10 Best Cooking Classes in Singapore

Looking for cooking classes in Singapore? Whether you want a hands-on session in local Peranakan flavours, a couples' date night, a corporate team-building cook-off or a beginner baking course, the city has a studio for every appetite. This guide rounds up ten established recreational cooking and baking schools, spanning heritage Asian dishes, Western cuisines, patisserie and kids' classes, so you can match a studio to the food you actually want to learn.

Palate Sensations runs hands-on cooking and baking classes for adults and children at its teaching studio in Biopolis, near Buona Vista. Its calendar spans a rotating range of cuisines, baking and festive menus alongside a Chef-in-Training programme and Kids in the Kitchen sessions, while private classes, corporate team building and private-chef bookings are also offered. It positions itself as a full teaching kitchen for both hobby cooks and groups.

Buona Vista (Biopolis)
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Food Playground, in Chinatown, focuses on Singapore's multicultural heritage dishes and healthier plant-based cooking through hands-on, unpretentious sessions built around the stories behind each recipe. The studio, which says it has operated since 2012, runs cultural cooking classes, corporate cooking team building, a Chinatown street-to-kitchen challenge, kids' holiday classes and private cooking parties. The emphasis is on local cuisine and food culture rather than restaurant-style technique.

Chinatown
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Commune Kitchen offers fully hands-on classes at its SFA-licensed studio in Frasers Tower on Cecil Street, ranging from Asian favourites such as dumplings and xiao long bao to Thai dishes, pasta and pizza. It caters to couples, groups of friends, families and corporate team building, plus classes for children and teens, and describes its cooking as sustainable and plant-forward. Participants cook and then share the meal together.

Cecil Street (CBD)
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ToTT runs cooking and baking classes at its dedicated cooking studio in i12 Katong, with a broad, frequently changing line-up spanning Asian cuisines such as Thai, Korean, Peranakan and local hawker dishes, European cooking, fresh pasta-making and pastry work. Most sessions are hands-on, though the studio also lists some demonstration classes, and it hosts private parties, kids' baking and corporate team building. The classes run alongside the brand's kitchenware retail store.

Katong (i12 Katong)
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D'Open Kitchen is a CBD cooking studio just outside Raffles Place MRT, offering hands-on cooking and baking across a wide spread of cuisines from Peranakan and Hainanese chicken rice to French, Italian, Japanese and Korean, plus bakes such as burnt cheesecake, macarons and pineapple tarts. It runs couples' date-night classes, parent-child and kids' sessions, private events and both competitive and non-competitive corporate team building. The studio states that it uses strictly halal-sourced ingredients and describes itself as halal-friendly.

Raffles Place (CBD)
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Nanatang is a baking studio on Kampong Bahru Road running hands-on classes in macarons, choux pastry, cakes, breads and other pastry work, for beginners through to keener home bakers. It takes group workshops, private studio bookings for events and fully customised corporate team-building sessions. The focus is squarely on patisserie and cake decorating rather than savoury cooking.

Kampong Bahru
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Cookery Magic is led by Ruqxana Vasanwala and teaches hands-on Singaporean and Asian home cooking, including Peranakan, Malay, Indian, Indonesian and Chinese dishes, followed by a sit-down meal of what you have made. The founder says more than 50,000 people have passed through her kitchen over some 25 years, and classes range from daily group sessions to private and corporate bookings, children's Mini MasterChef classes and a kampong cooking trip on Pulau Ubin. Sessions are held in her open home kitchen rather than a commercial studio.

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ABC Cooking Studio is the Singapore outpost of the Japanese cooking-school brand, based at Scotts Square near Orchard Road, running guided hands-on classes in cooking, bread, cakes and wagashi (Japanese confectionery), plus a dedicated kids' programme. Lessons follow structured regular courses and trial lessons, with a strong Japanese home-cooking and baking influence. It suits learners who want a regular, curriculum-style class rather than a one-off experience.

Orchard (Scotts Square)
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Baker's Brew Studio runs hands-on baking classes spanning cake baking and decorating, bread and pastry, pitched from complete-beginner level up to more advanced techniques, at outlets including Great World, Paragon and Sembawang. It offers adult and kids' classes as well as private and corporate sessions, and also operates as a cake studio. The programme is baking-focused, so it fits those after cakes and pastry rather than savoury cuisine.

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Creative Culinaire is a baking and pastry school that its own site says was established in 2000 under founder and principal chef Judy Koh, teaching hands-on classes in breads, cakes, cookies, choux and pastries such as croissants. It offers short recreational three-hour courses for beginners alongside longer professional and certified programmes for those planning an F&B business, all in a fully equipped academy kitchen. It also caters to team-building events.

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