Went here for the Pasta Workshop cooking class and felt the entire experience underwhelming given the high price of the lesson.
Pros:
- The pasta was a hearty portion
- The dishes tasted nice
- The assistants were very nice
- The chef was very nice
- Facilities were clean and the assistants were constantly cleaning up after us
Cons:
- The entire experience felt disorganized from start to finish
- The chef seemed incredibly uncomfortable with public speaking and often receded into himself during instruction. There were times where he would be in the middle of an explanation, struggle to find the words, and then just stop talking and perform the task hoping that others would understand by watching
- The recipes were different from what was promoted on the website which was a great disappointment to the group I attended the session with
- From the beginning the chef said that we were making ravioli, and told us to roll the dough out to ravioli size. Then halfway through the class (after the dough was already rolled out) he corrected himself by saying "oh actually we are making raviolo". This caused many people to struggle since they did not roll their dough out to the correct width.
- Promotion of items in store was annoying. I don't want to listen to a 5 minute spiel about useless gadgets...teach me how to cook.
- The chef was reading the recipes from a paper....and sounded surprised to learn what we were making.
- Lack of information about dough making. He would just say things like "we are using 00 flour" without any elaboration on that.
Overall: I expected Sur la Table to have a higher standard for the chefs they would get to teach. I am disappointed that my husband and I spend $140 and didn't take away much from the lesson