Hospitality, Cookery & Bakery

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Are you up for expanding your horizons, hanging out (sometimes until ridiculous hours!) and most importantly LOVE learning how to cook, serve customers, bake, create and laughing out loud when you don’t quite get it right? If this is you, then join our facebook and get involved!

The Centre for Hospitality, Cookery & Bakery at Holmesglen offers courses in hotel management, food and beverage, sommelier, housekeeping, bakery, patisserie and cookery programs including traineeships and apprenticeships.

Our highly trained and passionate staff arrange work placement roles for students in all study areas. Opportunities for work placement exist with over 200 training partners including: Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt Melbourne, Hilton on the Park, Langham Melbourne, Atlantic Group Central Pier, Crown Hotels and Conference Venues, Bakers Delight, Brumbys, La Parisienne Bakery and Patisserie, Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group (ALH).

Our strong involvement with industry in cooking competitions such as the Lifestyle FOOD Channel Australian Regional Culinary Competition gives students the chance to shine under pressure and achieve their best. You too could be the National cookery Apprentice of the Year like apprentice graduate Bronwyn O'Grady or be crowned AUS-TAFE National Cookery apprentice of the year like second year apprentice Colin Wilson. Several students have also followed their dream and worked overseas at Mugaritz in Spain (voted one of the top 5 restaurants in the world) or work in the Sheraton Grand Laguna Resort Phuket (Thailand)

Industry events – Holmesglen students are given the opportunity to participate in major events such as the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Langham Master Class and the Good Food Show working with Australian and overseas celebrity chefs including Guy Grossi, Neil Perry, Curtis Stone, Peter Evans and Nigella Lawson.

A new career - Are you working, between jobs or studying already and would like flexibility in your study so you can still earn some money? Then enquire about the many hospitality, cookery, bakery and patisserie courses that we have on offer. Turn your passion into a career.