Elevate your culinary skills, eat delicious meals and head home with sublime recipes for outstanding dinner parties. London cookery classes cater to everyone, from beginners to budding chefs, giving you a novel way to enhance your cooking skills and experiment with flavours. Whether there’s a special cuisine you want to explore or a baking skill you want to perfect, this is our pick of the best cooking classes in London.
The Cookery School at Little Portland Street
Demystify the art of cooking and intensify the flavours in your pan with cooking lessons at London’s Cookery School at Little Portland Square. The cooking workshops this London school curates range from intensive four-day courses to more relaxed evening classes for everyone from beginners to professionals. If you have a teenager who could do with improving their skills in the kitchen, there’s a special summer camp course too.
Learn the art of sausage making, perfect your knife skills, bake perfect cakes, get a professional food qualification or simply learn the basics from scratch. Whichever class you choose, you’ll enjoy a welcoming atmosphere and leave feeling more confident in the kitchen.
The Jamie Oliver Cookery School, Holloway
Get hands on Naked Chef-style at The Jamie Oliver Cookery School on Holloway Road. This is the perfect opportunity to learn from top chefs as they teach you Jamie’s relaxed signature approach to cooking. These are one-off evening cooking classes in London that typically last a few hours, so they make the perfect gift for a foodie.
Pick from classes like Vietnamese Street Food, Pasta Master, The Art of Pie Decorating and many more to up your kitchen game. First you watch a demonstration, then do it yourself, with an expert chef ensuring you end up with a delight dish at the end. If a cooking experience in London isn’t possible, or you’d rather cook up a storm in your own kitchen, you might consider an online class instead.
Biscuiteers’ Icing Lates, Notting Hill & Belgravia
Arguably the prettiest biscuits in Britain come out of beautiful Biscuiteers. Less about cooking or baking, Biscuiteers’ Icing Lates in Notting Hill and Belgravia are about the art of icing. These are fun evening classes, with prosecco included, so it’s ideal for a cute date night and a sweet alternative to group cooking classes in London. Perfect your piping, feathering and flooding techniques and create your own designs on fun biscuit shapes. At the end, you get a box of your own iced biscuits to take home.
The Avenue Cooking School, Wandsworth
Leave The Avenue Cooking School with an abundance of new cooking skills to try out at home. This family-owned cookery school shares its love for cooking through chef courses, technique-filled day classes and BYO evening workshops, which are perfect for date nights and hanging out with friends.
Cook up delicious Jamaican or Mexican food, perfect your ice cream making skills or get a rise out of your loaf in the bread class. There are also plenty of classes for families and some that cater to dietary needs. So this is particularly good if you’re looking for vegan cooking classes in London.
Yuki’s Kitchen, Southeast London
To nurture your love of Japanese food, Yuki Gomi, a professional chef and author of Sushi at Home, runs Yuki’s Kitchen. In her Japanese cookery courses from her London kitchen, Yuki teaches authentic Asian cooking techniques, so you can rustle up restaurant quality sushi, ramen and gyoza at home.
This is a London cookery class with a personal touch where you can find a selection of in-person cooking workshops on miso making and perfecting the classic katzu curry. She also hosts online cook-along classes for the ultimate homemade Japanese meal.
Enjoy a foodie getaway with us at The Clermont, Victoria and The Clermont, Charing Cross to enjoy a luxurious hotel experience in the heart of London. Stay with us for easy access to the best cooking classes in London and enjoy world-class restaurants on your doorstep.
