🥢 Bowl It! - Private Culinary Workshop & Tasting Dinner

Cook together. Taste everything. Meet new people around the table.

📅 Friday, 23 October 2026
🕖 19:15–21:45
📍 Uccle, Brussels
👥 Minimum 12 · Maximum 20 participants
🌍 English

Looking for something different from the usual Friday-night drinks or dinner?

This time, we’re making dinner ourselves. 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Join Mixer, part of the Sunday Vacations community network, for a private culinary evening in a fully equipped professional cooking studio in Uccle.

Guided by a professional culinary instructor, we'll cook in pairs, prepare four colourful bowls together and then gather around the buffet to taste everything we've created.

No advanced cooking skills needed. And definitely no need to bring someone with you.

This evening is about good food, learning something new and meeting people naturally while doing something together.

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## 🌿 THE EXPERIENCE

We're keeping this experience intentionally small: 12 to 20 participants only.

After a short introduction, we'll divide into pairs at fully equipped cooking stations.

Each duo will work on two of the evening's recipes, while across the kitchen our group collectively prepares all four:

🇹🇭 Thai Bowl
🇬🇷 Greek Bowl
🌱 Buddha Bowl
🍤 Shrimp Poke Bowl

Once we're finished cooking, all four creations come together for a shared tasting buffet.

The dishes are served in mini portions so that everyone can taste all four recipes, with approximately the equivalent of two full bowls per participant.

And after dinner?

No washing up. 😌

The venue team handles the dishes and cleanup, leaving us more time to cook, eat and enjoy the company.

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## 🌿 EVENT TYPE

Curated Experience

A small-group social experience combining hands-on cooking, shared food and genuine connection.

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## ✨ HIGHLIGHTS

🥢 Private culinary workshop
👨‍🍳 Professional culinary guidance
🍽️ Four internationally inspired bowl recipes
👥 Hands-on cooking in pairs
🥗 All fresh ingredients provided
🔥 Fully equipped professional kitchen
👩‍🍳 Aprons, equipment and recipes provided
🥤 Soft drinks, water, coffee & tea included
🍴 Shared tasting buffet
😋 Taste all four creations
🧼 No washing up
🌍 International, English-speaking atmosphere
🙋 Solo joiners very welcome
👥 Intimate group of 12–20 people

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## 🕒 THE PLAN

### 19:15 — Welcome & Recipe Introduction

Meet the group, put on your apron and get comfortable in the kitchen.

We'll receive an introduction to the recipes and practical instructions for the evening.

### ~19:30 — Let's Cook!

We divide into duos and get hands-on for approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.

Each duo prepares two recipes, while together our kitchen creates all four dishes.

Expect chopping, mixing, tasting, teamwork and plenty of conversation along the way.

###~ 21:00 — Tasting Buffet & Social

Aprons off. Dinner time. 🥢

All four bowls are served in mini portions, giving everyone the chance to taste the complete menu.

Then we sit back and enjoy what we've created together.

### ~21:45 — End

And we'll leave the washing up to the venue team. 🙌

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## 📍 MEETING POINT

Uccle, Brussels

The experience takes place in a fully equipped professional culinary studio.

The exact address and practical arrival instructions will be shared with confirmed participants before the event.

Please arrive on time: the workshop begins at 19:15 and we cannot start later.

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## 💳 CONTRIBUTION

### UJAMAA Members

€95

### Guests / Non-Members

€110

Your guest contribution includes 1 year of Explorer membership with UJAMAA ASBL / the Sunday Vacations community.

### Included

✓ Private culinary workshop
✓ Professional instruction
✓ All ingredients
✓ Fully equipped cooking stations
✓ Cooking equipment and accessories
✓ Apron during the workshop
✓ Recipes
✓ Tasting of everything we prepare
✓ Soft drinks and water
✓ Coffee and tea
✓ Dishwashing and venue cleanup

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## 🌍 MEMBERSHIP

Mixer is part of the Sunday Vacations network, a community initiative of UJAMAA ASBL bringing international professionals, expats and locals together through social, cultural, nature and discovery experiences.

🧭 Explorer — €5/year
🌍 Voyager — €50/year
⭐ Ambassador — €150/year

Already a Sunday Vacations / Ujamaa member? You benefit from the €95 member contribution.

New to our community? Your €110 contribution includes one year of Explorer membership, making this a great first experience with Mixer and the wider Sunday Vacations community.

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## 👋 WHO IS THIS FOR?

You don't need to consider yourself a great cook.

This evening is for people who enjoy food, discovering something new and meeting others in a more natural setting than the usual networking event.

It's particularly suitable if you:

• are new to Brussels
• enjoy international communities
• want to expand your social circle
• prefer activity-based social events
• enjoy cooking or want to improve your skills
• are looking for something different on a Friday evening
• are thinking of joining alone

Solo joiners are very welcome.

Instead of walking into a crowded room and wondering who to talk to, we'll already have something to do together.

Sometimes it's easier to meet over a chopping board than across a bar. 😉

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## 🎒 WHAT TO BRING

Very little.

✓ Comfortable clothes suitable for cooking
✓ Comfortable, preferably closed shoes
✓ Your appetite
✓ Your curiosity

Ingredients, equipment and aprons are provided.

### Allergies & dietary requirements

Please tell us about food allergies, intolerances or dietary requirements before registering/payment.

This is a shared professional kitchen and a predetermined four-recipe workshop. We therefore cannot guarantee that every dietary requirement or allergy can be accommodated.

Please contact the organisers before booking if you have any concerns.

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## 🎟️ BOOKING & MINIMUM GROUP SIZE

This is a private workshop with a minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 participants.

To join:

1️⃣ RSVP on Meetup

2️⃣ Complete your payment using the instructions sent after RSVP

3️⃣ Your individual place is secured once payment has been received

An RSVP without payment does not reserve a place or count towards the minimum group size.

### 👥 We need 12 to cook!

A minimum of 12 paid participants is required for the workshop to proceed.

If the minimum group size is not reached and the event cannot proceed, event contributions will be refunded in full.

Once participant #12 is confirmed, we'll announce it to the group. 🎉

Maximum capacity is 20, and registrations close once all places are taken.

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## ⚠️ CANCELLATION POLICY

Because this is a private workshop with ingredients, kitchen capacity and professional instruction reserved specifically for our group, advance commitments are made based on confirmed registrations.

Participant registrations become non-refundable from 8 October 2026.

After this date, final participant numbers and workshop arrangements are committed to the service provider.

If UJAMAA cancels the event because the required minimum of 12 participants is not reached, your event contribution will be refunded in full.

If you need to cancel before the applicable deadline, please contact the organisers as early as possible.

Participant substitutions may be possible with prior approval — please contact us rather than transferring your place directly.

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## ℹ️ IMPORTANT NOTES

This is a hands-on cooking activity involving normal kitchen utensils and equipment. Participants must follow the professional instructor's and venue's safety instructions.

The exact venue and final practical information will be communicated to confirmed participants.

Recipes or ingredients may be reasonably adjusted where necessary for operational or availability reasons.

Please do not attend without a confirmed registration.

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## ⚖️ LEGAL & ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

This community experience is organised through UJAMAA ASBL / the Sunday Vacations network and hosted within the Mixer community.

Sunday Vacations and UJAMAA ASBL act as community organisers and facilitators, not as a travel agency.

Professional culinary instruction, kitchen facilities, ingredients and associated venue services are provided by an independent third-party service provider. The provider's applicable safety, operational and allergen conditions may apply.

Participants are responsible for informing the organisers of relevant food allergies, intolerances or dietary requirements and for deciding whether the activity is appropriate for them.

Activities are organised by volunteers and covered under the COCOF volunteer insurance framework.

VAT not applicable – small business exemption scheme, Article 56bis Belgian VAT Code.

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# 🥢 READY TO BOWL IT?

Four bowls. One kitchen. 12–20 people. One very different Friday evening.

Come for the cooking.

Stay for the food and conversation.

Meet someone you might not otherwise have met.

And when we're finished...

leave the washing up to someone else. 😉

👉 RSVP + payment secures your place and counts towards our minimum group of 12.

Maximum 20 places available.

See you in the kitchen! 👩‍🍳🥢🌍