Gaynor’s School of Cooking 309 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

"The Beginners Bread Making Class was so much fun and taught me a lifetime skill. Our instructor was very professional and it was amazing what was learned. Looking forward to filling my home with the smell of fresh baked homemade bread."

"Absolutely amazing team building experience! Jessica and Rob were extraordinary teachers and support! My team and I learned so many helpful tricks to make our cooking experiences easier and more enjoyable! The food was absolute perfection and the time spent well exceeded our expectations! We had sooo much fun and can’t wait to come back to Pittsburgh to do it again! Thank you soo much for over-delivering and making our team building exercise one we will never forget! Everyone should try this class - at-least once!"

"Hands down the best team building activity for anyone in or near Pittsburgh! Anthony was an encouraging and enabling teach (regardless of skill)."

"Josh our lead chef was terrific, he made the class fun and interesting at the same time. Dan our asst chef, also a wonderful asset to our class. Will take an other class soon"

"When I registered for their beginners bread making class, I was expecting to create mouthwatering loaves of French Bread, Bagels, Challah, pita, Focaccia and much more.. because that’s exactly what their website says about this class scheduled for 4 hours. My boyfriend and I both registered for it and at $95*2 were looking to actually learn a bunch about breadmaking. Not only was this experience a disappointment, but at the end, we felt quite cheated. This ‘class’ is very poorly designed. When we walked in, the list of 9 types of bread that we are going to learn (also on their website) was up on a whiteboard. We were then assigned to one of 2 cooking stations with 5 members each and told that each station can pick the bread that they would like to focus on. Our instructor informed us that she had already mixed the dough for 3 of the bread types because they “require more time to rise”, so that left 10 of us picking from 6 options. Naturally, the folks that came alone (or picked first) got to work on a type of bread solo by themselves while my boyfriend and I had to both work on the same focaccia bread since we were ‘together’. Now this wasn’t one of their “date-night” classes and we each paid full price for an individual seat so I think it’s really unfair to have us share one type of bread only because we’re together. So when my boyfriend mixed the ingredients, I just watched him and while I rolled it out, he just watched me.. while some people got to do the entire start-to finish-process themselves! Anyway, we only really both learned (or made) the focaccia that we were assigned to. The way it works is, everyone’s given printed recipes to follow and the instructor is available for questions and guidance. Most times though the instructor would take your dough or bowl from you and do it for you themselves when you have a question. She was friendly and sweet but kept hurrying the class along .. “Don’t you all wanna get to eating the bread and the wine??”. No. I didn’t pay $190 to sit around, drink wine and eat cheese. I paid that money to learn how to make 9 types of bread. Our class concluded at around 8.15pm and for the next 45 minutes we ate the bread that everyone had baked (everything, including the pre-mixed ones came out exceedingly well, of course) and drank the wine that they put out for us. One more issue was that instructor didn’t really care much for the recipe and pulled the breads in and out of the ovens based on her instinct (and experience I’m sure). Our foccacia, for instance was taken out of the oven 15 minutes before what the recipe called for, to make place for someone else’s challah, but it came out well regardless. So I’m left wondering if those recipes are really accurate and if can recreate even that one focaccia from that recipe at home?! Anyway, everyone was done with the eating, drinking and out of the door by 9pm. The instructors had even completely cleaned and wound up the space by then with a whole hour to spare. Net-net - This was just an expensive way to eat different types of bread and drink wine, and NOT a cooking class. I learn more watching The Great British Bake-off than I did at this class, and for free too."