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  • Mirepoix for DinnerMirepoix
    Now Open for Dinner! Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Nights 5:30pm- 9:00pm.
    Four Course Prix Fixe $48. Daily Menu Created by Chef Laurent Brazier.
    Choose your wine from our extensive wine cellar at retail prices! Reservations Recommended. Call 949-494-4006
  • New Café Lunch Menu
    New Cafe Lunch Menu
    Lunch served 11:30am to 3pm.
    Our chefs have upgraded the quality of everything on our lunch menu – from the bread to the meat and everything in-between. All sandwich meats are now roasted in-house for freshness and flavor. We’ve kept your favorites but added upgrades, and in keeping with the theme of our cheese shop, your favorite cheeses continue to be featured throughout the menu. We’ve also added a house specialty dessert – Crème Brûlée! Come in and experience the new lunch items and let us know what you think!
  • Saturday Tasting Room:Every Saturday Starting July 9!
    Saturday Tasting Room
    1 – 4pm Saturday.
    We’ve extended our Saturday Tasting events to every Saturday! Come down and taste a selection of 8 different wines. Laguna Culinary Arts is constantly looking for new and delicious wines from all over the world. We currently offer more than 350 selections, with new wines arriving each week!
    $5 per person for 8 tastes
  • Travel with Laguna Culinary Arts!
    Travel with Laguna Arts
    Stay tuned for more information about next year’s trip to northern Spain’s wine country, the Loire Valley in France, and more! Details to follow …


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Team Building Cooking Classes

Try Culinary Team Building

Overdone the rope courses and golf outings? For your next corporate team building event, why not create a savory 3-course meal or a delectable array of appetizers? Team building cooking is fast becoming the choice many companies looking for a fun and unique approach to team building. We can design fun yet competitive activities where your group tests their skills of creativity, imagination and teamwork, or just create an enjoyable and relaxing experience for your team to enjoy together after a day of meetings. Want to know the best part about our culinary team building classes? Everyone gets to enjoy the meal at the end – paired with wines to complement each dish of course! Contact Brenda at 949-376-0263 today for details and available corporate team building cooking class dates!

Team Building Cooking Details

We can accommodate corporate team building cooking groups of all sizes and tailor the program to fit the needs of your party. Below are just a few of our unique team building cooking classes:

Since opening in July 2001, we have hosted more than 300 corporate events for companies such as:

We enjoy hosting corporate team building events for our clients, and we pride ourselves on creating unique team building cooking experiences.

Team Building Cooking Classes

Let us liven up your meeting, and help break the ice with a corporate team building cooking class designed especially for you. What better way to get to know co-workers than working together to make that soufflé rise?? While getting hands on in the kitchen, everyone can get more familiar with one another and build new relationships. In our team building cooking classes, we teach the use of fresh, seasonal ingredients at the peak of their flavor - presented with aesthetic appeal. For those who feel foreign in front of the stove, our instructors will work directly with individuals to ensure that everyone learns safe food handling practices and techniques.

Cheese & Wine Tasting Parties

If your crowd is too big to fit into our kitchen, consider an entertaining and educational event learning about the wine & cheese of the world! Our cheese mongers and certified sommeliers will treat you to the delights of wine & cheese pairing, entertain you with their knowledge and passion, and of course you’ll get to taste the subject for yourself! Wine and cheese tasting is a great compliment to our team building cooking class and other culinary team building experiences.

Please plan on about 3 hours for cooking events, including the meal, or 2 hours for just the cheese & wine tasting. For available team building cooking dates, menu options and pricing, please contact Brenda at 949-376-0263.

Located in Laguna, convenient to Los Angeles and San Diego, we are known as the premiere California Cooking School. Please Contact Us for more information on culinary team building, or any of our other cooking classes.

Parties and Special Events

Celebrate your birthday, anniversary, engagement or any other special day with your family and friends in our hands-on teaching kitchen. Whether for team building cooking, a corporate event, or just to relax and enjoy the experience, these events are always popular. Treat your group to a night to remember while you work together to create your menu. What better way to play in the kitchen, with our friendly and knowledgeable staff to guide you, and clean up after you? Enjoy your meal in our quaint café or in the wine cellar. Our sommelier can select wines to match your meal and your budget.



Cooking School Locations



California Locations

Laguna Beach Location
845 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
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Orange Location
Le Gourmet Kitchen

541 W. Chapman Ave.
Orange, CA 92868
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Tel: 949-494-0745