Rick Stein’s original Cornish Cookery School has undergone a major refurb, designed by Howdens
Rick Stein’s prestigious Cookery School (opened 2000), overlooking Padstow Harbour, has had a complete makeover by the UK’s premier trade kitchen designers, Howdens, ensuring it is fit with state-of-the-art kitchens and a modern and contemporary feel. Known as one of the best schools in the country, it has been led by Chef Lecturer Nick Evans for 7 years. Nick is one of Rick Stein’s trusted chefs who teaches classic Stein recipes, with a natural focus on seafood cookery.
The refurbished school is a welcoming, bright space in which to discover a series of exciting programmes and workshops, tasting sessions and more. With a coastal interior theme reflective of its setting, it is punctuated with navy wooden accents, boasting oak cabinets, marble quartz worktops, Lamona sinks and taps, and antique-style fixtures and fittings to give it a home-from-home feel. The workshop kitchen is now fit with all-new upgraded Rangemaster gas stoves at each participant’s station.
The Cookery School has been a popular choice for budding chefs, amateurs, and professionals alike, offering one-day courses for holidaymakers and locals, more advanced, longer courses and courses taught by Jack Stein. The school is the finest place to learn how to cook fish – guests can watch the fish being landed on the estuary from the school window, before being taught how to prepare, cook, and serve it to perfection. Courses include the likes of ‘Catch and cook,’ a one-day course for £225 or the ‘Ultimate fish & shellfish’ which is the four-day course for £850, which includes fishing trips around Padstow and visits to local Cornish farms. Also available, are a selection of courses led by Jack Stein himself, including ‘World on a plate with Jack Stein,’ a one-day course for £198 on 5 May 2022 and ‘Cooking with Jack Stein’: a two-day course including a fishing trip for £395 on 6 and 7 June 2022. Half-day courses (from £95) include ‘Indian Seafood’ where guests learn to make prawn molee, Amritsari fish and Chettinad crab curry or the ‘Asian Street Food’ course, diving headfirst into three of Rick Stein’s dishes inspired by his travels around Asia.
Courses start at £45, ranging to £850 for a four-day course
View all courses for Spring/Summer here: www.rickstein.com/cookery-school
