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Top 25 Culinary schools worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,989 culinary schools worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 22,157 professional contacts across them, including 2,623 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers culinary schools worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for culinary schools follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest culinary schools worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 586 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A maior rede de franquias de escolas de gastronomia do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Cordon Bleu is a world-renowned network of educational institutions dedicated to providing the highest level of culinary and hospitality instruction through world class…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 417 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Auguste Escoffier Schools of Culinary Arts offer professional culinary arts programs based on the methods, principles and systems of Auguste Escoffier, the international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kendall College of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management at National Louis University is focused on helping students turn their passions into a career they will love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) has launched more than culinary careers in food and hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Benvenuti in ALMA, la Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The roots of ABC Cooking Studio began in a one-floor building in Shizuoka, Japan in 1985 with the creed that "Food is the most important thing to one's healthy life, it should be…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sommet Education is a unique education group specialised in hospitality management and the culinary arts, committed to delivering an exceptional student experience and developing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centro Académico de mayor prestigio en Latinoamérica dedicado a la enseñanza en Ciencias Gastronómicas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hotel- og Restaurantskolen er Nordeuropas største brancheskole inden for hotel, restaurant og turisme.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “İstanbul Maslak’ta faaliyet gösteren Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (MSA), Profesyonel Aşçılık, Profesyonel Pasta - Ekmekçilik, Profesyonel Pasta Süsleme Teknikleri, Profesyonel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis École Ducasse transmet le savoir-faire et la philosophie du Chef Alain Ducasse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hotel-Escuela de Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona (Escuela Universitaria de Hotelería y Turismo de Sant Pol de Mar y Centro de Gastronomía y Restauración de Sant Pol de Mar).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Instituto de gastronomía” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Centro de Estudios Superiores de San Ángel (CESSA) es considerado hoy una las universidades más importantes a nivel mundial dentro de los Negocios de la Industria de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, a member of the EHL Network of Certified Schools, is a technical university college which provides Bachelor and Diploma programs, founded in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nuestra misión es formar profesionales íntegros, innovadores, visionarios, con vocación de servicio y con una extraordinaria preparación académica de vanguardia que forjados en un…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As part of Sommet Education, ISH is focused on transforming and reimagining hospitality education, grooming the leaders of tomorrow with the tools they need to shape one of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trusted by food lovers since 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos la institución pionera en la formación de profesionales para la Hospitalidad, la Gastronomía y las Comunicaciones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El grupo debe su nombre a la prestigiosa chef, Mey Hofmann, quien fundó la escuela en Barcelona en 1983.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2005, the International Centre for Culinary Arts (ICCA) Dubai is an industry centred vocational training (VET) centre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En la Escuela de Gastronomía Mariano Moreno, estamos comprometidos con cada uno de nuestros estudiantes para que descubran y transformen su pasión por la cocina en una oportunidad…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Barcelona Culinary Hub is the Higher School of Gastronomy with a business-oriented vision applied to the restaurant industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: culinary schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names culinary schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of culinary schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name culinary schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Culinary schools worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among culinary schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for culinary schools are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “culinary schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names culinary schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among culinary schools, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,623 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Culinary schools by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Culinary schools list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Culinary schools based in the United States348
- Culinary schools based in France172
- Culinary schools based in Italy121
- Culinary schools based in India95
- Culinary schools based in Spain92
- Culinary schools based in the United Kingdom77
- Culinary schools based in Canada44
- Culinary schools based in the Netherlands35
- Culinary schools based in Switzerland30
- Culinary schools based in Australia29
- Culinary schools based in South Africa26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names culinary schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many culinary schools are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,989 culinary schools worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Instituto Gourmet Brasil, headquartered in Manaus, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most culinary schools?
The United States leads with 348 companies, followed by France (172) and Italy (121). Every culinary schools list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most culinary schools?
Paris leads with 29 headquartered companies, followed by London (24) and New York (21).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,623 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,989 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.