CONFERENCE AND EVENT IN MELBOURNE

You’re planning an important conference or workshop or post-event party in Melbourne for your colleagues or clients. You’ve done it before, but this time you really want to organize something special that bonds your team and/or your guests together. Your challenge is finding a bonding activity that improves your network, creating common ground, looking after health and creativity. But most importantly, you need to find something that’s fun and rewarding. Your guests are open-minded, have a positive vibe, and love to connect with people and learn about food, culture, and history. Your guests expect you to make a decision soon, and you don’t want to make the wrong choice. You could book an off-the-shelf event that might be okay. Get inspired by these clever activities that can make your conference more fun and meaningful. Savvy planners know that what takes place before, after, and in-between conference sessions can be just as valuable for attendees as the content itself.

COOKING IS PERFECT TO ENTERTAIN PEOPLE

We deliver the most authentic Asian and Modern Cooking Experiences in Melbourne for over a thousand happy customers every year. We’re a boutique business with the ability to work alongside event planners for cooking events. We deliver exceptional value for money and memorable experiences from our purpose-designed venue in Melbourne. We help your team get deeply involved with the food and culture of Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and China… We make 25 ingredients’ recipes simple and add great stories about our family kitchen, cooking cultures, and traditions. Thanks to your event planning, your team will remember these stories, and go back home with a renewed sense of creativity, vitality, and appreciation of Asian food. 

EVERYONE LIKE COOKING!

Your group gets together to enjoy a hands-on cooking experience with plenty of entertainment to prepare a social cook-off party. This class is perfect for clients or work colleagues cooking together, looking to ignite their culinary passions. If you have a bit of time and want to have the ultimate challenge in action, ask us for our team challenge packages. Located conveniently near Melbourne CBD, we are also only minutes from most Melbourne venues and easily accessible by public transport. Our facility is a purpose-built space offering a range of hands-on and demonstration-style Asian cooking classes to suit your event. Our training kitchen is fully equipped, using the latest induction cooking technology, which is efficient and safe for you and your group. Group cooking classes can be personalised to suit your requirements. Let our chef and event director create a fresh, healthy and elegant event to ensure that you meet, greet, share, bond and celebrate your workplace, industry stakeholders and friends in an intimate kitchen setting. With an exquisite selection of Asian and Modern menus to choose from, we promise you and your guests a truly unforgettable experience. We can host a multiple-day event.

SOCIAL COOKING PARTY 2 HOUR

This social cooking is fun for team building and corporate cooking events. Recipes will be streamlined, so the team can put their amazing dishes together from these menus.  Great for a shorter catch up and then moving on to something else. We can do a team of 10-40 people. For larger teams, would need to hire a venue, so speak to us as soon as you can! 

MASTER-CLASSES 3 HOUR POPULAR

This class is great for a small and medium team up taking their time to master recipe and menu. Our menu design for the team up to 40 people, and we would need to break the team into smaller groups of 10-16 people to complete the activity with many menus to choose: dumpling and/or pizza party, street food of Asia, Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Asian Vegan, Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese.   

COOKING CHALLENGES 3-4 HOUR 

This is great for teams who want to support Charity Cooking by cooking and donating foods to homeless people and we will invite the manager or leader of a charity you support to come and speak about the charity and take the food to distribute later.   For teams who want to be competitive in 2-6 people groups, you can race on Victoria Street as Amazing Race as seen on TV to get ingredients to cook up a tasty dish from our Vietnamese, Thai, Korean or Chinese menus to share, and you may win if you come first. For multicultural teams, join our Food Olympics and cook a national dish of Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Asian Vegan, Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese -  remember you cook for everyone and however comes with the best looking and tasting dish will win.  With the Master Chef, we set up a simple challenge with Magic box, and you are expected to create a dish with the help of the chef, and you are expected to show the best looking and tasting dish. Lastly, for the Food Truck theme, we based on our famous street food menu which the chef or/and organiser will pick the dishes. You will be given a set of time to cook for everyone and present a dish that tastes good and portable. 

CATERING PACKAGES

If you want to stay all day or longer than a cooking class and still want some foods and wine, ask us for a day delegate package with starting out having a healthy Asian breakfast, speak to friends over a Mexican style lunch or hang out in our kitchen for cooking experiences and having a couple of drinks. You can add a healthy lunch break making sushi or rice paper rolls or celebrate your meeting with canapé and drink and then join others over the dinner in our cooking class. For more custom experience, we can add in the yoga lesson, photography, karaoke, river walk, river boating or market tour or better we can organize someone to entertain you over the best of Asia buffet dinner and fun dance!

VENUE HIRE

Our kitchen venue hires offer event organisers or chefs to use a relaxed and comfortable cooking space perfect for a few hours or multiple days. Otao kitchen is located just moments from Victoria Street’s Little Saigon restaurant precinct, offering an abundance of dining options. Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre, with a Coles supermarket, Ikea, Hoyts Cinema and 80 speciality stores, is also only a short walk from the venue. Melbourne’s CBD is easily accessible within 20 minutes by public transport, with a tram stop on the doorstep. The kitchen is featured by a large 8 m communal kitchen wooden bench perfect for cooking classes, meeting, workshop or kitchen prep works. The guests can sit on stools or stand and moving freely around the venue. The back kitchen is kitted with a commercial oven, dishwasher, plenty of bench space to work. Learn more.

EXTRAS

• Photographer $495 for the 2 hours.
• Apron $45 each with your logo and our embroidered - minimum order 20pcs
• Set of 3 Japanese knives shun kai gift from $549
• Wooden chopping board trophy $250 each
• Chef jacket $125 each

BOOKING TERMS

• A minimum charge of $1,650 is applied to all group and venue bookings. If your group number falls below the minimum spend, the minimum spend is applied. 
• A deposit of 10 seats or 50% whatever greater is required to confirm your booking. Payment may be made via credit or debit card, cash or by invoice. Full payment is required at the time of booking for events, within 14-day of the event date. The balance is due 14 days before the event, upon confirmation of the guest number and their dietary requirements. 
• If cancellation is made of more than 14-day notice, we will refund 50% of your deposit. For a cancellation is made within 14 days, no refund will take effect, and you will have to pay for the minimum spend. If your group voluntarily leave or not show up to the event on the day, no refund will take effect.
• Final numbers and dietary requirements for your session must be confirmed no later than 14-day prior to the start time of the cookery session in order to give us enough time to pre-order the necessary ingredients and staff.
  
• If you would like to increase the number of participants after this time, please email us hello@otaokitchen.com.au to discuss, and we will do the best to accommodate you.
  

WE HOST EVENTS FOR

SEEK.COM, CRICKET AUSTRALIA, SCOTTISH FINANCE, REALSTATE.COM, ERNST & YOUNG, TOP DECK TRAVEL, KORNN FERRY RECRUITMENT, BUNNINGS, NBN CO, FONTERRA, HENGI, HUDSON, GFM WEALTH, CARE SUPER,  COLONIAL FIRST STATE, RPS GROUP, SAN CHURRO CHOCOLATE, S CENTRE GROUP, VIC ROADS, TRANSURBAN, JAQUAR, FUTURE YOU, TALENT WITHIN, MAY BORN, GUIDE DOGS VICTORIA, CBRE, CARGILL, FEDERATION CENTRE, YARRA RANGE COUNCIL, BAPT CARE, AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS, ... and many more...

Contact us

Chef Ha Nguyen 0408 217 899

Email hello@otaokitchen.com.au