Instructor: Gail Norton, culinary instructor and co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Sold Out Rice, saffron and olive oil is a magical combination. Spain knows it,we know it and Gail Norton knows it. In this hands-on class, she will guide you through the many different variations on a classic dish that can evolve to suit your taste. If the flavours of the Catalan call your name, why not answer?
Ask us about adding a paella pan to your registration!
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: Pasta is just so satisfying! Is there a person alive who doesn’t like pasta? If that person exists, they haven’t tasted Melissa's handmade delights. In this class, Melissa will walk students through the proper preparation of fresh pasta dough, then share some of the many possibilities for creative homemade long and stuffed pasta dishes. This is the perfect way for pasta lovers to while away some time while expanding their repertoires.
Guests in this class will make and enjoy a bowl of tagliatelle, and make stuffed pasta to take home.
Ask about adding a pasta machine to your registration.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $135 per person Availability: Sold Out In the world of dynamic duos, it’s hard to beat ramen and gyoza! Join Ching as she teaches you the fine art of making these two delicious foods. Expand your dumpling and noodle making skills—life will never be more yummy!
Guests will make Miso Tare, Ramen Noodles, and Gyoza from scratch, then build and enjoy a bowl of ramen during the class, and make a batch of Pork and Cabbage Gyoza to take home.
Instructor: Bonnie Stern, award-winning cookbook author, columnist, television host and Anna Rupert, cookbook author, speech-language pathologist, and Bonnie Stern’s daughter and sous-chef
Class Type: Combination Hands-On and Demonstration Class Price: Minumum $250 donation - all proceeds go to The Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative (WCHI), at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute Availability: Available
Instructor: Bonnie Stern, award-winning cookbook author, columnist, television host and Anna Rupert, cookbook author, speech-language pathologist, and Bonnie Stern’s daughter and sous-chef
Class Type: Combination Hands-On and Demonstration Class Price: Minumum $250 donation - all proceeds go to The Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative (WCHI), at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute Availability: Available
Class Description: We are thrilled to host Bonnie Stern and Anna Rupert in our cooking school for this fundraising event!
Join this dynamic mother-daughter duo for an engaging cooking class as they share personal stories and stress-free recipes from their latest cookbook. Register now to learn how to balance healthy eating with great taste!
Menu will be announced closer the event date.
All proceeds from this event will go to The Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative (WCHI), at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute. The Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative (WCHI), at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, is focusing on transforming cardiovascular health and the health system by addressing knowledge and care delivery gaps through a comprehensive approach to cardiovascular health for women across the life cycle. They aim to be a globally recognized centre of excellence in women’s cardiovascular health care delivery, research, education, and knowledge translation, and to save women’s lives through the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Instructor: Gail Norton, culinary instructor, cookbook author, co-owner The Cookbook Co. Cooks Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Uncover the mysteries of the simple, ancient cooking vessels known as tagines. Your intimate journey will take you through Morocco to better understand the subtleties of this traditional way of preparing stews. Slow-roasted meats and vegetables with exotic spice blends are transformed within the tagine into moist, luscious stews that will transport you to another time and place.
Ask about adding a tagine to your class registration.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Thai food wins over any crowd. It’s healthy yet rich in flavour, spicy without assaulting the palate, and it plays tastes and textures off one another with subtlety and finesse. Ching Li reveals how to achieve the signature notes of this, one of her favourite cuisines, through coconut milk and lime leaves, cilantro and basil, lemongrass and ginger. Enjoy Ching's pan-Asian influences, and her delicious, contemporary take on the classics.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Gail Norton, co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks, cookbook author, culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person - includes both days of the workshop Availability: Sold Out Over the years, Gail has developed a thick crust – actually, a variety of crusts, thick and thin. And, starting now, so will you! A small investment of time and energy will load you up with enough bread-making technique and fabulous recipes to thrill you, your family and your friends for decades to come.
This course requires two sessions, during which you’ll learn the processes of leavening, kneading and forming great crusts. Gail will advance your bread-baking skills and quash your bread-making fears. In Part One of the workshop, which takes place Saturday, you address the fundamentals while absorbing Gail’s savvy hands-on tips. In Part Two on Sunday, Gail leads the class to work mainly with levain- and sourdough-based breads. Work through several bread-making processes under Gail’s watchful and well-practiced eye to achieve the best possible end result.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Join Ching for this special Lunar New Year edition of her popular Vietnamese Cooking class! As a crossroads for travellers and traders between Burma, Indonesia, India, China and Thailand, Vietnam has developed a cuisine that's been influenced by the cooking traditions of all those countries as well as those of France. This rich history makes for fascinating and delicious eating, with an emphasis on freshness. Ching will show you how to make specialties native to the villages of northern Vietnam. This is the food Ching's family and friends love—yours will, too.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Gail Norton, co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks, cookbook author, culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person - includes both days of the workshop Availability: Sold Out Over the years, Gail has developed a thick crust – actually, a variety of crusts, thick and thin. And, starting now, so will you! A small investment of time and energy will load you up with enough bread-making technique and fabulous recipes to thrill you, your family and your friends for decades to come.
This course requires two sessions, during which you’ll learn the processes of leavening, kneading and forming great crusts. Gail will advance your bread-baking skills and quash your bread-making fears. In Part One of the workshop, which takes place Saturday, you address the fundamentals while absorbing Gail’s savvy hands-on tips. In Part Two on Sunday, Gail leads the class to work mainly with levain- and sourdough-based breads. Work through several bread-making processes under Gail’s watchful and well-practiced eye to achieve the best possible end result.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Specializing in the practical, this class is all about the edged weapons that are your biggest asset in the kitchen: your knives. Speed and streamline your cooking time by learning some applied body mechanics, then absorb some facts on choosing the best knife for the job. Learn how to use your most valuable kitchen tools. In this hands-on class, get up-close and personal with onions, basil, and ginger while you learn to differentiate between chopping and mincing, and appreciate the finesse of a chiffonade and a julienne. You will also learn the best way to break down a chicken. Bring your own knives and steels, if desired, or use ours. Please note that there is no wine service in this class.
Instructor: Judy Wood, chef and culinary instructor, and Gail Norton, co-owner The Cookbook Co. Cooks
Class Type: Specialty Dinner Price: $175 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: For over 20 years, Judy and Gail have been leading lovers of Italian food and wine all around Tuscany on culinary tours for The Cookbook Co. Cooks, and every year, Marco Molesini, the owner of a prominent wine shop in the area, strongly encourages them to bring back a case or two of Brunello for their cellars. We'd like to introduce you to why! Come and taste a selection of Brunello — hand-carried back to Canada for you — and eat the food that accompanies this great cult wine. What could be better a night of Brunello wines and the food that makes them shine?
Menu and wine selections will be posted closer to the date.
Instructor: Lisa Cheah, culinary instructor, great cook, and produce manager Community Natural Foods
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Just like the title says, in this class, you’ll learn a menu full of vegan entrées that you’ll welcome into your regular weeknight meal rotation! Vegan cuisine doesn’t always inspire thoughts of comfort food, but Lisa will change that with a menu of delicious and hearty animal-free dishes, filled with flavourful vegetables, herbs, grains, and imagination.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Spicy and rib-sticking, Mexican cuisine may have been developed in a hot country but it's just as popular here, whether it's minus 35 or a soaring... well, plus 5. Join classically French-trained and Mexican-born chef Luis as he goes beyond the clichéd Tex-Mex fare we all know and love and into more authentic terrain for food that joyfully jolts everybody's palate.
Respectfully, we cannot accommodate vegetarians in this class.
Instructor: Chris Halpin, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $90 per person (e.g. $180 for one grown-up and one child) + GST Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: The two of you have eaten so many meals together, and maybe even cooked a few. Now, it's time to cook something new, together! Today, chef Chris takes you and your child through the creation of a simple meal, culminating in knowing that there is no “kid” food and ”adult” food, only good food.
This is a hands-on class. As ever, please inform us of any food allergies upon booking. Children ages 8+, please! Limited registration.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $135 per person Availability: Sold Out In the world of dynamic duos, it’s hard to beat ramen and gyoza! Join Ching as she teaches you the fine art of making these two delicious foods. Expand your dumpling and noodle making skills—life will never be more yummy!
Guests will make Miso Tare, Ramen Noodles, and Gyoza from scratch, then build and enjoy a bowl of ramen during the class, and make a batch of Pork and Cabbage Gyoza to take home.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Korean cooking boasts intense flavours, but it is also incredibly balanced. Noodles, rice, meat, and vegetables come together with abundant side dishes to create a unique and delicious culinary experience. Join Ching as she takes you through some of her favourite dishes from this, one her favourite cuisines.
Instructor: Lonny Balbi, Italophile , great cook, certified pizzaiolo
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person Availability: Sold Out
Class Description: Who doesn’t love pizza? Learn the secrets to making your own fresh dough, sauce, and selecting unique toppings. Homemade pizza never tasted so good! Add a glass or two of Prosecco to the evening, and you have the perfect night. Buon appetito!
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 15, 2025.
Instructor: Luis Elias Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person, or bundle with Cooking Fundamentals II (February 9) for $225 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Want to gain confidence in the kitchen? Join Luis as he guides you through a series of fundamentals that will get you on your way to being a better cook. In this first of two sessions you will learn a series of techniques, including basic knife skills, roasting, the best ways to build depth of flavour, and how to handle produce and proteins.
Instructor: Chris Halpin, chef, caterer, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Happy Galentine’s Day! So you want to have a few girlfriends over to swap tales and have some laughs. You’ll want to eat well, of course, and serve a few smashing cocktails. Chef Chris is a fabulous party-meister, with recipes for sensational sips, fabulous finger foods, and scrumptious small plates you’ll love to make and share. Cheers!
Instructor: Luis Elias Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person, or bundle with Cooking Fundamentals I (February 8) for $225 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Join Luis as he guides you through a series of basics that will send you on your way to being a better cook. In this second session of the Fundamentals series, you will learn more techniques, including proper methods of sautéing and poaching. Dive even deeper into ways to build those complex flavours that have been just out of reach, and leave with a new-found kitchen confidence. You can start planning the dinner party now!
Instructor: Judy Wood, chef and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Judy and French food are like bread and cheese – you can experience one without the other, but why would you want to? Judy adores the rich flavours of the French countryside and is keen to share her understanding of them so you, too, can revel in these classic dishes at home.
Instructors: Judy Wood, chef and culinary instructor, and Gail Norton, co-owner The Cookbook Co. Cooks
Class Type: Specialty Dinner Price: $145 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: On this winter evening, let us transport you to the village of Olonzac in the South of France. For 22 years, Gail Norton and Judy Wood have hosted groups of adventurous travelers to experience food and wine in the Languedoc—the land that gives us some of the most pleasurable and affordable wines to enjoy, not to mention cassoulet, a plentitude of poultry, pork and lamb, legumes galore, tender delicate produce, cream, and butter.
Menu and wine selections will be announced closer to the date.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: This is a special Valentine’s Edition of our Couples Class!
If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 31, 2025.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: This is a special Valentine’s Edition of our Couples Class!
If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 31, 2025.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Thai food wins over any crowd. It’s healthy yet rich in flavour, spicy without assaulting the palate, and it plays tastes and textures off one another with subtlety and finesse. Ching Li reveals how to achieve the signature notes of this, one of her favourite cuisines, through coconut milk and lime leaves, cilantro and basil, lemongrass and ginger. Enjoy Ching's pan-Asian influences, and her delicious, contemporary take on the classics.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: This is a special Valentine’s Edition of our Couples Class!
If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 31, 2025.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Enjoy this special dumpling class designed for teens! Students from Ching's classes have loved her dumplings so much they asked for a class just featuring them—so here it is! Join Ching for a journey of discovery into these delicious little parcels of flavour, and learn just how weeknight meal-worthy dumplings can be. Expand your dumpling making skills—life will never be more yummy!
Your teens will make dumpling wrappers from scratch and they will learn and practice different folding techniques. They will enjoy a snack during the class and take home some dumplings to share!
Instructor: Gail Norton, culinary instructor and co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Rice, saffron and olive oil is a magical combination. Spain knows it,we know it and Gail Norton knows it. In this hands-on class, she will guide you through the many different variations on a classic dish that can evolve to suit your taste. If the flavours of the Catalan call your name, why not answer?
Ask us about adding a paella pan to your registration!
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Pasta is just so satisfying! Is there a person alive who doesn’t like pasta? If that person exists, they haven’t tasted Melissa's handmade delights. In this class, Melissa will walk students through the proper preparation of fresh pasta dough, then share some of the many possibilities for creative homemade long and stuffed pasta dishes. This is the perfect way for pasta lovers to while away some time while expanding their repertoires.
Guests in this class will make and enjoy a bowl of tagliatelle, and make stuffed pasta to take home.
Ask about adding a pasta machine to your registration.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 15, 2025.
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: When done correctly, gnocchi and gnudi should be so light they practically float off the plate—pillows of potato-fortified pasta and tender dumplings made with ricotta that only need a simple sauce to take you up in the clouds. In this class, learn the secrets to gnocchi and gnudi! What better way to spend a morning than getting hands-on with the delicious merger of pasta and dumpling?
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 15, 2025.
Instructor: Sarah Boucher, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands On Class Price: $145 per person, includes a ceramic baking dish! Availability: Available
Class Description: Join us in a hands-on workshop to learn the ins, outs, and layers of this classic hearty dish. There are many lasagna recipes in the world, but we love Sarah’s, and we know you will, too. Make the noodles, make the ragù, and build a lasagna in your new ceramic dish for you to bake at home. Of course, we won’t send you away hungry—after all, what’s Italian cooking without a little tasting, and a little wine? Includes a ceramic baking dish!
Instructor: Allan Shewchuk, Italophile and great cook Class Type: Demonstration Class / Sit-Down Dinner Price: $140 per person Availability: Sold Out Tour Italy with our own Italian food guide Allan Shewchuk. Learn risotto from the north, stuffed pasta from the centre, and spicy delights from the south. All served up with travel tips and great recipes to try at home. Come hungry!
Respectfully, we cannot accommodate guests with allergies and dietary restrictions in this class.
Instructor: Joseph Bagnerise, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: New Orleans is a culinary destination, and its cuisine is heavily influenced by its Creole, Cajun, and French roots. Join Chef Joey for a fabulous night that goes beyond what you might know about New Orleans cooking and laissez les bon temps rouler!
This class is not suitable for folks with an airborne fish or seafood allergy.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Gail Norton, co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks, cookbook author, culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person - includes both days of the workshop Availability: Available Over the years, Gail has developed a thick crust – actually, a variety of crusts, thick and thin. And, starting now, so will you! A small investment of time and energy will load you up with enough bread-making technique and fabulous recipes to thrill you, your family and your friends for decades to come.
This course requires two sessions, during which you’ll learn the processes of leavening, kneading and forming great crusts. Gail will advance your bread-baking skills and quash your bread-making fears. In Part One of the workshop, which takes place Saturday, you address the fundamentals while absorbing Gail’s savvy hands-on tips. In Part Two on Sunday, Gail leads the class to work mainly with levain- and sourdough-based breads. Work through several bread-making processes under Gail’s watchful and well-practiced eye to achieve the best possible end result.
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available As a crossroads for travellers and traders between Burma, Indonesia, India, China and Thailand, Vietnam has developed a cuisine that's been influenced by the cooking traditions of all those countries as well as those of France. This rich history makes for fascinating and delicious eating, with an emphasis on freshness. Ching will show you how to make the classic specialties you’ve grown to love—like bánh mì, salad rolls, and more.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Gail Norton, co-owner of The Cookbook Co. Cooks, cookbook author, culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person - includes both days of the workshop Availability: Available Over the years, Gail has developed a thick crust – actually, a variety of crusts, thick and thin. And, starting now, so will you! A small investment of time and energy will load you up with enough bread-making technique and fabulous recipes to thrill you, your family and your friends for decades to come.
This course requires two sessions, during which you’ll learn the processes of leavening, kneading and forming great crusts. Gail will advance your bread-baking skills and quash your bread-making fears. In Part One of the workshop, which takes place Saturday, you address the fundamentals while absorbing Gail’s savvy hands-on tips. In Part Two on Sunday, Gail leads the class to work mainly with levain- and sourdough-based breads. Work through several bread-making processes under Gail’s watchful and well-practiced eye to achieve the best possible end result.
Instructor: Lisa Cheah, culinary instructor, great cook, and produce manager Community Natural Foods
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Even meat-lovers will enjoy a vegetarian menu when it's as delicious as this collection of dishes from Lisa. For the "Saturday & Sunday only" vegetarian, as well as the round-the-clock herbivore, Lisa has devised some entrées to keep you cozy in this shoulder season—full of flavourful vegetables, herbs, and imagination. Yum!
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Thai food wins over any crowd. It’s healthy yet rich in flavour, spicy without assaulting the palate, and it plays tastes and textures off one another with subtlety and finesse. Ching Li reveals how to achieve the signature notes of this, one of her favourite cuisines, through coconut milk and lime leaves, cilantro and basil, lemongrass and ginger. Enjoy Ching's pan-Asian influences, and her delicious, contemporary take on the classics.
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available Three of our favourite Italians in one room! While we enjoy each of these iconic Italian staples on their own, there are few greater delights than when they come together. This class will include recipes and techniques for creating both classic carpaccio and risotto. And of course, you'll learn the techniques you'll need for a successful risotto, every time. While you dine, we will pour two varieties of Prosecco. Buon appetito!
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $130 per person Availability: Available Fresh, healthy, flavourful, and unique–Japanese cuisine is both comforting and refined. Join trained chef and Japanese food enthusiast Luis Obregon for an class learning about and preparing authentic Japanese dishes.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: This is a “Classic Italian Edition” of our Couples Class.
If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around February 15, 2025.
Instructor: Kathleen Garside, chef and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $145 per person, includes a ceramic pie dish Availability: Available Some people think baking is alchemy, and bakers are magicians. Others know that pie and pastry both have to do with the hands. From a baker’s hands emerge the telltale hearts of pastry, crumbling strata that melt or hang on lips and invite a darling’s dusting. In the hands of a baker, flour and butter are transformed from the mundane into the magical, 99 percent inspiration and one percent angels’ breath in the heat of the oven. Pie is not hard. Sift your flour and see how simple it is.
Guests in this class will enjoy a slice or two of different pies during the class, and make an apple pie to take and bake at home. Registration includes a ceramic pie dish.
Instructor: Judy Wood, chef and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Judy is mad for the rustic foods of Europe, the dishes family cooks have been making for eons, based on seasonal local ingredients. In this class, she tackles Italian country cooking, those recipes travellers practically faint over as they’re describing them to you when they get back home. With Judy’s able assistance you’ll learn how to create your own dolce vita. Book early for this popular class!
Instructor: Sarah Boucher, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Cheese: milk’s leap towards immortality. Need we say more? This class is for those of us who love everything salty, sharp, sweet, tangy, oozy and gooey about le grand fromage. Join us as we highlight delicious ways to cook with cheese, from start to finish.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $135 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Join us for an eclectic mix of meat-forward dishes with Chef Craig Westhaver, who is also the resident beer guy at Metrovino. Craig will pair a variety of delicious proteins with equally interesting and intriguing beers. It's going to be a hands-on night of meat, barley and possible mayhem—not to be missed!
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $145 per person, includes a crêpe pan! Availability: Available Crêpes are the ideal and indispensable French street food. Learn how to make these simple pancakes, together with sweet and savoury fillings. This is a hands-on class come ready to learn to flip with skill and abandon!
Registrants in this class will take home a crêpe pan.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $155 per person, includes a copy of the Ottolenghi book of your choice! Availability: Available
Class Description: Every so often there is a book that changes the way you cook. Gail cooks A LOT, and Ottolenghi's books have inspired her for years. Come and get hands-on with a menu from his books, eat until you're stuffed, and then choose which book to take home.
Your options include taking home a copy of one of: Ottolenghi, Jerusalem, Plenty, Plenty More, Sweet, Simple, Flavor, Falastin, OTK: Shelf Love, OTK: Extra Good Things, or the new Ottolenghi: Comfort. Even if you have the books, come and enjoy some favourites and receive a store credit to stock up on some Ottolenghi pantry basics.
Instructor: Sarah Boucher, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Stimulate the appetite with an afternoon devoted to delectable Italian snacks. Chef Sarah will show you the fine art of curating and preparing a selection of antipasti that is so delicious, it is fit to be a meal. Plan your next dinner party with this menu of delicious bites and the most fabulous pairing of Vino Rosso: red wine. Is there a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Pasta is just so satisfying! Is there a person alive who doesn’t like pasta? If that person exists, they haven’t tasted Melissa's handmade delights. In this class, Melissa will walk students through the proper preparation of fresh pasta dough, then share some of the many possibilities for creative homemade long and stuffed pasta dishes. This is the perfect way for pasta lovers to while away some time while expanding their repertoires.
Guests in this class will make and enjoy a bowl of tagliatelle, and make stuffed pasta to take home.
Ask about adding a pasta machine to your registration.
Instructor: Luis Obregon, chef, sommelier, and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $125 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: The lush cooking of Turkey lends itself well to parties and feasts. Luis loves Turkish cuisine, specfically meze—platters of intricate and delicious snacks. Join us for a menu that will have you dining on gorgeous dishes inspired by the bounty of the Mediterranean, Europe and Africa. Travel the world via your tastebuds!
Instructor: Stephanie Howell-Fellows, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Stephanie Howell-Fellows, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $135 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Students from Ching's classes have loved her dumplings so much they asked for a class just featuring them - so here it is! Join Ching for a journey of discovery into these delicious little parcels of flavour, and learn just how weeknight meal-worthy dumplings can be. Expand your dumpling making skills—life will never be more yummy!
Instructor: Sarah Boucher, chef, culinary instructor, Metrovinian
Class Type: Specialty Dinner Price: $165 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: Nestled in between Burgundy and Switzerland lies the Jura — France's smallest wine region, and a true haven of pleasure for food and wine lovers. Montbéliard cattle graze in lush pastures, Savagnin vines flourish, and in cellars below, enchanting wines come to be. Join Sarah as she explores some of the most delicious and classic pairings of the region.
Respectfully, we cannot accommodate any dietary restrictions at this event.
Food menu and wine selections will be announced closer to the date.
Rhubarb and Cream Cheese Danish
2022 Château d'Avrillé Coteaux de l'Aubance - Loire, France
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy and Ching Li, culinary instructors
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $350 per child Availability: Available
Class Description: This 3-day spring session will get your kiddos out of the house, and learning in our kitchen classroom! The camp will nurture your favourite young chef with a few days of cooking, learning, and eating!
During their gastronomic education, your intrepid young cooks will learn knife skills, kitchen safety, and a variety of cooking techniques. Making everything from scratch, they will braise, roast, and bake their way to a repertoire of recipes that are both practical and delicious.
If you have any questions regarding this camp, including whether we can accommodate your child's allergy or dietary restriction, please call 403-265-6066.
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy and Ching Li, culinary instructors
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $350 per child Availability: Available
Class Description: This 3-day spring session will get your kiddos out of the house, and learning in our kitchen classroom! The camp will nurture your favourite young chef with a few days of cooking, learning, and eating!
During their gastronomic education, your intrepid young cooks will learn knife skills, kitchen safety, and a variety of cooking techniques. Making everything from scratch, they will braise, roast, and bake their way to a repertoire of recipes that are both practical and delicious.
If you have any questions regarding this camp, including whether we can accommodate your child's allergy or dietary restriction, please call 403-265-6066.
Instructor: Melissa Kennedy and Ching Li, culinary instructors
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $350 per child Availability: Available
Class Description: This 3-day spring session will get your kiddos out of the house, and learning in our kitchen classroom! The camp will nurture your favourite young chef with a few days of cooking, learning, and eating!
During their gastronomic education, your intrepid young cooks will learn knife skills, kitchen safety, and a variety of cooking techniques. Making everything from scratch, they will braise, roast, and bake their way to a repertoire of recipes that are both practical and delicious.
If you have any questions regarding this camp, including whether we can accommodate your child's allergy or dietary restriction, please call 403-265-6066.
Instructor: Andrew Trinier, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
Menu
Crispy Beef Arayes with Preserved Lemon Aioli
Moroccan-Spiced Panzanella with Roasted Pepper Vinaigrette
Roast Chicken with Bacon, Tarragon Cream, and Garlic Mushrooms served with Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes
Instructor: Ching Li, culinary instructor and great cook Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $135 per person Availability: Available In the world of dynamic duos, it’s hard to beat ramen and gyoza! Join Ching as she teaches you the fine art of making these two delicious foods. Expand your dumpling and noodle making skills—life will never be more yummy!
Guests will make Miso Tare, Ramen Noodles, and Gyoza from scratch, then build and enjoy a bowl of ramen during the class, and make a batch of Pork and Cabbage Gyoza to take home.
Instructor: Craig Westhaver, chef and culinary instructor
Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available
Class Description: If you’re looking for a fresh, exciting idea for the weekend, find a friend or invite your partner to spend a deliciously different evening adding to your culinary repertoire. Master new recipes and cooking techniques together in a fun, casual atmosphere, then enjoy the great food that everyone has made. Sharpen your skills while you get to know like-minded people. Space is limited. Book early for this very popular hands-on class!
Our classes are collaborative, with guests cooking together in groups of four.
If you have any serious food allergies, please let us know upon booking.
Our Night Out classes are hands-on and include a multi-course meal and two glasses of wine. More wine is available for purchase.
The menu will be announced around January 15, 2025.
Instructor: Gail Norton, culinary instructor, cookbook author, co-owner The Cookbook Co. Cooks Class Type: Hands-On Class Price: $120 per person Availability: Available Uncover the mysteries of the simple, ancient cooking vessels known as tagines. Your intimate journey will take you through Morocco to better understand the subtleties of this traditional way of preparing stews. Slow-roasted meats and vegetables with exotic spice blends are transformed within the tagine into moist, luscious stews that will transport you to another time and place.
Ask about adding a tagine to your class registration.
