The Chopping Block

The Chopping Block, Chicago's largest recreational cooking school and gourmet retail store, offers demonstration and hands-on cooking classes, as well as wine classes, private cooking parties and corporate team building events. Classes at our two locations (Merchandise Mart and Lincoln Square) cover subjects from cooking basics to intensive Boot Camps as well as seasonal, date nights, healthy and kids classes.The Chopping Block, Chicago's largest recreational cooking school and gourmet retail store, offers demonstration and hands-on cooking classes, as well as wine classes, private cooking parties and corporate team building events. Classes at our two locations (Merchandise Mart and Lincoln Square) cover subjects from cooking basics to intensive Boot Camps as well as seasonal, date nights, healthy and kids classes.