Seminars for 50 to 600 participants, conferences, gala dinners, cooking team events and company parties can be held at Tolba Factory, a venue with about 1,000 square meters of event space across five main rooms and its own large kitchen. It is run by Tolba GmbH in Rümlang, 10 minutes from Zurich Airport and 15 minutes from the city of Zurich.
Seminars and company events
The day seminar package is built for groups of 50 or more and runs from 8 am to 6 pm. It includes the room set in seminar, theatre or U-shape, a sound system, screen and projector, flip chart, pinboard and facilitation kit, Wi-Fi, two coffee breaks, a business buffet lunch with drinks, and outdoor parking. Smaller groups can be quoted on request. For team building, the factory kitchen hosts cooking courses for more than 100 people, followed by a dinner served in the event room. Other formats include a sensory seminar, a fun obstacle course and creative sessions, and partner activities such as Flip Lab and Boda Borg can be added to a program.
Rooms and capacities
Escoffier, on the upper floor, is the main hall: 600 square meters, up to 600 in theatre style, 450 in seminar layout and 420 to 550 at banquet tables. It divides into three ateliers. Atelier Hélène (265 square meters) seats 270 theatre style, and the larger Atelier Hélène+ (330 square meters) seats 310. Atelier Melba and Atelier Rossini each cover 135 square meters; Melba takes 140 theatre style or 90 in seminar layout. Atelier Ritz, on the ground floor, covers about 200 square meters for 160 theatre style or 120 at banquet. Around them are a foyer of 190 to 240 square meters, L'Entrée (120 square meters, high ceiling, vehicle access), a 50 square meter fumoir with table football, an 80 square meter attic room with sloping ceilings, a passerelle linking the two buildings and a 320 square meter outdoor terrace with a view of Zurich Airport. All rooms have large windows, blackout and step-free access.
Catering
Catering is in-house. An international kitchen team works from a production kitchen of more than 500 square meters. Menus range from coffee breaks and aperitifs to gala dinners, in Swiss, European or world styles, with seasonal and regional produce where possible. The caterer is fixed, so outside caterers are not brought in. Tolba also caters events at other locations.
History and setting
Tolba Factory occupies two buildings, numbers 11 and 13, in the Rümlang business area north of Zurich. The kitchen follows the principles of the French chef Auguste Escoffier, whose name is given to the main hall. Escoffier has a fixed multimedia installation: touch-panel control, two screens of 4 by 5 meters, two 6,000-lumen daylight projectors, programmable LED lighting and connections for interpreter booths. Mobile projectors, wireless microphones, mixers and speakers serve the other rooms, event technicians are available, and Wi-Fi is free throughout the building.
Getting there
Zurich Airport is about 10 minutes away by road and central Zurich about 15 minutes. There are 100 free parking spaces on site. The address is Meienbreitenstrasse 11, 8153 Rümlang.
