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Take a cooking class in Sur La Table’s high-tech kitchen. Photography by James Camp

Kitchen Aid

by Allison Mitchell | Jezebel magazine | July 6, 2012

One-stop culinary emporium Sur La Table recently joined the Phipps Plaza family so that you can get cookin’. The 6,000-square-foot space is equipped with the essentials—from ingredients and appliances, to cookware and tabletop décor. Anchoring this roster is a state-of-the-art demo kitchen for cooking classes, like Italy on the Grill, Sushi 101 and Warm and Breezy Caribbean Cooking. Also turning up the heat is a slate of Date Night classes—Sizzling Summer Fiesta and Sultry Summer Steakhouse sound pretty damn delicious. Fully mic’d Resident Chef Kyle Shankman—a grad of Le Cordon Bleu culinary school and former executive chef at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta—leads classes with, ahem, all the passion and chops you can handle (hopefully that’s a boatload), while mirrored panels on the ceiling and a flat-screen TV provide 360-degree views of the slicing and dicing.

Don’t expect to just sample the goods, though—get down and dirty making your own. JEZ sat for an Italian cooking class through four delicious courses (pan-roasted chicory with pear salad; warm polenta with grilled portobello and Treviso; Italian meatloaf; and grapefruit and honey cake). Sweetening this entire deal (like it needs it): a weeklong 10-percent discount good for use after class and a BYOB standard for every single class. Taste that, Atlanta!

Call 800.243.0852 for class reservations.