Houston Central Market Cooking School
Westheimer at Weslayan
Houston, Texas
(713) 993-9860
www.centralmarket.com
Avocational cooking school located within H-E-B’s upscale concept store Central market. Well equipped comfortable classroom with great staff. Classes featrure resident chefs and visiting chefs and cookbook authors from around the country. Demonstration classes with full meal service including wines paired with courses. Some hands-on classes and wine education classes. See website for class schedule.
Epicurean Cooking School
Rice Epicurean Market
2020 Fountainview
Houston, Texas
(713) 954-2152
www.riceepicurean.com/cooking_school/cooking_school.htm
Demonstration and hands-on classes taught in a spacious classroom within the Fountainview location of Rice Epicurean Market. Classes taught by resident chef/director Elaine Small and area chefs. Also visiting chefs and cookbook authors. See website for class schedule.
Culinary Institute Alain & Marie LeNotre
7070 Allensby
Houston, Texas 77022
(713) 692-0077
www.lenotre-alain-marie.com
Professional cooking school offering complete chef’s program. Founded by Alain LeNotre in 1998 in Houston, the school is an authentic International Chef School modeled after his former cooking school in Paris. The school features a low student/teacher ratio and classes are 90% hands-on. School offers optional internships in France. See website for more information and registration information.
Alvin Community College
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas 77511
(281) 756-3500
www.alvincollege.edu/business/culinary_arts.cfm
Professional culinary arts training at community college in rural Houston community of Alvin. Spacious, well landscaped campus with ample parking. See website for course information.
Galveston College – Culinary Arts Academy
4015 Avenue Q
Galveston, Texas 77550
(409) 763-6551, Est. 304
www.gc.edu
Professional culinary arts training at community college in coastal Galveston. See website for course information and registration requirements.
L’Aglio Gourmet Food Shop
22100 Westheimer Parkway
Katy, Texas 77450
(281) 579-7963
www.laglio.com
Gourmet food and cookware shop offers cooking classes on a variety of subjects in the Katy area. See website for class offerings.
LePanier
2523 Maroneal Street
Houston, Texas 77030
(713) 666-2038
ldaily@aol.com
Owner LaVerle Daily has been treating Houston foodies to great cooking classes for years. Cookbook authors and chefs from all over the country, in addition to favorite Houston teachers and chefs present a wide variety of ethnic and technique classes. Contact LaVerle for information on classes or to obtain a schedule.
Houston Cooking.com
(713) 592-9810
www.houstoncooking.com
This concept is the brainchild of Janice Rudd who has assembled Houston’s greatest and best cooking teachers in a cooking school which comes to you. Schedule classes in lieu of dinner parties or for corporate holiday parties. Janice and the chef of your choice will come to your location and present a three-hour professional cooking class. Each dish prepared will be sampled by course. Chef/instructors include Terry Conlan of Lake Austin Spa, who teaches Spa Cuisine; LaVerl Daily teaches Basics, Japanese and Moroccan cuisines, Mimi Kerr teaches classes for kids; Suneeta Vaswani teaches Indian cooking; Paola Giannotti teaches Italian classes and Dorothy Huang teaches Chinese cooking. See website or contact Houston Cooking.com by phone for scheduling information.