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Portland, Oregon A Cook's Paradise

Our Mission

The Culinary Arts Program is taught at 1701 SW Jefferson Street in Portland's beautiful Goose Hollow neighborhood, located seconds from downtown. It contains three fully-equipped kitchen laboratories, as well as a 70-seat fine-dining restaurant with its own exhibition kitchen.

Fully-Equipped Kitchen Laboratories

The kitchen labs simulate, as realistically as possible, the typical facilities and equipment found in fine restaurants and other food service establishments. All are outfitted with up-to-date industry-standard equipment appropriate for every student level.

A Fine-Dining Restaurant

Ultimately, students will prepare meals in the exhibition kitchen in full view of restaurant guests. There's nothing like performing in front of a clientele to really sharpen your cooking skills.

Computer Lab for Business Details

Running a restaurant is so much more than cooking great meals. It involves planning, research, sourcing products, staffing and keeping track of hundreds of business details. That is why Oregon Culinary Institute features a computer lab. Here, students will have an opportunity to learn costing, nutritional analysis, purchasing and other business essentials of the profession. The lab is a classroom and a library resource where students will plan menus and research a variety of projects. Computers have become exceedingly common in professional kitchens; we want our graduates to be adept at using this valuable tool.

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