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Jacqui Selleck
In-House Dining Cooking Classes with Chef Jacqui Selleck
location_on Sorrento, Melbourne
local_activity classes: Cooking
5.0 (42)Chef Jacqui Selleck offers a unique interactive cooking and dining experience in her beautiful home in Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. This very talented chef has a wealth of knowledge and experience and is very adept at passing it on to the cooking students.
The menu is an excellent three-course dinner party menu that also begins with Jacqui’s favourite canapés. You will learn tips and tricks of food prep and presentation and be instructed in knife skills and French cooking techniques to bring about the best result in your beautiful produce.
Jacqui’s passion for cooking shines through as she shares her recipes and stories from working in professional kitchens around the globe and on home turf in some of the best fine dining restaurants.
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Tatiana Zaslavskaia • Apr 2024
Many thanks to Jacqui for her generosity! We learned not only a few useful skills and secrets from a brilliant chef, but also spent an absolutely unforgettable day having a delicious lunch in great company!
Mirjana Gligorova • Apr 2024
23 ClassBento workshops attended • 14 reviews
What a great experience inside Chef Jacqui's beautiful home!
She brought France on our plates unselfishly sharing all the tips and secrets of French cuisine. We learnt how to cook scallops with saffron butter, crispy duck breast with fig glaze, cauliflower & apple puree, potato fondant & string beans, and for the dessert we made crepes Suzette with vanilla ice cream! What a feast, what a treat!
Sarah George • Jan 2024
Loved the class, very hands on and learnt new cooking techniques I would never attempt at home. Very proud I learnt how to confidently bone a quail. And Sophie (the dog) was an added extra bonus of cuteness.
Bruce John Wookey • Nov 2023
Thanksgiving! This was an absolutely inspired and inspiring gift! Chef Jacquie immediately put us at ease with her warm welcome into her home, and her friendly warm and cheerful manner. This whole easy, relaxed and informative manner carried through into a wonderful teaching style filled with the much anticipated techniques and delicious food with a hands on participation.
A real pleasant surprise were the little jewels of tips and organisational kitchen embellishments! Suggestions on securing chopping, boards, preserving herbs, pre-planning work areas and flows, sourcing of superior products and kitchen tools.
The entire five hours was a real treat.
My partner and I left wonderfully enthused and lookig forward to employ new skills in our own kitchen.
As the menu changes with the seasons reflecting fresh premium produce we can't wait to return!
Leda Lee • Oct 2023
We had a delightful time with Jacqui, thoroughly enjoying the relaxed atmosphere of the French cooking class. Not only did we have fun, but we also acquired valuable knowledge. Jacqui taught us the secrets behind crafting an authentic Hollandaise sauce and perfectly poached eggs. Furthermore, she emphasized the significance of selecting seasonal ingredients to complement the time of year. The highlight of the class was undoubtedly the exquisite lamb dish with romesco sauce, which left us absolutely delighted. Our heartfelt thanks go to Jacqui for this wonderful experience!
Nicole Birch • Oct 2023
My mum and I were made welcomed as we enter the Chef's house. We were greeted with a friendly smile and were informed of the program for the day. The chef made sure that everyone got a chance to participate in making the food, and she would also ensure that she passed on any helpful cooking hints as we progressed throughout the day. If we had any questions, she was happy to answer them as well as breaking down the information so that it was easy to understand. The meal was amazing as well as the company.
Katrina Lee • Sep 2023
Went to this cooking class with my Dad as a birthday present . We had a fantastic day with Jacqui in her beautiful home kitchen in Sorrento. Class was very interactive and informative, in a fun relaxed setting. Intimate group size and the social aspect of learning and dining with others adds positively to the experience. Food was divine - wish I could have taken more of the rhubarb brûlée home! Good investment to level up your cooking skills and make some fond memories with loved ones. Thank you Jacqui
Carol Pritchett • Sep 2023
Jacqui our chef and teacher was amazing.She made us all feel so welcome in to her home .Jacqui explained everything we were doing and how we were cooking it .It was all hands on and participating in every thing we cooked .We all had so much fun lewis and I would recommend doing this class with Jacqui.We will definitely be back .x
Daye Braike • Jul 2023
Chef Jacqui has such a warm and funny persona and she makes French cooking so accessible. I loved all the tips and tricks that she shared throughout on how to take each dish to the next level. She is open and generous with all of her knowledge. It was a beautiful day cooking with her. I wouldn’t hesitate to go back again.
Smita Pati • May 2023
2 ClassBento workshops attended
Jacqui's kitchen is well organised and overall a lovely welcoming home that encourages organic conversation to flow effortlessly. Jacqui takes extra care to reach out in advance to ensure the menu is suitable for everyone participating, allergies, vegan and vegetarian are all welcome.
We had seafood in our menu which we aren't confident with, so we learnt a lot including knife sharpening, knife skills and generally best ways to work in kitchen.
We covered starter, mains and dessert and it was a full day of learning to cook and eating while talking about food and travels. There are little tips and tricks about chopping efficiently that I will surely keep in mind when working in my own kitchen.
Highly recommended this to learn some basics of cooking, quality ingredients to buy for home cooking and know about some French classics. Jacqui is a wonderful teacher.
Shona Slimmon • Mar 2023
Overall a fantastic experience which I would thoroughly recommend.
Jacqui has a beautiful home which was the perfect venue for the occasion. As well as being a remarkable chef and excellent teacher, she is warm, welcoming and clearly loves sharing her expertise.
The ingredients were of the highest quality and all dishes prepared were absolutely delicious.
This course is very hands on, unlike some courses where you just watch the chef prepare the food. There were so many useful tips from how to mince garlic to the importance of pre heating pots. I loved it.
Ann Witney • Jan 2023
Jacqui is a great chef and passionate about cooking. I would recommend her cooking classes.
Aryana Lamont • Jan 2023
Jacqui was so friendly and welcoming to my husband and I. She taught us delicious French cooking and gave us confidence to try new skills. I loved her knowledge and how she teaches to cook from your heart. We had a great time with the other students and I’m so happy we did the class.
Anna Xia • Jan 2023
107 ClassBento workshops attended • 105 reviews
Chef Jacqui was lovely and inviting. She lives in a beautiful home with a large balcony looking out to the moonah links golf course. From sharpening knifes to peeling the muscle tendon off each scallop (the muscle makes it tighten up and less tasty) to making a persillade sauce in a mortar and pestle to go with the saltbush lamb, gas torching the creme brûlée. It ran for over 5hours and Chef Jacqui was kind enough to spend all that time sharing her tips and tricks of the trade with us.
Maria Buckingham • Nov 2022
Jacqui was absolutely wonderful ! She made us feel very welcome in her beautiful home. We foraged for herbs and edible flowers in her garden and as an experienced chef Jacqui gave us many great tips for food preparation techniques and cooking successful French recipes. Of course we were also able to eat the finished dishes around a beautiful dining room table, while Jacqui entertained us with stories of her days as a chef. It was a delightful experience which I would definitely recommend to anyone. Thank you Jacqui, you were brilliant.
Charlotte • Sep 2022
Jacqui has created a beautiful experience in her home that I’d recommend to all.
Initialling walking in, the aesthetics of her house are warm are welcoming.
The food, company and tips and tricks shown to us were wonderful! Definitely many to take home.
Thanks again for a lovely day
Lauren Boulton • Aug 2022
2 ClassBento workshops attended • 2 reviews
What a wonderful experience!
The 3 French dishes we cooked were delicious Great atmosphere, beautiful house -We had the best day and look forward to going back another time to see what other dishes you can teach us how to cook :) Thank you Jacqui!
Anonymised ClassBento student • Aug 2022
Absolutely loved this French cooking class. Lots of precious tips from Jacqui.
Her kitchen and set up was on point. We loved the atmosphere too. Very relaxed. Just like I cook at home with my French family.
Russell Muir • May 2022
Was a fantastic day with Chef Jacquie!
Relaxed environment , delicious food, some great learnings as well from knife sharpening to how to ensure your duck breast pectoral muscles are removed prior to cold pan cooking!
Loved the special greeter when we arrived as well, great job all concerned highly recommended.
Rodney Kwok • Jan 2022
The experience Jacqui provided us was five star, felt so welcoming and relaxing throughout. The food was so well prepared and fresh, as well as being taught techniques along the way.
Emma Morris • Jan 2022
116 ClassBento workshops attended • 83 reviews
Wow! This class was so much fun! Jacqui was very encouraging throughout and made sure to accommodate me as my fibromyalgia started flaring up. All in all, a wonderful afternoon
Claire Brady • Apr 2021
We had such a wonderful day. We learnt new skills in the kitchen whilst producing , then devouring a mouth watering feast with the help of chef Jacqui.
Will definitely be booking in for another class.
Can’t wait to see what Jacqui has on the menu next time.
Thank you for a really fun day
