Orchards Cookery specialises in training and recruiting Chalet Cooks and also runs Off to University courses, Designer Dinner party courses, Corporate Days and One and Two Day cookery courses.
The Award Winning cookery school has a new approach to cookery and tuition, courses are 'hands on' and lots of fun, each day concluding with a dinner party.
Orchards Cookery also offers a recruitment service supplying cooks for ski chalets, private parties, shooting, hunting and fishing lodges, holiday villas, yachts etc.
The Orchards is a family home situated on a farm in the heart of England, near Stratford-upon-Avon and students live in cottages on site.
2014 - Britain's Favourite Cookery School (voted by the public) in the British Cookery School Awards (also 'Highly Commended' Best Specialist Cookery School and a finalist in the Best Large Recreational Cookery School category)
2014 - Shortlisted for Cookery School of Year Food & Travel Magazine
2013 - Cookery School of The Year and the Best English Cookery School in the British Cookery School Awards (also 'Highly Commended' in the Best Specialist Cookery School category
and finalists in the Best Large and Britain's Favourite Cookery School categories).
2012 - Britain's Favourite Cookery School (voted by the public) in the British Cookery School Awards (also finalists in Best English and Best Large Cookery School categories)
2012 - Best Country / Residential Cookery School in the UK Cookery School of the Year Awards
Recipes used are quick and easy but impressive, chosen specifically so that we can teach as many different techniques on a course as possible. They are also easily reproduced at home with ingredients that can be found easily!
The recruitment service we offer to our students and ski companies. We organise ski company presentations and interviews at the school leading to most students receiving one or two job offers while on a course. In the past
we have had a 100% success rate at helping students who were really determined to find a job.
Small class sizes of 8 students per kitchen with the fun of having up to 48 students staying at the school.
Our five day and two week courses qualify for The Residential Project of The Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. We are an Approved Activity Provider for the D of E
The extensive kitchen garden where we grow our own herbs, fruit and vegetables. Most other ingredients are sourced from local suppliers. Students are taken on a tour of the kitchen garden to see how some of the produce they use during
their course is grown and harvested.
Courses give students the confidence, skills and enthusiasm to cook professionally. Many students go on to cook in chalets, villas, hunting, shooting and fishing lodges and on yachts etc.
Orchards Cookery specialises in training and recruiting Chalet Cooks, but also offers an Off to University Course and One Day, Two Day and Five Day Dinner Party Courses.
There is an art to being a great Chalet Cook. We will show you how to master it, enabling you to get the most out of both your job and life in the mountains. With many seasons of experience in the chalet industry and working alongside ski companies we
have designed a course to train the perfect chalet host.
Orchards Cookery helps its students with recruitment (CV guidance, interview training, etc.) enabling young people to gain paid employment in ski chalets, private houses, shooting, hunting and fishing lodges, holiday villas and yachts etc.
The Off to University course is designed for school leavers & undergraduates who are about to move away from home and cook for themselves for the first time. The course is intensive and each fun packed day concludes with a dinner party.
The Dinner Party course is perfect for those terrified at the thought of having a dinner party. For those who dream of being able to whip up delicious and impressive dinner parties or, perhaps, just a tasty supper after a long day at work?.