Kitchens
Tante Marie Culinary Academy and Restaurant are just 50 yards from Woking station which is 20 minutes from central London, in new, state-of-the-art premises. The Academy's central, town centre location is within easy reach of London, Heathrow and Gatwick airport, extensive parking and other amenities.
Our Poggenpohl kitchens offer modern, stylish and luxurious environments, where beautiful design comes with the solid reassurance of reliability and consistency. The facilities at Tante Marie Culinary Academy are specifically designed to promote skills based learning to ensure that our graduates can adapt to any environment as they develop their careers.
Each kitchen is equipped with a variety of different appliances and cooking mediums to promote skills based training, versatility and adaptability in our students. The most technologically advanced Neff appliances are used at the Academy, including a combination of gas and induction across 9 kitchens. Students will move around the school, cooking in every kitchen to ensure that they learn how to adapt their skills to any cooking environment.
The Restaurant at Tante Marie is the latest addition to our impressive home - a fully functioning restaurant, open to the public for lunch and dinner 7 days a week provides a facility for our graduates to gain real experience in a high quality arena. Successful graduates may undertake a paid apprenticeship in The Restaurant, learning about all aspects of running a hospitality business and gaining a foundation degree level qualification in the process.
The Restaurant kitchen
Within just a few steps of the Academy students have all the facilities they need:
- A wide range of cafes, restaurants and bars
- 2 shopping centres
- New Victoria Theatre and cinemas - part of the nationwide Ambassador Theatre Group
- Residential accommodation through our list of accommodation providers
- Extensive transport links - just 20 minutes to central London, either directly to London Waterloo, Clapham Junction or Wimbledon stations and on the direct line to Portsmouth, Southampton and the south coast
- Regular local busses and trains to Guildford and the surrounding villages and towns
- Extensive public car parking with season tickets available via the Woking Borough Council website
- Woking Library is located just 100 yards from the school with extensive IT and research facilities
- A wide range of local restaurants and hotels who regularly offer employment to Tante Marie students during their courses
- The Tante Marie Gardens - located just 1 mile from our central Woking base is our extensive fruit, vegetable and herb gardens where students grow a wide range of seasonal fruits and vegetables for use in the school
You can take a full tour of the Academy and Restaurant by clicking here.