California Team Events

Yes — that’s much of what this page is for. Rockoly runs in-person events across California, from San Francisco and the Bay Area to Los Angeles and Orange County, so you can book the same menu for more than one office and let each site have its own night. Ask your coordinator about running two sites on the same day; it comes down to chef availability.

Headcount is flexible too. Groups run from 3 people to 600 and up, and the biggest ones are usually split by department, by office or across days so every group still gets real chef time rather than watching from the back of a crowd. Anyone who can’t reach either room can join the hybrid way, cooking along at home from a kit shipped to them while a Zoom host keeps both halves in one conversation.

No. A conference room, a cafeteria or an open floor is enough — the chef arrives with all the ingredients, supplies and equipment, and your coordinator goes over the room with you beforehand. Charcuterie & Connection, Mixology & Mingle and Sipping & Socializing involve no cooking heat at all, which makes them easy in a leased office with a cautious building manager. Want the grill going instead? The California Office BBQ Bash brings the chefs, the grill and the equipment to your workplace. And if your space really won’t work, your coordinator arranges a nearby venue that fits your headcount.

The Judgment of Paris, and it is the best forty-five seconds of context a sommelier can hand a room. On 24 May 1976 the British wine merchant Steven Spurrier staged a blind tasting in Paris with an all-French panel of judges. A Napa Valley Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena and a Napa Cabernet Sauvignon from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, both 1973, came first in their categories, ahead of white Burgundies and Bordeaux first growths. TIME reported it, the judges were reportedly appalled, and the assumption that serious wine could only come from France did not survive the decade. California has been taken seriously ever since.

Sipping & Socializing is where that lands: a sommelier in the room walking your team through bold reds and crisp whites with cheese plates, doing the conversational work for you. If wine isn't the angle, Tapas & Talk is the other one that keeps a room moving, because tapas are small and shared by design, so people circulate between stations instead of sitting next to the same colleague for two hours.

Yes, because there’s nothing to perform. The chef demonstrates each step and then small stations work through it together, so everyone is doing the same short task at the same moment — no one is put on the spot, nothing is graded and nothing gets presented to the room. Anyone who would genuinely rather not handle food can plate, taste or judge instead; the Tapas Trivia and Charcuterie Tournament add-ons give them a real role. Everyone sits down to the same meal at the end.

Rockoly staffs it end to end. You supply the room and the guest list. We supply everyone else:

• Chef or mixologist — leads the session, demonstrates every step and coaches each station.
• Event helpers — prep the ingredients, set up the stations and keep the room moving.
• Dedicated event coordinator — plans menu, timing, venue and dietary requirements with you beforehand and stays your one contact throughout.
• Setup and cleanup crew — the space is built before your team arrives and restored after they go.
• Catering staff — when a menu adds a buffet or a main course.

Event insurance is included in every package, and dietary changes are free. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, kosher and no-alcohol are handled at no extra cost when you share them in advance.

It’s a per-person rate, driven by which menu you choose and how many people are coming. If you’re pricing two offices, send your coordinator the headcount for each and you’ll have firm numbers back before anything is committed.

What that rate buys is the whole event rather than the catering: live instruction from your chef or mixologist, every ingredient, all supplies and equipment, setup and cleanup by our crew, extra food and drinks so nobody leaves hungry, a dedicated event coordinator and event insurance. Shaping the menu around your team is part of the price rather than an upcharge, and vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, kosher and no-alcohol adjustments cost nothing when you share them in advance.

The only separate lines are the ones you choose to add: custom aprons with names or your logo at $40 per person, the take-home cocktail shaker set from Mixology & Mingle at the same, the Wine Lover Kit with Sipping & Socializing, or extras like a vegetable paella main and cinnamon churros. Send your dates, your menu and your headcount through the form on this page and a coordinator comes back with the quote.

Yes — this page carries festive menus built for exactly that. Alongside the year-round workshops there’s Festive Spanish Tapas, a Holiday Baking Championship where teams decorate three-layer sponge cakes and prizes go to the most creative, best-tasting and most festive, and Festive Activities such as Gingerbread Co-Workers or Human Snowman Creations, which add about 30 minutes of cheerful nonsense to any menu. A party where people have something to do is usually the difference between a good one and a long one. If you want a December date, ask early — chef availability is the constraint.

Three weeks for a cooking event and four for a happy hour is the single-site answer. Two offices is a different calculation: San Francisco and Los Angeles on the same day depends entirely on having chefs free in both places at once, so give that version more room than you think it needs and let your coordinator confirm before you announce anything internally. Rush dates do sometimes work out; it comes down to chef availability, so it is worth the question.

A $250 deposit holds the date, by credit card, ACH transfer or check. Cancel 30 or more days out and you are refunded what you paid less any nonrecoverable costs already committed; 15 to 29 days out you choose between a 50% refund and a 100% Rockoly credit; inside 15 days payments are nonrefundable, though one complimentary reschedule is yours if you ask 30+ days ahead. Every event is backed by the Love Your Event Guarantee: if it doesn't live up to expectations, we'll make it right.

Use the inquiry form on this page, email events@rockoly.com, or call (617) 939-9732.