The Cook’s Warehouse

4 visits, 3 of them 5-​star worthy. Lord almighty, today though. The system couldn’t sign me up for the loyalty program without making a totally separate, unlinked account. The clerk cussed at the computer so much I thought I was going to hell. It took 13 — fricking thirteen! — minutes, repeated my phone number & email 4 times, to check out a single item and sign up for a class. The owners need to update their POS before the whole checkout experience becomes a ¹⁰⁄₁₀ P.O.S. Guys. It’s not that hard. I could write the whole franchise’s store + online + class system in 2 weeks. Get with it!

«Who died and made you Julia Child? You haven’t touched a spatula in ten years.» — Beverly Hills, 90 210: Season 2, Episode 18
I am not allowed in here without supervision… do you hear me? Now, if you want to find me a gift, odds are this is the place to shop. But be prepared to spend (and probably check out my kitchen first to find out what I need). This place is my Eden, my Mecca, my Heaven if such a place exists. My toy store — a place to get lost and play for hours.
The staff is friendly and if you know what you want or need — they will take you right to it and help you pick between models. If you don’t know what you need, the crack staff can help you decide and won’t steer you towards something pricier just because it’s more money. Trust me. I’m here every week to pick up my Garnish & Gather meals (shameless plug), and I walk and and out and know not to let my eyes stray or else I will spend.
I work hard to do my research before walking in the door, but occasionally I buy something that is on my wish list (I really shouldn’t do that), but usually they are shiny and call my name. They have fabulous classes as well — I’ve only done a couple and I am determined to do more next year! My favorite was Chef Kevin Gillespie’s demo for his new cookbook Pure Pork Awesomeness… nothing but awesome.
There is a reason I am the Duchess — they get a piece of me every paycheck.

One of the very best independent retailers on the planet. Great selection. Very knowledgable staff. Interesting programs for cooking aficionados. Great prices. One of my absolute favorite stores in Atlanta. Great place to browse.

These guys are AWESOME and that comes from a VERY picky guy. Great service, knowledgable, good smart products — and always honest and seemingly matched ot my needs.
First — their cooking classes are great for solo, couples and a group of friends.
They suggested higher quality cutting knves, but wait till on sale. We did that, and man do those knives matter as it relates to juicing etc. a joy.
That lead to sharpening my steak knives with their service –again was so needed.
I drink French Press coffee but now a little boring. These guys know how to explain the various coffee machines etc. great with samples.
My french wife loves smart gadgets and they always know when to suggest something helpful. LIke the garlic roller, simpler but sooo helpful.
Lastly, I had a product defect with a cool small footprint grill and they got me a replacement easily. No hassle.
If I could give 6 stars I would!

Ever watch… well, ANY show on food network in which the chef used some strange gadget or other. Ever wonder where they get those strange «garlic rollers», «ravioli bed molds» or «julianne peeler thingies»? HERE is where you can find all those special little doo-​dads you need for specialized cooking and baking.
Don’t worry, even if you don’t know the name of that «fondant spreader knife thingamjig», the fabulous team of staff is there (and more than happy) to help! As soon as you walk in, somebody will approach you with a smile and a «can I help you find anything specific?» They are knowledgeable of their stock (that includes the wine) and wonderfully helpful when you need something but you just don’t know what.
I highly recommend, if you get the chance, to take one of their cooking classes. They are not cheap (they run about $ 45-​$ 80 per class), BUT most of them are hands-​on, so YOU get to make the food after the chef instructs. So, not only do you get a full meal (and wine!), but you get to work with some highly-​esteemed chefs in the Atlanta area.
(Disclaimer: be prepared to devote a whole evening to a class– many go from 6:30 — 9:30 pm, but there are weekend classes as well.)
Larger than it’s local counterparts, this particular location can accommodate bigger classes and will give you a little more elbow room.
You’ll just have to get past the horribly yellow walls.

Intent for visit: browse (with no intent to purchase) a paring knife.
End: purchase of Wusthof Classic 3.5″ Paring Knife (for a price lower than anywhere I researched; see below).
Pleasantly surprised at my experience. Given its location, I expected (1) pretentious sales associates and (2) exorbitant prices. Colin behind the knives counter proved me wrong on both assumptions.
(1) Colin was beyond courteous — she was friendly. She entertained my nerdy questions about steel and shape and origins. I had a good idea of what I wanted, but she showed me higher-​end and lower-​end knives for comparison. She inquired about my intended use for a paring knife, gave me her thorough opinion rife with sound reasoning, and did not push any specific product (even cautioning me against the more expensive model). And all this knowledge without an ounce of arrogance that I often find at high-​end marketplaces. She wasn’t a «salesperson» in the used-​car context; she was an expert ensuring that her knowledge imparted value in peoples’ lives. Respect.
(2) Here’s the icing on the cake: pricepoint matched amazon.com’s. This blew my mind. Given its location, I expected the price to be higher than brick-​and-​mortar retail, and definitely higher than
. Wrong. The exact same as
, as well as the current sales price of
(i.e. Cook’s Warehouse would have been cheaper than
had
not been coincidentally hosting a one-​day sale).
And the cherry on top of the entire experience: I PAID LESS THAN AMAZON.COM’s PRICE. Cook’s Warehouse offers an industry discount, which ultimately brought my purchase price LOWER THAN ANYWHERE I RESEARCHED.
I’m now a lifetime customer. Thanks, Colin.
PS: an endorsement from Alton Brown doesn’t hurt either.

We stop in here any time we’re at Ansley shopping center. It’s way more of a store, than a cooking school, although they do offer cooking classes that one can pay and sign up for.
This store has a fantastic selection of kitchen wares for the beginner cook, to more professional chef types. We especially like the selection of kitchen gadgets, and things like unique sea salts and meat rubs. They also have an impressive selection of kitchen knives, cookware, and things that would make great gifts! Most of the staff is really helpful, and you can usually find at least a couple of employees walking the floor, if you have any question/​need help finding something.

Love this place. Strolled in there while walking through the Ansley shopping center with my husband. The women that work there are so sweet. They also have everything you could ever need for your kitchen.

My review is going to be about the store and not the classes as I haven’t been through them. Whenever I go into the store I feel like a small kid in Disneyland. There is so much to see and explore that I would buy the whole store if I could. I know previous reviewers have mention that they have products that you can find somewhere else and cheaper, and some of this is true, but if you want good quality and especially get a feeling of the product before buying it this is the right place. I do like to feel and see how heavy my kitchen products are going to be as I have been burned before while buying online.
Every time I come in I love to browse their products even if I already know what I’m getting as it gives me ideas of what will be useful in my next cooking experiment. For example, as I’m trying to go vegan and making my own almond milk I needed a nut milk bag. Where can you find something like that? I decided to give this place a chance and they had it! I have already use it once and it’s just what I was looking for.
The staff is very knowledgeable and friendly.

I really like Cook’s Warehouse. The store has everything a home cook wants, and even some things you didn’t know you needed. I can’t give more than 3 stars though because I rarely shop there. The staff are always extremely helpful, but there’s not much I can’t find online to have shipped to my house cheaper.
For impulse buys, or if you simply can’t wait, this is a nice place for a home cook to spend a few bucks. From knives to pans, and even cake decorating supplies, Cook’s Warehouse offers it all. While they have a lot of things, they don’t necessarily have several choices for those many things. Again, here is where the online experience trumps brick and mortar.
That said, I really love the place and do like to shop there once in a while, mostly after I’ve received a gift card to the shop.

My husband’s the cook in the family, so initially I was overwhelmed by all the cool stuff filling the shelves at Cook’s Warehouse. I’m not sure if I had the requisite «deer in the headlights» look, but it wasn’t long at all before one of the friendly staff members came over to assist me. She showed me where the whisks were hanging, and then pointed out the pepper grinders.
When I had some additional questions about which grinder to purchase, she called over Jessica, who provided her expertise and helped me decide to splurge on the Peugeot. Lifetime warranty! (We use a lot of fresh ground pepper in our home.)
Cook’s Warehouse is conveniently located in Ansley Mall near the Publix, with plenty of free parking. Quality goods cost money, but you’ll also find many reasonably priced items along with a clearance shelf for bargain buys.

I drive by here all the time and finally stopped in last night to browse around. I took my time wandering up and down the aisles, which are packed full of goodies. No less than 3 employees offered help finding things over the course of the half hour I was shopping, which was very nice as well. As other reviews mention, they have a great selection of Le Creuset (one day…) and a wall full of gadgets like thermometers, crab crackers, and handheld mandolines. They offered a lot of the same items as a Williams-​Sonoma or a Sur la Table, but I like supporting local businesses. Prices are comparable — cooking isn’t a cheap hobby, but I expect to spend money when I walk in a store like this anyways. I haven’t taken a cooking class here yet, but hope to do so soon!

The Cook’s Warehouse falls into that current middle ground of small business retail — they have great, unique stuff that I can always find cheaper online. I want to support them, but nothing they have is unique enough that I can’t find it elsewhere.
I love the store, I love everything about it. It’s a wealth of new gadgets and new things to cook with. This review is not about the products in the store. It is expressly about the classes offered by the store. The products are awesome.
I’ve been holding off on this review as I’ve wanted to give my thoughts some time to percolate.
The base recommendation — don’t take any of their classes that aren’t «hands on». If it’s a class that you have to sit and watch? Not worth the time or money.
I signed up for the Big Green Egg course they offered because it promised to «walk you through the basics as you learn to properly use and maintain your Egg». The class description also mentions recipes. Unfortunately I’d guess that the class ended up being about 33% Egg tutorial and 66% how to prepare the dishes that they were cooking.
The latter I can glean from food network TV shows. I don’t need to spend 20 minutes learning how to spatchcock a chicken in a class that’s supposed to be green egg centered. It ended up being more about grilling in general.
So — beyond the inaccurate class description is the general environment set aside for the hands off classes. 25 grown adults crammed into tiny chairs around two tables. It was not comfortable and not conducive to learning.

I really don’t know where to begin. I’ve already started this review over three times. There are so many wonderful things about Cook’s Warehouse. Not only do they carry everything a cook needs, and doesn’t even know they need (like baking liners for Panettone!), but this location is the flagship store and has the largest kitchen for classes and chef demonstrations.
The staff is top notch and the chefs that teach classes are incredible. It’s a credit to Mary Moore that she is able to recognize local talents while also being able to draw big name celebrity chefs. Classes range from your basic-101-don’t-cut-yourself-or-set-the-kitchen-on-fire to classes that focus on a certain region, cuisine or even local restaurant!
They have a chef’s assistant program where you can volunteer to assist classes and attend them for free while building up credits to take other free classes. And I have acquired and incredible amount of knowledge from just being around all these talented people.
The only downside to this location really is that they are not partnered with Sherlock’s Wine Merchants so you still have to go to another location to pick up the wine you need for the dinner you were making that made you realize you were missing the citrus zester (or insert other cooking tool here (that you need to make the meal perfect. But, Ansley Wine Merchants is right around the corner so it’s not so bad after all.

Love! Love! Love The Cook’s Warehouse. I had been lurking around their website for a long time, trying to figure out if a cooking class was right for me. I rarely cook because cooking for 1 can be really difficult, but I thought it’d be good to learn some simple knife skills & potentially cooking basics.
Last night I attended Knife Skills 101 and the class was absolutely fantastic! Megan, the chef, was super friendly, had an awesome personality & was by far the most down to earth person I have ever met. Although it just closed for the season, Megan is the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden Chef. All of the classes that Megan teaches are focused around healthy cooking which is right up my alley! I’m always looking for ways to incorporate more veggies and healthy items into my diet! So, back to the class! We went over knife safety, how to properly hold your knife and the proper position of your hand while cutting. We also learned the basic knife cuts such as large, medium and small dice, julienne, brunoise, fine julienne and fine brunoise.
At the end of the class, we used most, if not all of our veggies to put into our stir fry. At the end of the class, Megan walked around with us & helped us shop. She even helped me pick out a really cool cutting board.
Honestly, I was impressed! I’ll definitely take another cooking class from The Cook’s Warehouse!

If you are someone who loves to cook, or like me — would like to ENHANCE your curret skills :) this is a great place to visit. I attended a cooking class and was very pleased with the chef (Gena Berry), assistants and recipes! There are a variety of classes available and they go out of their way to make sure you get a good handle on the steps for the recipes. The store itself has all kinds of gadgets for the kitchen — most i knew nothing about — but the staff was very knowledgeable.
The costs of the classes vary but average $ 60ish, but it’s well worth it.
Happy Cooking!

Has lots of good stuff, but pretty spendy.
Back in the day when this was a little shop in the Amsterdam outlets (or whatever they were called) it was great and the owner was super helpful. Now it feels too big for it’s own good and I’m always torn between going there or William and Sonoma if I need some high end cookery.

Holy moly! This place is heaven for anyone who likes to spend any amount of time in the kitchen!
Like the good, money-​conscious shopper I am (…sometimes…) I walked into Cook’s Warehouse knowing exactly what I needed and told myself that would be the only thing I would walk out of the store with. An angel food cake pan.
I opened the door to the small-​ish shop to find my perfect kitchen. Everything I could ever need to cook anything. They had at least 10 different versions of those little saucers that you see TV chefs pulling their «pinch» of salt from. I want those. No, I NEED those.
Aisle after aisle of baking pans, knives, cute aprons, cutting boards, pots and pans, etc. Of course, the real kicker is the stuff on the wall– the lemon zester! The melon baller! The silicon baster brush! The shellfish cleaners! I need one of each!
Before I got too deep in convincing myself I need these things, a very knowledgeable-​looking employee asked me if I needed help finding anything. Oh yeah. The angel food cake pan. She showed me right to where they were and we discussed the different sizes, and what would be most appropriate for my need. I heard other employees around asking if they could help anyone find anything– great customer service!
They also have a really amazing teach-​in kitchen in the back, where I now really want to take classes. At the employee’s recommendation, try to take classes where you get to do stuff and not watch a chef do things!
All the employees were so cheery, I couldn’t believe it. If I was surrounded by all that awesomeness, I guess I would be happy too. Except I would spend my entire paycheck there. I wonder if employees get discounts… hmmm…

I wish I could afford to shop here without a 50%-off Scoutmob code, because the service and the merchandise are totally worth the prices. I was assisted by an expert whose name I failed to notice (shame on me) as I browsed for half an hour.
Ultimately, I settled on a superlative sink-​spanning colander, not vulnerable to the crud accumulation of its Swedish cousin from IKEA, a loaf pan that looks the right size for sandwich-​baggie-​sized sandwiches, and two stylish and slender 1-​quart glass pitchers perfect for making iced tea with my IngenuiTEA. (And they’re squarish, so two different teas can sit in the refrigerator door without taking up too much space.) Even after throwing in four Zyliss fridge magnet-​clips, my total after tax and discount was under $ 30. Gotta love that discount code, especially when I shudder thinking of the original price.
The Midtown location is in Ansley Mall, so if you’re a queer foodie, this is probably pick-​up central. And if you’re not queer… well, it never hurts to window-​shop!
Note on accessibility: there’s a ramp from the parking lot that snakes up to the level of the store. It’s not easy to see if you’re directly in front of the store.

I’m with Juan on not believing that a review of CW wasn’t already in my repertoire, but alas it was not so here goes…
I didn’t think I could love Cooks Warehouse more than I already did — great stock, can order if they don’t have it, fun, informative classes and knowledgeable sales people. The new location is even better, with more room for classes and a less overall cramped feeling. Probably the only thing I don’t like about CW is the restraint I have to place on myself because of the pricetag that accompanies most items, but that’s really my problem, not theirs and for that I give them 5 stars. If they could combine the baking/​candy-​making supply store in Tucker I have to go to with this I would be set!