Enjoy the best Thai food you can learn to make at Kallayanee’s Kitchen on McTavish Road in North Saanich.

Anyone can learn how to make delicious Thai food!

Cooking classes are hosted in North Saanich, only minutes from Victoria. Join Kallayanee, a native of Thailand, as she guides you through a choice of 21 lessons featuring some of Thailand’s most popular dishes at her North Saanich home, near Sidney, and only minutes from Victoria.

You’ll learn the Thai way through hands-on experience and careful, step-by-step instruction. And no class is a prerequisite for any other class, so you can take classes in whatever order you like. Each class lasts about three hours. First you learn how to prepare and cook the food — then you get to eat it with other enthusiastic classmates!

Each cooking class is a feast to be enjoyed by all students

For each class, you’ll learn how to prepare and cook a feast of authentic Thai dishes, including noodles, curry dishes, spring rolls, seafood soups, spicy salads and much, much more. Afterwards, you get to eat and enjoy the delicious food prepared during class. You will also receive printed recipes and a list of ingredients required — both staples and special ingredients — available at many local grocery stores and Victoria’s Chinatown.

No cooking class is a prerequisite for any other

So you can take as many, or as few, classes as you wish! Satisfaction guaranteed!

Private Classes open for Summer Season

Although we will take a break for the month of June, we will be offering private classes throughout July and August. Private classes are a wonderful opportunity to enjoy learning how to cook delicious Thai food with friends, family or workmates. We host classes up to 16 people.

Public Classes begin again in September

On September 17, we will resume offering public classes, which are sponsored by the Panorama Recreation Centre. You may reserve your place now by either phoning us at 250-656-1227 or by writing us an email. You may also book through the Panorama Recreation Centre. To view all of the dates and classes offered during the Fall, please click here.

Meeting and Greeting Food Fans from Everywhere!

Last summer, dozens of people came to visit us on the Flavour Trail in North Saanich — and this summer we will be welcoming visitors to our home again on Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18. We are proud to be included in this wonderful community event that celebrates food producers and purveyors once every year in North Saanich. Last year, many of our neighbours came to call and get to know us a little better. We also met many folks from much farther away, who came for a unique experience of this rural island community. We are looking forward to meeting more friends, neighbours and visitors this year! COME JOIN US!

Tyson Youell, at eight months old, is the youngest student who has ever attended Kallayanee’s Kitchen. Proud parents Matt and Heather are proud boosters of their young Foodie.

The Panorama Recreation Centre sponsors all of our Standard, Vegetarian and Dessert Classes during the Spring and Fall seasons. In these photos, students prepare and enjoy dishes from my Lesson Eight Class, “Tastes from the South of Thailand.”

Joan LeCourt, a food caterer in Smithers, recently brought a gang of friends to Kallayanee’s Lesson Two class. Everyone enjoyed the delicious items in the class: Tom Yum Kung, Green Beans with Sesame Oil and Garlic, Chicken Satay, Fried Rice with Shrimp, Thai Style Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs.

It was an unusual awards night recently at Kallayanee’s Kitchen when four green chef caps  were given to (from left) Diana Eagle, Philippa Chen, Sarah Conrad and Marion Hutchinson. Kallayanee is between Philippa and Sarah. The caps are awarded to students who complete at least 10 classes. All had previously earned a free Kallayanee’s Kitchen apron for attending five classes.