Seafood Mastery Cooking Class

Learn how to cook seafood in Melbourne!


OTAO kitchen
OTAO kitchen
4.9 (969)

7 hours Location Abbotsford Class size 1 to 15 guests   $467 - $837 ($467 for For 1 Person; $837 for For 2 People) (Afterpay available)

Seafood is quick to cook and easy to get wrong. In this full-day workshop, you'll learn to handle whole fish and shellfish with confidence, and cook them gently so they stay tender and full of flavour.
You'll scale, gut and score a whole fish, stuff it with lemon, fennel and herbs and bake it until just done. Then you'll learn to serve it straight off the bone at the table. It's a generous, impressive centrepiece that takes less effort than it looks. You'll also cure a side of salmon into gravlax in the morning and slice it paper-thin in the afternoon – a second dinner-party plate you can make days ahead.
Weeknight menu from scratch:
  • Crispy-skin fish fillet with lemon butter sauce – from a fish you fillet yourself
  • Mussels in white wine, garlic and herbs
  • Salt and pepper squid – cleaned and cut by you
  • Seared tuna tataki with ponzu
  • Garlic prawns – peeled and deveined the right way
  • Hanoi turmeric fish (chả cá) – sizzled with dill and spring onion, served with rice noodles and herbs
What you'll learn:
  • Buy and choose fresh, sustainable seafood
  • Scale, gut and fillet a whole fish
  • Clean squid, debeard mussels and prepare prawns
  • Get crisp skin without overcooking the flesh
  • Cook gently and know when seafood is just done
  • Make simple sauces that suit seafood
  • Cure fish safely with salt, sugar and aromatics
What to expect:
  • Full-day, hands-on class
  • Your own bench, with step-by-step guidance from an expert chef
  • Small group of up to 15 for plenty of one-on-one help
  • Premium Victorian produce
  • Lunch from the morning's cooking, then sit down to everything you've made, with a glass of wine, beer or soft drink
  • Recipes to take home so you can cook it all again

Upcoming dates for Seafood Mastery Cooking Class

Times are Melbourne time. Dates and prices as of 28 Oct 2026, 4:08pm; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

3 upcoming dates between 20 Mar 2027 and 2 Oct 2027.

  • Sat 20 Mar 2027, 10am-5pm
  • Sat 12 Jun 2027, 10am-5pm
  • Sat 2 Oct 2027, 10am-5pm
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly.
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.

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Location

Otao Kitchen - 393 Victoria Street, Abbotsford VIC

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ABOUT US
Otao kitchen is a cooking school and event space with a mission for people to come together to cook, connect, celebrate. We believe cooking and eating should be an experience, not just a meal. We created Otao kitchen as an extension of our passions to cook, share and inspire.
EXPERT IN COOKING CLASSES
Otao kitchen was launched in Melbourne, Australia in July 2014, with the goal of celebrating the rich and varied cooking experiences of Melbourne’s immigrant multicultural communities. Its founder, Chef Ha Nguyen, originally from Hanoi shares his passion for food, instructing customers in the exotic diaspora of Asian and around the world cuisine.
WHAT WE DO BEST?
Today our guests can get inspired by cooking with our local and international chefs, listen to their cooking and travel experiences in Asia and around the world and bring some cooking and cultural tips and tricks home. With the nods at the diversity of communities within Melbourne, Otao kitchen features an array of global food experiences from Indian to Japan to Mexico and more.
In 2020 with the challenge of global Covid 19 pandemic, we set out to capture the curriculum of our hands-cooking classes and deliver it online to home cooks in Australia and across the world to guide you to cooking success and better health.
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