Cooking Class - Pasta Making 101 - Bay Area

Wow! Polina was funny and informative. We learned so much from her. Her class opened my eyes to how fun cooking can be. Thank you Polina!

My first question to CozyMeal is does your company do site visits/inspections to the chef’s homes you have listed on your website? This was my first time trying your service and I thought what better way than for me and my dear friend to celebrate our birthdays than by taking a cooking class...but I must say I was very, very disappointed with Chef Polina! I chose her cooking class based partly on the “glowing” reviews she received and partly on the price for the class. My reasons for disappointment and for only giving 1 star: 1.House was more like a make shift room /guest house with a kitchen that was untidy and disorganized 2. Kitchen was dirty, old and certainly not up to specs to be holding any type of cooking class! 3. I expected modern appliances and the use of modern chef tools of the trade (which were null and void) 4. The work station was cramped and small and not adequate for myself and the 3 other students 5. Since it was a Pasta making class I assumed each student would be giving supplies to make and kneed their own pasta but that wasn’t the case instead each student was touching and kneeling the same balls of dough (and mind you with no type food handling gloves on!...very unsanitary in my opinion!) 6. Their was a sliding patio door next to the kitchen that was kept open for the duration of the class (I assume for easy access to the fridge that was located outside on the patio...huh?) however it gave easy access for a fly to keep buzzing around our heads! 7. I was not happy that the chef kept licking food off her fingers and even though she would wash her hands afterwards I found that very unprofessional and uncouth. 8. The description of her class on the CozyMeal website stated the class consisted of making a stuffed pasta dish, eating said dish and a dessert...there was no dessert provided 7. What I found irritating is that there was no mention on the website that the chef had a pet (a cat ) to which I am allergic and the cat was roaming around near the kitchen...definately one of my pet peeves “pets in or near a kitchen”! I could go on an on but I will stop with the above 8 reasons as to why I wouldn’t recommend this class to anyone. While I may consider trying another class listed on your website in the future, it would definately have to be a class offered at a cafe, bakery, bistro etc where the work stations are more conducive to cooking and the kitchen is more likely to be up to specs

Fabulous way to learn all the fundamentals of rolled pasta in a quaint amd sunny home. Chef Polina is an easy going and quick witted teacher whose’s crafted the perfect hands on program to make to feel as if you’re cooking with family. We even used the quail eggs from her personal covy kept in the yard among the rows of growimg vegetables, herbs amd fruit trees. Felt like we were in the countryslde