San Diego Culinary Institute

Study techniques, not recipes

You can learn recipes from a cookbook. Come to sdci because you want a career.

Over 80% of your intensive, hands-on program of study takes place in a kitchen. You work beside exceptionally well-qualified Chef Instructors, in well-equipped kitchens that feature small class sizes. Because we offer diploma programs, you won't waste your time (or money) on make-work General Ed courses. All of your training focuses on the skills you need to launch your new career in one of the world's elite fine-dining kitchens and to quickly get ahead, like so many SDCI graduates have done before you.