Cooking School

The Shakespeare Cliff Lodge Cooking School can turn on a live-in culinary education experience that you’ll never forget. Discover recipes, techniques and entertaining tips that will lift your cooking confidence to the next level.

Gather a group of friends and bring them to the best location on the Coromandel Peninsula for the ultimate kitchen bonding session! The Shakespeare Cliff Lodge & Luxury Retreat at Cooks Beach offers a cooking school with a difference. Stay in one of the most beautiful locations in New Zealand with not only costal views to die for, but learn some great new skills and culinary techniques from our executive chef that will change the way you entertain and enjoy food.

Cook using the freshest ingredients gathered locally, from the Lodge Gardens or seafood from Mercury Bay. Our approach to organic and sustainable food will help you to make the freshest produce into the most amazing meals.

Pick one of our themes or suggest one of your own. Then gather a group of friends. Every day has three special highlights – breakfast, lunch and dinner!

On the menu:

Winter slow cooking

Fresh is best

Canapés to impress

Dinner parties without disasters

Duck, quail and other scary animals

Roll your own sushi

Wood fired oven cooking

The Shakespeare Cliff Luxury Lodge and Retreat is a real experience in food so immerse yourself and spend a couple of days getting away with luxury accommodation and the best New Zealand and the Coromandel Peninsula has to offer in fresh cooking school ideas.