Ski Chalet Cookery Courses

Alpine Cook School

The Alpine Cook School is the UK’s foremost provider of training for Chalet Chefs/Hosts. We focus on skill based cooking techniques that can be transferred to a variety of situations, making you more attractive to a wider range of potential employers. The course fees include:-

• Fully inclusive residential course
• Single, en-suite accommodation
• On site swimming pool, gym and racquet sports
• One week intensive instruction
• Exclusive course materials/resources
• All instructors Michelin star trained
• Recruitment links with over seventy major employers
• 5% reduction in fees when quoting (Seasonworkers051078) in your initial enquiry

We are centrally located within in the United Kingdom having convenient access to all major road, rail and air links. For further information please telephone us on 07837 075 843, email info@alpinecookschool.co.uk or visit our website.

The Old Rectory Cookery School

If you want to gain the skills necessary to find a job in your gap year, working as a ski chalet chef, then this course is for you. Our popular Essential Course is also designed for anyone who is thinking of a career in catering, perhaps running a pub, hotel or B&B, or maybe you just want to learn how to cook. This two-week hands on course covers key skills for competent cookery. Starting with basic knife skills and simple dishes, these busy cookery classes will show you much more than just the classic methods for stocks, sauces and pastry. New ingredients will be explored; tips on stylish presentation will be learnt along with guidelines for balanced menu planning, hints on preparing ahead and good kitchen organisation. At the end of the course you will have a good range of culinary skills and confidence to tackle any recipe. The essential course is designed for any enthusiastic person who wants to immerse themselves in cookery with like minded individuals to widen their repertoire and improve their skill level. With our small classes of a maximum of 8 students you will have lots of individual attention. Situated in the village of Bentley on the Surrey/Hampshire borders, about 40 miles from London.

Chalet Cooks

Chalet Cooks is the perfect cookery school for gap year students, couples or those on a career break wanting to work as a chalet host or chef. The courses are based in the ski resort of Chamonix in one of our luxury chalets. The aim of our course is to make sure you are fully prepared for a chalet cooks job for the winter season. In the intensive week we will focus on your understanding and practicing more than a week’s complete menu. We will also cover vegetarian meals, children’s dinners, and other specialist menus. You will be shown the short cuts and top tips for cooking and running a chalet in the Alps. You will learn to cook for large numbers on a tight budget which is another key essential skill when working in a chalet. All this knowledge and practice that you will gain will ensure that when you leave our course you will not only be capable but confident in your abilities to cook for large numbers of demanding guests.

Mountain Chefs

Mountain Chefs is a cookery school is completely dedicated to training people to work within the ski industry. The Mountain Chefs Chalet Chef training courses produce high quality chalet chefs, chalet cooks and chalet hosts allowing our students to gain the best ski season jobs in the Alps. Mountain Chefs gives you the kitchen confidence and practical chalet training you need to truly amaze your ski season guests and manage your chalet kitchen effectively. And a well-managed kitchen and happy guests gives you more time on the slopes! We also help prepare you for interviews and recommend you to the ski companies so you can find the type of job, the resort and the ski company that will best suit you. Our one, two or three week Chalet Chef courses are perfect for gap year students, couples or those on a career break who are looking to work a successful and satisfying ski season as a chalet chef, chalet cook or chalet host. Affordable accommodation is available locally where you can stay and socialise with other students during the evenings. For more information on our courses or to discuss your options for obtaining a ski season job, please ring Rachel at 01908 692918. E-mail Rachel at rachel.lansing@mountainchefs.co.uk or visit our web site at: www.mountainchefs.co.uk

The Alpine Cookery Course

The Alpine Cookery Course provides a week long courses for people wishing to spend a ski season working as a chalet hosts. Our course will fully prepare you to take on a ski season with not only great cookery skills but knowledge on what it is actually like to live and work in a resort. Our courses are based in the beautiful alpine resort of Chamonix, a mecca for skiers in the winter and a bustling alpine town in the summer months. If you are looking to learn all there is to know about becoming a chalet host, increasing your cookery skills and cooking for larger numbers, then look no further than this course.
Please contact Susie or Emma on info@thealpinecookerycourse.com or telephone +33 (0)677534222

Chalet Academy courses

Chalet Academy provide chalet courses in Chamonix, France. With particular focus on the cooking element, a job offer is guaranteed on completion of their course. The head Chef, Simon is an experienced trainer, and with over 10 years experience in the industry he is the perfect mentor to teach all the vital skills needed for a successful season in the Alps.

The Ultimate Chalet Host Cookery Course

An affordable one week hands on course to teach you everything you need to know about running a successful chalet with style and the minimum of fuss. Learn quick, easy recipes, for large numbers, cooking at altitude. Tips on menu planning, shopping, budget control, health & safety, living in the alps, the life of a chalet host, language skills and tricks of the trade to maximise ski time. Based in a luxury chalet in La Rosiere, France, with qualified and experienced tutors, you cook in a real chalet kitchen and sit down to dine with your guests, just like you will in your chalet. This is truly THE MOST AUTHENTIC CHALET COOKERY COURSE available. Click the link above, call us on 01342 302 910 or email

Tante Marie School of Cookery

Tante Marie has been training the world's top cooks for fifty years. As well as courses leading to the Tante Marie Cordon Blue Diploma, Tante Marie offers shorter courses particularly suited to gap year students, including the eleven week Cordon Bleu Certificate course and the four week Essential Skills course. Ski Chalet operators approach Tante Marie every year, appreciating the excellent training its students receive. Cordon Bleu Certificate and the Essentials Skills students have great opportunities to work for top operators in top resorts every winter, as well as in villas and on yachts in the summer.

The Orchards School of Cookery

The Orchards School of Cookery specialises in training and recruiting chalet cooks to work in ski resorts. The School is well recognised and with its contacts in the chalet industry is able to help and advise students with recruitment. Ski companies visit the school to interview students. To date they have 100% success rate at recruiting their students.

The Orchards School of Cookery was No.4 in the ‘Top 25 Cookery Schools in Europe’ published by Waitrose Food Illustrated in January. “If you don’t have time to ski to your heart's content and make the most of the aprés ski, what is the point of putting up with the cold”

For further information please telephone Isabel on 01789 490 259, email Isabel@orchardscookery.co.uk or visit www.orchardscookery.co.uk