Chef Eric's Culinary Classroom
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone: (310) 470-2640
- Cross Street:
- W Pico Boulevard
- Hours:
- Vary
Editorial Description for Chef Eric's Culinary Classroom
Private cooking school offers classes for amateurs at every level; also offers international cuisine courses, children's classes and sales seminars.
Insider Tips
Job TrainingThey assist in career guidance and job placement. Find work with former students' restaurants, bakeries and catering operations or start your own business.
The ExtrasTreat your children to a fun summer program where they can learn to whip up ingredients and prepare delicious food items. The summer children and teen cooking class programs include lessons, ingredients, kitchen tools and a logo apron and diploma.
User Reviews for Chef Eric's Culinary Classroom
08/18/2008 Posted by AmeenaDin
My mom and I were excited to enroll in Chef Eric's Cake Decorating Class. We paid our $100 each, arrived at 9am on a Saturday, and joined the 7 other students in our class. According to Chef Eric's class description, "Each student learns to Write Script and make Leaves, Simple Flowers, Bows and Shells." Nothing could be further from the truth. After a quick demo from Chef Eric we were basically told how to fill our pastry bags with fake frosting and then we were told to practice making flowers for 20 minutes. After that we were assigned partners, given a recipe for buttercream frosting, and were told to practice making frosting. It says nothing in Chef's Eric's class description about making frosting and yet, we spent 30 minutes mixingbutter and sugar, and after we were done we stood around for 30 minutes while Chef Eric prepared his classroom for his afternoon class. Finally, he showed us how to frost a cake and then told us to frost and decorate our cakes. Since we had to work in groups of two it was very difficult to share the tiny, flat cakes that Chef Eric had prepared for us to decorate. Why did we each pay $100 to SHARE a cake? Honestly, this was the biggest waste of time and money. Chef Eric is disorganized and inattentive. The afternoon after our class I sent him an e-mail stating how disappointed I was and I requested a partial credit. This was his response - "It is apparent from your email that the two of you are more advanced in the field of cake decorating. If you are looking for a strict decorating class, I suggest you search out a “Wilton” cake decorating class. In that environment, I believe you will do nothing but decorate. In closing, I only issue refunds when I have to cancel a class due to lack of enrollment." So there you have it - Chef Eric himself says that if you want to learn to decorate a cake instead of how to use a stand mixer, please find a class by Wilton instead of paying $100 at his Culinary Classroom.
Pros: His staff was friendly...
Cons: Everything else
06/26/2008 Posted by markhiroshi
Notice that the one positive Citysearch review was made by a user that has only reviewed ONE business - this one. I don't think that this place was so great that I'd make an account just to post a positic review, that's for sure.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
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