The 10 Best Cooking Classes in California, United States

We are all about family and wine country. As 6th generation from the Bay and 3 generations in Napa, our tasting room provides an amazing laid back wine experience that's more than just a glass of wine. We also have wines from some of our friends...names you might recognize and wines you will enjoy!

We are located in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, among the picturesque redwood trees of the Northern California Coast, about 60 miles north of San Francisco. Dairy goats are the primary focus at our diversified farm. Our farm has diversified over the years to include olive and fruit orchards, a hop yard, chickens, beehives, and organic gardens.

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Market Forays offers Locavore Cooking Classes and Culinary Adventures for leisure travelers. Sustainable Team Building Events for Corporate Groups. Private Chef Services. Our classes are built around the freshest seasonal local ingredients, combined with a playful attitude that draws on my French upbringing, enriched by the cuisines of the many countries I have visited and by California's own multicultural richness. The preferences and restrictions of my guests are built into the day's lesson plan to ensure that everyone enjoys the experience. Sample menus can be viewed on the Market Forays website. Classes are hands-on, and a printed recipe guide is provided to each guest. The goal is not to impress you with my skills, it is to help you realize your own abilities. Saturday Market Forays classes begin at 8 in the morning at the harbor, continue on to the farmers market, and then we cook and share a feast. Class wraps up around 3:30 pm. Cost is $145 per person. Private classes available during the week, advance reservation is required.

Harvard Cookin' Girl: La Jolla's First and Best Cooking School. We not only teach weekly classes on ethnic cuisine, but we also specialize in kids' birthday parties, corporate team building events, girls' nights out, adults' birthday parties, supper clubs, one on one classes, kids' chef series, and so much more! Come expand your palette and ignite your senses at Harvard Cookin' Girl!

Nestled atop Mt Soledad, in beautiful San Diego, Lajollacooks4u offers a very unique hands-on, gourmet cooking and dining experience. Founded in 2008, Lajollacooks4u has experienced tremendous growth and success with major corporations and guests from all over the world! With our very own indoor and outdoor kitchen, organic vegetable and herb garden and spectacular views, Lajollacooks4u is the perfect venue for corporate team-building, large group cooking demonstrations, special occasions, lunches and dinners and for those who simply love to cook! Lajollacooks4u offers a variety of packages including our one-of-a kind Farmer’s Market and Foodie Tours, Weekend Culinary Adventures and hands-on gourmet cooking classes. All our classes are customizes for each group and include a fabulous sit-down gourmet meal, complete with wine pairing. Come see for yourself why Lajollacooks4u has been rated the #1 attraction in La Jolla for over 3 consecutive years!! We specialize in California-influenced cuisine.

The Silverado Cooking School in Napa is an interactive, hands-on cooking school geared towards the home cook. Located on the beautiful Silverado Trail, our prestigious school offers a wide range of cooking classes in Napa. Professional Chef Malcolm de Sieyes teaches basic technique as well as more advanced classes and specialty regional cuisines for the cooking connoisseur.

Mix, shape, boil, bake, and eat the most spectacular bagels you've ever tasted! Bake Your Own Amazing Bagels demystifies every step of making the "roll with a hole." No matter which workshop you choose, you finish by eating delicious, fresh hot bagels. Rockridge resident, Laurie Leiber, loves teaching people how to make their own bagels. “It’s always fun because people love bagels,” says Leiber

Consistently touted as having some of the best cooking classes in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly and CBS, among others, The Gourmandise School offers hands-on recreational cooking classes in Los Angeles, California for beginners to professionals. Located on the third floor of The Santa Monica Place Shopping Center, The Gourmandise School focuses on teaching classic techniques using locally-sourced ingredients whenever possible. The school offers baking and cooking classes, professional series and fascinating food workshops, as well as private parties and events celebrating birthdays, holidays and corporate team-building. The Gourmandise experience is designed to develop a student’s culinary intuition while create amazing meals and desserts from locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients. Classes are taught by instructors and industry professionals who specialize in their unique fields and are passionate about passing those techniques on to their students.