Cooking With the Best Chefs

I prepaid $ 40.00 for a cooking class with BestChef run by Bill Lavery. Four times classes have been scheduled and cancelled at the last minute. Emails and phone calls asking for a refund or another class have been ignored. My experience with BestChef cooking school /​Bill Lavery has been a disappointing disaster. The written policy of BestChef is «no refunds» under any circumstances. I thought that referred to someone not showing up for a class. It isn’t fair for Bill Lavery to ask me to book out an evening for a cooking class and have him cancel on short notice time after time after time and not refund my money when it seems he can’t deliver on what he sold.
I rated BestChef cooking school as one star but wanted to rate it zero stars.

SCAM ALERT!!!
I feel a bit silly for not doing any research and blindly sending a check to purchase a membership. Please learn from my mistake!
The website is
The founder’s name is Bill Lavery and his email is:
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The backstory:
I bought two memberships and pre-​paid for four classes (two classes per membership) in February of this year totaling $ 130.
Since I took interest in February, classes have been either unconfirmed or cancelled. Not a single class has actually occurred.
The site claims to partner with well known restaurants for class locations (currently Café Bolero in Chicago and Napolitano’s Wine Bar in the West Suburbs) and boasts that a membership also includes discounts to Chicago area merchants.
These are are also false claims.
There are claims reported against Best Chefs with the BBB and it also seems like they have used addresses in Forest Park and Schaumburg.
Chicago seems to be the most recent «office location» and I just filed an additional BBB claim for this location.
Don’t be fooled.