Cookery courses - some of our best selling experiences

Why are cookery courses perennially popular? Perhaps because eating is one of the basic pleasures in life. Some of us see food as simply a means to refuel and re-energise, but many of us are real foodies. We love nothing better than to sit down and delight in a superb meal, made all the better if it's shared with friends.

If you love your food and actively seek out new tastes and flavours, you will love our eclectic range of classes in professional kitchens around the country. It also goes a long way to explain why cookery classes are such best sellers.

You can literally eat your way around the world and learn how to cook some impressive and very tasty new dishes. We offer Thai, Spanish, Middle Eastern, curry and sushi classes, as well as traditional home cookery and even artisan courses in bread making and cheese production. You can practically smell that fab sourdough baking through the screen!

Learn to cook with authentic ingredients

You don't need to have visited China to enjoy noodles.  And if you've never been to Bangladesh, it doesn't stop you loving curry. We love the variety and wealth of fresh ingredients you can now find  in your most standard of supermarkets. 

This means you can pick up some kiffir lime leaves for your tangy Thai curry and buy genuine Italian risotto rice quite easily. You'll have all the authentic goodies you need to be able to recreate the dishes you learnt about at cookery school when you’re back in your home kitchen.

Cookery classes - hands on and demo style

Some of our classes are completely hands-on, meaning every pupil has a workstation and makes all the menu items on the course.

Other classes are run as demonstrations, where members of the audience will lend a hand at regular intervals. For a few of our culinary courses, the lesson actually begins outside of the kitchen with a walk around a market, or specialist local shops.

Cooking with the pros

You might be getting cookery lessons from celebrity chefs who have made a name for themselves on TV, or with best-selling recipe books. We can even bring the cookery experience to your own kitchen, with the chef coming to your home. Whichever of our cookery classes you choose, you can be sure you'll be getting a tasty, fun and informative few hours of culinary guidance

Taste and take home what you cook

No matter what recipes are on the menu, or how the lessons are run, there's always one thing in common - you will get to taste the fruits of your labour. In principle, you will also get to take 'doggy bags' home with you, so you can share the flavours and general gorgeous-ness with friends and family. But in reality, there is usually very little left apart from crumbs and a few scrapings in the pan! 

So whether you fancy learning how to wok up a storm with bamboo shoots, or want to impress by baking your own loaves, we've got the cookery course for you. Are you curious about make your own Brie-style cheese? Or do you just want to know how to make a decent three course meal without panicking?

Listen to what your tastebuds are saying and enrol on one of our lessons today and take your culinary skills to a whole new level!

If you just want to eat good food and not have to cook it, you'll be needing our Dining Experiences page ;-)