Culinary Institute of Barcelona

Diploma in Haute Cuisine Chef

Haute Cuisine Chef Diploma

It's not enough to be a chef. Here we train chefs for a better 21st century.

The gastronomy sector is changing and evolving at an unstoppable pace.

New market trends, respect for the product, entrepreneurship, leadership in restaurant businesses, a forward-thinking outlook, and our responsible impact on sustainability make up the DNA of the program that trains the next generation of chefs.

People from around the world decide to transform their lives by taking the haute cuisine chef diploma for all different reasons, whether they are starting out in their culinary career, re-training after years of working in the industry or changing career paths to become a chef or culinary entrepreneur.

The Culinary Institute of Barcelona's chef course is arguably the most up-to-date and impactful culinary training program in the world and offers our students a radical transformation of their professional trajectory. In just a few short weeks, our students are capable of creating things that no one has ever done before, not just because of the in-depth knowledge they acquire about the product, the technology, or the context, but because we focus our entire educational model on inspiring creativity and culinary innovation.

The program fosters the development of lateral skills, such as managing oneself, others, and businesses; it teaches students how to lead, communicate and use storytelling to create memorable dining experiences; it enhances their social and professional attitudes to strengthen their leadership in the kitchen, all of which is taught in an evolutionary and cross-disciplinary way through challenges that put our students and their skills to the test.

It is an intensive and focused program that prepares you to enter the professional world after just eight months of classes and three or six months of supervised internships in restaurants. An educational experience within the CIB's characteristic international ecosystem in the city of Barcelona, one of the gastronomic capitals of the world and the number one choice for studying cooking.

More than 70 leading names from the international gastronomy stage teach in this program, which forms part of the training that leads to the Grand Chef Diploma. It demands a committed performance and involvement from students, not only in terms of culinary practice and learning but also in terms of immersing themselves in the future of gastronomy and developing skills and aptitudes required by 21st-century chefs.