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Top 25 Culinary schools based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 348 culinary schools headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,494 professional contacts across them, including 637 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers culinary schools headquartered in the United States, 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.
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The 25 largest culinary schools based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trusted by food lovers since 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sticky Fingers Cooking® Cultivating ‘Cool’inary Curiosity in Kids® because It's Thyme to Turnip the Beet on What Kids Eat®.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A legendary name in the world of French baking, pastry, and the culinary arts, the CULINARY INSTITUTE LENOTRE is dedicated to innovative culinary arts education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taste Buds Kitchen specializes in fresh and unique cooking events.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Chopping Block, Chicago’s largest recreational cooking school and gourmet retail store, offers guests a large slate of demonstration and hands-on classes, as well as wine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “18 Reasons is a nonprofit that increases food security through the power of home cooking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At LIFT Enrichment, our mission is to make healthy cooking fun for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Culinary Careers Program (C•CAP) is a national workforce development nonprofit dedicated to training and supporting the next generation of food and hospitality leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bean Sprouts empowers kids and families to make healthy choices through our cafés and cooking schools, planted inside of family destinations (museums, science centers, zoos, theme…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We teach cooking as a practical skill for health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Triumph Higher Education Group brings together accredited culinary & hospitality education, workforce development, and professional recruiting into a single, coordinated global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (CSCA) is an iconic New England landmark, and for more than 40 years has been highly acclaimed among the nation’s premier culinary schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hudson Table is the premier culinary studio in the NY-Metro area, offering immersive hands-on cooking classes and custom events in its state-of-the-art kitchens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ALLERGIC TO SALAD is a culinary program providing trained educators to deliver high-quality hands-on, healthy classes for all ages - youth, adults, families, seniors and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arizona Culinary Institute, Arizona's premiere Culinary School offering a Diploma in Culinary Arts, Baking and Restaurant Management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Food Education Fund is a nonprofit that prepares and empowers culinary-focused public high school students and alumni in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mastering fire and fermentation is the thread that runs through all culinary arts." The CORD brand reflects the heritage of the Le Cordon Bleu cookery school and champions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Orleans' unrivaled culinary industry finally has a school to match.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Through a comprehensive curriculum in the culinary arts, baking and pastry, and hospitality and culinary management our experienced faculty works with our vibrant student…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everywhere you turn- the news, the media, there is a renewed interest to be back in the kitchen making healthy and creative meals for family and friends.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2008, Liberty’s Kitchen has provided impactful programming for New Orleans youth.” 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 based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 348 companies.
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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States 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. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 637 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.
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 based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 348 culinary schools headquartered in the United States 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?
Auguste Escoffier School Of Culinary Arts, headquartered in United States, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most culinary schools?
New York leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (11) and Chicago (9).
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 637 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 348 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.