If you are tired of the variety of Dubai restaurants, or if you like cooking yourself more, this article is for you. At a minimum, we guarantee that in any of these culinary schools you will learn how to cut onions and crush garlic. We are sure that you do not know how to do it as skillfully and gracefully as Michelin chefs.
Chef's Palette at Fairmont The Palm
At the Fairmont The Palm Hotel on Jumeirah, Chef's Palette is a wonderful place. This is not just a restaurant, but a platform for experiments by experienced Michelin chef Romain Van Durmen (@romainvandurmen). He conducts various lessons and master classes, full dinners and even Friday brunches - there is something to interest even the most strict food. The cozy kitchen can easily accommodate from 8 to 12 people: come here with friends or have a corporate party with your department, as the team of the Russian Emirates recently did.
The German company Gaggenau is responsible for the kitchen equipment at Chef's Palette. There is everything the cook can dream of - new, bright and beautiful.
Chef Romain is experienced, but still works a lot and willingly. Every week he holds many workshops, lunch lessons and VIP lectures. If you like to eat rather than cook, go to Romain for a “lunch from the chef”: see how professional chefs and waiters work. And if you want to eat and cook something yourself, sign up for a private Friday brunch - it is not inferior to the famous brunch in the nearby Flow Kitchen restaurant.
According to Romain, before in Dubai there was nothing like this. “We have lessons for all ages and skills. And now, when we started to hold brunches too, we will like even those who don’t like to cook. We want you to remember us for a long time, so our food is not only delicious, but it also looks beautiful. We have dishes for every taste and occasion - from pasta to foie gras. "
In addition to a fun, useful and enjoyable experience, you will receive a branded apron with your own name and recipes cards as a gift. Chef's Palette has a lot of offers for a wide variety of wallets: from 195 to the premium menu for 595 dirhams. It includes foie gras, kobe beef, oysters and unusual desserts. Nobody in Dubai will teach you such delicacies to cook better. Tested on my own experience.
www.fairmont.com /palm-dubai /dining /the-chefs-palette /
Culinary boutique
This place on Jumeirah Beach Road is very popular even among those who don’t cook at all. The two-story building in the Scandinavian style opens at 8 a.m., is immediately filled by the public and does not empty for a minute: the affairs of his mistress, Emirate entrepreneur Hessa Al-Kassim, are going fine. An elegant house stands out among endless clinics behind the Mercato shopping center. In addition to the culinary school, there is a cafe with a pleasant terrace.
It serves mainly local cuisine - and it’s great. Before, Emirate dishes were generally not found, but now you can learn how to cook them yourself. True, this turned out to be rather laborious: we spent more than two hours to cut and sprinkle everything.
In addition to Emirates cuisine, Culinary Boutique hosts master classes in Mexican cuisine, seafood, paleo, pasta, tapas, Thai cuisine and others. Lessons take place almost every day and take from one and a half to three hours and cost from 295 to 495 dirhams. The schedule can be found on the website.
www.culinaryboutique.com
Top Chef Cooking Studio
According to the philosophy of Top Chef, cooking is a joy, art and a reason for communication, dating and friendship. The studio is located in a villa in Jumeirah - so warm and welcoming that it seems like you just went to visit someone. It should be noted that for these purposes the house was specially rebuilt as a culinary school. The courses are divided into three categories: “Culinary art” (3 dishes, 2 hours, 475 AED), “Tastes of the world” (3 dishes, 2 hours, AED 445) and “Future chef” (2 dishes, 1.5 hours, 395 dirhams).
Real gourmets and fans of their craft work here, who can infect anyone with their enthusiasm. Courses for children and adults, as well as personal lessons, theme parties and unusual corporate events are presented. The professional kitchen is equipped with modern facilities.
One of the leaders of the school is Guy Martin, a French chef with three Michelin stars. Another chef with a French education is present at each lesson and makes sure that no one is left behind. Education here contributes to communication: after preparing dinner, guests sit at the same table and together try the results of their work.
www.topchefdubai.com
Solo
Real Italian cuisine begins at Solo Restaurant at Raffles Dubai on September 9th. If you like pasta or lasagna, put on your cook hat and sign up for the course: classes take place every Saturday until November 11th. Each time you will be told about the culinary styles and traditions of different regions of Italy.
Chef Doksis Bekris with his team will not only teach you how to cook hearty dishes, but also will reveal the techniques and secrets of professional chefs. You will learn how to make pasta and bake fresh bread, how to balance the taste of a dish and how to work with a knife. And after several hours of work in the kitchen, you can relax and enjoy a private lunch in the Solo restaurant with your newly minted colleagues.
Culinary master classes at Solo cost 300 dirhams per person (soft drinks are included). They take place on Saturdays from September 9 to November 11 from 11.30 to 14.00. Seats must be reserved in advance.
www.solodubai.ae
1762 Stripped
In the new cooking studio and cafe 1762 Stripped in JLT, a cooking laboratory has recently opened in which unusual classes are held. Four years ago, Jordanian Maysaa Mzhegdi was a civil engineer, and now she has become a professional chef. She began by teaching several friends how to cook, and to this day she sometimes organizes lessons at home. Maysaa is knowledgeable, appreciates the accuracy and scientific approach, so she will not let you get bored and will entertain you while cooking with Arabic fairy tales.
In a culinary course on cooking dishes of Arabic cuisine, you will learn, for example, that you need to chop chili, radish and peppermint for the fatusha — we didn’t even know that they were in the composition. After that, you will learn how to cook a wonderful dressing of pomegranate molasses, lemon juice and garlic. You mix baked kebbe with coarse wheat bread - it will take so much effort that you can not go to the gym in the morning. Then add an oriental mixture of seven spices and pine nuts. The result will be very tasty, do not hesitate. But there are no less sophisticated ways to surprise you - for example, the classic recipe for making the most delicious Arabic ummali dessert: a luxurious hash of almonds, dried apricots, puff pastry, vanilla and cinnamon, and all this in a sea of condensed milk and cream.
www.1762.ae
