Course Dates & Fees

One Day Courses 

Quick & Easy Courses

Cooking Gift Certificates

One Week Courses  

Four Week Courses

Foundation Food Hygiene Courses

One Day Courses

Course Format:

Courses run from 10.00 am - 4.00 pm commencing with morning coffee and home made biscuits. This will be followed by a run through of the menu plan for the day and tuition for the selected dishes. Participants will then prepare and cook their dishes sampling as they go. Finally a sit down meal will be served with wine in the afternoon.

Fee:

             £135.00 per head including all instruction, recipe booklet, food and wine with meal.

Payment:

            Full payment on booking can be made by cheque, credit/debit card or bank transfer. (For bank transfers please contact us for account details.)

Not to your taste?:

               We are also interested in building a picture of what sort of one day courses people would like us to run. If the above choice is not what you are looking for please suggest alternatives. We will then be able to come back to you in the future should we run any additional days.

Quick & Easy Cooking Courses

Course Format:

Courses run from 11.00 am - 3.00 pm.

Fee:

             £85.00 per head

Payment:

            Full payment on booking can be made by cheque, credit/debit card or bank transfer. (For bank transfers please contact us for account details.)

Buy a Cooking Gift Certificate

Give a tasteful gift to someone special. Let them enjoy an exciting cooking experience day at the prestigious Gables School of Cookery near Bristol. Voted by The Independent on Sunday as delivering one of the 8 hottest cookery courses worldwide, you can have confidence that your cookery gift will be received with special appeal.

Your Cooking Gift Certificate is valid for a complete year. Grant a special person the joy of participating in a fun cookery day of their choice - choose from 11 mouth-watering courses covering a wide range of culinary tastes. They will certainly approve of our stunning purpose-built kitchen and the friendly personal tuition.

We have received many warm testimonials from those who have appreciated our one day cookery courses. The following feedback was received from Sally H. who enjoyed the Thai Cookery Day:-

Buy a cookery course gift token now for £135. Please contact us on 01454-260444 or email info@thegablesschoolofcookery.co.uk 

One Week Courses

* In addition to the dedicated week above, you can also elect to book
on to week one of any of our four week courses, subject to
availability. This means that if you wish you can progress later to weeks 2, 3
and 4. Please contact us for more details.

Fee:

             Fee includes tuition, course book with recipes, shared accommodation in a twin room ⁽¹⁾ from Monday night to Thursday night, breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is a £75 per week reduction for non-residential students. If you book on with a friend each of you will enjoy a 5% reduction in your course fee.

            (1) Students who prefer not to share a room may do so subject to availability and payment of a single room supplement of £75 per week.

Payment:

             A £150 deposit is payable on enrolment. The balance of the course fee is due six weeks before the course commences. 

            Cheques should be made payable to "The Gables School of Cookery".

            Credit Cards and Bank Transfers are also accepted.  (For bank transfers please contact us for account details.)

Four Week Courses 2010

Fees include shared accommodation (on a first come first served basis (1)) in a twin room (2) from Monday night to Thursday night each week (3), breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is a £330 per month reduction for non-residential students. 

Book on with a friend and you will both receive a 5% discount on your fees. Contact the school for details.

The first Monday of the Four Week Course starts at 11.00am. Subsequent Mondays start at 10.00am. Each Friday the course finishes at 1.00pm.

Students enrolled on the four week course will also undertake the Royal Institute of Public Health Food Hygiene Certificate, the cost of which is included in the course fee.

Our four week courses are designed to turn out high quality competent cooks. By the fourth week, students will be preparing food to the standard you would expect to find in a good restaurant.

Yacht / Ski Chalet cookery
The four week course is ideal for yacht and ski chalet cookery. We have excellent ongoing links with ski chalet and yacht recruitment agencies.

(1) We endeavour to accommodate the majority of our students on site on a first come first served basis. The remaining students will be provided with details of other local accommodation which they will be responsible for organising themselves. In these circumstances the course fee will be reduced by £330.

(2) Students who prefer not to share a twin room may do so subject to availability and payment of a single room supplement of £75 per week.

(3) Students who wish to stay on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night may do so at a cost of £30 per night (self-catered continental breakfast included). The kitchen will not be open on weekends.

A £500 deposit is payable on enrolment on any of the above courses. The balance of the course fee is due six weeks before the course commences.

Cheques should be made payable to "The Gables School of Cookery".

Credit Cards and Bank Transfers are also accepted.

Foundation Food Hygiene Courses

Half-Day Course runs from 9.30 am - 1.00 pm

Payment to be made on booking

Cheques should be made payable to The Gables School of Cookery

Credit Cards and Bank Transfers are also accepted. (For bank transfers please contact us for account details.)