CHALLENGER
COOKING SCHOOL
Kardar Challenger is a highly-qualified and highly experienced Head Chef, with 42 years’ experience in the hospitality profession.
He was Head Chef at the Hilton Angel Islington for six years, as well as serving as Head Chef or Sous-chef at the Radisson Edwardian, the Russell Square Hotel and the Hilton Green Park. He also worked at the Grosvenor Hotel.
He founded Challenger Catering in 2006, and has been its Executive Chef ever since. This contract catering company has a large and growing range of national and local clients, including Barclays Bank, NatWest bank, MetroBank, Rotary Club, Wandsworth Borough Council, other London local authorities and Puddle Ducks Nursery. It also works in partnership with Holiday Inn.
Popular Classes
Get Cooking with Kardar
Do you want to do develop your cooking skills and increase your confidence in the kitchen? Cooking is easy – when you know how.
Whether you’re setting out on a life of your own, or you’re cooking for a family, or if you want to fall in love with cooking again, the Get Cooking with Kardar Challenger course will equip you with skills you will always be able to use, and will want to use, to liven up your meals – and get you cooking for fun!
Kardar Challenger is an expert chef, with 42 years’ experience in the kitchens of top London hotels, including the Grosvenor Hotel, the Russell Hotel, and the Hilton, Angel Islington. He will show you not only how to prepare a range of dishes that you can cook with confidence at home, but will also help you to develop your confidence producing meals for family and friends. Where possible, he uses ethically-produced ingredients from Sutton Community Farm.
Cuisines covered include British, European, Caribbean, Street Food, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai and Vegetarian.
Get Cooking with Kardar is based on simple menus to teach you a range of skills. This will include:
- knife skills
- steaming
- boiling
- frying
- braising
- roasting
- stir-frying
- poaching
- chopping
- slicing
- dicing
There is a maximum of ten students per course, and you will be taught in the kitchen of a top hotel in Sutton. Each learner will receive personal tuition and attention, enabling you to put your lessons into practice.
You will:
- cook a three-course meal
- discuss the morning’s work with Kardar and your fellow members
- cook a second meal to take home
You will need to bring a notebook and pen. We will provide knives, aprons, ingredients, cutlery and plates, and containers to take the meal home.
Half-day courses are available. On these courses you will cook and discuss one meal.
Kardar can also organise day trips to five-star London hotels, where you will be able to see how professional kitchens operate – before you eat a meal prepared there!
Get Cooking with Kardar standard course price:
£199 for a full day and £115 for a half-day
Times: Full day: 10.00am – 17.00pm (lunch break 13.00 – 14.00)
Half-day: either 10.00 – 13.00 or 14.00 – 17.00
Your taste buds will never forgive you for missing this course.
Bespoke Courses
Got an important event coming up? We can offer flexible and bespoke courses including:
- laying a table for a dinner party
- selecting appropriate wines
Price on Application
If you don’t see the course you want here, contact us so we can cater to your needs.
Everyone in the Kitchen!
Family Cooking with Kardar Challenger
The ‘Everyone into the kitchen’ course is quite literally for everybody – children, parents, and grandparents. This one-day course will feature layers of learning and fun liberally spiced with good humour, where all family members can learn and refresh their cooking skills together under the instruction of a highly-qualified chef.
Kardar Challenger is an expert chef with 42 years’ experience in the kitchens of London’s top hotels, including the Grosvenor Hotel, the Russell Hotel and the Hilton Angel Islington, and with five offspring of his own, is a highly family orientated chef!
We give the children the chance to help cook a meal to take home for the family to enjoy, while teaching them basic life skills. Where possible, we will use ethically-produced ingredients from Sutton Community Farm on this course.
Cooking is one of the skills in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, and for the parents, it is an opportunity to be reminded of the skills and techniques they perhaps once used – and enjoyed using – and learn something new. Working as a team with your child/children to produce a meal will give them a sense of achievement, and you a sense of relief!
On the day, you and your child/children will make a complete meal (starter, main course, dessert) so you won’t have to cook when you get home.
Each course includes no more than ten adults, and is taught in the kitchen of a top hotel in Sutton. Each family will receive personal tuition and attention, enabling you to put your lessons into practice.
Please bring a notebook and pen. We will provide knives, aprons, all the ingredients, cutlery and plates, and containers to take the meal home.
The course cost is £300 for one adult and one child inclusive
Please note that unfortunately, to ensure the safety and well-being of you and your family, we only accept children between the ages of 8 and 16
We support child safety – we are DBS checked & fully familiar with safeguarding procedures and regulations
If you don’t see the course you want on the website, tell us! (If you don’t, we’ll have to guess what course you want, and we may guess wrong)
Your taste buds will never forgive you for missing this course!
A free ‘Cooking with Kardar‘ recipe book comes with the course’
3 1/2 hours
We Start From Scratch
