Your Team Deserves Better Than Another Conference Room

Hands-on cooking experiences that bring teams together in Frankfort, Illinois

Why corporate teams choose Whisk and Flame

Real collaboration. Real food. Real memories.

Forget the trust falls and the hotel ballroom. Your team walks into a professional kitchen, rolls up their sleeves, and cooks a full meal together. By the end of the night they've laughed, problem-solved, and shared a meal they made with their own hands.

This is team building that actually feels like something. Not a meeting with snacks.

Built for the way your team actually works

Quarterly meetings

End the day with something memorable. Teams cook, eat together, and leave actually connected. Runs 2.5 to 3 hours.

Offsites and retreats

The perfect anchor for a multi-day offsite. Hands-on, social, and a real break from the screen. Groups of 15 to 36.

Holiday parties

Skip the catered sit-down. Your team cooks the meal, shares it family style, and has a night they'll still be talking about in January.

Client entertainment

Take a client or prospect to a private cooking experience. More memorable than dinner out and a whole lot more fun.

What's included

Private studio

The space is yours for the full event. No other classes, no sharing.

Chef-led instruction

A professional chef guides the menu from prep to plate.

All ingredients

Every ingredient and tool, sourced and prepped. You just show up.

Full dining experience

Eat the meal you made together. Shared tables, real plates, real wine.

Bar packages available

Cocktails, wine, and beer. Hosted or cash, your call.

Custom menus

Italian night. Taco fiesta. Sushi. Surf and turf. We'll build it around your team.

What it costs

Starting at $90 per person. The studio to yourselves, a chef-led hands-on class, every ingredient and tool, aprons, setup and cleanup, and the full meal together at the end. Runs about 2.5 to 3 hours. We'll build the event around your group, menu and goals. Final pricing depends on menu selection, event format and any optional upgrades. Optional upgrades include premium menu selections, a hosted bar, wine pairing, the Chef's Challenge, personalized or company-branded aprons, culinary gifts and branded take-home items. Upgrades are priced in addition to the starting per-person rate.

Group size

15 guest minimum, up to 36 guests fully hands on. Planning a birthday, bachelorette party or other social celebration? See Private Events.

Hosted bar

$35 per guest. House cocktails, house wine and beer for the length of your event. Wine pairing $25 per guest. A cash bar or hosted tab both work too. Outside alcohol is not permitted. Whisk & Flame is not BYOB.

To hold your date

A $500 deposit is required to secure your date and is applied toward your final balance. A 20% gratuity is added to the experience and bar.

Add the Chef's Challenge

$600 flat, entirely optional. Teams cook against each other and our chefs judge. Everyone takes home a Whisk & Flame apron and the recipe cards. The winning team takes the gift cards and the Golden Whisk trophy, which has a way of ending up on somebody's desk for the rest of the year.

This is the version leadership teams tend to pick, and it is the one people talk about afterwards.

Afternoons work too

Plenty of teams book a 2:00 or 3:00 PM start so people finish around the time the workday would have ended anyway. Weekday afternoons are our most open slots, and Wednesdays especially.

Daytime availability is limited in June, July and August, when our kids camps run during the day. Evenings are open year round.

Allergies and dietary needs

Tell us when you book and they stop being a problem. Gluten free, dairy free, nut free and vegetarian are all routine. We build the menu around them from the start rather than improvising on the night.

Headcount

Your guaranteed count is due seven days out. We bill on that or actual attendance, whichever is greater, so a few late drop-outs are not your problem. Substitutions welcome any time.

Invoicing

We can invoice your company or district directly, including tax-exempt organisations, or send a card link. Whichever is easier for your finance team.

Who cooks here

Leadership teams, sales teams, school and district staff, dealership offices and client groups.

Recent groups include an 18-person pharmaceutical leadership team who chose the full Chef's Challenge package, a 23-person client event for a financial services firm, and a school district staff team who told us afterwards they “had a great time and look forward to attending more classes in the future.”

Let's build the night your team will remember

Tell us your headcount, your date, and what you want the day to do for your team. Use the form just below and we will come back to you with real numbers.

815-277-2039 -- Wednesday through Sunday, 4pm to 9pm