Private South Indian Home Cooking Class in London with a Local

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Private South Indian Home Cooking Class in London with a Local

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 US$115.78  per guest
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Summary
Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Duration
2 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
2 - 6 guests
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Language
English
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Private Experience
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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Learn to make traditional South Indian dishes with your host, a home cook who has been cooking throughout her life. A great opportunity for you to meet a local in their home and learn all about the ingredients, cooking techniques and traditions associated with Indian cooking. You will get a sneak peak into their lives and hear wonderful stories of Jemima growing up in South India and how she learned to cook from her mother. If you're craving Indian food, this is the best place to try an authentic, home-cooked meal, made using traditional ingredients and cooking techniques. By the end of this experience you will not only have knowledge about Indian food and traditions, but you'll have learnt to make a few dishes yourself, that you can re-create back home!

Sample Menu

STARTER
Welcome Indian drink (such as chaas, a spiced buttermilk yogurt drink)
MAIN
Dosas with tomato chutney
MAIN
Beef ularthiyathu (dry roasted beef with onions and spices)
MAIN
Coconut rice
DESSERT
Fresh fruit

What You Get

Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholic Beverages
Home-cooked South Indian meal
Cooking class with your host Jemima
Hotel pick up and drop off

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

Join Jemima, and her husband and children, when they are home, for a home-cooked South Indian cooking and meal experience. Jemima lives in a family home on the outskirts of London (London Zone 6) in Orpington, a quiet suburb of London with professional working families. In your cooking class learn to make traditional South Indian dishes with Jemima, who has been cooking throughout her life. You might learn to make dishes like a traditional tomato or coconut chutney, a meat or vegetable curry dish, and as well as dosas or idlis. After your cooking class, you will enjoy the meal you helped prepare. Your menu might include South Indian staples such as dosas (Indian crepe-like pancakes made from fermented lentil and rice batter), a chutney and a meat and vegetable curry served at their kitchen dining table. In the summer, enjoy your meal on their back patio. Please note that your host will be serving you and happy to chat as you are eating but won’t eat with you - so she can make sure you get your dosas piping hot! Depending on the size of your group, the cooking portion of your experience lasts 1-1.5 hours.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Orpington, Station Approach, Greater London England, United Kingdom, GB, BR6 0SX

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Meet your host at their home in the Orpington neighborhood of London. Please check the 'Before you go' section on your voucher for the exact address, the above only offers neighbourhood details, and not the exact address. Exact address can be found in your ticket upon booking confirmation.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund.

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Wonderful experience
May 29, 2026

Jamima was aan excellent teacher and a wonderful host. I think I can actually make a curry now instead of just ordering takeout! And she taught me about all the different kinds of lentils I never k...read more

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A feast of food and knowledge! Wonderful!
May 12, 2026

The advertisement is exactly what you get. The home is wonderful. The couple is wonderful. The food was wonderful but more than that, the education about food or something we took home anxious to e...read more

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Delicious and simple South Indian with lots of flavorful spices
May 13, 2025

Jemima was a lovely host and immediately made me feel right at home. As she cooked she showed me what she doing each step of the way and also explained all the different kinds of dahl that are avai...read more

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Deliciously relaxing afternoon in England
May 05, 2025

We did not know what to expect, and we were very pleasantly surprised by how much we loved all of the dishes Jemina prepared for us. We wish we could have taken our leftovers home to the US but it’...read more

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Lovely hosts and delicious food!
January 17, 2024

Jemima and Aaron were amazing hosts, it was lovely to get to know them and hear their stories. We learnt so much about Indian food and the ingredients they used. In addition to the food Jemima cook...read more

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