Yarrow Cookery School in Longniddry, East Lothian, hires its teaching kitchen and courtyard for corporate team days, meetings, product launches, private classes and dinners. A hands-on cookery session fits 16 people and a demonstration-led event 20. The school stands in a restored steading about 18 minutes from Edinburgh by train.
Seminars and company events
The school runs a corporate team-building day of about four and a half hours. It starts with tea, coffee and light refreshments, followed by a guided cookery session led by the school's team, then the group eats what it has prepared. A sample lunch schedule runs from a 10:00 welcome to a 2:30 departure.
The space can also be hired on its own as a meeting room. It offers meeting tables, a projector and flip charts on request, tea, coffee and baked treats, an on-site bar and flexible seating layouts. Breakout areas, a south-facing courtyard and garden areas give a group places to step outside between sessions. The school lists strategic meetings, launches, private dinners, photoshoots and film projects among the uses it welcomes.
Weddings and receptions
The school describes cocktail parties, intimate celebrations and larger gatherings, as well as private classes for birthdays and family get-togethers. It does not state that it holds weddings.
Rooms and capacities
For private classes the school states it can comfortably take 16 people for hands-on cookery and 20 for demonstration-led events, with the whole space reserved for the group. The modern teaching kitchen sits inside the old stone walls of the steading. The page does not give a separate figure for meetings without cooking, so ask for the seating plan you need.
Accommodation
The steading community lists on-site accommodation as coming soon. Today, guests would stay in Edinburgh or the surrounding area.
Catering
Catering is part of the format. The menus include Mexican, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, South East Asian, South Indian, pasta and a seasonal Scottish seafood class from April to November, and dietary requirements can be accommodated. The school has an on-site bar, and a coffee shop operates in the courtyard.
History and setting
The school occupies a restored steading in Longniddry, on Scotland's golf coast. It describes itself as the UK's first fossil-fuel free cookery school. The steading also hosts a yoga and wellness hub, a flower school, a gym and a restored mill water wheel, and these shared courtyards suit breaks.
Getting there
The address is 11 Longniddry Steading, Longniddry EH32 0QJ. The school is a short walk from Longniddry train station, with free on-site parking, electric vehicle charging and coach access.
