Team Building Thyme

San Diego Team Building Culinary Experiences

 Team Building Thyme Experiences —

With our team building culinary experience, you will be working with our professional chefs and event facilitators to directly support your team-building goals while you cook! Through this experience, which focuses on communication, collaboration, problem solving, decision making and enhancing leadership skills–and our signature wildly exceptional cuisine, of course,– you will leave with a renewed sense of “team” and a full belly!

With more than 18 years of delicious success as a premier San Diego catering company, our new chef-led “Team Building Thyme” culinary experiences have been designed with you and your team’s development in mind! 

Whether you’re looking for an energized  “Chopped”-style cooking competition, craving to create handmade pasta, ready to roll some sushi or looking for “sippable” success with delicious cocktails expertly mixed by your group, we have the best team-building cooking experiences in San Diego that create opportunities for growth and connection.

on left: chef Dawn speaks with woman wearing chef's hat about a jackfruit. on right: a team of four women wearing chef's hats stand around a tray of meat, rice and pasta for their teambuilding activity at The Wild Thyme Company in San Diego.

The Delicious Details —

Each Team Building Thyme Experience is a 3-4 hour event (depending on experience selected) and includes:

  • A dedicated event host to help facilitate your experience

  • One server

  • A welcome mocktail

  • A cheese board or veggie crudité platter to begin the delicious fun

  • Chef hats for each team member to decorate

Additionally, you will have use of our state-of-the-art commercial kitchen and tools, and we’ll be supplying all the ingredients and guidance from a professional chef to pull off this fun culinary experience at our Miramar headquarters. No cooking experience is necessary! At the end of your event, you will receive a recipe card to take home and enjoy with your favorite people!

Pricing & Guest Count

Each experience begins at $125 per person, and pricing is all inclusive. Our facility can host 12-30 guests for this experience.

Bright pink prickly pear margarita with sugar rim is held above a fresh-baked pizza at The Wild Thyme Company, a San Diego catering company, in Miramar.
A Wild Thyme Company server smiles as she places a freshly oven-fired pizza down onto a wooden table at the San Diego catering company headquarters in Miramar.
Wedges of cheese, olives, grapes, blackberries, raspberries, a small jar of honey and thyme rest on a cheeseboard.

Add-on Adventures —

Looking to enhance your experience? We offer additional opportunities to create a highly memorable, customized experience for your team.

Wine Thyme!: Dinner with wine pairing or wine tasting

Open Bar: (beer and wine, or full bar) with bartender

Coffee For All: Coffee station & service

Let’s Dance: DJ/Musician experience

Strike a Pose: Photobooth or photographer

The Wild Thyme Company, a San Diego catering company, features a logo that is a forest green branch of thyme in a watercolor style.

 Why Party With Us? —

Our Team Building Thyme experiences make it easier than ever to bring a sense of fun, collaboration and bonding to your team. Our Wild Thyme Company headquarters in Miramar are ADA compliant and your experience, whichever you choose, allows your team access to our expansive commercial kitchen. Every team building cooking experience is led by a professional chef in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere. All you and your team have to do is show up and we’ll take care of the rest! An event host will facilitate the experience and ensure you get the most out of your team building.

Whether you’re looking for a fast-paced, healthy competition or a relaxed moment with your team that allows for creativity and curiosity, look no further than our Team Building Thyme experiences!

Our Team Building Experiences Have Been Enjoyed By…

Choose Your Experience —

A slice of negroni poached pear tart tatin with an artful sugar wheel standing up on top of a dollup of fresh whipped cream and lemon zest and accompanied by a ribbon of raspberry puree and candied walnuts on a dessert plate at The Wild Thyme Company

  • Inspired by the popular culinary competition show “Chopped,” this experience brings together your team through healthy competition and…mystery!

    Your team will be divided into groups and will have one hour to create and execute a cohesive menu that includes an appetizer, entrée and dessert and incorporates a mystery ingredient. Groups will then present their finished dishes to our chef judges, after which you can enjoy your inspired meal!

At The Wild Thyme Company, a San Diego catering company, a server place sundried tomato on top of a pesto sauce base on uncooked pizza dough.

  • Jumpstart delicious creativity with this team building experience. Collaborate to flavor your dough, choose your toppings and create the pizza of your dreams. This experience can easily be turned into a competition-style challenge as well to determine the pizza ingredient combination that takes the cake!...ahem, pie!

A woman with sparkly nail polish uses a slicer to cut a crimped edge on her ravioli at The Wild Thyme Company, for a pasta-making teambuilding experience.

  • Thyme to bond? This hands-on experience creates the perfect environment for collaboration and fun while you learn to make delicate pasta from scratch.

    Our professional chefs will teach your team the ins and outs of pasta-making utilizing high-quality ingredients, after which you’ll select the sauce of your choice to create a stuffed pasta dish.

    Your team will also learn how to make tiramisu, after which you can enjoy your delicious pasta and dessert!

A person is pouring a bright pink cocktail into a rocks glass with ice at the wild thyme company, a San Diego catering company.

  • It doesn’t get better than this! Hand create exceptionally delicious Mexican street tacos from start to finish.

    Your team will make corn or flour tortillas, then fill with your choice of salsas, provided proteins, and toppings.

    Together you will also make either buñuelos or churros for a sweet bite to finish your experience.

  • For the artist in us all. Join our professional sushi chefs to create gorgeous hand rolls and nigiri as a team.

    From tips and tricks to finishing touches, each participant will create their own rolls and nigiri to enjoy.

    This experience continues with a highly sensory “painted table” sweet ending. Your team will get to unleash their artistic sides to create a eye-catching spread of sweet ingredients.

  • Cocktails, mocktails, cheese and charcuterie await you in this libation-focused experience.

    Your team will learn how to create a stunning cheese and charcuterie board Wild Thyme Co. style, and then become mixologists, creating three cocktails, and three mocktails to enjoy.

    MENU DETAILS

    Build-your-own cheese & charcuterie board

    Cocktails: Mojito, Martini & Mai Tai

    Mocktails: Virgin Mojito, Blood Orange Ginger Ale Spritz, Virgin Prickly Pear Margarita

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About The Wild Thyme Company —

With more than 18 years of success delivering wildly exceptional catering experiences across San Diego County and beyond, we are the ideal catering choice for passionate foodies! We offer completely customizable catering and a variety of event services to provide the elevated, tailored experience that each event deserves. We specialize in highly creative, global cuisine and relish the opportunity to flex our culinary muscles. We are a tight-knit company made up of foodies ourselves and absolutely love what we do!

“Our team building event with Wild Thyme was amazing!! The chefs helped us with a “Chopped” style cooking competition between teams with random ingredients (including a jackfruit for one team😮). We flew around the kitchen making all our dishes with laughter and teamwork and at the end sat down for a wonderful meal together. We had THE BEST time! Thank you, Wild Thyme ❤️ ”
— Leilani DeLeon, Senior Director at Qualcomm
“The Wild Thyme hosted a Chopped Cooking Style Event for my work team and it was amazing! They handled all of the logistics from start to finish and made the experience so fun for everyone. They were professional, fun, easy and were a big help in the kitchen too. This was one of the most memorable events that we’be done that my team is still talking about and we owe it to you- thank you for being so wonderful! We hope to be back again soon.”
— rebecca b. (yelp)