Be Food Consulting
School in North Sydney

You can find us at North Sydney. Impress friends and family when you next entertain on the bbq with a bbq cooking class with bbq school! bbq cooking classes corporate team building events live cooking shows operating in sydney, melbourne, hunter valley, brisbane & gold coast. Visit our website to get more information.

BBQ School was founded in 2004 by internationally trained chef and passionate foodie Ben Farley who identified that while many Aussies were really into cooking on the BBQ, maximum only had one or two recipes they knew how to cook really well. Showing keen BBQ’Mrs how to prepare and confidently cook a collection of simple, effective and tasty recipes was the superior way forward and so in 2004 Ben turned his back on a career in Sydney and London lofty profile restaurants and founded BBQ School. Our head office is in Willoughby, Sydney but we also operate customary classes in Sydney's Centennial Park, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Hunter Valley and each year the School continues to grow in response to people who wish to cook with more flair when entertaining. Ben also taught the chefs of the coming at Hyde Taft and put together the BBQ School to share his knowledge and passion for food and entertaining. Having spent many years watching her dad trying to light coal in the rain she fully appreciates a customary Aussie barbie and enthusiastically endorses learning from someone adept in the process! She spent seven years running both her own hospitality business in London and prior that worked with large Corporate clients in event solutions and speaker support. Whilst active piece time, she brings broad insight into marketing, brand development, business operations and customer relations. Having just finished her Bachelor of Management in Events and Leisure at UBS she is excited to get some labor experience with the amazing team at BBQ School! seams or The Moose as he is known around the office is a professional Chef having originally learned his craft in Ireland. He moved abroad to remain his thirst for knowledge and eventually landed in Sydney spending time busy in everything from chef hat restaurants to food vans with much acclaim. seams, for the preceding 9 years has been occupied closely with the Chefs of the coming teaching commercial cookery at Hyde Taft. seams also has a Bachelor of Education with honors. In his spare time seams had his own chocolate business chocoholic. seams and has been delighting the students at BBQ School with his chef skills for the former 3 years. He completed his chef training at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and whilst working throughout the US he met Ba Lurhman and started busy as a caterer on the set of Romeo and Juliet. Nowadays Arturo prefers a quieter labor role during the week with a French caterer in North Sydney. He began migrant in India then flew into Perth and drove across the Nullarbor prior settling down to labor in a famous Irish pub in Surrey hills for 5 years. Shane is a 4th generation publican and has been in the hospitality industry all his life. He started his own restaurant and sold it on to pursue other ventures like BBQ School in Brisbane. His goal is simple, cook, cook, cook and have fun doing it! Behind busy with many talented chefs Joshua has developed into an upcoming talent in the industry. His firm work and dedication in his competing and commercial chef career has earned him knowledge, skills and confidence. Joshua has worked at the BBQ School for over a year and brings his enthusiasm and flair to all the Sydney based classes! When John returned to Australia, he worked in senior positions at notable hotels such as the Shangrila and The Star, earlier making the move into training, John now spends his days training and mentoring the young apprentices of Sydney.