Top Australia Cooking Classes

Indulge your inner wine lover with this blending class at Urban Winery Sydney. Learn about the winemaking process during a tour of the facility while enjoying regional cheeses and charcuterie. Sample six regional wines, blend them into your favorite concoction, and have some fun with a blind tasting. Take home a complimentary bottle and stop by the cellar door for more tastings and to have your personalized blend bottled.

Enjoy a private and authentic cooking class in a local home with host Reem, a self-taught cook, who grew up in Lebanon and moved to Australia in 2017. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Reem will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional Lebanese dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your host's Melbourne home. • Cooking lesson in a local home • Introduction to Lebanon's culture and cuisine • 100% private activity • Experience Lebanese hospitality in a residential Melbourne neighborhood • Vegetarian and gluten free options available

Experience one of the largest local markets near Melbourne during a private cooking class taught by a professional chef. Take a guided tour of the market to peruse the fresh produce and select key ingredients, then go to your instructor’s home for a cooking lesson that covers three Australian dishes. Receive step-by-step instruction for each dish, then enjoy the meal accompanied by a glass of wine or beer.

Delve into Australia’s food heritage during a private half-day cooking class taught by a chef at her home in Melbourne. Make three dishes during this hands-on class, which includes cooking tips and a meal with your chef-instructor. You might make recipes with fresh oysters or trout, and top it off with dessert and a glass of wine. The menu can accommodate specific dietary needs with advance notice.

Your local host Ella offers a hands-on cooking experience, where you will get to cook along with her in her kitchen. Ella lives in a lovely art deco apartment with retro styling in inner Melbourne. Her kitchen is small, however the dining table is big and perfect for demonstrations and food prepping!  The cooking portion of the experience will last about 1.5 hours during which you will learn to make an appetizer, main dish and dessert. Ella loves to cook contemporary Australian meals with produce, herbs and spices sourced from aboriginal farms. An example of some of the dishes you might cook together are king prawns marinated in a salt bush and lemon myrtle spice mix topped with finger limes for a dash of citrus, peppered Kangaroo, and a fresh tomato salad with samphire. Your meal will conclude with beach bananas and lamingtons, a classic Australian chocolate dessert. Join this welcoming local for an unforgettable cultural and culinary experience!

Meet your local host Ally in her Diamond Creek kitchen where she will teach you to make two local dishes from scratch, using fresh ingredients and herbs from her garden. Before you start your hands-on cooking class, Ally will give you a small tour of her beautiful garden and show you all the fruits, vegetables and herbs she grows. After you pluck a few herbs together, you will cook along with Ally in her large, beautiful kitchen. The cooking portion of the experience will last for 1-2 hours and you will learn to make a salad and a main dish. Potential dishes you may prepare are freshly baked sour dough bread or focaccia served with an Australian dukkah and homemade goat cheese drizzled with lemon, followed by chicken which has been deboned and stuffed with wild rice, herbs, walnuts, currants and lemon zest and then roasted and served with homemade chutneys or chilli jamhoney.  Come join this welcoming host for a private and authentic culinary experience!

Escape from the city for a leisurely day of tasting estate grown wines and fine dining in the bucolic countryside of the Southern Highlands.

Indulge in a VIP day out with this 8-hour Hobart tour that combines wine and art. This 'posh-as' package includes round-trip ferry transport from the Brooke Street Pier, admission to Hobart's renowned Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), two courses at Mona's top notch restaurant with Moorilla wine pairings, a private vineyard tour of Moorilla, an intimate tasting with a winery ambassador, and a bottle of Muse to take home.

Head to the famous Queen Victoria Market and take a 2-hour barbecue class. This class is an introduction to the different types of BBQ, various cooking techniques, how to choose and prepare meats, and an overview of rubs and marinades. Sample some delicious meats and craft beers to end the tour and receive notes and information to help you on your BBQ journey.

Savor the tastes of Italy in the heartland of Victoria with this private winery tour and cooking demo. Join your private teacher at Pizzini Wines and learn how to make a range of Italian dishes without other students around to hog your teacher’s attention. Fill in the rest of your half-day experience with a tour of the winery, a barrel room tasting of several Australian-made Italian wines, and a lunch complete with the dishes you made beforehand.

Discover the on-site museum at Audrey Wilkinson Vineyard during a self-guided tour and learn the history of the vineyard and local area. Sit back and enjoy a master class on wine history, production, and tasting notes with an in-house wine expert. Pick up your gourmet picnic basket, and find a spot in the vineyards for lunch with views over the Hunter Valley.

Paddock to plate food at Green Olive at Red Hill … roll up your sleeves and joining the farmer in the paddock and the chef in the kitchen. You will tour the property learning about biological farming, olive oil and table olives, sustainable vineyard practices and why ‘terroir’ plays such an important role in producing great wines. Learn all about seasonal produce in the ‘kitchen’ garden, while touching, feeling, smelling and being a part of the food you will then cook. Then guided by our chef use your culinary skills to create a true “paddock to plate dish.” Once the hard work is done sit down and enjoy your food creation with a glass of Estate Grown Wine.

Guests will learn the art of blending wines and techniques the winemaker employs, as well as what they're looking for to achieve the perfect taste and texture profile.

During this unique experience of one hour, you will get to learn about how food and wine could be paired together and what styles of wines work with various types of food. You will get instructions and tips from our friendly staff and enjoy a nice menu of 4 lovely snacks and 3 different wines.

An interactive experience taking you through the art of winemaking before being unleashed to create your own master blend! After bottling your masterpiece, take a seat and enjoy a heightened discovery of our flagship wines thoughtfully complemented by cheeses selected by the chef.

When visiting the pristine environment of world famed Margaret River wine region in the South West of Western Australia, the sky is one of the drawcards. And relaxing sunset time is the best time of the day to wind down with your loved one or close friends. All one needs is a secluded setting with picture perfect balance of vineyards, nature conservation area, manicured lawns and dam filled with frogs and resident water bords. Passel Estate is the only winery in the renown Margaret River region opening its doors to an early evening relaxation, when one can learn about our nature conservation program and learn, and taste, our exquisite wines. These single vineyard wines are matched by exclusive created bonbons, only available for our use and our guests. This is luxury as not seen in Margaret River before.