Cooking Class - Cocina Mexicana

Scott was great !!!

Chef Scott was amazing! My fiance and I had an amazing night learning how to make pizza. Parking near our building is not easy and Scott found a spot with ease. The night was great and Scott also gave us his recommendations for restaurants in Chicago. We are looking forward to many more amazing pizzas to come! We are also now huge fans of Cozymeal and are considering which classes to take next.

What an amazing experience! Chef Scott taught us to prepare a wonderful pizza dinner. It was a pleasure to spend the evening cooking with chef Scott and the food was amazing! What a special experience! We will definitely be scheduling another evening cooking with Chef Scott!!!

Chef Scott was awesome! It was absolutely amazing and we made the best pasta I’ve ever had. It was a fun, enjoyable, hands-on experience that I would highly recommend to anyone!

Scott was terrific! He was very knowledgable and, most importantly, very patient! I would highly recommend Chef Scott and the pasta course that we took. We were very surprised by the flavors that came out of our own kitchen!

Wow! This exceeded my expectations!! First of all, Chef Scott is simply a wonderful person. He was lovely to chat with while we were cooking. He brought everything we needed and gave so many tips from shopping for the right items at the right price to cooking secrets. This was a great experience and I highly recommend any class Chef Scott teaches

I was very impressed by Chef Scott's professionalism, knowledge and the quality of the ingredients. It was a great experience that I would definitely repeat.

We booked a private session to celebrate our anniversary. Chef Scott was so much fun! He is passionate about cooking and was very engaging during the entire class. We learned a lot and the food tasted fantastic at the end. We will definitely be booking with him again!

Hello, We thoroughly enjoyed our class with Chef Scott. His personality and skills were top notch, professionally delivered and also very warm and positive. His instruction very informative and directions throughout the session were perfect. I would highly recommend him to others and be interested in working with him again.

Chef Scott was a wonderful treat this evening. He was very gracious with his knowledge and incredibly friendly with his banter. Each minute was more fun than the last and could not have imagined a more perfect birthday gift for my wife. I’d highly recommend Chef Scott to any and everyone looking for a personal, and fun experience.

It was a fun night with Chef Scott. If you love Sushi this is the experience for you.

Chef Scott was great! The experience was amazing and would absolutely do it again. He was very knowledgeable and charismatic. I didn’t know the expect as this was my first time doing this, but the meal was delicious and Scott taught us quite a bit.

If you're looking for a fun and educational experience in the kitchen, then Chef Scott's class is for you! He was a delight to watch as he demonstrated cooking techniques that you can easily master at home. His elotes were yummy and fun to watch how easy they are to make. Now I know how to make nigiri on my own--if only my knife skills were as skillful as his!

During our experience, on a cold winter Friday, a Wooden Spoon cooking class was the perfect “let’s do something different” experience to assist a small group of friends to escape the winter blahs. Our class was hosted by instructor Scott Allred, who proved to be both a superb chef and instructor whom quickly meshed well with the group of 14 close friends. The theme of our class was titled “Friday Night Supper Club,” and the menu featured caesar salad, Jack Daniels flank steak, a pancetta mac & cheese, grilled vegetables and a chocolate caramel tart desert. The evening was full of chopping, slicing, dicing, mixing, sauteing, grilling and baking as the wine poured freely (they’re BYOB) and our guests chatted and laughed it up having a merry time until the meal was completed and subsequently devoured. Teamwork.

"I took my second class here today and it was great! Loved learning some Cuban cooking and recipes. Chef Scott was great. I really appreciated how he organized his class by having all of the prep work done first, and then mixing up the class members two-by-two to complete segments of the actual cooking while everyone else could watch and learn. I feel that this way of working the class benefits everyone, and addresses some of the concerns of some other reviewers: namely that some groups did some things and others didn't and so not everyone saw or participated in each phase of the preparation of each dish. The first course I took here also had that problem. I was a little nervous going today as I was solo without my wife, or a companion, and thought I might feel left out. This didn't happen. I was involved and everyone attending made a great and welcoming atmosphere and we really had a great afternoon. I look forward to my next class, especially if Chef Scott is the instructor!"

Organization counts, not class size. Chef Scott Allred and two assistants at The Wooden Spoon enabled 16 students to work, fuss-free, on a Cuban dinner menu. He organized us into four teams and assigned a recipe with a time deadline. Allred consistently eyeballed our efforts. Not a second was wasted. At The Chopping Block, Novak pivoted like a dancer among four cooking stations in the spacious kitchen to oversee 12 baking students. Our assignment (four cupcake recipes and four frostings) came in on time. No mess, no dirty dishes, thanks to two assistants. Novak even provided tiny spoons to taste-test the batters. Yum.

"Took our first cooking class here last week for my birthday. Chef Scott was awesome. He kept things running smoothly, and amazingly all the dishes were finished and ready to eat at the same time--amazing!!!! He didn't lecture too much, just walked around the room to answer questions and offer guidance. He was also very helpful when I had specific questions, i.e. how the heck do you cut basil efficiently? Or, where is a good place to get fresh fish in this town? He also gave my husband enough flack about his Nervous Nelly cooking style (having to stir EVERYTHING constantly!) to be helpful but not embarrassing. There was LOTS of food--all of it yummy--and my only regret was that my tummy was too full at the end of the class to eat more. I'm also not sure that the recipes were truly 30 minutes (which they were supposed to be, according to the name of the class), but I suppose if you're making portions for 4 people instead of 15, it cuts back on prep time. I think next time (and there will be a next time, as soon as there is a next paycheck) we will show up a bit earlier so that we sit in front of the dish we want to make....ended up with a pasta dish (eh, we do Italian at home a lot), but hadn't done fresh shrimp before so that was a learning experience. There's some sort of pumpkin ravioli recipe included in a late October class that I've got my eye on.......... Oh, and I should mention this!!!!!: I went out of town this past weekend, and before I left, my husband asked where the recipes from class were...his friend's family was coming for dinner somewhat last minute, and he wanted to make the onion and breadcrumb encrusted honey mustard chicken skewers for them! Apparently they turned out okay--not as fantastic as they had been in class--but I am wildly ecstatic that he took the initiative to cook them. He has rarely shown interest in cooking anything other than mac and cheese, so this is all very encouraging! :o)"