Learn New Basque Cuisine in Errenteria / Lasarte-Oria (Gipuzkoa)

Honest level: Intermediate -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Andoni Luis Aduriz (Mugaritz)
• Martín Berasategui

Schools in Errenteria / Lasarte-Oria (Gipuzkoa)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Mugaritz (creativity stage)
  Kitchen stage / culinary internship at Mugaritz (Errenteria)
  Andoni Luis Aduriz's two-Michelin-star restaurant in Errenteria runs a multi-month kitchen stage where selected cooks work the line and rotate through its research-and-development team that builds each season's menu. Honest note: this is a competitive restaurant stage you apply for, not an open course you can book — listed for the lineage, not as a class.
  https://www.mugaritz.com/en/
• Martín Berasategui (restaurant stage)
  Restaurant stage / práctica at the Lasarte-Oria flagship ('Work with us')
  The three-Michelin-star flagship in Lasarte-Oria takes on stagiaires through its 'Work with us' channel, placing experienced cooks in the kitchen brigade of Martín Berasategui's original restaurant. Honest note: this is a competitive restaurant stage you apply for, not an open course you can book — listed for the lineage, not as a class.
  https://www.martinberasategui.com/en/inicio

The credential

Basque Culinary Center Degree in Gastronomy & Culinary Arts / Master in Culinary Arts · Certifying body: Basque Culinary Center / Mondragon University (Bachelor & Master in Gastronomy)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for New Basque Cuisine

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.