Brighton Cooking Classes

By the end of your Restaurant Experience you’ll be able to reproduce a fantastic 3-course meal for friends and family, we’ll show you all the tricks of the trade! Enjoy bubbly and canapés on arrival and then you’ll have two hours to master your meal, including plating up to restaurant standards. Sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labour in our dining area.

Session time: 4 hours

Example Itinerary

• 10am - On arrival you will be greeted with a glass of sparkling wine and continental
  breakfast (selection of pastries, juices, tea and coffee)
• 10.30am - Health and safety brief and preparation for the cookery session.
• 11am - 2-hour practical cookery event preparing 3 course lunch including getting to know
  the tricks of the trade, how to present food to top restaurant standards.
• 1.30pm – Group sit down to enjoy the food which has been prepared throughout the
  session. Unlimited red and white wine/beer served during lunch finished off with after
  dinner coffee.
• 2.45pm – Recipes and methods will be emailed to you so you can show off your new
  culinary skills to your family and friends. 

Enjoy bubbly and canapés on arrival and then your group will be split into teams, each will receive a cash budget, a list of ingredients and the challenge to source products and ingredients, whilst negotiating the best price from market traders and
retailers in the local area. Points are awarded for the fastest team to return to the school, best prices for their ingredients and the quality of the produce they have chosen. To be the top team they will also have to cook like a professional chef (with the guidance of our chefs!) against the clock. The group will sit down to the main course they have prepared and a dessert that we’ll surprise them with.

Session time: 4 hours

Itinerary 

• Your party arrives to a continental breakfast, with teas, coffees and fruit juices, whilst we brief your group of the day’s events.
• The group is split into teams, each team receives a cash budget, a list of ingredients and the challenge to source product and ingredients, whilst negotiating the best price from market traders and retailers in the local area. Points are awarded for fastest team to return to the school, best prices sought for their ingredients and the best quality of the produced they have chosen.
• To be the top team they will also have to cook like a professional chef (with the guidance of our chefs!), and all against the clock to avoid the wooden spoon.
• The whole group then enjoys the food they’ve bought and cooked, culminating in a prize giving to determine who the champions of the challenge are.
• The group will sit down to the main course they will have a prepared and a dessert we’ll surprise them with whilst we award the winners ‘Cookery Challenge Champions’.

The idea is for your group to choose the same two bakes. We’ll have you in teams making and decorating your bakes. Once the bakes are in the oven you can relax form an hour or so over lunch in our dining area whilst the cakes bake and cool. Once lunch is over, back to the workshop to decorate the cakes and let the judging begin! A prize for the winning team and lots of beautiful cake for everyone else!

Included in the package:

• Exclusivity of our chefs, workshop & dining area.
• Take home all the cakes/bakes you’ve created.
• Unlimited wines, beers and soft drinks throughout the practical baking event. (optional upgrade)
  
• Lunch or dinner (optional upgrade)
• The Bake Off lesson will last approximately 2.5 hours.

Choose from

• Melt in the Middle Chocolate Fondants (G.F & dairy free available)
• Soft Meringue Roulade with Mixed Berries & Chantilly Cream (G.F & dairy free)
• Victoria Sponge Cake with Mixed Berry Compote and Vanilla Cream (G.F & dairy free available)
• Braided Chocolate Cake Loaf (Vegan, G.F & Dairy free available)
• Glazed Tarte au Citron (G.F & dairy free available)
• Profiteroles filled with Crème Patisserie & covered in Chocolate Sauce
• Chocolate Nemesis Torte with Berry Coulis (G.F & dairy free available)
• Calvados flambeed Apple or Pear Tarte Tatin (vegan available)
• Biscuits: Sablé, Tuile, Madeleine
• Macarons: Choose 1 flavour: Salted Caramel with caramel and chocolate ganache, Lemon with lemon curd, Pistachio with pistachio cream, Raspberry with berry fruit paste and fresh blueberries (G.F & dairy free available)

Let us guide you through the pasta making process - pasta dough from scratch takes around 45 minutes, then learn how to form the different types of pasta, including a stuffed version.

We will email you all the recipes and methods once you have finished the session, so you can recreate and impress family and friends.

Session time: 1.5 hours

Learn the art of sushi - you’ll be guided by our chefs to build your individual Californian rolls, for the more skilled in the class we’ll be getting them to try an inside out sushi roll.

The sushi session lasts approximately 1.5 hours. We’ll email you our recipe card after the session so you can go on to recreate at home with family and friends and show off your new sushi skills.