Sur La Table

"REVIEW OF MASTERING MEDITERRANEAN CLASS, MIAMI SUR LA TABLE Review Title: Fantastic Class with Chefs Erick, Paolo, and Dagny The Mastering Mediterranean class I took in January 2024 at the Miami Sur la Table was absolutely fantastic on all counts and far exceeded my expectations. The whole team of teacher chefs – Chef Erick (who expertly taught this class), Chef Paolo (who assisted this time around and made sure we students were well taken care of) and Chef Dagny (head chef who worked behind the scenes in the kitchen for this class) were all knowledgeable and extremely hard-working for the entire 2 ½ hours we were in class. In addition to taking us meticulously through each step of the recipes, Erick explained basic kitchen skills (I thought I knew the proper way to hold a knife – I was wrong) and answered all of our questions (I had tried every way I knew of to skin garlic cloves, each of which never efficiently worked, and learned in this class the best way to do it in one fell swoop); he remained lively and attentive throughout the entire class. Every minute of this class was fun and informative. The other plusses: each of the ingredients had been prepared in advance and were ready for our mixing and spreading, all of the recipes were emailed to us in advance along with our reminder about class instructions, our work stations were beautifully prepared, all of the students in this class (we were 9 in total) were really nice – there seems to be a self-selected group of down-to-earth, affable people who take these classes – everything was cleaned up for the students both during prep and after class, nobody was hectic or stressed – the atmosphere was both serious-cooking and fun – and at the end we all ate our lovely Mediterranean meal around a big table together. After many years living in Miami, I had gotten used to companies and services promising the moon and delivering nothing; the chefs at Sur la Table provided a beautiful surprise: top-notch quality in the company of nice people. I’ll be taking more classes!"

"I went to the store looking for an specific item and was welcome by Daviana (if I’m not mistaken). She was so nice and sweet throughout all my shopping experience. I’ll definitely come back to Sur La Table ✨"

"I booked this experience for my husband, and 4 of our friends to celebrate his birthday. We were a group of 6. Two of us in the group had done the Sur La Table cooking class before and had a blast so we knew it would be a good time, however, this time we were wrong. This class was a terrible, terrible experience. We felt like we were in school being yelled at the entire time. The instructor/chef was not friendly at all, she made us feel stupid for making mistakes throughout the class. The last 2 times I did this, our chef was super engaging, funny and patient when teaching us. I'm also pregnant and having to stand up to eat our meal at the end after standing up the entire time while cooking it was unbelievable. Not to mention, the chicken pad thai was some of the worst we've had. We all left the class feeling pretty disappointed and I expressed my thoughts to one of the employees on the way out who had helped us with our purchase. I would not recommend this again."

"Cooking classes are the best. If you imagine doing pasta like a pro, cooking Thai, date night in France, or just bake some macarons. This is the place."