Customer Reviews and Sweet Words
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HEAT Culinary in the Press
CAMEO Micro-Biz Article - July, 2018' https://microbiz.org/?s=heat+culinary
805 Living: Restaurant Issue - March, 2018' 805living.com/
National Award - Top 60 Culinary Blogs & Websites, 2017' https://blog.feedspot.com/culinary_blogs/
Carpinteria Small Business Excellence Award - Food Truck, 2017' http://www.smallbusinessexcellence.org/about-your-award/
Editorial in Santa Barbara Magazine, On a Roll, Spring 2015
Featured on WEV- Women's Economic Ventures, April 6th, 2015
Featured in Sentinel- Food File, April 4th, 2015 (pg. 24)
Featured in Coastal View News, January 2015 (pg. 21)
Featured in Noozhawk, January 2015
Featured in SantaBarbaraSkinny.com, February 2014
Editorial Seasons Magazine, Winter 2013
Editorial in 805 Magazine, Food & Wine Sept. 13' Issue
Featured in Santa Barbara Seasons, Summer 2013
"Cooking with Books" blogpost by Marnely Rodriguez-Murray
Customer Testimonials
Chef Nikki is an excellent instructor and helps you feel right at home in the kitchen. She makes the experience great fun and even complicated procedures seem easier to understand and execute! It is more like cooking with a friend than a professional chef! Nikki is full of energy and has a wonderful attitude toward cooking; you can tell she really loves to cook and teach you to be a better cook too. The skills I have learned from her can be put to use in my kitchen right away. I am sure that I will take more classes from her in the future. - Mark Davis
"As a Mother’s Day gift, I decided to take my Mom to one of Nikki's cooking classes....best idea ever! My Mom and I had a blast!! Nikki has a way of teaching the culinary arts in a casual, fun, and friendly environment that allows everyone to feel like they're cooking at home. The atmosphere was comfortable which made it easy to ask questions. I couldn't recommend Nikki's cooking classes enough. Fantastic time with a fantastic chef! - Justin Richardson
Terrific Experience! Amazing food with a talented, friendly, and energetic teacher! Chef Nikki brings everything needed (and I mean everything, from the food and kitchen wares to cleaning supplies and trash bins!) - All you need to provide is a kitchen and a desire to learn. You can tell she is talented enough to work in any traditional restaurant environment, but that this is truly her passion. At the end of the evening, we were left with an enormous amount of delicious food, and Chef Nikki and her sous chef cleaned up and left our place spotless, much cleaner than when they arrived! The combination of food, service, attention to detail, and excitement was impeccable - can't wait to do dinner with her again soon! - Zachary Dominguez
Chef Nikki and her Sous Chef extraordinaire are both AMAZING! This was the best class I have ever purchased! Chef Nikki is so talented and has studied with world-renowned chefs all over the world. She is the sweetest, most delightful person and her love for cooking shows in her infectious energy and her yummy dishes! I cannot believe how much we learned during this cooking lesson. - Jennifer Kinsella