The Culinary Edge Competitors

Taste Buds Kitchen specializes in fresh and unique cooking events. Our mission is to delight our guests through delicious culinary entertainment experiences! What began as a few holiday baking classes and cupcake-making birthday parties under the name Cupcake Kids! has grown into a nationally recognized brand. Today, Taste Buds Kitchen offers a diverse array of hands-on cooking adventures, including classes, birthday parties, camps, and special events. With a well-balanced mix of savory and sweet recipes, we create fun and memorable experiences for all ages, from 2 to 99. Taste Buds Kitchen has expanded from its flagship location in New York City to multiple franchise locations across the United States—and we’re rapidly growing! Our franchisees bring the joy of culinary entertainment to communities nationwide, fostering connections, learning, and creativity in the kitchen. Recognized as the “Best Kids Cooking Class” by New York Magazine and featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NBC, CBS, Fox News, and more, Taste Buds Kitchen is proud to be a leader in the culinary entertainment industry. Looking for a business opportunity with a proven model and national acclaim? Taste Buds Kitchen offers franchise opportunities for passionate entrepreneurs ready to bring our engaging cooking experiences to their communities. Join us in spreading the joy of cooking and create your own success story with Taste Buds Kitchen.

Our talented and dedicated team of individuals creates exceptional flavors and innovative products with personalized customer service. Committed to the technical mastery of the art and science of flavor chemistry, we are proud to offer an ever-expanding flavor library and custom flavors for your food and beverage application needs. We welcome challenges and work collaboratively with you to solve them.

A creative close knit group of talented audio experts, sound designers, musicians and mixers who help producers, creative directors and film makers tell stories with audio. Flavorlab™ specializes in a complete set of audio services for feature films, scripted and unscripted television, commercials, trailers, video games and brands. Twenty years strong and founded by Erik Blicker, Glenn Schloss and Brian Quill, Flavorlab provides high quality audio services in the most efficient, creative and cost effective way possible for clients like Lexus, Ralph Lauren, MTV, HBO, NBCUNI and Synthetic Cinema.