Bringing the World Together,
One Meal at a Time.
Since 2016, our team has been on a mission to bring wonderful experiences into your own kitchen. As the founders of cooking together online, our experiences are curated like no other. With a vision to connect the world through cooking, our classes are built to reinvent the concept of in-home entertainment.
Our expert chefs, hailing from countries around the world, teach only dishes native to their region. We get you to the source of authentic dishes in a culinary and cultural experience that brings you virtually to the chef's country. We're proud to see so many respected media around the world agree.
Prevention Magazine
6 Fresh Date Night Ideas For Couples Who Have Already Done Everything Together
If both of you are foodies and you’ve been to all the best restaurants in town more times than you’d like to admit, why not try your hand at haute cuisine in your own kitchen? Hire a chef to come cook beside you, or, if that's not possible, use The Chef & The Dish service to Skype in a chef from anywhere in the world. “Hang up the keys, open a bottle of wine, get into the kitchen, and Skype a chef from Italy, Spain, Japan, Hungary, or elsewhere," says CEO Jenn Nicken. "After a few hours 'together,' say goodbye to your personal chef and enjoy an awesome meal you cooked.”
CNET
The best Valentine's Day food gifts for guys in 2022
Global cuisine is represented by chefs from the actual places the dishes originate, such as Brazilian steak, Hungarian goulash or sushi from Japan. Some solo classes are as inexpensive as $149, but most start at around $299 for two people, plus ingredients.
CBS
These 12 virtual gifts make easy last minute presents
Gift them a virtual cooking class with a The Chef & the Dish gift card. Choose from a variety of dollar amounts, starting at $100.
Esquire Magazine
46 Best Gift Experiences For People With Adventure on the Mind
Knowing how to make handmade pasta means that you can have handmade pasta at any time, no travel expenses needed. The Chef & The Dish offers a ton of cooking classes (pasta and beyond) where you can get private or group cooking classes in a whole range of cuisines.
Forbes
10 Thoughtful Sweetest Day Gifts That Beat a Box of Candy
Choose your 2 1/2-hour class—Vietnamese shrimp dumplings and pho, Italian pesto and focaccia, Turkish bourekas and baklava, and many others—roll up your sleeves, clink wine glasses and get cooking. Your teacher joins you via video call, guiding you as you chop and sizzle your way to a romantic dinner.
Forbes
11 Ingenious Presents for Travelers
You’ve heard of armchair travelers, but how about kitchen counter travelers? The Chef & the Dish pairs home cooks with professional chefs in locations from Turkey to Thailand, Italy to New Orleans, for private, two-hour, kitchen-to-kitchen cooking lessons by Skype.
Country Living
The Virtual Cooking Classes That'll Get You Excited to Make Dinner Tonight
If you can use Skype, you can cook "next" to a pro chef thanks to The Chef & The Dish. While the site offers virtual cooking classes for everything from Thai cuisine to at-home date nights, there's one offering that's perfect for right now: What's In Your Fridge?
Yahoo! Life
The 17 Best Experience-Based Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything
If you hire a personal chef for someone, you feed them for a day. But if you gift them a cooking class, you help them become a chef. The Chef & The Dish offers more than 100 private classes via Skype with chefs around the world.
The Knot
19 Gifts for Husbands Who Don't Want Anything (So they Say)
With more than 125 cooking classes on offer, there's something to please all kinds of palates. Grab a gift card and let your sweetie select the class he wants to try.
Fatherly
The Best Last Minute Gift Ideas for Dads
Truly one of the most dope culinary experiences we've found. If he wants to learn how to make kebabs, chef Asli Mutlu will video call into your home, live from her kitchen in Turkey.
Pure Wow
These 40 Virtual Gifts are So Good, Nobody Will Suspect You Bought Them Last Minute
The virtual private lessons are taught by pros and cover single dishes like pho, paella and fresh pasta. Since it’s a lot like the digital equivalent of a couple’s cooking class, it’s great for gifting (and they do offer gift cards).
Food & Wine
These Online Culinary Schools Are Here to Make You a Better Quarantine Cook
By joining classes in their own kitchens and using their own equipment, students gain a deeper familiarity with what it actually feels like to cook well at home.
CHCH Morning Live
Skype a Chef Into Your Kitchen
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YourTango
31 Best First Anniversary Wedding Gifts of All-Time
A cooking class with The Chef & The Dish lets you video conference a chef based in Italy, Thailand, Japan, Spain, Turkey, New Orleans, and more places, into your home for a private cooking experience. Together, you and your chef whip up a meal authentic to that region.
Toronto Sun
The Chef & The Dish virtually brings a cooking class to you
Enter The Chef & The Dish, a globally unique company that helps people find the perfect chef from across the world for a private one-on-one cooking and cultural experience via a video conference in the comfort of the kitchen. So you can learn how to make Pad Thai with a chef watching you and cooking with you in Thailand, while you watch the ocean behind her as you make an epic meal and share stories together.
National Post
Skype Your Way to Culinary Genius
Imagine if you could take a culinary expedition across the globe, prepping a classic pomodoro in Italy one night, teriyaki donburi with daikon salad and miso vegetables in Japan the next. Thanks to Jenn Nicken, founder of The Chef and the Dish, you can. Best of all, you never have to leave your own kitchen. Or wear pants.
Fast Company
How a Former Apple Executive is Streaming International Chefs Into Your Kitchen
It might seem odd that a company that offers virtual cooking classes with chefs from around the world who whip up exotic, local dishes has its roots in Buffalo wings, but that’s where the story began for Jenn Nicken, the founder of The Chef & The Dish.
NY Magazine
Best Virtual Gifts for Father's Day
The Chef & the Dish’s one-on-one virtual cooking classes allow your dad to go on a culinary adventure from the comfort of his own kitchen.
Fox News
10 Christmas Gift Ideas for Grandparents
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Men's Health
The 30 Best Hot Sauce Gifts for the Heat Seeker in Your Life
This takes the whole hot sauce gift idea up a notch. With more than 125 cooking classes on offer, there's something to please all kinds of palates. Grab a gift card and let your sweetie select the class he wants to try.
Vanity Fair
20 Perfect Mother’s Day Gifts for Sons to Give Their Moms
For moms who love to cook, cooking classes from The Chef & The Dish are an experience she'll never forget. First, she'll select her favorite cuisine and then she'll be paired with a private chef via Skype. To make this gift extra special, you should take the class with her, and being on dish duty wouldn't hurt either.