Our Story

Food has always been the best reason to gather

ChefPassport was born in Luxembourg in 2019 with one conviction: the best team building doesn't feel like team building. It feels like the best meal you've ever cooked with people you're glad to know.

3,000+

Teams hosted

200+

Companies

40+

Chef instructors

28

Countries reached

Team participants in cooking class
Adults making fresh pasta together
Four women smiling during cooking event
Large group waving at culinary team building event
Our mission

Every team deserves to eat well together

We believe cooking is the world's oldest collaboration tool. When people stand at a workstation together, follow a recipe, make mistakes, and plate something beautiful — something shifts. They stop being colleagues. They become a team.

Timeline

How we got here

2019

ChefPassport founded in Luxembourg by Matteo Ressa with a single mission: make team building genuinely enjoyable.

2020

Pivoted to virtual events during COVID — shipped ingredient kits to 28 countries in the first year alone.

2021

Opened the Kachatelier in Windhof: a professional kitchen with 8 Miele workstations, built for corporate groups.

2022

Crossed 1,000 corporate events. Amazon, ECB, Google and Netflix joined our client roster.

2023

Expanded chef roster to 40+ instructors across 20 cuisines. Cookinar and CookCast formats launched.

2024

3,000+ teams. Ranked #1 team building experience in Luxembourg on Google.

The team

The people behind the aprons

40+ chef instructors from 15 nationalities, hand-picked for expertise, warmth, and the ability to make a group of strangers feel like old friends.

Corrie Baier

Corrie

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Heather Madeira

Heather

🇨🇳 🇹🇼

Reyhan Gül

Reyhan

🇹🇷

Winnie Lee

Winnie

🎂

Spencer Kennedy

Spencer

🇺🇸

Yun Lee

Yun

🇰🇷

Matteo Ressa

Matteo

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Press

What people say about us

The go-to culinary experience for Luxembourg's corporate scene.

Delano

ChefPassport is redefining what team building looks like in the Grand Duchy.

Paperjam

A cooking class that actually brings teams together.

RTL

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