This page lists some of the educational opportunities available to residents of Canada. This list contains popular North American culinary and cooking schools.


The Art Institute of Toronto
Turn your passion into a four-star career. At The Art Institutes, you’ll explore traditional, fundamental cooking skills and get hands on training in our student-run restaurants.



The International School of Culinary at The Art Institute of Vancouver
Our culinary students come to us from different levels of experience but they all share the same thing - a passion for cooking. And they know something else: There are no shortcuts to a great culinary education. It's why they are here. At The Art Institutes, our students study traditional, fundamental cooking skills. And they explore the realities of working in restaurants and the food service industry. Watch the professionals at work as you pass by the kitchen of your favorite restaurant. It's orchestrated chaos and hard work. It's opportunity in a thriving industry, just waiting for your vision of the next great meal. Discover your culinary vision at The Art Institutes.



Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver, accredited with PCTIA, is chef owned and operated, free of management restrictions. The Academy offers curricula designed from the student’s perspective.  Our programs are affordable, practical and condensed without fillers.  We offer diploma programs in:

• Professional Culinary
• Professional Pastry & Bread Making
• One Year Professional Culinary & Pastry/Bread with 12 week Industry Practicum
• Practicum (pre-requisite required)

Our qualified chef-instructors, with years of broad North American and European experience are passionate, enthusiastic, inspiring.  They create a challenging learning environment of exciting energy, intense work ethic, study, creativity and teamwork. 

One of the Academy’s innovative features is its all-in-one open kitchen/classroom/demo station/chef’s table design that ideally coordinates theory and practice seamlessly. Students never face a wall and are in constant visual communication with colleagues and instructors.  

Come to see why Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver offers
an education like no other!