A memorable seminar or company evening needs an experience that brings your teams together around something real. Not a generic cocktail, not a team building forgotten the next day. Prémices designs culinary entertainment in Paris and beyond, led by chefs, sommeliers and Meilleurs Ouvriers de France selected for their excellence. From choosing the format to setting up on site, we handle the whole service, on quotation, for groups of every size.
A gastronomic experience that brings teams together.
Gastronomy unites where classic activities divide. Around a wine tasting or a cooking workshop, your colleagues talk, discover, laugh, and leave with a shared memory rather than a goodie bag. That is the promise of successful culinary entertainment: turning a professional moment into a collective sensory experience.
What your team experiences
From the moment the host arrives, the tone is set. A chef or sommelier selected by Prémices takes charge of the group with expert, accessible and never condescending commentary. The session moves between discovering the produce, shared techniques and a guided tasting. Every participant leaves with concrete knowledge (recognising a wine by its aromas, identifying an aged cheese, mastering a cooking technique) and above all the memory of a moment lived together.
For which events?
Culinary entertainment works for ten people at a leadership seminar as well as for a hundred and fifty at an annual evening. Modular formats let you place it at the opening of an event to set the mood, as the central activity (culinary team building) or as a festive finale (gastronomic cocktail). Prémices adjusts the format to your venue, duration and headcount.
Our culinary entertainment formats.
Wine tasting led by a head sommelier
The Prémices sommelier guides your teams through a selection of wines chosen for your tastes or the season. The session alternates storytelling (terroir, winemakers, vintages) with sensory exercises (identifying aromas, food and wine pairing), standing cocktail style or seated, depending on numbers. See wine pairing.
Cheese tasting with a Meilleur Ouvrier de France
Some of our cheesemongers are Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, the highest French craft distinction. They present a selection of aged cheeses, explain ageing techniques, guide the tasting and answer the group's questions. A format that consistently impresses participants with the depth of its content and the quality of its produce.
Hands-on cooking workshop
Your colleagues step behind the stove. A Prémices chef guides the group through a seasonal recipe (starter, main or dessert) and passes on the fundamental techniques, before everyone tastes what the group has prepared. A favourite for culinary team building, because it creates natural cooperation between people who do not usually work together. See also our cooking classes.
Bespoke formats
For events with heavy logistical constraints (unequipped venue, large headcount, tight timing), Prémices offers hybrid formats and culinary shows on stage or in an open kitchen. A show by a Michelin-starred private chef or a Meilleur Ouvrier de France in front of fifty to two hundred people, with live narration of the gestures and produce, is a memorable highlight for a product launch or an incentive evening.
Hosts selected for excellence.
What sets Prémices apart from most culinary entertainment providers is the rigour of our selection. Every chef, sommelier or cheesemonger who joins the network goes through a practical assessment: technical mastery, punctuality, presentation, hygiene standards and, above all, the ability to engage a non-professional group with clarity and charisma. Only hosts approved on all these criteria work with our corporate clients.
This selection is reflected in our 4.9/5 Google rating. For HR managers and office managers, it means no Prémices host ever arrives at your event without having been tested first: no bad surprises, no improvisation.
When to organise culinary entertainment?
Seminars and team building
Whether a half-day strategy session or a two-day residential seminar, a cooking workshop or wine tasting fits naturally into the programme: as a break between working sessions, an evening activity or a festive close. Culinary team building builds cohesion in a relaxed setting, without the physical demands of other formats.
Company evenings and cocktails
Culinary entertainment can replace or complement a classic cocktail: a chef cooking live, a sommelier introducing the wines, a cheesemonger initiating guests into the art of tasting. Prémices works in any venue: your offices, a private space, a hotel, a villa. See cocktail catering.
Product launches, incentives, company anniversaries
High-end gastronomic entertainment suits events that need to stand out: a product launch with a staged culinary show, an incentive for a high-performing sales team, a company anniversary with a dinner led by a Meilleur Ouvrier de France chef.
Organisation and running order.
Step 1. Framing your needs
Send your request through the quote form or by phone: headcount, date, venue, type of entertainment and any constraints (allergens, diets, indicative budget). A Prémices advisor comes back within 24 hours with a personalised proposal.
Step 2. Choosing the host and approving the programme
We select the chef, sommelier or cheesemonger best suited to your event and send you the detailed programme (running order, produce, equipment). You approve, we confirm.
Step 3. Turnkey entertainment
The host arrives early, sets up the necessary equipment and takes charge of the group from start to finish. You have nothing to manage on site, and the space is left clean and tidy afterwards.
The host brings all the equipment needed, and mobile solutions are available for venues without culinary facilities. Lead times vary with the season and availability, so contact us as soon as your date is known. If your event also needs full catering (seated meal, cocktail dinner or gastronomic buffet), our corporate catering can be combined with the entertainment in a single service.
Every Prémices entertainment is designed to measure, so there is no standard published rate: it depends on headcount, format, venue and host. A detailed quote is sent free of charge and with no commitment within 24 hours. Your colleagues deserve better than standard entertainment.
Interested? Describe your project and receive a bespoke proposal within 24 hours.