Night.SchoolTake a stationStation
A single steel chef's knife on a black surface, edge catching the light
18:40
doors at seven · burners at five past

Knives, heat, 7pm.

Twelve stations. Three hours. One knife each. No recipes.A cooking school that runs at night because that's when you cook. You get a burner, a board, a blade, and a chef walking the room who'll show you once and then watch.

Take a station
01 · Heat

The burner, read by ear.

20°C
pan temperature · you'll learn to hear it
Sweat · 90°Onions go quiet
Fry · 160°A steady hiss
Sear · 220°A crackle, then smoke
DeglazeWine in, everything shouts
20° · Cold panNothing happens. Most people put the oil in now. Don't. Heat the pan first, then the oil, then listen.
Flames leaping from a steel pan on a dark restaurant range
02 · The room

Twelve stations. One chef.

12

stations, steel benches, one burner and one board each.

3

hours. Seven to ten. You eat what you made at the end, standing up.

1

knife per person, sharpened that afternoon. You'll be shown how to hold it. Once.

0

recipes handed out. You watch, you do, you remember. Or you don't, and you come back.

A gas ring burning blue in the dark

You'll go home with a burn.

A small one, on the inside of the wrist, from the edge of the pan. Everyone gets one in the first month. It's how you learn where the pan is without looking.

Classes

Three nights. Same room.

Each class runs weekly. Take them in order, or don't. Knife night is the one everyone should do first, and most people do it last.

Monday · 19:00–22:00Knife nightOnions, carrots, herbs, a chicken, your hands

Three hours with a blade. By the end you'll break down a bird without thinking and you'll never buy pre-cut anything again.

£68
Wednesday · 19:00–22:00Heat nightPans, oil, the sound of a sear, what smoke means

Learning the burner by ear. Nobody uses a thermometer after this. Nobody uses a non-stick pan either.

£68
Friday · 19:00–23:00The whole thingThree courses, twelve people, one service

You cook a full dinner as a kitchen. Somebody calls the pass. It's you, for ten minutes, and it's terrifying.

£92 · dinner included, obviously
What to bring

Bring almost nothing.

We have the knives, the pans, the aprons, the burns. Here's what's on you.

Three steel kitchen knives lined up on a pale surface
01
Closed shoesKnives fall. Oil spits. Sandals are turned away at the door, kindly, every week.
02
Sleeves you can rollOr don't wear. The room is hot by half seven. It's called heat night for a reason.
03
An appetite at tenYou eat what you made, at the bench, with whoever's next to you. That's the class.
04
No notebookWrite it down and you'll trust the paper. Do it three times and you'll trust your hands.
05
Nothing sharpYour own knife stays at home. Ours are sharpened that afternoon. Yours isn't.
Stations

Take a station.

Pick a night. Twelve stations, first come. If your night's full we'll put you on the next one and tell you what to practise in the meantime, which is onions.

Take a station