Cooking Class Restaurants in New Jersey

La Campagne Restaurant

• La Campagne Restaurant in Cherry Hill offers cooking classes in its cooking classroom. Limited to 20 students, the classes provide opportunities to both beginners and advanced participants in a wide variety of cuisine, from Italian regional and French cuisine techniques to seafood and New Jersey crab boils. If French classic cooking is what interests you most, sign up for the Coq au Vin class. Learn how to prepare risotto in the Italian Classics class or paella in the Spanish Cuisine class. You'll get to sample the foods being prepared during the class, plus take home the recipes. The cost in 2010 for the 2-hour cooking classes were listed at $45 per person.

  La Campagne Restaurant

  312 Kresson Road

  Cherry Hill, NJ 08034

  lacampagne.com

Chambers Walk

• Attend cooking classes on Monday nights from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Chambers Walk in Lawrenceville. Limited to 10 people at any proficiency level, the classes cost $40 per person, as of 2010 rates. Participants watch a cooking demonstration of an appetizer or salad, an entree and a dessert, receive a copy of the recipes and taste a portion of each item. You can even bring a bottle of wine to the class.

  Chambers Walk Cafe & Catering

  2667 Main St.

  Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

  609-896-5995

  chamberswalk.com

Ninety Acres

• The cooking classes at Ninety Acres in Peapack-Gladstone are taught in conjunction with the Viking Range Corporation. Expect to watch demonstrations or do your own hands-on preparations using world-class Viking appliances. Sign up for all-day classes or 3-hour day or evening classes, covering a myriad of topics from Girls Day Out cooking programs to Chicago Steakhouse meals. The French Culinary Basics course, including techniques for making souffles and crepes, is a 5-hour class from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at a cost of $125; plus, a 3-hour Pies & Tarts class is instructed for $85. All prices were listed as of 2010 class rates. Eager-to-learn students may participate in hands-on classes or large group lectures presented by visiting chefs and vintners.

  Ninety Acres

  2 Main St.

  Peapack-Gladstone, NJ 07977

  908-901-4714

  ninetyacres.com