Cookery schools in South-West England
Little Kitchen Magicians
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Children, Christmas, Health and nutrition, Knife skills, Mediterranean, Spanish
Lizzie Heath offers exciting cookery classes in a unique location for budding Cornish chefs More
Cutting the Curd, cheese making classes
Cutting the Curd class tutor Louise Talbot is a big cheese. Membership of the Specialist Cheese Makers Association, judge for the Global Cheese … More
Christine McFadden Cookery Courses
Region: South-West England
Type: Asian, Brazilian, Caribbean, Fish and seafood, Game, Gluten-free, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Lebanese, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Moroccan, Pie making, Pizza making, Tapas, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
Basic ingredients: Food writer and cookery tutor, Christine McFadden, aka the Dorset Foodie, runs hands-on courses at home in the exceptionally beautiful hamlet of Littlebredy near … More
Exeter Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Butchery, Chocolate, Fish and seafood, French, Ice cream and sorbets, Italian, Pastry cakes and puddings, Sauces, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
The soon-to-open (in early 2016) Exeter Cookery School is housed in a converted 1830s’ warehouse on the city’s quayside. Owners Jim and Lucy Fisher are … More
Dancing Trousers Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Entertaining, Fish and seafood, Gluten-free, Italian, Japanese, Macarons, Pastry cakes and puddings, Thai, Vietnamese
Cost: Mid-range ££
Basic ingredients: Don your dancing trousers and head for the Cotswolds where you’ll find former BBC MasterChef contestant Alexis Thompson who has been running her own … More
Panary Craft Baking Courses
An artisan baker of 40 years’ experience, Paul Merry established Panary in 1997 and runs craft baking courses from a working, water-driven flour mill, … More
Philleigh Way
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Christmas, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, Foraging, Game, Italian, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
There’s a good looking earthiness to the courses offered at this farm-based cookery school near Truro run by brothers-in-law James Martin and head chef … More
River Cottage Chef’s School
Region: South-West England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Celebrity chef, Cheese, Chocolate, Dinner party, Diploma, Fish and seafood, Game, Health and nutrition, Home smoking, Knife skills, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Students, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
The expanding River Cottage HQ’s latest venture is all about giving career-minded cooks a step-up the culinary ladder. The range of programmes are … More
White Pepper Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Canapes, Children, Christmas, Corporate, Diploma, Fish and seafood, Foraging, Game, Indian, Italian, Knife skills, Men, Michelin star, Pastry cakes and puddings, Students, Thai
Cost: Mid-range ££
Basic ingredients: White Pepper is one of the most appealing cookery schools in the UK offering exceptional cookery courses and food experiences to both the amateur and … More
Demuths Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Dinner party, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Lebanese, Mediterranean, Moroccan, Spanish, Thai, Vegetarian, Vietnamese
Cost: Mid-range ££
Basic Ingredients: Professional vegetarian chef Rachel Demuth was a founder of the Neal’s Yard Bakery in Covent Garden before turning her attentions to Bath, where she … More
Vale House Kitchen
Region: South-West England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Celebrity chef, Christmas, Cupcakes, Fish and seafood, Foraging, Game, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
Bod and Annie Griffiths have taken a lot of time and care to get the detail just right at their newly opened state-of-the-art cookery … More
The Culbone Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: British, Butchery, Children, Chinese, Christmas, Corporate, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, French, Game, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Knife skills, Residential, Spanish, Thai, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
The Culbone Cookery School celebrates the best seasonal produce from Exmoor both in its home-style teaching kitchen and in its award-winning restaurant. Beautifully sited … More
Fun Kitchen
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Children, Chocolate, Christmas, Corporate, Cupcakes, Full range, Health and nutrition, Hen parties, Indian, Italian, Knife skills, Mediterranean, Men, Mexican, Pastry cakes and puddings, Students, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
Double award-winning cookery teacher Joe Mann established the Fun Kitchen experience in response to students’ demands for extra fun hands-on cookery classes in … More
Lebanese Cookery Course on the English Riviera
The Richwood Hotel in Torquay, Devon, is a Victorian mansion with 13 en-suite bedrooms that range from single occupancy to family size. Murals … More
Flavours School of Cookery
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Region: South-West England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Canapes, Cheese, Children, Chinese, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, French, Full range, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Knife skills, Lebanese, Mediterranean, Men, Mexican, Moroccan, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Spanish, Tapas, Thai, Vegetarian, Vietnamese
Cost: Mid-range ££
Hands-on cookery with a smile is the flavour of the day at this Dorset cookery school, fronted by highly experienced resident chef, Des … More
The Cotswold Chef
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Region: Central England, South-West England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Barbecues, Breadmaking, Cheese, Children, Chocolate, Corporate, Fish and seafood, Foraging, Full range, Health and nutrition, Hen parties, Italian, Students, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £, Mid-range ££, Premium £££
With more than 25 years of culinary globe-trotting, from America to Singapore, Cotswold Chef Rob Rees has a wealth of experience to offer those keen … More
Absolute Indian
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Sheba Promod has been a cookery tutor and freelance writer since July 2011 after she left a secondary school teaching post to pursue … More
Brook Bakery School
Basic Ingredients: This Somerset school takes baking very seriously with a strong emphasis on craft and technique. Essentially, they run two bakery courses, one focused on … More
Pukka Paki cookery classes
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Region: London, South-East England, South-West England
Type: Indian, Pakistani, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
Passionate cook and serious food lover, Sumayya Jamil, aka Pukka Paki, quit her full-time job as a commercial lawyer in 2012 in pursuit … More
Protected: Vaughan’s Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Caribbean, Children, Corporate, Health and nutrition, Pastry cakes and puddings, Persian, Students
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Abbey Home Farm
Region: South-West England
Type: Health and nutrition, Mexican, Organic, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
The cookery courses at the award-winning Organic Farm Shop in Cirencester are co-managed by Will and Hilary Chester-Master on their 650-acre, Soil Association … More
The Foodworks Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Aga, Breadmaking, Children, Chocolate, Christmas, Fish and seafood, Game, Health and nutrition, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Knife skills, Men, Mexican, Moroccan, Thai
Cost: Mid-range ££
Designed by the founder Harriet Elwes, this state-of-the-art kitchen housed in a voluminous purpose-built barn in the heart of the Cotswolds has an … More
Harts Barn Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Children, Chocolate, Corporate, Cupcakes, Foraging, Hen parties, Home smoking, Italian, Moroccan, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Vietnamese
Cost: Affordable £
Basic Ingredients Gloucestershire’ s Forest of Dean provides the historical hillside setting for this new cook school (opened June 2011) at the Hart’s Barn Rural Enterprise … More
The Devilled Egg Kitchen Academy
Basic ingredients: Barbora Stiess runs this catchily named cookery school from her roomy Georgian home and kitchen based in Clifton, Bristol. Having trained at Leiths and worked … More
Food of Course
Region: South-West England
Type: Residential, Ski chalet, Students
Food of Course is a residential cookery school based at Middle Farm House in Somerset. The 4-week foundation course, which promises to set … More
Daylesford Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: British, Butchery, Cheese, Children, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, Health and nutrition, Pastry cakes and puddings
Cost: Premium £££
An offshoot of the famous organic emporium in the Cotswolds run by Lady Bamford, the cookery school is one of the few in … More
Thyme at Southrop
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Fish and seafood, Foraging, Full range, Indian, Italian, Picnic, Tapas, Thai
Cost: Mid-range ££
A team of chefs and experts run this really fresh looking cookery school in the Cotswolds offering cooking, gardening and foraging courses, as … More
Cheese School
Cooked up by food writer Fiona Beckett and Jess Trethowan of Trethowan’s Dairy, Cheese School proposes a full day of tastings and tips … More
River Cottage Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Butchery, Celebrity chef, Cheese, Fish and seafood
Cost: Premium £££
Excellent themed courses down at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s 65-acre organic farm in Devon. Courses run for either four, two or one days and include smoked … More
The Walled Garden Cookery School
A Georgian manor on a 200-acre Cornish estate is the base for the UK’s first residential cooking and gardening school, run by Leiths-trained … More
Olive Tree Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Fish and seafood, Italian, Pastry cakes and puddings, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
Homely style hands-on baking, pasta-making and winter pudding classes run out of a fully fitted kitchen in a barn in the Purbeck Hills … More
Manna from Devon
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Corporate, Fish and seafood, Full range
Cost: Mid-range ££
Brownie and Sticky Pudding specialists Holly and David Jones run Manna from Devon out of their bed and breakfast Victorian home. David is … More
The Lesley Waters Cookery School
Ready Steady Cook chef Lesley Waters leads hands-on, demonstration and bespoke masterclasses in the historic private family home of Minterne House. Located in … More
Cookery at The Grange
Founded in 1981 in tree-filled grounds, The Grange enjoys a worldwide reputation. A countryside school run since 1988 by Jane Averill, who has … More
Gables School of Cookery
Region: South-West England
Type: Dinner party, Health and nutrition, Indian, Italian, Residential, Students, Thai, Vegetarian
Located in a red-brick house on the fringes of the Cotswolds (about 20 minutes north-west of Bristol), Gables offers foundation hygiene, quick and … More
The Bertinet Kitchen Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Type: Breadmaking, Corporate, Pastry cakes and puddings
Cost: Mid-range ££
Specialist baking and much more from 2010 BBC Food Champion Richard Bertinet. The persuasive French chef and author leads a multi-talented team of … More
The Little Cornish Curry Company
Led by curry enthusiasts Louis and Nick Lewis, courses happen twice a month, last between 5-6 hours, and take place in a ‘light-filled’ … More
Trill Farm
Region: South-West England
Type: Health and nutrition, Residential, Vegetarian
Seasonal Living Nutrition courses run by chef and nutritionist Daphne Lambert and cohorts. These field-to-fork courses are hands-on residential weekends based on a … More
Ashburton Cookery School
One of the UK’s leading cookery schools, Ashburton offers more than 40 cookery courses from beginners to advanced cooks, and from Taste of … More
Padstow Seafood Cookery School
Region: South-West England
Using the freshest catches of the day, Rick Stein’s cook school is dedicated to fish. Students enjoy the fruits (de mer) of their … More
Square Food Foundation
Formerly based at Bordeaux Quay this community-driven and sustainably minded cookery school founded by Barny Haughton has shifted across town to Knowle West. There … More
