Things to do in South West England, England: The Best Cooking Classes

Demuths Cookery School specialises in plant-based cooking. Offering a wide variety of classes, across different cuisines and skill levels, Demuths Cookery School inspires vegan ways of working with food. The ethos is that food is a pleasure to cook, eat and share. Demuths Cookery School is run by one of the UK's leading plant-based chefs, Rachel Demuth. She is joined by an experienced team of tutors who’s passion inspires students, giving them confidence to recreate dishes at home, impressing friends and family.

The Bristol and Bath Rum Distillery offers the unique opportunity for rum lovers to explore the fascinatingly diverse world of rum. Taste, enjoy, learn about, spice and re-distil rum, bespoke to a particular taste too. The spirit school runs a number of different events every week, offering masterclasses and rum making experiences, tasting sessions and other events inspired by the noble spirit.

We grow lavender to harvest it for the production of essential oils and offer tours to visitors with Cornish Pasty lunches and Cornish Lavender Cream teas.

Fat Hen is a Foraging & Wild Food Cookery School, established in 2007, in West Cornwall, by Caroline Davey. Fat Hen's bespoke hand crafted kitchen and teaching space is located in a restored granite barn on a farm in Cornwall. Beautiful natural materials including oak, slate and ash have been used alongside state of the art stainless steel equipment sponsored by SMEG & KENWOOD. The school offers unique foodie courses for people who want to get back to the original source of their food. Whether it be foraging for seaweeds and herbs, butchering venison or cooking crab to perfection, Fat Hen provides courses in all aspects of foraging and cooking wild food. If you can forage it, fish it or hunt it, we will show you how to cook it. Run by Caroline Davey in collaboration with our talented chefs, Fat Hen's Gourmet Wild Food Weekend has been chosen by the Saturday Telegraph as one of the best sustainable living courses in the UK.

Lesley Waters Cookery School at Abbot’s Hill Farm is situated in 9 acres of glorious countryside nestled in the heart of West Dorset and is the perfect location for cookery classes and events. It is also a fabulous location for couples wishing to have a relaxed and gorgeous marquee wedding.

A family run cooking school established in 2006 and overlooking the River Dart. We specialise in Bread, Fish, Mediterranean and Asian Cuisines and Wood-fired Oven Cooking. Holiday times will feature Family Classes aimed at inspiring youngsters to cook.Our classes are small, friendly, very much hands on and designed to inspire both budding and experienced cooks to explore new areas and expand their repertoires.

Looking for a perfect away-day with a delicious twist? Join us on one of our fantastic, relaxed Cook It cookery courses or demonstrations here at Frogmary Green Farm in glorious Somerset, close to the Dorset border. We believe in helping people learn new skills and inspirational recipes. Bring along your friends or come and make some new ones! We're dedicated to using the choicest local meat, poultry, vegetables, game and fruits sourced in season from our farming friends in and around Somerset. Guests will be warmly welcomed and have great fun learning - and eating what they've produced! Our courses are perfect for celebrations with friends, family or work colleagues. Book an exclusive course for eight people, and one person comes half price. The right surroundings for conferences, functions and business meetings can make all the difference to the success of your event. Our fully equipped conference room and smaller meeting rooms are ideal for team away days, presentations, business meetings and parties. We are also a unique country venue for wedding receptions Christmas parties or even wakes. Situated alongside the cookery school clients are assured of the very best home-cooked food prepared on site from fresh locally sourced ingredients.

The Ashburton Cookery School is one of the UK's top cookery schools offering inspirational cookery courses, lead by professional chefs, from our modern training centre in Devon. With over 40 cookery courses to choose from, designed to suit beginners as well as experienced home cooks we will teach you to cook with imagination, passion and enjoyment. If you want to take your cookery skills to the next level we have a cookery course for you.

Little Kitchen is a Bristol based, specialist cookery school, providing a relaxed, well equipped cooking environment, offering a variety of workshops for adults and children, as well as hen Parties and team building classes. We also offer fresh meal kits every Friday, for collection from our premises. Book your workshop or meal kit online today!