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Cooking for All - Cookery Classes & Experiences in the heart of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Harts Barn Cookery School is all about cooking for all – all ages and skill levels are catered for, and we teach everything from banquets to basics!
We provide a huge range of regular cookery and baking classes, workshops, supper clubs and events plus we welcome group bookings, parties, corporate and private hire. All our cookery classes offer a hands-on element and focus on gaining practical skills and knowledge as well as being enjoyable! For our up-to-date class list please see here.
We view cooking as an essential life skill. Our ethos of ‘cooking for all’ means that we offer cookery classes that are accessible, practical, affordable, give confidence and are lots of fun. We believe in the ‘socialisation’ of food, bringing people together whether they are learning a new skill in the kitchen or sitting down and enjoying the soiree! As well as cookery classes we run regular events, pop up restaurants, a Hire-A-Chef service, and provide parties, corporate packages, chef demos and have a wonderful earth oven, fire pit and large courtyard area for outdoor cooking experiences.
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Testimonials
Ready Steady Cook
We went here for my sister’s hen party to do Ready Steady Cook and I cannot think of one way that our experience could be improved. It was brilliant. Our chefs were fantastic, helpful, approachable and funny and the experience was made seamless through the help from the assistants. The environment was beautiful - it was summer so we are outdoors with a beautiful view. The choice of food was great and we were also able to choose fresh vegetables from the garden. We all had a fantastic, memorable time and would highly recommend. A big thank you to all the staff that day.
CH
Family Party
We had an amazing response during planning of family party with three different
Dietary requirements. The foods were delivered at agreed time and information given for heating meals etc. The quality of food was excellent and plentiful and really enjoyed by family snd guests. Definitely good value for money.
DQ
Italian Cookery Hen Party
We had a fantastic afternoon with Yvette for my friend's hen do, with a wonderful Italian cooking class. We made focaccia and tagliatelle and were lucky enough to be able to enjoy the fruits of our labours on site (alongside some delicious rocket pesto)!
Yvette was such a friendly host, and her communication before the class was perfect as well - thank you for a brilliant day!
MC
Thai Cookery
Good morning cooking Thai food. Relaxed and fun. And tasted good. Nice environment in Forest of Dean. Popular!! Good facilities.
JS
Greek Cooking
Fabulous morning of Greek cooking! Chef Joe was excellent! Relaxed, fun and delicious..100% recommend
FI
Vegan Indian Cookery
Today I enjoyed a lovely morning learning about and making, vegan Indian food at the cookery school.
I then had a delicious cheese scone, with cream cheese and chilli jam in the cafe. A lovely start to my weekend, thank you.
CW
Afternoon Class
I had a most excellent afternoon at Harts Barn making Afternoon Tea!
Life is awesome. Chef was awesome, and I'd highly recommend this for a couples afternoon out.
Another smashing evening, Chef did a phenomenal job! (Aug 24')
MS
Children's parties
Thankyou so much for hosting my daughters birthday party! Andy was so fab! Great with kids and juggled everything so well!
Thankyou Thankyou xx
JN
Children's parties
Thank you so much for my daughter’s amazing cookery party. Everyone had so much fun and it was great to see the children enjoy eating their homemade pizza and popcorn at the end! So relaxed and enjoyable for all! Can’t recommend enough. Thank you
Helen
Hen Nights
Had a great time on my hen do learning to make cheese.... my all time passion thank you!”
CS
Hen Parties
When planning the hen party I had no idea what to do, then the bride said one she had been to before of a cooking thing, with a little investigation I found the lovely Harts Barn Cookery School. Got in touch via email, gave all my concerns since I have a bride intolerant to most things going so wasn’t sure if it could be incorporated. Turns out you can still do a bake off style night free from most things and it’s sill tasty!
I got there on the night quickly Slytherin and the team were really happy to help with all the little quirks I wanted to add and even helped with the bingo game.
Thank you so much everyone you really made the magic happen! Can not recommend highly enough!
TH
Supper Clubs
Hart’s Barn Cookery School and Apple Barn is a stunning and unique venue, set in the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside. I have enjoyed a number of supper clubs, including Carribean and Greek which were amazing, plus several delicious corporate buffets and my daughter also had a brilliant “Sushi-making” birthday party. Always a warm welcome from the school’s principal, Yvette, and her team. Highly recommended
RS
Supper Clubs
“Great locally produced and freshly prepared food with locally produced drink and fabulous company. What's not to love?”
LP
Supper Clubs
Another fantastic meal from Hart's Barn, we have gone from a truly sublime Persian takeaway two weeks ago to a tantalistic authentic Greek. Restaurant quality food to enjoy in your own surroundings. Our only regret is we didn't find you sooner!
SLB
Hire a Chef
Harts Barn Cookery School recently catered for an event I attended and the canapes were delicious! I believe that there were items for all dietary requirements, but I couldn't tell which was which as they were all incredibly tasty. A range of sweet and savoury items, and they disappeared very quickly! Thanks Yvette, looking forward to my next taste of Harts Barn!
EM
Hire a Chef
I recently stayed in a lovely house for a short break and the owner recommended Harts Barn as we wanted a private chef for the night. Yvette and her colleague (sorry I don’t know her name) were punctual and friendly and the food they provided was beautiful. The whole service from the initial email to the clearing up of the plates was faultless. Thank you
JS
Classes
A brilliant morning on the Fish & Shellfish course yesterday. Learned so much with a great bunch of people (thanks Janet and Bev), food was amazing and Yvette took the scary away from cooking with fish. Can't wait for another course
AH
Classes
We attended the Family cookery session today and we cant thank Andy and his colleagues enough for a fantastic day. We learnt lots of new culinary delights and then got to sit down as a family to share and enjoy.
Andy was very informative, great with the kids and nothing to much trouble. We are already looking into our next class to attend, thankyou!
Knight-Tingle family
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