Truist Culinary & Hospitality Innovation Center (CHI) 556 Perry Avenue, Greenville, SC 29611

"I attended my first and last "culinary" class last night titled "Plant Powered Cooking". As this venue is a "Culinary Innovation Center" I guess I expected more, much, much more... The chef last night was the head chef of the school but made one error and and misstep after another - his "class" was so elementary that I had a lot of trouble not walking out or falling asleep. Any goofball can cut up cauliflower and roast it, or use off the shelf spice mixtures, or dump ketchup, hot sauce and butter into a bowl to make a dipping sauce. But when he used direct from the store Swiss Chard and failed to wash it (chard is known to contain lots of sand), or when he fried cornstarch dusted tofu cubes without knowing they would glue themselves together, or when he served what he claimed was basmati rice that was clearly just long grain white rice, or when he tried to use a round bottom wok on an induction cook top, or when he served a chickpea dish that was so dull and one-note (after he tasted it 3-4 times), I saw thru the ruse. Kids, this ain't no Culinary Innovation Center... For the price, it's not even an entertaining cooking demonstration. If you know how to prepare the food you eat, you can likely cook circles around this "chef"... That said, his knife skills are above average and he likes to show them off. Too bad he has yet to learn how to make edible food, let alone teach others how to do it..."

"The Culinary School has been a wonderful learning experience."

"Best chef, great class and atmosphere. Perfect setting."