Casita offers 133 off-campus Le Cordon Bleu London student accommodation options, including London student rooms and London student halls just a few minutes away. All student accommodations have many room types and a plethora of facilities. The room types include Studios, Ensuites, and flats. The facilities and services have Wi-Fi, all-bills inclusive, on-site laundry, communal spaces, bike storage, and 24/7 Security and CCTV.
Why Study at Le Cordon Bleu London
Le Cordon Bleu London school was basically a section in the french journal written by the French journalist, Marthe Distel, and was then called “La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu”, which had the most unique recipe collection and soon became the most popular magazine in January 1895. “La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu” magazine’s popularity got bigger and bigger to the point of establishing a small Parisian cookery school in October 1895.
The small Parisian cookery school was joined by students from all over the world, including Rosemary Hume and Dione Lucas, who imported Le Cordon Bleu tradition to London, and started their new school and called “L’Ecole du Petit Cordon Bleu”. In 1935, Hume and Lucas rent a vacant tea shop and turned it into a restaurant, which was their first restaurant, called “Au Petit Cordon Bleu”. However, the school was suspended in 1939 due to the Second World War, but the restaurant remained open.
Following the war, the school was relaunched in 1945, but this time in partnership with the influential flower arranger Constance Spry. The school’s success was confirmed in 1953 when it was asked to prepare the Coronation Luncheon for Queen Elizabeth II, for which Rosemary Hume created the recipe “Coronation Chicken”, widely known nowadays. In 2017, Le Cordon Bleu London and Birkbeck University partnered up to provide a unique Bachelor of Business Administration in Culinary Industry Management. On top of that, Birkbeck, the University of London, and Le Cordon Bleu London began the Master of Sciences in Culinary Innovation Management in October 2020.
Departments and Divisions
Le Cordon Bleu London offers a wide variety of programs to suit each student’s interest, with the most popular program out there, Grand Diplôme®. Here are more details about each program, the tuition, the duration, the content, and more.
Grand Diplôme® is an intensive program combining Diplôme de Pâtisserie and Diplôme de Cuisine is the key to a world of career opportunities. Cuisine is a master basic to the advanced culinary technique that applies to any style of cuisine. Pastry & Confectionery courses range from specialized ateliers, basic through advanced levels of pastry and confectionery craft making, plated and boutique style desserts, world delicacies, and precise decorating techniques. Bakery, Danish Pastries & Artisan Breads helps you learn typical French bread-making techniques and processes for making bread.
Hospitality Management & Gastronomy is a program that teaches operational, supervisory, and management skills. Wine & Spirits Courses range from initiation modules to Food and Wine Pairing to Wine Management. Gastronomy & Nutrition is specialized in exploring Gastronomy through practical culinary skills alongside the principles of Nutrition. Culinary Arts & Business is an innovative program focusing on developing knowledge and appreciation of fine food and wine. Gourmet & Short Courses for beginners consists of a wide range of courses designed to satisfy the time and budget-conscious. Les Petits Cordons Bleus is the perfect cooking course to encourage children to develop their creativity.
Other Programmes include unique courses specific to their campuses that will suit you. Online Learning-Accredited offers the same rigorous curriculum as our on-campus programs with the flexibility to help you to achieve the important balance between work and life while studying in real-time. Online Learning-Non Accredited courses are designed to expand your knowledge, enhance your skills and encourage new ways of thinking and understanding.
Facilities and Resources
Le Cordon Bleu London is ideally located a few miles away from Covent Garden, Soho, and Leicester Square. Le Cordon Bleu London school provides its students with premium practical cooking equipment, classroom facilities, and tons of amazing services.
Practical Facilities include self-contained work stations incorporating induction range and preparation area for each student, digital sous-vide water baths, multi-zone convection ovens, fully equipped bakery kitchens with retarder proofers and stone based deck ovens, tandoori and duck ovens, ventilated ceilings, temperature, and humidity-controlled kitchens, a professional wine tasting room, professional wine tasting equipment and accessories, large selection of glassware.
Classroom Facilities include lecture theatres with demonstration areas and audio-visual technology, ceiling-mounted demonstration mirrors, large open plan events area, SmartBoard technology. Student Facilities are a library of culinary, wine, and hospitality management books with a quiet study area and computer access, an on-site café serving fresh bread, pastries, savories, and beverages, lounge and computer corner with internet access. Take a virtual tour around the school and see for yourself!
Nearby Universities
The school is surrounded by tons of the most popular universities in the UK. Le Cordon Bleu London is just a 4-minute drive to Ulster University London Campus, a 7-minute drive to the University of London, and a 6-minute drive to Anglia Ruskin University.