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Sydney offers plenty of historical and contemporary Australian flavor. The marvelous Sydney Opera House looks like a great origami sailboat, floating peacefully in a harbor. Wander the narrow cobblestone streets of The Rocks and then take in a street performance on the Circular Quay before heading into the Museum of Contemporary Art. The views from the Sydney Tower Eye observatory are epic – use this chance to get to know the layout of the city from high above.
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1. Sydney Cooking Classes by VictorsFood
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5.0 based on 11 reviews
VictorsFood Sydney Cooking Classes Go on a journey to discover the rhythm of the kitchen and build your skills and confidence with our cooking classes in a fun, friendly environment, while helping make and enjoy a gourmet feast. The class includes personal attending, expert tuition, ingredients, recipes, hands-on cooking, a glass of wine and a meal you enjoy with your new friends.
Reviewed By candy204
I have just done an online cooking class with Victors food. It was amazing. He made it so easy and fun firstly with a demonstration complete with preparation and cooking tips. It was very interactive and we were guided through he cooking stages step by step. The end result being a really delicious dinner was served at my home. I highly recommend Victors food cooking classes.
2. Vincenzo's Plate
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
What you have been waiting for? Cooking classes hosted by yours truly! Learn how to cook delicious Italian food in an intimate and fun environment. Bring along a group of friends or surprise your partner with a unique date night, and go home with some of the most delectable flavours of the Mediterranean in your stomach – and in a container to share with loved ones! My cooking is inspired by my Italian heritage and my Nonna, and I love sharing my recipes with the world, so come and enjoy a glass of Prosecco and some DIVINE Italian food. All classes are 3 hours and I make them as hands on as possible so you will get to watch me cook up a storm and then I will help you do it too!
Reviewed By 45RobertL45 - St. Ives, Australia
My wife surprised me with an Italian cooking class with Vincenzo’s Plate. From the word go we learnt so much about Italian food and it’s preperation. The class got hands on which I loved and we got to enjoy a full meal with family and friends along with event organisers the always entertaining Vincenzo & his fantastic wife Suzanne. This is a great experience for anyone who loves Italian food and cooking and wants to improve their knowledge and skill.
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4. The Essential Ingredient Surry Hills
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Open 7 days, The Essential Ingredient Surry Hills is your destination for the latest innovations in food and entertaining. Home to an extensive kitchenware range, fine foods grocery, cheese counter, Herbie's Spice emporium and cooking school, inspiration isn’t hard to come by in this foodie heaven.
5. VIVE Cooking School
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
Sydney's hottest Cooking School, for passionate foodies who are searching for a deeper connection with how they shop, source, prepare and share food. VIVE is a place to Nourish, Inspire and Share.
Reviewed By S3035OUtimm - North Sydney, Australia
Had a wonderful night at Vive Cooking school with the lovely Salloum sisters from Almond Bar sharing their secrets. Great location, very well presented and a lovely vibe. Jean-Luc and Martine are great hosts and the whole evening was a lot of fun. Would really recommend as a group or family experience.Thanks again
6. Classes with Glasses
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Meet the friendly locals while you learn mad new skills. Our beautiful heritage listed terrace house studio is located in trendy Surry Hills, only 3 mins walk to Central Station. From wine tasting to watercolouring, laughter yoga to flower crown making and everything in between. Most of our classes are BYO so you can enjoy your favourite new Aussie wine while you learn!
7. Sydney Seafood School
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4.5 based on 107 reviews
With 13,000 guests a year attending classes, Sydney Seafood School is Australia’s leading cooking school. It was established in 1989, when Sydney’s food obsession was in its infancy; French was the largest category in leading restaurant guides and Asian flavours, taken for granted today, were still considered exotic. The NSW fishing fleet caught plenty of whiting, bream, snapper and flathead to supply the local market. But in doing so, they also netted octopus, squid, red mullet, crabs, mussels and other species with which shoppers weren’t familiar … at least not familiar enough to take them home and cook them. A large part of the fishermen’s catch was unwanted and sold as bait or for next to nothing to those who did appreciate it. Initially established to create a demand for these more unusual species, the School has slowly broadened its reach to teach local, interstate and overseas food-lovers how to cook a huge variety of cuisines. While seafood is still its raison d'être, there's no longer any need to convince most people to try cooking with mussels, octopus or crabs, in fact abalone, sashimi, pipis and sea-snails don't daunt many of the food-savvy guests who now fill classes most weekday evenings and weekends. Asian flavours are in demand, with a class beginning in the Thai shops of Chinatown among the most popular; and leading Australian chefs, including Christine Manfield, Matthew Moran and Guillaume Brahimi, are among the School’s presenters. All classes commence in the School’s tiered auditorium with a demonstration of the dish or dishes to be prepared. It may look easy in skilled hands, but recreating it later in your own kitchen can be quite another thing. This is where Sydney Seafood School is unique … after watching the demonstration, guests roll up their sleeves and, in groups of five with guidance from the presenter and assistants, recreate the dishes, preparing a delicious seafood meal which they then sit down and enjoy with a complimentary wine tasting. To celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2009, the School underwent a major refurbishment by leading designer Michael McCann of dreamtime australia design, making it Australia’s most beautiful cooking school with a stunning sandstone entry wall by award-winning sculptor Michael Purdy, Icelandic fish leather lining the auditorium, and wild ‘blackboard graffiti’ on the hands-on kitchen walls. Rich oak wood panelling, an aubergine-hued marble demonstration bench, sleek stainless steel and lots of glass complete the look. Guests cook at custom-made, stainless steel cooking islands fitted with state-of-the-art Fisher & Paykel appliances, including a gas CookSurface, oven, refrigeration unit and extraction system. Hettich soft close drawers, hinges and runners ensure all cabinetry opens and closes smoothly and silently and 46" High Definition LCD Sharp television screens above the demonstration bench ensure a perfect view of all the cooking action.Once the cooking's over, guests adjourn to the dining room which features a 180º photomural of Blackwattle Bay and fishnet chandeliers with over 6,000 gently glowing globes. It's casual but comfortable with cloth serviettes, Villeroy & Boch china and Spiegelau glassware, plus coffee from the School's Nespresso coffee machines. Sydney Seafood School conducts a wide range of classes for all skill levels, from a simple paella or stir-fry to the more complex weekend workshops with leading chefs. A vast array of cuisines and cooking styles are covered, including the School's most popular class, Seafood BBQ, using built-in 5-burner Beefeater gas barbecues and scheduled five or six times a month to keep up with demand!
Reviewed By Roxannneeeee - Redding, United States
One of my favorite things to do when traveling is to take either a cooking class or food tour! I’ve done cooking classes all around the world from making gumbo & jambalaya in New Orleans, to making dumplings in China, Paella in Spain, macarons at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. I’ve taken great cooking classes over the years and TERRIBLE ones (I HATE ones where the class is so overfull in a tiny kitchen & the most hands-on part is everyone takes turns stirring the same bowl.. Or one person gets to chop an onion while everyone else watches…). This cooking class at the Sydney Fish Market is tied for FIRST PLACE as my favorite cooking class EVER!! I arrived to the fish market about 90 minutes early to explore before the class started. I was not all that impressed with the fish market itself.. It’s quite small, so 90 minutes was WAY too much time to try to kill there. *Note: a lot of the stalls in the market only accept cash. You don’t need anything at all for the cooking class but if you explore the market & want a snack beforehand, bring cash!! I got a seafood platter at one of the stalls and it was HORRID. I ended up eating too much of it not wanting to waste, and that was a big mistake. You MUST come hungry for the cooking class! There was SO MUCH amazing food at the end! The meeting point of the class was very easy to find. Look for the Doyle’s Shop sign (the market is quite small so it’s not difficult to find), spin around with your back to Doyle’s and enter the glass doors there. Go up the staircase and there’s a sign and little waiting area with seats outside of the cooking studio. When class started, we were checked in and entered the “classroom”. It was a room with tiered seating, little desks, and a kitchen in the front with tv screens showing the countertops. We were given our little instruction booklet & the chef demo’d what we’d be making! She was an excellent, engaging teacher. She demo’d how to break down & prep a whole squid, a crab, how to filet a small snapper, and how to clean and prep mussels. Then she made the dishes we’d be making. She was full of all kinds of interesting knowledge that was totally new to me! After the hour demo, we were escorted into the MASSIVE kitchen we’d be cooking in. There were maybe 35 people total, but we were broken up into groups of 5-6 & assigned group kitchenettes. Each kitchenette had a sink, stove, oven, and refrigerator. We each had our own space with our own cutting board and knife. Despite the large group, the space was so large that I never felt crowded or like there were too many people. One of my biggest complaints about cooking classes I’ve taken in the past is they’re never hands-on enough. What was SO great about this class is we all got our own fish, our own squid, our own crab! Obviously, there’s a LOT of food at the end if each group of 6 has their own everything! After we broke the seafood down according to our demo, we cooked amazing dishes with them based on what we were shown from the instructor. There were several helpers walking around the class to help us & answer any questions we had. There were gloves available if anyone didn’t want to touch the raw sea creatures with their bare hands. Not to toot my own horn, but I feel like a pretty experienced home cook & often cooking classes are a bit too basic for me. I might pick up a tidbit or two, but usually I don’t learn much of anything new. I learned SO MUCH at this class!! The great thing too, it’s catered to every level! Our group consisted of a 16 year old girl who said her cooking experience didn’t extend past making vegemite toast and also a couple from Sydney who were accustomed to visiting the fish market weekly and cooking seafood feasts for their family. The class wasn’t above the teenage girl and it wasn’t below the couple who constantly cook seafood. After we’d finished cooking everything, we brought our food to the dining area and ate with our groups! There was a bottle of wine provided to each group (plus the option on the website to buy more wine when you purchase the class) as well as bread, water, and an espresso machine for coffee. The food was fabulous & it was so fun sitting with my group I got to know during our cooking time enjoying our hard work! There was SO MUCH FOOD (it felt like endless crab!! No matter how much we ate, the pile never went down!) and luckily there were to-go containers provided so we had no waste! This was definitely the best seafood feast I’ve ever experienced! If we had more time in Sydney, I would take every single class they offer! My boyfriend was on a fishing charter doing his own thing while I did this, but I know he would’ve absolutely LOVED this class! He’s not much of a cook but this is the kind of activity anyone would an open mind and a love for seafood would enjoy! If I’m ever back in Sydney, I will not hesitate to take another class!! My only regret is I didn’t take very good pictures because I was too much in the moment with all the excitement of this class!
8. Bevvy Sydney
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Bevvy is a series of talks focused on the appreciation (and consumption) of wine, craft bee, spirits and cocktail. It was started by a group of passionate Sydney locals who not only love a bevvy, but also sharing those bevvies with a bevy of like-minded bevvy enthusiasts. Situated in a beautiful heritage listed terrace house in Surry Hills, right by Central Station.
9. Cucina Italiana Cooking School
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4.0 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By 250LindaG
Learning the nuances of traditional Italian cooking in a totally fabulous & authentic kitchen. I loved the making of the food in a family style atmosphere, then enjoying the food in an elegant traditional dinning room. I loved Luciana’s stories to make you remember the secrets of Italian cooking, a delicious way to La Dolce Vita!
10. Trippas White Group
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 58 reviews
Trippas White Group manages a diverse portfolio of iconic restaurant, café and event spaces across Australia. Its premium venues include Portside Sydney Opera House, 360 Bar and Dining, Botanic Gardens Restaurant, Centennial Homestead, Queens Park Kitchen, Proud Mary at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Beach House Avalon, Roslyn Packer Theatre and Walsh Bay Kitchen.
