Restaurant Cooking Classes

[SGEM]

does anyone know of hands-on cooking classes in Boston Restaurants?

[hotoynoodle]

taranta does group classes -- are you looking for an individual experience?

[Jeda]

I've checked out a lot of the cooking-in-boston class options. The restaurant classes are nice, I took one at Elephant Walk. Like the poster above, though, my experience was that there wasn't a ton of hands-on experience, and also, we worked in small groups, so I didn't get to really see how some of the dishes were prepared. The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts I haven't visited yet, because it's really quite expensive, but the kitchens look awesome and I'm sure it's a great experience. I prefer the cooking classes at the Boston Center for Adult Education over the Cambridge Center - they're about the same price and the BCAE seems to have more variety/ I've just liked the classes better. The Celebrity Chefs series is very much demonstration, and you get a little taste of things but not a full meal. It's held at the Fairmont Copley. The other cooking classes at the BCAE are really hands-on and you feast! I've really enjoyed my classes with Diane Manteca (Italian) and Joyce Della Chiesa (Mediterranean), Bon Koo (sushi making - he owns Sea to You), and Wichian ?? (thai cooking - with a field trip to Chinatown!). Good luck, and let us know what you decide.

[krazykid]

I don't know if you're looking for the actual experience of cooking in a restaurant kitchen, or you would just like to cook with the chef of a good restaurant. If it's the later, you should check out the BCAE. They have a Celebrity Chef series, where local celebrity chef comes to their kitchen and teaches a cooking class. Note the Celebrity Chef series tends to be more demonstration than hands on. But the nice thing is you get to eat what they cook.

[ptrefler]

The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts offers a huge variety of hands on cooking classes for the non-professional chef. You get personal instruction, great experience, you usually meet new people and you get to eat what has been cooked I believe they will make special arrangments for large groups. I have taken a lot of classes there and never been disappointed, Most recently I did an Asian class which I thoroughly enjoyed. They have several kitchens all set up for instruction. Great fun. Their website is www.cambridgeculinary.com. Check it out.

[mcel215]

I took a cooking class at the Elephant Walk in Cambridge.
While the Chef and the menu were excellent, there was literally no room for any real hands on cooking.

I was told by one of the other people in the class, that kitchen size is almost impossible to find in a restaurant.

Someone else in the class mentioned doing a class at a local Cooking School. Didn't catch a name, but I think there are a couple of colleges in Cambridge/Boston that may offer.

We were able to sit down for a wonderful French three course dinner with Chef Gerard, however; he prepared it!

[mkel34]

Here is a listing to some food events that include cooking classes:

http://bostonchefs.com/news/eventsCal...

[penguin802003]

The Elephant Walk offers cooking classes, too.

[CapeCodChowHound]

Hi SGEM,

Please take a look at the link to the responses when I asked this: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/...