Cookery schools offering Residential courses
Flora’s Kitchen Cookery School
Region: South-East England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Children, Full range, Residential, Students
Cost: Mid-range ££
Determined to provide teenagers and students with a well-rounded culinary education, Flora, a mother of four, set-up the ‘Kitchen’ in her rather grand country … More
Teen Cooks summer cookery courses in France
Region: France
Type: Chocolate, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, French, Full range, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential, Students, Summer camps
Cost: Affordable £
These week-long, residential cookery courses for 15 to 18 year olds are held between late July and early September in an attractive 200-year-old … More
10 really interesting cookery classes
Type: Foraging, Health and nutrition, Japanese, Residential, Thai, Vegetarian
Knife-skills? No-thrills. Bread-making? Half-baked. Pasta? Passé. If your feeling jaded in the kitchen and in need of a new challenge, we’ve found ten refreshingly different … More
Abinger Cookery School
Region: South-East England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Barbecues, Breadmaking, British, Butchery, Canapes, Celebrity chef, Chalet Cookery, Cupcakes, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, Knife skills, Men, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££
Lewis Davies showed his flair for property development when he took a disused pub in the Surrey Hills and transformed it into the … 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
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
The WI Cookery School at Denman
Region: Central England
Type: Advanced chef skills, Breadmaking, British, Celebrity chef, Cheese, Children, Chocolate, Christmas, Corporate, Cupcakes, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, Foraging, French, Full range, Health and nutrition, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Knife skills, Lebanese, Mediterranean, Men, Moroccan, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Residential, Spanish, Students, Tapas
Cost: Affordable £
Basic ingredients: It’s more than simply preserves on the jam-packed roster of cookery classes run by the WI at Denman near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Students can … More
Smoky Jo’s food smoking courses
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Region: North-West England
Type: Cheese, Fish and seafood, Home smoking, Residential, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
When Smoky Jo’s tutors Jo Hampson and Georgina Perkins sold their previous business, the renowned Old Smokehouse, established customers included Fortnum & Mason, … More
Colstoun Cookery School
Region: Scotland
Type: British, Dinner party, Eco-friendly, Game, Indian, Italian, Knife skills, Organic, Residential, Students, Thai
Cost: Affordable £
Scotland’s first sustainable, organic cookery school is based in the beautiful grounds of Colstoun Estate, just 30 minutes from central Edinburgh. Courses take … More
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 Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School
Region: North-East England
Type: British, Canapes, Celebrity chef, Children, Chocolate, Dinner party, Game, Indian, Italian, Knife skills, Men, Michelin star, Pastry cakes and puddings, Preserves and pickles, Residential, Students
Cost: Affordable £
This new cookery academy is on a working pig farm but is kitted out with a smart modern teaching kitchen. There’s a healthy … 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
Harmony House Cookery School
Region: North-East England
Type: Children, Chocolate, Corporate, Fish and seafood, Men, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential, Thai, Vegetarian
Cost: Affordable £
Local chef Hilary Finney (right) runs this neat school from her home/B&B in the pretty village of Stillingfleet, five miles south of York. … More
Orchards Cookery School
Region: Central England
Type: Corporate, Cupcakes, Dinner party, Residential, Ski chalet, Students
Cost: Premium £££
The Bomford sisters, Lucy and Isabel, run this award winning cookery school for budding cooks, where courses are hands-on, lots of fun and … 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
Ballyknocken Cookery School
Region: Republic of Ireland
Type: Breadmaking, Celebrity chef, Full range, Italian, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential
Cost: Affordable £
Located in a country house on a 350-acre farm only a short drive from Dublin city centre, this award-winning cookery schools is run … More
Swinton Park Cookery School
Region: North-East England
Type: British, Corporate, Full range, Indian, Mediterranean, Residential
Cost: Mid-range ££
Light, airy state-of-the-art kitchen in the converted Georgian stables of a 17th century luxury castle hotel with three AA rosettes. Chef Director Stephen … 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
Lady G’s Cookery School
NB: Lady G’s is not running courses in 2012 but hopes to resume business as usual in 2013. Monthly residential and day courses … 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
Fermyn Woods Hall
Country house cooking in a grandly restored Victorian kitchen. Resident Cordon Bleu chef Emma Crowhurst (pictured, right) and “Lady AGA” Lucy Young steer students … More
The Raymond Blanc Cookery School
Region: South-East England
Type: Children, Chocolate, Dinner party, Fish and seafood, Health and nutrition, Michelin star, Pastry cakes and puddings, Residential, Vegetarian
Cost: Mid-range ££, Premium £££
Leading cookery school at two-Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc’s country restaurant and hotel. One, two or four-day courses for novices, children, corporate clients and … More
