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Cookery Courses at The Woodspeen

Our Cookery Courses

From searing the perfect steak to baking the perfect loaf, anyone can learn to be a better chef in our cookery school – even if they don’t know the first thing about cooking. All of our courses are run by our senior chefs. They have all been with us for years, and each has an encyclopaedic knowledge of food. They are also experienced teachers, who know how to put people at ease.

As in our restaurant, we use seasonal, local or homegrown produce wherever we can. In fact, our cookery school overlooks our vegetable garden, where you might even pick your own ingredients.

We keep our class sizes small, to give everyone plenty of one-on-one time and hands-on advice. And, we do all of the prep in advance, so you’re free to focus on the cooking. We’ll give you course notes and recipes to take home with you, but we also encourage you to ask questions and make your own notes. Above all, we hope you’ll leave feeling energised, with a headful of ideas and a sense of achievement.

Find your next cookery experience below.

Chocolate Making

Join us for an evening of chocolate making with a glass of wine in our cookery school. We will teach you to temper chocolate, a skill that you...

Dinner Party Perfection

Find out how to plan and prepare a perfect, stress-free dinner party, delighting your guests with some very tasty dishes. We’ll focus on simple yet creative ideas, with...

Barbecues Made Easy

We all love to throw a sausage on the ‘barbie’ but if you want to take it to the next level, join us to learn how to prepare...

Curry Night

Join this fantastic curry cookery course, where you will learn some robust techniques for making Indian and Thai curries. You will cook a variety of dishes that you...

Beef Wellington

Join us to create this classic dish, that will soon become a firm favourite. This time it is Beef Wellington made from scratch, with homemade puff pastry, perfectly...

Home Butchery

At The Woodspeen we believe that a good understanding of traditional butchery skills gives the cook an advantage for getting the most out of each cut. Just as...

Flavour of France

Ever feel like your dinner parties need a little bit more je ne sais quoi? If so, our French Cookery Course will give you all the tools that...

Bread & Enriched Doughs

Learn the basics with us, and before you know it you’ll be making classic and modern breads, from traditional soda bread to shortbread. Understanding fermentation Gluten knowledge: strong...

All Things Fish

Do you know what great fish looks like? During this course we will show you how to identify top quality fish, and ensure you know what to buy....