Unprofessional Cancellation, Undercooked Food, Pathetic Contract Excuse, and Zero Accountability -…read moreNot a Luxury Chef Service I hired this company expecting a luxury in-home meal prep service. During the initial consultation, I was 100% upfront and told them I have young kids and pets. They sent me a Pinterest board to select my meals from. That's not what I consider a luxury in-home chef experience! Week 1: The oatmeal was completely inedible and the dressing ratio was way off. I gave them honest feedback when they asked for it. Week 2: Pink, undercooked chicken -- a serious food safety risk that could have made my family sick. Attached picture Instead of taking any accountability for their repeated mistakes, they tried to blame me. Their only way of handling poor food quality seems to be shifting the blame onto the client -- even though they are the professionals working in my home. Then they used a ridiculous excuse to cancel future service, which honestly I'm happy about, becasure the food isn't good! . Here is the exact wording from the contract they attached: "we reserve the right to cancel your in-home meal prep service at any time, if a chef arrives and finds that the information provided during the client consultation phone call was inaccurate they can refuse to perform service. This included, but is not limited to, an unusable kitchen, unsafe working conditions, or pets that are not contained outside of the kitchen. We also reserve the right to discontinue a service before completion if a pets are not contained and children are not supervised as this can create an unsafe environment for both the chef and the client" My son politely asked the chef if she likes Play-Doh and my dog accidentally walking into the house for a moment created an "unsafe work environment." That is laughable and immature. If those reasons are why you can't properly cook chicken, there is a bigger problem! Nothing was different from Week 1 to Week 2. It was the same chef. She had already worked in my home the previous week and knew exactly what the environment was like. She stayed and completed the entire service without any complaint. If it was truly unsafe, why didn't she refuse to continue "at any time" like the contract says she could? Because it wasn't unsafe. It was just a cheap excuse to avoid responsibility for their own screw-ups. Also, why come back week 2? Audrey may be a decent chef herself, but she clearly cannot run a professional company. I seriously question whether the chefs she sends into people's homes are even properly trained, licensed, or insured to be there. I've had a real private chef in Los Angeles for over 10 years. This Pinterest-level meal options - and of constant excuses and zero professionalism does not meet any reasonable standards for a luxury in-home chef service. They offered meals prepared in their kitchen and delivered as an alternative, but after this experience , I told them to never contact me again! Do NOT waste your money with this company. Inconsistent and sometimes unsafe food quality, unprofessional communication, and they'll cancel on you over normal family life the moment something goes wrong on their end. Stay far away.

I was so excited to use Chef Audrey for my club's annual Tea Party fundraiser. We were going to…read morehave actual tea party food served at our event. The food presented at our tasting was both visually appealing, heartly looking, fresh and tasty. Artisan bread, thicker sliced roast beef, a delicious chucky chicken salad, herb cream cheese english cucumber sandwiches, spinach & feta mini tartlets, and individual baby arugula salad cups with shaved parmesan & lemon vinaigrette. Yummy!!! Our agreement was 2k in costs to create the menu since tea party food is much more labor extensive plus cost of actual product used. I thought that was fair and helpful. Sadly, that is not what we received day of the event...for 234 guests. Evidently she had problems with employee's not showing up to create the menu, and to be plated at our event. We were to supply 10 volunteers to get the food out to our guests, luckily I had an additional 16 volunteers that were able to help her. Not enough tartlets were made for all the guests to get 2, and there were not enough cucumber sandwiches for every guest. Her solution for this issue was to remove the product costs for the tartlets & cucumber sandwiches since not every guest received them. At this point I just needed to get our guests feed and encourage her to keep herself together. Here's where it gets worse. The food wasn't anywhere near the quality, or flavor of what I tasted. The bread was not the same, it was cheap store bought sliced white bread. The roast beef was not the same, it was the prepackage lunch meat from the grocery store, and the chicken was from a can, not the beautifully diced chicken. Nothing that I tasted was served. There was no salad in cups prepared ahead of time, it had to be placed on the same plate as the tea sandwiches. I understand that things can happen and substitutions will need to be made, but not for everything. I felt that we did not receive 2k worth of "labor, transport, and plating" to her high quality standards, and she was unwilling to reduce that price, that had already been paid. From our prospective it felt like it was a bait and switch. Clearly, whatever employee issues she had, it started well before the day of our event. It was a just an awful experience and our only complaint was about the food, which by all accounts, should have been amazing. What a sad and embarrassing experience.

I hired them for a large work event with about 80 people and they were incredible in every way…read more Quick to respond, excellent communication, reasonably priced, and the food was exceptional. This was a breakfast event and everything they provided was fresh and tasty, and had a nice presentation. They were friendly and provided excellent service. Highly recommend

From the owner: 100% Vegan Catering, Vegan Cooking Classes, Vegan Products, Meat substitutes, Dairy Substitutes,…read moreVegan Cookbook

I had a horrible experience at Milan beauty school. So I looked for another school to go to to have…read moremy hair dyed. And I called the Institute of Technology. They saw me right away to dye My hair, I was treated fabulous there. I had all 3 instructors reviewing my hair. It came out perfect. The 2 students working on me were outstanding and I recommend anybody to go there and get your hair dyed

I graduated from IOT's HVAC program in June of 2026…read more I'll try and keep it as short and to the point as possible. To start to all my fellow veterans DO NOT waste your hard earned GI bill on this place there are better options and you can't get it back. This place is a welfare to work school through and through. As a guy who just got out of the Marines as a mechanic I was looking to get into HVAC and IOT had openings in the program at the time I was looking, they have a pretty solid administration office that sells the school and program to you and give you a sense of professionalism when you do your initial tour. Once you sign the papers and start classes is when you see the reality. To keep it short roughly 90% of your fellow students will be welfare sponsored by what's called workforce connection hence a vast majority don't even want to be there, scroll on their phone all day, barely show up throughout the course. Basically If you show up a few times and type a "1-2 sentences on what you've learned" for each assignment you'll pass, I had a kid in the class that showed up pretty much only for the finals and still graduated with no issues. The staff even made jokes about how bad his attendance was but obviously no one cared enough to ensure there was a professional environment where standards were held for the education and student conduct. I also had an incident where my property was stolen in the lab by a fellow student and luckily I caught him and when confronted he threatened to fight me. Im an adult and not going to partake in foolish activities especially at what's supposed to be a professional education center and followed the proper chain of command for reporting the incident and was ensured it wouldn't be "brushed under the rug" and it would be "properly dealt with" long story short nothing happened with the student, no repercussions happened and he was allowed to continue on like normal and graduated a few weeks later. There was also multiple threats and warnings posted due to other students who were attending this institution. There is no accountability to uphold a safe and professional learning environment from the directors whatsoever. Lastly to wrap it up and hit all the main points I'll give some credit from my personal experience with the staff and say the administrative office does a great job at helping you through the enrollment process, the girls at the front desk are extremely helpful and great at their job, the instructors are good people but you can tell some of them are just there for a paycheck and there's not really a lot of learning that will occur. I had multiple weeks where sometimes we didn't even know who was supposed to be the instructor/substitution for the day because they were absent and us students would sit for hours in class doing nothing until the school scrambled up someone to "sit in" on the class. The school really is just submitting your elementary style homework on an E-textbook and taking the quiz at the end of the week. I will say though Mr. Markus does a great job of instructing in person in the labs and the labs seemed to be improving towards the last few weeks of my time at IOT before graduating since he took some feedback from the students and implemented it into the lab work. I also would like to give credit to Jonathan in career services who does come into the class and try and get to know some of the students and potentially help them in their search for a career. There is a lot of downtime that could be used for instruction and learning where people are typically sitting on their phones, the environment feels more like a high school then it does a college, there is no accountability or expectation for professionalism and safety, you'll walk away from here with a few certs you could have paid a couple hundred bucks instead of 20k+ to take online that you need about a day to study for (the school uses the same courses and tests you can do by yourself online and drags it out over 5 week intervals). If it were up to me I would say look elsewhere for better opportunities, but that's really just my opinion based off my personal experience.

I took a cookie decorating class with my mother and it was fantastic. It was very fun and…read moreinformative. The teacher was so kind and so good at decorating those cookies! I looked around and they have just about anything you might need for specialty baking. Prices were very comparable as well. Thief offer lots of different classes and I will love to take another one!

I have enjoyed a few cake classes here teaching is hands on and great for those that are hands on…read morelearners. The abundance of supplies is inspiring! I have bought a few things and will say the quality is spot on compared to Amazon and pricing is almost the same as Michael's. Great service as well not just for me but every customer that walks in these ladies don't miss a beat! They are also extremely knowledgeable which is great because you can never have enough tips when it comes to baking!!

We had Chef Bill make our family of 11 a private dinner for our elopement in Yosemite, CA. It was…read moresuch an amazing experience. The food was super delicious and it was the perfect addition to our small wedding ceremony. I think the value is amazing, the prices were very reasonable. My family was impressed and I'm so glad we chose him to make our day that much more special. The team was super kind and attentive and each course was so so good. If I'm ever in the area again, I'll definitely reach out!

It was such a great experience with chef bill. He made tasty good food for me and my friends. He's…read morea fun guy. Will recommend him for sure.

This was such a fun experience!…read more My son got to enjoy a hands-on cooking lesson making pizza with his friends! Lindsay was an excellent teacher; her patience and pacing was perfect, earning the kids' trust and engagement in the impressive cooking space. The kitchen was stocked with all the necessary equipment. Kids helped measure using a digital scale and had fun with all the tactile, simple ingredients. After making dough with a partner, the kids were able to jump ahead, using a fresh ball of pre-made dough so they could enjoy the rest of the pizza-making process. Each child got to enjoy shaping their own crust and dressing it with sauce, cheese and pepperoni if they wanted! In the end, the kids got the eat their delicious masterpieces and take the the dough they made along with sauce and the full recipe to make and share at home (which we did, right away, literally as soon as we got home)! The whole experience was so fun! Not to mention, the kitchen is gorgeous, and attached to a showroom/boutique of beautiful home and rental dining setups for special events. It was a dream come true!! This is a new hidden gem for our family ae hope to take part in the seasonal classes they offer throughout the year!