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A cooking class gives a party a task, a teacher and dinner in a single booking. Guests chop, fold and season side by side, then sit down to the food they made. Two of Melbourne's schools on this page are in the Inner North and one is in Bayside.
Otao Kitchen on Victoria Street, Abbotsford, covers over 20 cuisines, Korean, Vietnamese, Greek and Mexican among them, across two licensed kitchen studios with room for private or work groups of 60 to 80. Classes close with everyone at the table eating the courses they cooked, from $159 per person.
Brunswick Kitchen, on Albert Street, is run by chef Tracey Lister, whose years in Hanoi shape its northern and central Vietnamese menus; it also covers Portuguese, Mexican, Colombian and handmade pasta, with private classes for ten or more from $145 per person. Relish Mama in Sandringham is run by Nellie Kerrison, a nutritionist who has written cookbooks, and she plans a menu to suit each group, be it Moroccan, Italian, dumplings or barbecue, for 12 to 25 guests.
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Otao Kitchen in Abbotsford, whose two licensed kitchen studios fit private or work groups of 60 to 80.
Yes, Brunswick Kitchen offers full or half-day kitchen hire as well as private classes for ten or more.
Nellie Kerrison, a nutritionist and cookbook writer, who designs the menu for each group.
Yes. Each class wraps up with the group at the table for the courses it has just cooked.
Both schools there teach it: Brunswick Kitchen focuses on northern and central Vietnamese food, and Otao Kitchen includes Vietnamese among its cuisines.
Private groups run from 12 to 25 people.