The Cooking Cottage in downtown Memphis is a private cooking school running themed Southern, knife-skills and date-night classes for 12 people in a converted house kitchen.
Tip: Book groups in advance; private parties take the whole kitchen for the night.
Address: 535 W Tennessee St, Memphis, TN 38103
Viking Cooking School in East Memphis on Quince Road runs a full schedule of hands-on classes in the Viking demo kitchen, with BBQ, knife skills and Southern weeknight cooking.
Tip: BBQ classes fill three months ahead. Knife skills is the steady booking; wine pairing nights too.
Williams-Sonoma Saddle Creek in Germantown runs free in-store technique sessions on Saturday mornings, alongside paid hands-on Italian, BBQ and baking classes throughout the year.
Tip: Saturday 10:00 in-store sessions are free with no reservation. Paid classes book online.
Loflin Yard in downtown Memphis runs quarterly Memphis BBQ classes on the South Main beer garden patio, covering dry rub, smoker timing and pulled pork techniques.
Tip: Classes run April through October. Includes a pulled pork dinner and three beers.
Cxffeeblack in East Memphis runs coffee tasting and brewing classes from the roastery on Bowen Avenue, covering Ethiopia origins, pour-over technique and cupping.
Tip: Pre-book on the site; classes run monthly at the roastery. Includes coffee to take home.
Sur La Table's Laurelwood Memphis cooking school runs hands-on classes from Asian pan stir-fries to pasta-making and knife-skills nights in a teaching kitchen on Perkins Extended.
Tip: Buy ahead online; weekend dates fill first. Date-night class is the easy first booking.
