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COOKING classes and courses

Meet your neighbours, pick up new skills and boost your confidence in the kitchen

We run fun, friendly cooking sessions in our kitchen, designed to give community members the skills and confidence they need to enjoy cooking for themselves and others. From our Men's Grub Club and Cook for Health adult courses, to our holiday classes for children, we'll provide the chefs, food and equipment - all we need is you.

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It was great to learn how to waste less food by turning bits from the fridge into a meal.

Want to get cooking?

We publish all our cooking sessions on Eventbrite, and notify everyone on our invite list when a new one is coming up. So please use the form below to get on the list, and look out for emails from us.   
In the meantime, here’s a flavour of some of our most popular ones.

Healthy ingredients to make food at a community cooking class in London
Cooking course

Men’s Grub Club

If you’re a man aged over 60, and would like to pick up some cooking skills and meet others of a similar age, this is for you. Learn how to make delicious, comforting meals alongside your neighbours, then sit down and enjoy the food together.

A low cost meal made at a community cooking class near Kings Cross
Cooking class

Wraps and Wedges

Bring your children to the Cook for Good Kitchen to learn how to make the kind of food they love to eat – from scratch. Our chefs will take them through the recipes step by step, and help them use kitchen equipment safely too. 

Fruit smoothies made at a community cooking class in London
Cooking demo

Loving your Leftovers

We all have bits and bobs lurking in our fridges that we’re not sure how to use – but it’s easier than you’d think to turn them into a meal. From roasted vegetable rolls to an ‘everything in’ rice salad, these dishes will save you money and help avoid waste.

Healthy ingredients to make food at a community cooking class in London
Cooking demo

Cook with your Pantry Basket

Come and find out how to make delicious, healthy meals from the kind of things you can pick up in our Pantry. Our chef will be given a basket of ingredients from the week’s delivery, and challenged to turn them into dishes, Ready Steady Cook style.  

Healthy ingredients to make food at a community cooking class in London
Cooking course

Cook for Health

This course is designed to build a community of people with diabetes, and explore how to cook meals and make lifestyle changes which will have a positive effect on their condition. It’s a six-month course, run in partnership local GP Dr Jane Myat.

Soup being made at a community cooking class near Kings Cross
Cooking class

Essential Knife Skills

Join us for an intro class, covering the basic knife skills that will help you prepare meals quickly and safely. Our chef will get you slicing and dicing with proper kitchen knives to make delicious meals from scratch. You’ll be surprised at the difference it makes!

Get on our invite list

If you live in the Kings Cross area, and are interested in joining us for cooking classes and / or community meals, please sign up here. We’ll email you when we’re putting on a new class or meal, and ask you to register your interest in coming along.