparkling wine
4-course menu is served with white and red wine pairings, and bottled S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water and Acqua Panna® Natural Spring Water
Customized recipe booklet for guests to follow during the demonstration, which includes offers from our various partners

Section

Kitchen, Stage & Classroom Rentals

Our state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen and culinary space is fully equipped to host a variety of events.

Event Duration: ½ day or full day

Ideal for:

Group meetings/conferences

Filmings/video shoots

Product launches

Media events

All rentals include:

Usage of the kitchen and culinary space with the cookware, glassware, and cooking utensils

2 monitors for presentations, wireless lavalier mics, and video streaming system with multiple cameras (enables live split-screen action)

Bottled S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water and/or Acqua Panna® Natural Spring Water

Past clients include:
Morgan Stanley, Temple Emanu-El, Italian American Museum, Hospital for Special Surgery, Leading Hotels of the World, SR Corporate Solutions America, Miele, Baldor, Greenville South Carolina, Destination DC, Macy’s, NFL

PRICING & FEES:

All events are customized and pricing varies based on the amount of guests, chef fee, add-ons (i.e. linens, gift bags, flowers), type of event, etc. Upon finalizing the event details a non-refundable 50% deposit must be paid in full to secure the date. The balance is due 7 days prior when the confirmed number of attendees is given. Should you need to change the date of the event, we ask for 14 days notice to find an alternate date that is mutually agreeable.