New Zealand School of Food and Wine in conjunction with Hay’s offers a diverse array of events that can be tailored to your specific occasion. Cooking demonstrations and interactive dinners where you get to be involved in the process are great fun and suit corporate events and product launches as well as team building programmes and social get-togethers.
The events available include:
 Corporate training & events(pdf 418KB)
1. Corporate Challenge: Kitchen Confidential
(minimum 8 people - maximum of 24 people)
Sessions: Lunch on Thursdays 9.30 am – 1.30 pm or Dinner from 4 pm – late
Teams create a three course lunch or dinner with matching wines, with our professional chefs who mentor them through this process. Ideal for conference activity, team building or corporate hospitality.
2. Chef for the Day - Cook your own Christmas Celebration
Get a group of 8-10 people together and come cook a Christmas dinner for your colleagues, family or friends.
Arrive at New Zealand School of Food & Wine at 4pm to prepare a 4 course gourmet meal.
Our professional chefs will guide you in cooking techniques and presentation.
At 6.30pm your friends and colleagues arrive to enjoy the feast in the restaurant.
Our Christmas menu
Christmas mince pies with ham and stilton
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Cream of roast tomato soup with our own freshly baked sour dough bread
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Filo Christmas cracker stuffed with turkey & cranberry
Dauphinoise potatoes, roast shallots, blanched spinach and green pea puree
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Rich Belgium Chocolate Roulade with caramelised apples & pears, spun sugar wafers
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Menu 2
Christmas filo wafers
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Roast salmon with lime and red pepper salsa with crusty sourdough
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Turkey fillet, wrapped in bacon with Cumberland Sauce
Orange glazed yams, seasonal greens &
Creamy garlic mash,
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Warm chocolate pudding with toffee & brandy sauce
With carmelised bananas
Menu 3
Sour dough crostini with cumberland cream
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Roast Salmon with braised red onion, red chili salsa
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Baked smoked ham with mustard & honey glaze
Braised fennel, roast kumara cake, winter green vegetables
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Poached pears in vanilla syrup with baked orange wafers
Burnt caramel cream
Available Monday - Saturday.
Menu can be designed to suit individual groups
COST
$45 per person
minimum cost of $1600 - All prices are GST exclusive.
Maximum of 55 people
Added extras
• wine, beer & cocktails
• live band, karaoke
• guest speaker
3. Wine Taste and Quiz night
Get together a group of your friends or colleagues to learn more about how to taste wines followed by our wine quiz designed to test your knowledge and ensure lots of laughs.
Sample wines
Hawkes Bay Chardonnay
Central Otago Pinot Gris
Oak aged New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
Gimblett Gravels Syrah
Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon
Clare Valley Riesling
Chilean Carmenere
French Minervois
Spanish Toro
Italian Valpolicella
Options
World Wine Quiz
This quiz features 10 wines from around the world – test yourself on your international wine knowledge – includes some rare and curious wines!
New Zealand Wine Quiz
So you think you know a lot about Kiwi wines, here is your chance to test your skills on New Zealand wine regions, grape varieties and styles of wine.
Groups of four people will compete for a group prize selected by you.
Available
Monday - Saturday 7-10pm
Minimum cost $695 for 20 people or $35 per person
Maximum of 60 people - All prices are GST exclusive.
Added extras
• canapes, cheese platters served during the evening
• more wines can be added
• guest speaker
4. Customised Cookery Demonstrations and Tastings (Minimum 12 people - maximum of 24 people) |
