Modern Australian Cooking Class and Market Tour

Head on a Melbourne market tour and afterwards, cook a modern Australian meal!


Tonya

Tonya


 
The Traveling Spoon AU
The Traveling Spoon AU
6k
20k

6 hours Class size 2 to 10 guests

$231 - $271 (Afterpay available)
($271 per guest when you book for 2+ guests, $231/guest for 5+ guests)

Melbourne
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Food and Drink
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Cooking
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Team Building Cooking Classes
Join Tonya on this unique modern Australian cooking class and market tour experience in Melbourne! Set in the beautiful waterfront views of St Kilda, this class is sure to be the ultimate gift for all food lovers.
You'll first meet Tonya at her apartment for a quick refreshment. She will then drive you to the local South Melbourne market, 10 minutes away. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to experience one of the biggest local markets close to the city.
On this tour, you will have the opportunity to peruse and buy from the wide variety of wonderful local fish, meat, poultry, vegetable, dairy, cheese and chocolate purveyors. After you buy a few ingredients needed for your class, Tonya will drive you back to her apartment so that you can join her in the kitchen to prepare your modern Australian meal.
During your hands-on Melbourne cooking class, learn to make three modern Australian dishes that you will enjoy together, with wine. Tonya starts this three-hour cooking lesson by giving you an overview of the menu that you will be preparing, and providing helpful tips for the preparation and cooking process.
A few dishes that you might prepare are oysters and verjus jelly with a shallot dressing, green peppercorn and chive jus, slow-roasted ocean trout with creamy, lemony mayonnaise and native finger limes, or hazelnut torte with blueberries.
At the end of the class, you'll also get to enjoy the delicious food you've made, with a glass of wine, and a pavlova or chocolate fondant dessert too! Return home with full bellies, as well as leaving with a folder of all the recipes and tips that you learned so you can easily recreate the meal at home!
Note: Tonya can offer vegetarian, low-carb and gluten-free meals on request. A glass of Australian wine is included in your experience cost.

Knowledge required
Perfect for all beginners!
 
What you'll get
  • Refreshment on arrival.
  • Your cooked meal to enjoy together with a glass of Australian wine.
  • Folder of recipes and tips to take home.
  • Tea or coffee will be available upon request.
What to bring
Wear enclosed shoes and tie long hair back.
 
Suitable for

This class is great for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party or hens party.

This experience would also be a fun gift for her, gift for mum or gift for couples.

Location

St Kilda, VIC

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Modern Australian Cooking Class and Market Tour location
Your teacher

Tonya

Tonya


Tonya’s passion for food and cooking is evident from her training as a chef in Melbourne and at prestigious international cooking schools including Le Cordon Bleu and the Ritz Escoffier in Paris and La Varenne l’Ecole de Cuisine in Burgundy. She has an extensive personal culinary library of over 3,000 cookbooks and books related to food! Tonya loves teaching cooking and enthusiastically shares her knowledge of food through her cooking classes conducted in her home. She enjoys talking about Australia's food, culture, history and way of life and is thrilled to be able to share this with travelers from around the world.




Your host

The Traveling Spoon AU
The Traveling Spoon AU

6k
20k

Traveling Spoon was founded by Aashi Vel and Steph Lawrence who met at the Haas School of Business in 2011 around their joint passion of food. They shared a dream of helping people connect with authentic food experiences while traveling and founded Traveling Spoon to build a community of fellow food and travel lovers seeking meaningful experiences around the world.
In 2007, Steph traveled to China for the first time. After two and half weeks in the country, she was struck by how little she had connected with the local food and culture. Spending weeks traveling by tour bus from silk factory to hotel banquet hall where she ate with other tourists, she realised she didn't connect with the local culture at all. She decided to move to China in 2009 to learn the language and explore the culture through its food - she wanted to learn to make dumplings from a Chinese grandmother. But when she moved there, she found there was nothing out there to help her find the experiences she sought.
In 2011, Aashi traveled to Mexico, and had a similar problem discovering the local food and culture. She scoured review websites trying to find the most authentic food and the least touristy restaurants she could. On her way to another overly-crowded tourist spot, she saw through a window a woman in her kitchen, making dinner. That was where she wanted to be eating dinner, sharing a homemade meal with this local Mexican woman, hearing her stories and learning about her culture.
When Aashi and Steph met at business school in 2011, these experiences had never left them. Both of them believed in the power of travel to make the world a smaller, better place, and wanted to help travellers experience authentic, meaningful, and delicious travel experiences around the world. They started working on Traveling Spoon in all their MBA classes, launched the company after graduating in 2013, and haven't looked back since.

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