COURSES OFFERED BY 18 REASONS

Our 18th Street Kitchen plays nightly host to hands-on cooking classes, cheesemaking and fermentation workshops, dinners with farmers and brewers, wine seminars... anything to help our community become more excited about cooking and eating great food.

lmost every country in South East Asia has a coastline, and thus, fish are a key feature in cuisines! In this class, we will learn to cook with fish in a few different ways. Fried whole, cooked in a curry, blended to create bouncy meatballs, and even in dessert!

Join 18 Reasons Chef and Culinary Instructor, Mike Weller, for a class in the basics of using your chef's knife at home. We will discuss the ins and outs of knife use, care and safety. You will walk away knowing how to maintain a sharp edge and the best way to cut vegetables and herbs.

Who doesn’t love salad!? It’s gorgeous. It’s convivial. It’s really just a celebration on your plate. A good salad often is simply a mix of textures and flavors: creamy, crisp, herby, lemony, tender, rich and/or pungent.

18 Reasons has the perfect way to start your week: come join us for a very quick and easy 2 hour cooking class on a Monday night.  We will learn a ton: how to make our own mayonnaise, how to safely fry fish, and the science behind perfect oven-baked fries.

It's time for a mid-week pizza party! Tonight, we'll be making and baking our own Detroit-style pizzas at 18 Reasons! If you've never tried this style, it originated in Detroit in the 1940s when a bar keeper decided to bake pizza in a square blue steel pan.

In this class on Malaysian cuisine, we're focusing on the state of Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo, and separated from the Malaysian Peninsula by the vast South China Sea.

One of the hallmarks of traveling to Mexico City is the rich street food culture. In this cooking class we will make crunchy Tacos de Canasta (basket tacos) filled with potato and carrots and creamy salsa de aguacate to drizzle on top.

The class will focus on three savory dishes, but we couldn't let you go home without a little sweet bite, so we're leaning on our friends at Bi-Rite Creamery to provide a seasonal sweet bite to finish our meal.

Indian curries often steal the limelight, but breads are worthy of celebrity, too! In this class, we'll make three Indian breads. Though they taste vastly different, each has an approachable technique for home cooks.