Team Building Activity: The Ultimate Chili or Soup Cook-Off

Bring out your team’s competitive side in this hands-on team building activity with Chef Janet!


Using a pantry stocked with fresh ingredients, herbs and spices, each group will create their own signature soup or chili. Chop vegetables, build flavor with custom spice blends and choose your favorite proteins to make a winning bowl. After tasting each dish, everyone will vote for the champion team. This experience is a fun way to build communication and collaboration for coworkers, families or friends. Book this team building activity today!


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Soup or Chili Cook-off

With a pantry of fresh ingredients and spices for the most flavorful pot of soup or chili

  • Minimum Guests 14
  • Maximum Guests 30
  • Event Duration 2 hours
  • Labels Cooking Competition
  • This is a BYOB venue and alcoholic beverages are not available for sale. You are welcome to bring beer and wine to enjoy during class.

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Rita

19 Jul 2026

Вот более сбалансированный отзыв на английском, который отмечает и плюсы, и серьезный недостаток: I really enjoyed the chef and the cooking class itself. She was knowledgeable, engaging, and made the experience fun. Unfortunately, the venue completely overshadowed the experience. The class was held in a distillery with no air conditioning, and it was well over 100°F inside. There weren’t even any fans provided. It was extremely hot, difficult to breathe, and everyone was soaked with sweat. It became hard to focus on the cooking because we were so uncomfortable. This is summer in Chicago, and hot weather should be expected. Holding a cooking class in an enclosed space without air conditioning or even basic ventilation is simply poor planning. I hope the organizers will either choose an air-conditioned venue or provide adequate cooling in the future, because the chef deserved a much better environment for her class.

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David

19 Jul 2026

Very hot at the place they did it woman did a good job

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Elizabeth

10 Jul 2026

Went to this class with my husband and friends and we all enjoyed it very much! The location makes good drinks. Chef Janet was an excellent teacher. She was clear in her instruction and patient with learners. Highly recommend!

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Chef Janet has been cooking for as long as she can remember and she loves sharing that joy with others. Her passion is helping people feel confident, creative and at ease in the kitchen. After attending culinary school in the 1980s, Chef Janet deepened her culinary journey while living in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where she also began her career as a high school teacher. For decades, she’s been teaching a wide range of cooking classes, on and off, always with the same goal: to empower others through food. Nothing makes her happier than seeing the spark of joy and pride when someone masters a new skill.

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