Engage in a hands-on cooking experience at The Institute of Culinary Education. Participants will work in teams under the guidance of professional chefs to prepare a gourmet meal, exploring various cuisines and cooking techniques. This activity promotes teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving while enjoying the process of creating and tasting delicious dishes. Ideal for building camaraderie and learning new culinary skills.

Cooking Class at The Institute of Culinary Education

Few destinations concentrate business capability and cultural gravity as efficiently as New York City. Serving more than 130 million air passengers per year across JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, NYC minimizes travel friction for both domestic and global teams. The city supports enterprise-level offsites through venues such as the Javits Center, which spans roughly 3.3 million square feet and includes over 100 configurable meeting and breakout rooms. This makes it viable for leadership summits, internal conferences, and cross-functional planning events in a single footprint. Beyond formal sessions, New York’s density is a strategic asset: Central Park covers 843 acres for outdoor meetings, while museums, theaters, and dining districts sit minutes from major business hotels. Teams lose less time commuting and more time collaborating. For planners, flexibility is key—programs can scale from 20-person executive offsites to 500-person company gatherings without changing cities. New York works best for organizations that value intensity, fast alignment, and a destination that signals importance, ambition, and cultural relevance.