Gordon Ramsay Academy Cookery School, achieves highest awarded for quality teaching and facilities, by leading industry body ‘ICSA’
The Gordon Ramsay Academy, located in Woking Surrey, has been awarded a prestigious accreditation for their exceptional teaching standards and facilities, from leading regulatory body, the Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA).
The Gordon Ramsay Academy cookery school brings the passion of Multi-Michelin Starred Chef and TV Personality Gordon Ramsay to life, offering guests of all ages and skill levels the opportunity to enjoy fun, relaxed, and informative cooking classes.
The Academy features multiple kitchens and a spacious demonstration room upstairs, ensuring a hands-on experience in every class. Their extensive supplier network provides produce for their wide range of cooking classes and experiences for individuals of all levels of expertise.
The Academy provides a hands-on, immersive learning environment for its leisure and skills-based students. Each class is expertly overseen by Head Chef Tutor Andrew Roberts and his team, capturing the essence and inspirations of Gordon and his world famous restaurants. The classes showcase the artisan suppliers, offering in depth industry insights, and knowledge gleamed from workings within Michelin starred kitchens.
ICSA accredited cookery schools undergo rigorous assessments to ensure consistent delivery of excellence in cookery skills and training alongside equipment levels and facilities, as well as other criteria such as adhering to strict standards of environmental sustainability and continued support for British farmers, suppliers and seasonal produce.
Accreditation from a recognised industry body such as ICSA is also vital for aspiring chefs to be able to choose their cookery school to further their professional careers within the hospitality industry and other related culinary professions. Aspiring domestic chefs can also gain new transferrable skills to improve their culinary knowledge and applications in their home kitchens including knife skills, world food courses and nutritional understandings for both young and old.
James Day, Director of Operations at ICSA, said: “The quality of cookery classes at The Gordon Ramsay Academy are second-to-none. The state-of-the-art cookery school, located above the busy Woking High Street, has been expertly designed to deliver a range of intimate, fully immersive, professional cookery experiences. The in-depth knowledge of Head Chef Tutor Andrew Roberts and his respect for ingredients, alongside the support of the in-house team, delivers a unique cookery experience.
“During their rigorous 4 hour assessment, I was personally impressed by Andrew’s knowledge, relaxed informed style and approach to teaching, underpinned by clear passion and enthusiasm for fresh seasonal produce, and attention to detail. Their teaching style is passionate, informative, with a clear focus on depth of flavour, as one would expect within such a high-level kitchen environment overseen by the Ramsay Group. Chef Tutor Andrew displayed a clear depth of knowledge and passion for the industry and keen transferring of extensive skills to students. Delivering a unique, memorable and inspiring learning experience for students of all levels.
“Teaching standards are key to an ICSA accredited cookery school. High levels of teaching provided by the Chef Tutors and their team are essential. Chef Andrew and the team were extremely approachable, knowledgeable and able to blend professional teaching with a relaxed atmosphere. The feedback from the students was very positive, many sharing the transferable skills they had learned and had clearly enjoyed their day, as did I. We are delighted to award the team our coveted ICSA Centre of Excellence Award”
Gordon Ramsay said, “I’m delighted for the incredible team to be recognised by the ICSA for all their hard work and amazing teaching skills. When we opened the Gordon Ramsay Academy 3 years ago, to be recognised for the high standards of our classes and facilities was truly the goal.” On receiving the award, Andrew Roberts {pictured below with Assessor James Day} commented “We, at Gordon Ramsay Academy, are honoured to receive this prestigious accreditation as a ‘Centre of Excellence’, joining some of the greatest and most respected accredited cookery schools in the UK.”
More information visit their ICSA ‘Centre of Excellence’ listing here
Head Chef Tutor Andrew Roberts achieved the ICSA ‘Centre of Excellence’ award, assessed during the popular Gordon Ramsay Beef Wellington Masterclass Course. Pictured with ICSA assessor James Day and students.
