A Teaching Kitchen · New York

CookLike YouMean It.

Commercial-grade stations. Michelin-trained chefs. Real knife work, mother sauces, and plating — not a demo, not a reel. A kitchen where you actually cook.

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★★★★★4.9 · 340+ guests
|60+ corporate teams
Overhead view of hands performing brunoise knife cut on wooden cutting board, knuckles curled, chef's blade blurred with motion under flat studio light
Brunoise · Station 4

Trusted by teams at

Goldman Sachs
McKinsey & Co.
Deloitte
JPMorgan
Google
Condé Nast
Estée Lauder
Viacom CBS
Pfizer
Blackrock
Sotheby's
WeWork
Goldman Sachs
McKinsey & Co.
Deloitte
JPMorgan
Google
Condé Nast
Estée Lauder
Viacom CBS
Pfizer
Blackrock
Sotheby's
WeWork

60+ corporate teams have cooked here. Yours could be next →

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The Curriculum

What You Actually Learn

Not technique for technique's sake. Skills that transfer to your kitchen the next morning.

Close-up of professional chef hands performing precise knife cuts on vegetables on a wooden cutting board in a commercial kitchen
Knife Skills · 2.5 hrs
01
14 cuts.One session.

Knife Work & Mise en Place

Start where every great cook starts — with control. You'll learn the brunoise, julienne, chiffonade, and tourné from chefs who sharpened their skills on Michelin lines. By the end, your board looks like a prep cook's, not a home cook's guess.

  • Blade selection & honing
  • The 14 foundational cuts
  • Station setup & mise en place
  • Knife care & storage
Chef whisking a glossy mother sauce in a copper saucepan over a commercial gas range, steam rising in a professional kitchen
Sauce Mastery · 3 hrs
02
5 sauces.Infinite dishes.

The Five Mother Sauces

Béchamel, velouté, espagnole, sauce tomat, hollandaise. Master these five and you own the architecture of French cuisine. You'll build each from scratch at your station, adjusting seasoning in real time with a chef at your shoulder — not watching a screen.

  • Classical French foundations
  • Emulsification & reduction
  • Seasoning by instinct
  • Derivative sauce trees
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Plating Arts · 2 hrs
03
One plate.First impression.

Plating & Presentation

Michelin plates are engineered, not arranged. You'll learn the geometry of negative space, sauce work with a spoon and squeeze bottle, height, and the final garnish that makes a dish look intentional. Leave with photographs worth framing — and the muscle memory to repeat it.

  • Plate geometry & negative space
  • Sauce dots, swoops & quenelles
  • Micro-herb & garnish logic
  • Restaurant-speed plating
Who It's For

Three Doors In. One Kitchen.

Corporate & Teams

The team dinner that actually gets talked about Monday morning.

Forget bowling. Private sessions for 8–50 people — your team stands at commercial stations, learns real technique, and eats what they cook. Catered to dietary needs. Invoiced simply. Remembered for years.

60+ teams booked in 2025
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Couples & Date Nights

A Saturday that doesn't start with "where do you want to eat."

Side-by-side at your own station, building a three-course menu under a chef who tells you exactly what to do and why. Aperitivo on arrival. You sit down to what you made. No awkward cooking class energy — just a genuinely good evening.

4.9 stars · 180+ couples
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Ambitious Home Cooks

You've watched the reels. Now stand at the stove.

Single-session enrollments and multi-week intensives for cooks who are tired of approximating. Individual stations, small groups (max 8), direct feedback. You leave with muscle memory, not just notes.

12-week intensives · Max 8 students
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What Guests Say

Legit feedback,
not marketing copy.

4.9 / 5
340+ verified reviews
Corporate
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We've done escape rooms, axe throwing, cooking demos — none of it sticks like Sauté. Eight weeks later people are still talking about the hollandaise they nailed. Our team actually learned something.

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Priya Nair
VP of People, Meridian Capital
Couples
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My partner and I have done every 'date night cooking class' in the city. This is the only one where a chef stood next to me and corrected my grip mid-brunoise. That's the difference. We went back three times.

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Marcus Webb
Architect · Brooklyn, NY
Individual
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I've been cooking seriously for six years. I thought I knew knife work. Chef Laurent watched me for thirty seconds and showed me something I'd been doing wrong for half a decade. Worth every dollar of the intensive.

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Yuki Tanaka
Food Writer · Saveur contributor
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