By far the best cooking day and class every. I attended the meat and poultry class and it was…read moreamazing! I've now done classes in Paris, Barcelona and London and the one at the Cookery School is by far the best!!!!! Ill Be taking more classes when I return to London

I attended a half day course 'The ultimate meat and poultry'. Surpassed expectations on all counts…read more The cookery school is centrally located, just off Regent St.Surprisingly compact inside but everything worked well due to great organisation of the space and activities. We were welcomed with freshly baked caraway seed cakes and cheese scones, still warm from the oven with tea or coffee. Our group of ten budding cooks was split into 3 groups. We had around ten dishes to make so each group did three / four dishes. The chef leading the class was excellent. Too many dishes to describe here but highlights included guinea fowl (a favourite of mine) braised in red wine and port, spatchcock poussin, lamb stew, duck with orange and roast beef with Yorkshire pud. We all worked on fully deboning a chicken which we then stuffed with a mushroom mixture, tied up like a burrito (I think ballotine is the correct term) and took home to eat. I can report it was delicious. On the side we also made two rice dishes and creme caramels. Finally, after a 10 am start and solid demo, concentrated prep and cooking, we reached 3pm. The table was set and the group sat down to eat what became a 10 course tasting menu. Tired and weak with hunger we ate and ate sampling each dish with a nice glass or two of wine to accompany. As well as being interesting and educational, it was enjoyable and learned lots of new tips and cookery techniques. It was busy and intense but not too much and pitched to the group who all had a reasonable level of cooking knowledge. I have the recipe cards and slowly working through some of the dishes we made...not too bad so far. Would definitely return for another class.

Kitchen Queen is a great way to take cooking classes. The classes are both a lot of fun and very…read moreconvenient! I absolutely loved the class itself with a great teacher and believe there are currently no other cookery schools that not only come to your house to deliver the class but also let you specify any dishes you have always wanted to know how to cook. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and would always highly recommend the service to anyone!

Kitchen Queen is such a wonderful idea. Booked a lesson really easily via the website…read more(http://www.kitchenqueen.co.uk) . The lesson was completely tailored to our needs (we have a fussy family so this was great!) & very quickly we given a lovely list of recipe ideas to choose from for our lesson. The lesson itself was great fun & very informative.....have already booked our second lesson & also considering buying gift vouchers for certain friends who could use a little help in the kitchen. Wonderful stuff!

I have just completed the Advanced Professional Chef Course with the Academy and I can honestly say…read morethat taking the course was the best decision I've ever made. I've always had a passion for cooking but never thought I would be able to develop a career out of it. The course took me from the very basics to all kinds of new and different advanced techniques and skills. I worked in some amazing fine dining restaurants, but the real highlight was working in a Michelin star restaurant kitchen which is something I never though I could possibly do. I am very happy to say that I am starting my new job as a chef in a restaurant in Central London next week and can't wait to start. Thanks to all the staff at the Academy who were so welcoming and friendly, we must meet up for that drink soon! You've helped me achieve my dream, thank you!

I worked on the Pastry Course. The chefs were great and to a taught to a high standard. Looking to…read moredo another course with Chef Academy soon.

My daughter and I loved the cooking class with Carla ! She is a passionate and knowledgable chef…read moreand teacher ! I recommend Carla's class to everyone.

From the owner: Borough Kitchen Cook Shop provides everything the at-home chef needs from the kitchen to the table,…read morewhile our Cook School is a hands-on programme of courses designed to teach skills rather than just recipes. Our cook shop provides what we believe are the Best of the Best and, where there is a high-quality value alternative, the Best of Value. From our cook shop, the selection includes cookware, bakeware, tableware and barware, as well as a selection of electricals. Brands we carry include: Mauviel, All-Clad, Staub, DeBuyer, Paderno, Lodge, Kai, Wusthof, Zwiesel, Leonardo, Peugeot, Serax and Rosle. Looking around the world with a focus on quality, functionality and durability, we seek to find not just the best brands, but the products they are best at. From these, we rigorously test and select the best products in each category. In store and online, we then share with you the reasons why we love the products we've chosen.

To easily sum up my experience I wanted to post the feedback I sent directly to Nik…read more... Thank you and Mrs G for a very enlightening day, your time, the generosity of your knowledge (in bite size portions) really was much appreciated. Your hospitality and the welcome we received in to your home was amazing - can you tell I enjoyed myself?! I honestly learnt so much, from a better insight to the culture, the origins of ingredients, seeing, smelling, tasting lots of new ones and the wonderful assault on my senses. I truly felt the warmth in your teaching and yet again you have inspired another group of complete novices to give it a go. I can now begin to make my own home garam masala, with an incredible and very delicious base to work from. Life is a feast to be enjoyed and all of the family are up for giving this a go, so I will starting with a banquet of the dishes we created to build up my confidence and we will take it from there.... Please pass on my best wishes to Mrs G - she's amazing and an absolute treasure. I will forever more be embracing my inner Indian!

Came to the 'veggie heaven' course with my veggie wife as Indian food enthusiasts but rank novices,…read morenot knowing quite what to expect. Nikita and his lovely mum, Mrs G, give a highly entertaining and informative romp through Indian culinary culture, spices and ingredients before throwing you into heat of an Indian kitchen. We made Bhaji's, dal, cashew nut rice and shrikanda for desert. Even better we got to eat the delicious results with the other participants with a cold beer at the end. It was some of the best Indian food we'd ever eaten. With a focus on the the basic processes of indian cooking we left with a geniune new set of skills and have reaping the benefits with our cooking at home ever since. Our young children, having not liked curry previously, are now asking for this every weekend. Highly recommended - can't wait to do the next course.

I was lucky enough to go to the Qype event too. At first I was a little intimidated - Angela…read moredefinitely knows her stuff, and I always though dimsum was difficult, but after a demonstration and a bit of practice, I got it down! Her staff, especially Geoff, were absolutely brilliant. The food was tasty, and I learned a lot. The big downside though is that the school is in Acton Central, and a total pain to get to. Not a big deal if you live nearby, though!

Of all the things available just off the Uxbridge Road - cheap Chinese buffets, obscure bingo…read moreparlours and many a pizza joint, you don't expect to find a place for gastronomes. But Angela Malik's shop and cookery school seems to fit the bill. The shop itself is stuffed full of intriguing titbits, yumsies and quirky ingredients all designed to persuade you to get out your wallet - and then there's the kitchen just behind the shop, which simultaneously looks industrial and welcoming. The chefs on hand - Angela, Geoff, George - were all incredibly friendly in guiding us through the mysteries of the kitchen, what goes into making the taste sensation of the tongue and of course top quick tips for cooking. Don't overcook pork. I was there thanks to Qype for a session on how to make dim sum - I'd had some prior experience from my Dad - but the expert knowledge and guidance from Angela's team created much tastier dim sum while still somehow retaining that home-cooked feel. We also had some samples of her delicious range of Indian pestos - I haven't been a huge fan of 'Indian' food up till now but I might just have to explore the true Indian palette in a bit more detail. Now I just need to pop back to get some more ... groceries...

I have been always interested in taking a cooking class at La Cucina Caldesi…read more A- as it is very close to where I live B- the school offer a great selection of cooking classes and cuisines C- the classes are very 'very' reasonably priced compared to other cookery schools D- there is always a chance to book a place unlike other 'extremely popular' cookery schools where you have to book months in advance! So for all of the above reasons and because I had some free evenings in December, I attended the festive course of pizzette & cocktails @£55 And I enjoyed it It was very relaxed, organized and the chef was so engaging Th cocktails were another story- very friendly mixologist and everyone was in festive spirit The food was served in large serving plates - and the polenta cake was extra delicious (I baked it) I also enjoyed the Italian banter between the guys at the cookery school although I understood nothing - it was fun time

There are many things you can do with £160. At least the only thing I don't recommend is to buy any…read moreticket with Food at 52. I signed up for a cookery course in the Mid-January. The website showed 30 January as the class date. However, the e-mail confirmation of the payment showed a few weeks later - 1 March in small letter and the course subscription is non-refundable. Change of the date is payable. As it was a computer-decided class date which was not the choice of the customers, I expected a computer-generated date confirmation / reminder / notification a couple of days prior to the course date. The customers have little room of choosing the available and convenient date before and after the payment. I had expected that their booking management system would send automatically a computer-generated reminder to all subscribed students when the course date approaches in a few weeks just like many other courses of the schools. But it did not happen and I received an e-mail asking me to turn up to the venue in the middle of the class on the computer-allocated date. Of course I was not available at work during the business meetings. Food at 52's office explained to me that the subscription to their course is like a 'theatre' ticket. If the student does not show to the theatre, the class fee is non-refundable. So, obviously this is not a cooking course for education but a unilateral performing art like a 'theatre' performance. Although their actual cost incurred due to no-show of one of dozens of students is only variable material costs (fish and other ingredients procured for one person) and a fraction of remuneration to the performing artist or 'tutor' (in total it could be less than one tenth of the course fee), Food at 52 charges £160. In London there are many other professionally-organised cooking schools in terms of course substance as well as course management and organisation like Underground Cooking School, at which I very much enjoyed their professionalism and enthusiasm about teaching.

I absolutely had a blast at Food at 52! The class was on the smaller side, but that allowed for it…read moreto be more intimate, questions to be asked and for us to socialize and get to know one another. I took the Italian class - making pasta, pesto and a roast chicken. Not only was the food outstanding - but the chef was an awesome teacher and could not have been more hands on with us. Highly recommend this school to ANYONE!

I took one of the first Catalan Cooking classes and was apprehensive as I hadn't attended many…read morecookery classes before and wasn't sure what to expect. Specifically I was worried I'd just end up observing some kind of demo, as I really wanted to get stuck in myself. However, I needn't have worried, as Rachel McCormack's approach is to let the students do the work whilst making it feel like a genuine pleasure and that kind of teaching takes some real skill. The class was fun and relaxed; we were given clear and warm instructions throughout and she told us lots of interesting stories and facts about Catalan cuisine and the region generally. We were also lucky enough to have an expert from Bibendum there who took us through a Cava tasting (Cava being a Catalan wine). The most important thing for me (apart from learning a thing or two) was there was lots to eat all the way through as well as a group meal at the end. I loved the whole class and I would definitely recommend it.

Went along to this class via purchasing through Funzing. Normally the class costs £35 but I got at…read morea cheaper rate via Funzing of £10 (with a further £5 discount) as there was an offer on. I learnt how to make three different types of dumplings. One that contained prawns and two that contained minced pork. We made one type of pastry on the night and the other pastry was prebrought but we had to seal all of our dumplings in different ways. The prawn one was sealed by making s shapes with the dumpling mix and the other was much easier as just pressing together no pattern required and the final one was just like making a cup so again much easier than the first one that involved doing s shapes. The dumplings took approx. 15 mins in steamer to cook. They were all delicious and according to the teacher the hottest ones we will ever taste as when you go to the restaurant time waiter gets to your table they wont be anywhere near as hot as what they should be. So if you want to experience a really fresh hot dumpling then this is the class for you and then you can make them fresh and hot at home. It was also very interesting listening to the teachers stories about Chinese culture and how the Chinese eat dumplings in the morning and for lunchtime in their country but never in the evening. I highly recommend anyone to go as was a very interesting night and a tasty one. You can also buy the dried ingredients such as flour, mushrooms etc after the class to make them at home for a reasonable price. The class lasts 3.5 hours and you will end up eating around 9pm. My only tip though if you do book is try to get it as a lower price of £35 as I feel that price is a bit steep.