Cooking schools

For aspiring chefs, cooks, amateurs and gourmets, Madrid and its community are a paradise where you will find various cooking schools that adapt to your desires: culinary arts, cooking or basic workshops.

The oldest school in Madrid is called Le Cordon Bleu, which offers advanced studies in avant-garde cooking, pastry making and baking taught at the Francisco de Vitoria University.

For lovers of traditional Spanish cuisine, we find the El Laurel school, where they can teach us how to perfectly cook spoon dishes, pasta, elaborate meat and fish recipes and even how to prepare original and simple tapas to taste.

We can also opt for the Spanish and foreign food courses taught by the “cooking club” or the Italian recipes of the Academia del Gusto.

For vegetarians, the Raw Vegan Cuisine teaches healthy and vegetal cooking, illustrating us in the use of machinery and even making desserts.

Finally, we must not forget fans of Serrano ham or cheese, who can enjoy cheese workshops, blind tastings and competitions at the Poncelet Cheese Bar or learn how to cut ham and its secrets at the Iberian Ham Cutting School.

The official hospitality schools manage restaurants, open to the public during the academic year, where they offer gourmet menus at affordable prices.