20 schools · Updated November 2026
We list 20 places in and around San Francisco that teach cooking to the public. The classes you'll find most often are sushi, Italian and knife skills.
Of those, 13 host private parties, 5 teach kids and 5 run date-night classes.
A typical class costs $129 to $150 a person, going by the schools that publish prices.
The list is ordered by our quality score, so BiteUnite Cooking Classes San Francisco sits near the top with 5.0 stars from 603 Google reviews.
Ordered by our quality score. Ratings are from Google, with the review count beside each one.
Cooking school · San Francisco
Mission loft with rooftop Thai Saturdays, Sushi Sunday and Sunday evening pasta
Cooking school · San Francisco
Dogpatch team building kitchen with Bay views, plus public classes and kids' camps
Chef’s studio · San Francisco
Chef Daniel's Potrero Hill loft for Friday night pasta and pizza classes, BYOB
Chef’s studio · San Francisco
Kids-first cooking studio on the Ghirardelli Square waterfront, with BYOB adult classes
Cooking school · San Francisco
Mission school with Learn to Cook series, shared meals and visiting cookbook authors
Community kitchen · San Francisco
Mission District nonprofit teaching kitchen whose class fees help fund free food programs
Chef’s studio · San Francisco
Chef Emily's SoMa loft: seasonal hands-on menus built on kitchen chemistry and technique
Cooking school · San Francisco
Teaches sushi.
Community kitchen · San Francisco
Free 10-week Salvation Army job training course for aspiring kitchen cooks
Chef’s studio · San Francisco
Hands-on classes for up to 12 in a former Cordon Bleu instructor's Duboce Triangle studio
Chef’s studio · San Francisco
SOMA event kitchen running chef-led cooking competitions and dinners for teams and private groups
Cooking school · San Francisco
good for kids.
Chef’s studio · Oakland, CA
Calabrian-born cookbook author teaching hands-on Southern Italian classes in her Oakland kitchen
Cooking school · Sausalito, CA
Hotel cooking school at Fort Baker, at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge
Cooking school · Berkeley, CA
Hands-on Berkeley kitchen on Shattuck Avenue since 2005, known for its 12-week basics series
Cooking school · San Francisco
Cooking school in San Francisco.
Online classes · San Francisco
Virtual team cooking classes on Zoom, all vegetarian, with ingredient kits shipped to each cook
Home kitchen · San Francisco
Hands-on Indian cooking with Meghna Agarwal in her own San Francisco home kitchen
These platforms book independent chefs into restaurants, wineries and rented kitchens around town. Handy for choice, but the chef and the venue change from class to class, so we list them apart from the schools above.
Pop-up class marketplace · San Francisco
Marketplace of chef-led SF classes, from Mission District pasta to dim sum
4.9on Google, 842 reviewsBy our quality score (rating, number of reviews and how complete and current the listing is), the top 3 are BiteUnite Cooking Classes San Francisco (5.0 stars, 603 reviews), Hands On Gourmet (4.9 stars, 59 reviews) and The Foodery Events (4.8 stars, 51 reviews).
How we rank schoolsMost published prices start around $129 a person and go up to about $150. Multi-week courses and private events cost more.
Compare prices across San FranciscoBiteUnite Cooking Classes San Francisco, The Foodery Events and First Class Cooking run couples’ or date-night classes.
All date-night classes in San FranciscoYes. Hands On Gourmet, Culinary Artistas and The Civic Kitchen teach kids or teens, and 5 schools in the area do in total.
All kids’ classes in San Francisco13 schools take private bookings for birthdays, team events and parties, including BiteUnite Cooking Classes San Francisco, Hands On Gourmet and The Foodery Events.
Group and birthday classes in San FranciscoMissing a school, or run one of these? Tell us and we’ll add or fix it, usually within a week.