Kitchen on Fire
📍 1509 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CAKitchen on Fire on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto neighborhood is the East Bay's most well-regarded recreational cooking school, rated 4.5 stars on Yelp across more than 240 reviews, offering hands-on cooking classes in Italian pasta, global cuisines covering Thai, Vietnamese, French, Greek, Japanese, and more, plus baking, knife skills, and seafood workshops taught by professional chefs. Every class is structured so participants cook the full menu themselves rather than watching a demonstration, and the session ends with a communal meal of everything the group made. The school has been a fixture of Berkeley's food culture for over a decade and is the kind of place where regulars book classes months in advance.
Classes at Kitchen on Fire42 available
Pasta & Italian
Cooking
Baking & Pastry