Learn North Indian Cuisine in Lucknow

The cradle of Awadhi dum-pukht cooking, where the famed slow-fire lineage and a national-grade hotel-management institute meet in one city.

★ Best place to go
Birthplace of the discipline

Lucknow, India

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The cradle of Awadhi dum-pukht cooking, where the famed slow-fire lineage and a national-grade hotel-management institute meet in one city.

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

★ Best course for this craft

Diploma in Food Production

Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition (IHM Lucknow) — Lucknow, India

A government IHM diploma focused entirely on the kitchen, run in the Awadhi capital of Lucknow. The full-time program covers professional food production — stocks, sauces, butchery, Indian and continental cookery and kitchen operations — with hands-on training kitchens, and includes a six-month industrial training placement. Entry requires completion of 10+2 schooling.

18 months (includes 6 months industrial training) Full-time institutional program with practical training kitchens and industry placement Diploma in Food Production (IHM / NCHMCT-affiliated system)

A full-time, hands-on culinary diploma at a government hotel-management institute in Lucknow, the home city of Awadhi and Mughlai cooking.

from ₹30,900Visit Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition (IHM Lucknow) ↗
Where it is taught — hand-verified

Schools in Lucknow

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What you walk away with

The credential

NCHMCT / IHM Diploma in Food Production (or accredited culinary diploma) · Certifying body: NCHMCT (National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology) / IHM diploma system

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.

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Why you can trust this map

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.

Before you trust any school — mine or anyone else's — ask these five things
  1. Who actually teaches it? Can you find them by name, with a track record you can check yourself?
  2. Is the craft alive in that place, or is the school the only thing there? A real scene has more than one good option.
  3. What exactly do you walk away with — a recognised qualification, or a certificate they printed themselves? Ask which.
  4. Can you speak to someone who did the course? A real person, not a testimonial on their own page.
  5. What happens on a bad day — weather, an injury, a teacher who doesn't show? A serious place has an honest answer.

If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.

This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.