Top 10 NYC Teambuilding Activities & Outings Ideas

Experience more than a cooking class for your next team event — divide into teams and compete to develop the best dish! Everyone gets familiar with the recipes and ingredients with demonstrations from our chefs, and then creative energy flows while guests choose flavor combinations and ingredients to craft the best dish. The event culminates in a friendly competition that calls on each team to hone time management, collaboration, and presentation skills with delicious results.

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Tired of the boring ol’ whiskey ginger and vodka soda when you come home after a long day of work? Tired of paying $20 for a fancy cocktail you could easily make at home?

Well this is the event for you! Not only will you and your group learn about classic cocktails and their modern counterparts, but you will also learn the mixology skills to create delicious and interesting cocktails that can be easily replicated at home!

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Party in a chocolate shop - this unique venue serves as production kitchen, event space and classroom. Their secret backyard garden is the perfect place to begin with a guided craft chocolate tasting and geek out session about everyone's favorite subject - chocolate! 

Drink a little sparkling rose with the tasting as a palate cleanser, put on your aprons and learn to make chocolate ganache, the basis for fancy French desserts, including chocolate truffles! Finally, you'll hand roll and finish a dozen truffles to take home, along with your ganache 'homework'..

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Sip, laugh and paint your new bag and walk out with a new comfy and cool souvenir. Dozens of options to choose from or you can bring your own design!

In just about two hours, while you’re painting and mingling, an artist will guide you through a painting step-by-step. At the end of the night, take home your own unique masterpiece--buzzed with free art!

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Though at this point Le Pain Quotidien is world famous for their WiFi friendly cafes, there’s a rich history of bread baking that they’ve held onto with gusto. If you’ve ever been curious about making your own freshly baked bread this is the place to start, though intermediate bakers can learn a thing or two as well. Students love how hands-on the class is and how the instruction includes tips for repeating what you’ve learned at home (let’s be real -- not every New Yorker’s apartment comes equipped with a bread oven). Hopefully you have some bread loving friends or co-workers because you will go home with a mountain of bread from baguettes to chocolate rolls and so, so, so much more.

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BEAT THE BOMB is a 1-hr team game to defuse a paint bomb… or get blasted! Mixing the best elements from escape rooms, immersive theater, and 80s action movie endings, players wearing hazmat suits must use intelligence, speed, and stealth to defeat high-tech “security systems” (multiplayer games) and defuse a paint bomb before it blasts them! 

Do you have what it takes to beat the bomb?

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During this lightweight cooking experience (but heavy on the social experience and connection), attendees will take a trip around the culinary world of Italy and get schooled by professionally-licensed fresh mozzarella and pasta-making chefs, spending two hours learning how to make and (and taste, duh!) the freshest mozzarella and pasta you'll find on the entire island of Manhattan. 

Attendees gain hands-on experience from the cream of the pasta-making crop, all the while learning about the incredible history of fresh mozzarella and pasta, and drinking unlimited wine. 

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A music loving crowd? In this one-of-a-kind experience, a lyricist and composer will demonstrate how the songs of a Broadway musical are structured and then, using information about your company and it's competitors, help you create sample songs that are about your business and industry. Don't worry, you don't need to carry a tune to have a blast during this workshop - just try not to feel too awkward when you catch yourself singing your company song in the shower!

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If your group wants to get their hands dirty (with clay, of course), this is the activity for you! In this workshop you'll learn hand building using slabs of porcelain to build functional mugs which are perfect for coffee, tea, or any other beverage. You'll also get to apply colored clay "slips" to the mugs and create awesome modern decorative patterns, and take at least 2 mugs you made home with you, after they're kiln dried of course.

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Escape the Room will transport you from the concrete jungle to another world filled with puzzles and mysteries for you to solve and escape from. Every room escape will transport you to a unique and masterfully crafted environment in which you will discover hidden messages to earn your freedom and escape the room in 60 minutes.

Timing is key. You’ll have 60 minutes to solve all the puzzles in the room you are playing. Do so before time runs out and you can boast that you have conquered the best escape room in New York City!

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