The BBQ is the most social way to share food with friends and is seldom used with imagination.  This course is brimming with ideas offering a wide range of interesting marinades for all sorts of fish and meat from the smallest prawn right through to a butterflied leg of lamb. We will bring you through all the techniques of preparing and cooking on your barbecue and then we will go outdoors where you will assist in the preparation of the food. After preparing salads, salsas and other side dishes, we will all sit down in the dining room to sample all the wonderful fare over a few glasses of wine. Get inspired for the summer.

Cutting out gluten from your diet will require more careful shopping but it should not mean that cooking is more challenging or the results less interesting. This class will focus on the wealth of different gluten-free flours, will demystify the techniques involved and will let you look at gluten-free cooking in a different light. From pasta, pizzas, breads and pastry to cakes and biscuits, we will give you the inspiration to find new ways to eat a healthier gluten-free diet.

This popular course attracts vegetarians and non-vegetarians in equal numbers, eager for creative ideas and balanced eating.  We often start with a single vegetable and then cheeses, oils, spices, herbs, grains, nuts and pulses are used to enhance its starring role in extraordinary ways.  We have selected from our favourite vegetarian dishes so that you can perfect particular techniques that can then be used with other vegetables.  A great course for all cooks who want to stretch their culinary imagination and for vegetarians proud to strut their stuff in any company.

This evening is one of a series of pop-up restaurants organised, hosted and cooked by our full-time certificate students and one not to be missed!  It is a wonderful opportunity to experience and sample the highlights of where their culinary journey has taken them so far.  Overseen by our highly experienced team of in-house tutors - sit back, relax and enjoy a five-course tasting menu in the intimate surroundings of DCS.  This promises to be a fun, sociable and ultimately unique night out.

There is something very satisfying about spending some time baking.  As you would expect at DCS, there are wonderful recipes, putting a flourish on even simple ideas.  The clear, precise instructions make many of the ideas very straightforward but there is challenge, too, as we move to ways of working with yeast and pastry.  Savoury tarts and quiches with homemade bread form the basis of a great lunch.  In the afternoon expect to be back at the stove so that you can go home with cake, biscuits and muffins and a determination to get baking at every opportunity.

At its best, Italian cooking is essentially good home-cooking, focusing on seasonal ingredients and this course has always been one of our most popular with its deep gutsy flavours. The evening will celebrate this style as we prepare dishes on the night which will range from starters and pasta dishes through to main dishes, and of course, dessert!  This promises to be a very enjoyable night, leaving you inspired with everything you need to know to recreate the perfect Italian meal at home.  Buon Appetito!

Learn how to preserve the best of Irish summer produce in this one-off evening class.  We’ll introduce you to the principles of preserving and take you through sugar proportions, pectin, methods for testing, setting points and storing.  You’ll head home with the confidence to experiment with all sorts of wonderful fruit, vegetables.  Look forward to a range of preserves to enjoy with breads, cheese, meats or to use as a base for desserts.    

It is time to develop real confidence in cooking with fish. It is so easy to throw a fillet on a pan and rustle up a nutritious, delicious supper in minutes - as long as you know how to judge freshness, how to fillet a fish and the keys to enhancing flavour. The course will help you to move on to some more sophisticated dishes, learning the importance of sauces and other accompaniments. The day is structured around short demonstrations and immediate hands-on cooking so that you can confidently grasp the techniques involved. There are tastings along the way but we do finish off by sitting down for a leisurely meal. It is important that you taste what you have created and celebrate your accomplishments with a glass of wine.

A wonderful way to spend five days in the summer is to do our one week cookery course. We expect you to have high expectations and we expect to meet them. Previous participants have commented on how relaxing it is being in our great premises with like-minded people, totally focused on cooking and switched off from the rest of the world. It is a course where those with more experience can feel challenged and those with less can feel their confidence soar. You will be exposed to great new recipes every day and will have each step clearly demonstrated to you. You will then work in our hands-on kitchen area to recreate the dishes with expert guidance at hand. You will improve your knife skills, develop confidence to taste and adjust flavours and cook a wonderful range of dishes. A relaxed lunch in our dining room each day provides the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of your labour. A perfect break that will leave you inspired to entertain your friends and family effortlessly.

The July course has a special summer rate. This is an intensive full-time cookery course for those wanting to take their cooking to an entirely new level. To date, the course has attracted a wide range of people, from those who love food but have little prior experience in the kitchen through to keen cooks.

The experience and professionalism of the DCS team, the breadth of techniques covered on the course together with the stunning cooking facilities - are all features of Dublin Cookery School's one month course that set it clearly apart.

If you are interested in this course, we would encourage you to come and visit the school to see how we could match your needs.  Phone us on (01) 210 0555 to arrange an appointment.

A Lyonnais speciality, the French love their éclairs.  Fauchon, the renowned Parisien patisserie, features an annual éclair weekend every September and many more boutique patisseries have cropped up around the city dedicated more or less to the exclusive creation of exciting sweet and savoury flavour combinations.  We’ll show you all you need to know for making a well-risen puff to the secret of the glossiest icings.  Light choux pastry filled with crème patissiere forms the basis of these delectable pastries.  Learn the ropes from classic chocolate, coffee to the more unusual fillings of passionfruit, raspberry, lemon, orange, lime & verbena.  Savoury combinations include gruyere, smoked pancetta & red onion marmalade, goats cheese & pesto, confit of figs & duck pate. Catch the wave of this latest trend and discover how delectable and versatile these little pastries can be.

This course is all about fabulous, delicious food that also provides great health benefits.  Designed to give you lots of ideas of how to feed your friends and family, these nutritious recipes will use a variety of wholefoods: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, wholegrains, legumes, lean meats and fish, natural sugars and good quality fats, that will be of wide interest to anyone who wants to cook with an eye to healthy living. Cook better, feel better.

This popular course attracts vegetarians and non-vegetarians in equal numbers, eager for creative ideas and balanced eating.  We often start with a single vegetable and then cheeses, oils, spices, herbs, grains, nuts are used to enhance its starring role in extraordinary ways.  We have selected from our favourite vegetarian dishes so that you can perfect particular techniques that can then be used with other vegetables.  A great course for all cooks who want to stretch their culinary imagination and for vegetarians proud to strut their stuff in any company.

Expect great lunch and dinner ideas, radically different but all sharing the benefit of very little to wash up! A one pot ­dish can be the source of a meal for many friends and family, and one quick and easy recipe can become the inspiration for many variations. This fun and accessible evening class is just the inspiration you’ll need to get you fired up for a summer full of seasonally specific dishes.

At Dublin Cookery School, we take pizzas very, very seriously. We start with a great dough which needs good technique to perfect. Then we move to sauces, just enough to cover the base. And then to the toppings.  This is where we get creative, not by piling high but by working out some stunning combinations - original gourmet toppings. Master all the elements of pizza-making and you will have the confidence to develop your own unique recipes.  After this course, we promise that you will never think of pizza in the same way again.  We can almost smell those wonderful aromas already!

Thai food is one of the specialties of Dublin Cookery School. We have had strong links with David Thompson, the first chef to get a Michelin star for Thai food, and his head chef Matthew Albert, who has been a regular visitor over the years. Lynda has been over many times to Nahm, their restaurant in London, to perfect her understanding of authentic Thai salads, curries and stir fries. This course is the perfect opportunity to find out where to buy fresh Thai ingredients and how to use them to produce extraordinary dishes. A full Thai meal and a couple of glasses of wine will round off the day.

The essence of good Indian cooking revolves around the use of spices, not only combining them but drawing out several flavours from a single spice - by roasting, grinding or frying.  This course will show you how to use them in different ways, drawing on recipes from different parts of India.  After a short demonstration we will guide you through each step, before moving into the hands-on area, to ensure you can recreate these dishes at home.

Canapes and tapas are the best words to conjure up informal social snacks staving off hunger rather than being a full meal in themselves. Put a few of them together and you have a meal, your very own tasting menu. Drawing ideas from different countries, these creative snacks are perfect for enjoying outdoors or indoors this summer.

This evening is one of a series of pop-up restaurants organised, hosted and cooked by our full-time certificate students and one not to be missed!  It is a wonderful opportunity to experience and sample the highlights of where their culinary journey has taken them so far.  Overseen by our highly experienced team of in-house tutors - sit back, relax and enjoy a five-course tasting menu in the intimate surroundings of DCS.  This promises to be a fun, sociable and ultimately unique night out.

Water. Flour. Salt. Yeast. From such a simple list of ingredients comes a multitude of possibilities, depending on how we combine those basic variants and what choices we make in the core bread-making steps of mixing, kneading, proving and baking. In this one-day course we will arm you with the skills to make a basic white dough – and then add to that the confidence to shape and tweak that basic dough into everything from crusty rolls to flavoured breads (think pesto, carmelised onion or sundried tomato) and multigrains. We will look at the mysteries of working with yeast and the wonderful world of using starters and overnight doughs to add a new dimension to your creations. There is something very special about making your own bread; master the basic techniques in this one-day class and you’ll have opened up a whole new world of discovery in the kitchen.

Macaroons are one of the most difficult patisserie products to perfect, so at DCS we will teach you some of the magic and take you through the step by step methods of producing the perfect macaroon every time. You’ll be amazed at what you will learn to create, as you get to grips with the methods of making these little confections along with an assortment of incredible flavours.  Once mastered, there will be no end to the colours and combinations you will have at your fingertips.

Street food is the latest trend and one area that has become a huge focus recently. Dishes served outdoors are being stepped up a notch and street vendors are no longer seen as a pitch on the road to rush past and grab something quick from, but as somewhere to pick up delectable cuisine from all over the world – you only have to visit your local food and farmers market to witness it.  The concept of street food is very much a social one, a flexible type of cuisine and can fit in with people’s busy day to day lives.  From the flavours of Latin America, the Mediterranean and the Middle East to the pungent spices of the Far East, there is something to appeal to every palate.  Think delicious empanadas; falafels and flatbreads; satays, fritters, noodles, rice dishes, tempura and steamed fish in banana leaves; samosas, bhajis, raitas and chutneys; quick pastas and grilled meats and fish.

We have extended this popular one day course to a fufilling five days so you can be fully exposed to the expansive repertoire of recipes that we have amassed for Cafe Cooking.  Satisfying soups, inventive salads, earthy pates, nourishing tagines, savoury tarts, breads and traditional baking – this course is about fresh, tasty food, much of which can be prepared in advance. Whether you’ve always wanted to run your own café or simply yearn for the skills to whip up satisfying food for friends and family, this is the course for you.

Italian cooking is about so much more than pizza and pasta – although there is something very special about whipping up your own dough and rolling your own pasta. On this ever-popular one day Italian extravaganza, we’ll show you the secrets to producing these larder staples fresh from a few basic ingredients, before taking you on a tasting tour through some of our favourite regional dishes. The secret to Italian cooking is simple but clever flavour combinations, and the joy is that these dishes are as accessible as they are moreish. After your morning spent at the stove fashioning up an Italian feast, you will adjourn to our bright dining room to do what Italians do best: eat, drink and be merry! Buon Appetito!

A wonderful way to spend five days in the summer is to do our one week cookery course. We expect you to have high expectations and we expect to meet them. Previous participants have commented on how relaxing it is being in our great premises with like-minded people, totally focused on cooking and switched off from the rest of the world. It is a course where those with more experience can feel challenged and those with less can feel their confidence soar. You will be exposed to great new recipes every day and will have each step clearly demonstrated to you. You will then work in our hands-on kitchen area to recreate the dishes with expert guidance at hand. You will improve your knife skills, develop confidence to taste and adjust flavours and cook a wonderful range of dishes. A relaxed lunch in our dining room each day provides the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of your labour. A perfect break that will leave you inspired to entertain your friends and family effortlessly.

Middle Eastern cuisine is full of colour and gutsy flavours. Spices bring depth to dishes, lentils and pulses bring versatility and there are lively salads, flatbreads and dips to give you great new ideas for healthy fast food. Their use of vegetables is inspiring. There is so much to discover about Middle Eastern cooking: join us on this one day course and we will set you on that road of discovery. We will give you lots of personal guidance during your hands-on cooking and we'll make sure you leave well fed too!

This one day course is designed to cover classic baking and pastry techniques.  Build your skills with genoise, meringues, tray bakes, biscuits and bread making, as well as a celebration cake and cake decorating.  This will give you an opportunity to fine-tune your existing skills, as well as learning something new recipes and techniques. 

We have extended this popular one day course to a fufilling five days so you can be fully exposed to the expansive repertoire of recipes that we have amassed for Cafe Cooking.  Satisfying soups, inventive salads, earthy pates, nourishing tagines, savoury tarts, breads and traditional baking – this course is about fresh, tasty food, much of which can be prepared in advance. Whether you’ve always wanted to run your own café or simply yearn for the skills to whip up satisfying food for friends and family, this is the course for you.

This is an intensive full-time cookery course for those wanting to take their cooking to an entirely new level. To date, the course has attracted a wide range of people, from those who love food but have little prior experience in the kitchen through to keen cooks.

The experience and professionalism of the DCS team, the breadth of techniques covered on the course together with the stunning cooking facilities - are all features of Dublin Cookery School's one month course that set it clearly apart.

If you are interested in this course, we would encourage you to come and visit the school to see how we could match your needs.  Phone us on (01) 210 0555 to arrange an appointment.

For anyone with an interest in spices, this one day course is a must. The essence of good Indian cooking revolves around the use of spices, not only combining them but drawing out several flavours from a single spice – by roasting, grinding or frying.  This course will show you how to use them in different ways, drawing on recipes from different parts of India.  After a short demonstration we will guide you through each step, before moving into the hands-on area, to ensure you can recreate these dishes at home.  As with all our one day courses, a wonderful lunch and a couple of glasses of wine round off your day.

This is an intensive full-time cookery course for those wanting to take their cooking to an entirely new level. To date, the course has attracted a wide range of people, from those who love food but have little prior experience in the kitchen through to keen cooks.

The experience and professionalism of the DCS team, the breadth of techniques covered on the course together with the stunning cooking facilities - are all features of Dublin Cookery School's one month course that set it clearly apart.

If you are interested in this course, we would encourage you to come and visit the school to see how we could match your needs.  Phone us on (01) 210 0555 to arrange an appointment.