Seattle Cooking Camp 2025
Learn from the best at the world’s biggest cooking summer camp! Our professional chef instructors cater to all skill levels within professional kitchen settings, empowering students to create incredible dishes using fresh, scratch ingredients.
More than just a summer culinary program, we’ve crafted a unique experience that goes beyond the kitchen. We nurture essential life skills, fostering independence, leadership, confidence, authenticity, creativity, collaboration, self-care, empowerment, advocacy, and a forward-thinking mindset.
Learn more about our day and overnight culinary camp below, and find out more about professional kitchens, our 100+ recipes, daily schedule, and more.
campusSEA Program Details: Kitchen Location
2025 Dates
Session 1: July 20-26
Session 2: July 27-Aug 2
Day students: Attend 10am-6pm Mon – Fri
Residential students: move in to University of Washington Sunday; move-out Saturday morning after their session.
Ages
12-17 years old
Type
Residential or Day
Location
1701 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
PROFESSIONAL KITCHENS:
Pro Kitchens + Pro Chefs: high school chefs
We offer professional-level culinary training in a professional kitchen setting, with experienced chefs guiding you every step of the way. The summer culinary program runs from 10am to 6pm, giving you ample time to perfect your skills using the best equipment available. What culinary delights do you hope to create during your time with us?
In contrast to other cooking summer camps that only provide limited access to equipment and ingredients, our program is truly focused on the culinary arts, giving students the opportunity to master their craft in a professional environment.
We make all of our 100+ recipes from scratch; we have professional commercial kitchens to work in, and our staff is the best.
Our kitchen is located at Seattle Culinary Academy: 1701 Broadway. Seattle, WA 98122. See map HERE!
For the ultimate high school cooking camp experience, we’ve hand-selected the finest professional kitchens in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest region. Forget basic cooking camp setups – at our summer culinary program, you’ll learn using top-tier, professional-grade equipment!
Looking for an exciting cooking camp for teens? At Summer Culinary, we’ve designed a culinary adventure just for you! Imagine learning from professional chefs using the best equipment, all while diving into a curriculum that’s as fun as it is informative. It’s like a culinary amusement park where you create delicious masterpieces!
Our program is designed to give you the keys to the pro kitchen kingdom and let you unleash your culinary creativity. So, let’s forget the boring old classrooms, and let’s focus on the fun stuff- cooking up a storm and creating culinary masterpieces that’ll make your taste buds dance!
Savory or Pastry Concentrations:
Seattle is one of our summer culinary camps with two distinct tracks: savory and pastry.
This summer you can choose between our savory culinary camp and our pastry and baking camp tracks, just like our NYC location. Pick whichever you want; you’ll stay in that track the entire week. Pro tip: attend 2 sessions, get the discount, and do both tracks, one each week!
Savory
Our savory track is designed for all-around cooking, skill development, and focuses more on appetizers and entrees, with less about dessert or baking. This is for the dinner chefs of the future!
Pastry
Our pastry or baking camp option allows for students who really want to bake, or who want to focus on pastry, get to do that literally all day. The dishes those students produce are AMAZING!
DAILY SCHEDULE
Here is what an average day at campusSEA looks like:
8am – 9am: Residential students get up, get dressed and have breakfast in the UW dining hall.
9:15: Take the train from the stop directly next to UW, to the stop directly in front of the kitchen.
9:45am – 10am: Day students arrive, get ready. Residential students arrive and get ready.
10am – 6pm: Dedicated kitchen time. All students are in the kitchen. Chef instructors lead skill development exercises like knife skills. Our students cook their own lunch and dinner as part of our proprietary curriculum.
5pm – 6pm: All food is plated and readied for demo. Everyone takes pictures of their plated food. Chefs inspect, taste, discuss and encourage students. Then everyone eats and packs up.
6pm: Day students head home, residential students go back to dorm.
6:00pm – 9:00pm: Evening activities. Curated events, games, excursions, it all happens now. Rogue Squads, karaoke, as much fun as we can dream up! Sometimes our residential students will go straight from the kitchen to out and about Seattle on the train, sometimes they may want to go back to the fabulous UW facilities and relax.
9pm – 11pm: Hang out and enjoy the residence hall, the amazing campus, find places to spend our food cards, chill in our rooms, and enjoy chatting with our new friends.
EXPLORE SEATTLE
Explore Seattle with your new friends:
We are psyched to explore Seattle. The metro system is easy, fast, safe, both University of Washington Station and the U District Station are located right outside the doors at UW. We have some great adventures planned, and we stand ready to jump in if we discover something new, cool, a pop-up concert, and anything else!
In years past, Summer Culinary students have had the incredible opportunity to ascend the iconic Space Needle, taking in the breathtaking panoramic views that showcase the beauty and vibrancy of Seattle.
Past Summer Culinary students have had the chance to visit Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), where they could explore its engaging collections dedicated to music, science fiction, and popular culture.
Rogue Squads in Seattle:
In the evenings, we’ll be taking trips on our way from the kitchen back to the dorms. We will be visiting popular spots like Pike’s Fish Market, the Space Needle, and the Jimi Hendrix Museum.
- Pike Place Market
- Space Needle
- Museum of Pop Culture: Jimi Hendrix
- Seattle Great Wheel
- Seattle Waterfront
- and just too much to list!
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM:
Try On College Life at
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
University of Washington: where our high school chef students live
Our culinary camp students will be living at the University of Washington! UW is such a wonderful campus, safe, clean, high-tech and fabulous. We are very excited to make this our cooking camp home in Washington!
*Bonus just for our UW Program – everyone gets a UW swipe card including food money!*
Every campusSEA student is issued a UW swipe card, which provides access to University facilities, internet access, door opening, access to lounge, everywhere. Each card also holds $30/day in food credits, which can be used at any dining hall, cafe, or restaurant on campus as well as vending machines late night, or even some select businesses just off campus like Chipotle.
Ensuite bathrooms: Students are placed in doubles, often with an en suite bathroom. The residence halls have their own lounges and social spaces, and we also get to explore those facilities on campus. This is a unique, powerful and extraordinary chance to try on college life and a new future, right now.
Rooftop Lounge of one of the dorms to relax and get away. Below are more pictures of campus.
Testimonials
“Summer Culinary is a fun place where you get to experience what it’s like being a chef. Not only cooking but working together in a team, washing, plating, it’s a great experience for somebody who is looking for a career in the culinary arts. Another thing I liked is the afternoon activities. I personally looked forward to each afternoon activity. The activities were fun and cool. All in all, it was a great experience! I love my experience and hope to return as a CIT Chef In Training!”
– 2022 Student
“It was so cool to see our daughter gain confidence in her baking and develop leadership skills working with her peers in the kitchen. We were so impressed with her team’s pastry creations! – 2021 Parent
““My favorite thing about summer culinary was trying all different cuisines of food to eat and to make. It was also the most positive and fun experience and it felt like anyone could join and feel accepted.”
-Adriana, 2022 Student (San Juan, PR)”
Good communication before and during the camp. My daughter came home raving about her experience. – 2024 Parent
The transformation of my child. The confidence level grew over the week. – 2024 Parent
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Learn more About our Cooking Camp in Seattle
Discover the ultimate cooking summer camp experience in the vibrant city of Seattle! Hosted on the prestigious University of Washington campus, Summer Culinary offers an immersive program where aspiring teen chefs can hone their culinary skills in a dynamic and inspiring environment. Surrounded by the energy of a world-class university and the culinary richness of the Pacific Northwest, this cooking summer camp provides a unique blend of hands-on learning and exploration, setting the stage for an unforgettable summer of culinary discovery.
This summer culinary program provide an invaluable opportunity for students to hone their skills within the dynamic setting of professional kitchens. Guided by experienced chefs, participants learn essential professional techniques, from mastering knife skills and understanding flavor profiles to executing complex recipes with precision. Most importantly our summer culinary programs instill the fundamental importance of maintaining a clean and organized workspace! This comprehensive approach ensures that students not only develop strong culinary abilities but also cultivate the crucial habit of tidiness, a hallmark of any successful chef.
Beyond the stove, our cooking camp for teens at Summer Culinary cultivates a wealth of essential life skills. Through collaborative cooking projects students develop valuable communication and teamwork abilities. Navigating a professional kitchen environment fosters independence, organizational skills, and the ability to follow instructions effectively. This cooking camp for teens is designed to nurture not just culinary talent, but also crucial personal growth that extends far beyond the kitchen, preparing them for success in various aspects of their lives.
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