The best culinary specialties of the Alps for your seminar

In the Alps, gastronomy plays a very important role in the local culture, and has done so for centuries. Whether in Savoy, at the foot of the French Alps, or on the Swiss Alps side, you will find delicious dishes, each with a specificity related to its location.

As part of your seminar in the mountains, meals are the moments when your employees have the opportunity to create bonds between them, which means that you can encourage this, by valuing these moments with quality meals. From fondue to raclette to blueberry pie, you will find the ideal culinary specialties to try with your teams during your professional event.

You will find many farmers' markets with local products, from which many restaurants are supplied, most of which adapt their menus according to seasonal products.

As you will have understood, the Alps are not only the great peaks and ski areas, but a region with a culinary heritage and many culinary specialties that you can try with your teams during your seminar. You will therefore be able to discover its authentic and traditional cuisine with your employees.

In order to enjoy the best possible seminar in the Alps, you can think in advance of your professional stay about the meals you want to share with your teams. Thus, more than a simple seminar you can offer them a real experience. Here are our recommendations of dishes to try as part of a professional event in the mountains.

A raclette or fondue to spend a convivial moment with your teams

These are the two great classics of mountain gastronomy, especially known for the convivial moments they allow you to spend. They will allow you to develop the links within your team, around a good dish.

This is a mandatory step during any stay in the mountains that will allow you to have a good time together with your teams. To avoid having to answer the famous “ team fondue" or team raclette ? ”, the answer to get everyone to agree is simple: both! Depending on the duration and program of your corporate stay, you could for example do one dish each evening, otherwise if you eat in a restaurant, you can ask if it is possible for each employee to choose between these two emblematic dishes, after a good day of skiing or a day of study. By eating a raclette or a fondue in the Alps with your teams the products will be local and of quality, whether it is cheese or charcuterie.

The tartiflette, a dish to taste during your corporate event

The tartiflette is another very well known and appreciated dish by many people. You can without worries propose it to your employees during a seminar, in order to allow them to eat it in an ideal setting and prepared with local products, which has nothing to do with an industrially made tartiflette.

The vast majority of restaurants offer a tartiflette in their menu, and as part of a professional seminar you can specify it to the establishment at the time of the quote request, so that they can anticipate the quantities and see with its producers and give you a precise price order

In the traditional version there are bacon, however you can ask for a vegetarian version if some of your employees follow a special diet.

H3 : The Crozets, to discover the local culture with your employees

The Crozets are more prepared on the Savoyard side of the Alps. These are kinds of square and flat pasta, which are prepared in various forms. They can for example be prepared in gratin, or incorporated into a croziflette, which you will have understood, is a tartiflette with Crozets that have replaced the potatoes. It is a much less common dish than raclette or fondue, which will allow you to discover the local culture with your teams during your seminar.

The blueberry pie for a sweet touch between 2 meetings

To finish on a sweet touch or propose a snack between two meetings, you can offer a slice of blueberry pie to your employees. This fruity pie is an emblematic mountain dessert, not only in the Alps. Again, this pie is made with local fruits and products, and is a traditional mountain culinary specialty.

By offering these culinary specialties to your teams, you allow them to discover the local culture.

At the same time, you can strengthen the bonds between the different members of your teams, as most people associate meals with moments of conviviality, even in the context of a corporate seminar. You can also strengthen cohesion and team spirit, thanks to this common and shared experience between the different participants.

This corporate seminar will also have a direct impact on the work atmosphere upon returning from this stay, and also on the interactions between employees. Indeed, it is an opportunity through which your employees can create positive memories, which they can associate with the professional sphere. These meals will be convivial moments spent with their work colleagues that they will mutually remember, which enhances the existence of a workspace where the atmosphere is pleasant and mutual support between colleagues is present.

By organizing this type of stay, your company also proves the importance of the well-being of its employees. Indeed, this type of event actively contributes to the feeling of professional well-being of your employees, and this type of event, which offers a real break in the usual routine, can positively impact the feelings of your employees. You therefore allow your employees to break out of the daily routine, and at the same time you stimulate their creativity.

You also promote the open-mindedness of your employees, by offering them culinary specialties from the Alps prepared with foods different from those they can usually eat. Thus, you encourage your employees to continue to discover cultures and appreciate them, whether culinary or not, even once the corporate seminar is over.

Even if we can say that meals are not the main element of a corporate stay, they can have a real impact on the feelings of your teams about it, and therefore have a direct impact on your company. It is therefore still important to think about it when organizing a corporate seminar.