Chef Liam Tomlin.
Liam Tomlin is opening the Chef’s Warehouse in April. This will be a new cookery school, located in downtown Cape Town, on New Church Street, which is at the top of Bree Street.
The cheffing scene in Cape Town is abuzz with this news because this cookery school is bound to make a splash. Why? because Liam is no ordinary chef.
Dublin born and having cooked his way through some of the finest restaurants in Europe, he ended up in Sydney where he ran Banc, which became one of Australia’s top restaurants.
Luckily, Liam has chosen Cape Town as his base to operate a new type of cookery school. It’s aimed at foodies, people who just want to learn more and professional chefs.
Liam is promising to bring over 200 cookery demonstrations and classes to Capetonians in the next year.
There are guest chef demos at R575. Get to ogle, awe and drool over your favourite chef. These sessions are where you get to see the chef cooking and then eat the results with your classmates while sipping some wine.
Guest chefs include; Laurent Deslandes of Bizerca, Neil Jewell of Bread and Wine, Reuben Riffel of Reuben’s, Margot Janse of Le Quartier Francais and Peter Goffe-Wood of Wild Woods, the list goes on and on.
No chef worth their salt has failed to sign up to host one of these sessions.
Knead the Bread is a bread making course presented by Tim Faull of Knead Bakery fame. It’s in six parts.
World Wines will allow you to sip, slurp and gurgle your way around the world helped by Caroline Rillema. Caroline has been in the wine business and owns a number of wine retail businesses in Cape Town.
The cookery school promises to deliver Richard Corrigan Unplugged. This is bound to rattle the rafters as Richard does not come any other way but unplugged.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
Liam Tomlin will lead a twenty part course called The Basic Techniques and Methods of Cookery. This course is a must for all aspiring chefs.
There will also be a retail section where the best of knives, pots and pans, chefs uniforms, books for cooks and foodie delights will be on sale. You can even purchase a special kitchen table made from wood, designed by Liam himself.
The venue will be used for shoots, product launches, book signings and special food and wine evenings.
There are specialist sessions coming up that are aimed at the professionals.
- Who’d Want to be a Chef?
- The Customer Isn’t Always Right.
and, The Cardinal Sins of a Restaurant.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall at all three of these sessions.
For more information e.mail info@chefswarehouse.co.za , or call 00 27 21 422 0128.
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