If you have watched Master Chef and fancy an opportunity to show off your skills or you are a novice and would like to learn more about cooking, you are able to book cookery lessons with our head chef Phillip Sharpe who will share his knowledge and passion with you. Prices start from £100.00 per hour.

Cocktail School

Be it corporate team building, wanting to learn about cocktails or just a laugh amongst friends. We promise our cocktail school has all the right ingredients and a cocktail or two along the way for a great fun filled training session.

So get ready to mix and shake drinks from enduring classics to modern concoctions under the guidance of our head mixologist before going head to head against your colleagues or friends for the ultimate taste challenge!

Available for between 2 and 40 people. Prices start from £25.00 per person

Please contact us on 0116 251 88 98 for more information.

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Cocktail Lessons at Maiyango hotels restaurant

Cocktail school at Hotel Maiyango

by enjoy great good magazine

Multi-award winning Hotel Maiyango in Leicester is running cocktail classes.

The boutique hotel and restaurant, which won gold in the 2010 Enjoy England Excellence Awards, can cater for between two and 40 budding mixologists.

If you’ve ever been to Maiyango you might be aware of their excellent seasonal cocktail menu (Black Forest Gateaux anyone?) and head chef Philip Sharpe (pictured above) loves combining flavours not just in the kitchen but behind the bar, too.

Maiyango’s Black Forest Gateaux concoction In the cocktail classes you’ll create both classics and individual concoctions under the guidance of the hotel’s head mixologist.

Maiyango is an independently owned hotel in the centre of Leicester. Proprietor Aatin Anadkat is passionate about Leicestershire produce and his ‘Maiyango Loves Local’ policy means the venue is committed to sourcing local ingredients.

For example, much of the seasonal fruit used in the cocktails comes from Sarah Field from Saffron Acres, an inner-city community allotment, while the kitchen uses flour from Claybrooke Mill.

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