Little Kitchen Academy Los Angeles Westfield Century City

Little Kitchen Academy Los Angeles Westfield Century City offers hands-on cooking classes and camps for children and teens, including 5-day summer camps, Monthly Weekend Sessions, Toddler’s First Taste classes, Teen Night, Teen Camp, and Supper Club. Seasonal themes and class types include Summer Flavor Lab, Picnic Classics, Global Street Eats, Baking Chemistry Lab, Cooking with Summer’s Finest, Around the Campfire, Taste the World, Cooking with Imagination, Culinary Engineering, Smart Snacks & Packable Lunches, and Edible Experiments. Each season introduces a fresh batch of custom recipes so students cook something new in every class, using recipes that are free of meat, poultry, seafood, and nuts.

• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer Season runs June 1 to August 31, with many 3-hour classes, 75-minute Toddler’s First Taste classes, and 5-day Summer Camps; 13 weekly Summer Camps run from June to August, each with 3-hour classes, and example offerings include Saturdays and Sundays with start times between 9:00am and 7:30pm and some sessions running as late as 10:00pm.
• Price: Example listed prices include $149–$699 for various classes and camps, such as June Saturdays at $559, June Sundays Toddler’s First Taste at $359, June Sundays Teen Night at $419, Summer Camps E–M commonly at $699, some July and August weekend sessions at $419, $559, or $699, specific one-day sessions such as August 9 and August 25 at $149, and August Mondays Supper Club at $279.

Little Kitchen Academy is described as a Montessori-inspired cooking school for ages 2–18 with a skills-based curriculum that teaches students how to prepare wholesome meals from scratch and focuses on creating healthy eating habits to last a lifetime. The program uses local, seasonal, and organic ingredients as much as possible and teaches students real-world applications in math, science, and problem-solving through an age-based curriculum for ages 2–3, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12, and 13–18. Classes take place in a space with small class sizes and individual workstations, a Living Food Wall powered by Click & Grow where students can observe, care for, and enjoy produce, a ChopValue community table crafted from 33,436 recycled chopsticks, and Emeco chairs made from repurposed plastic and glass bottles.

Students wear chef shoes from BIRKENSTOCK and Chef Works chef’s coats, use a specially designed Progressive Knife Set to learn knife safety, and each student gets their own Scrub Daddy products to use during clean-up. The program’s food philosophy states that it empowers students with practical life skills and food literacy, and that the only allergen not welcome in Little Kitchen Academy is nuts. Iron Chef Cora (Celebrity Chef Cat Cora) serves as Little Kitchen Academy’s Official Brand Ambassador and a member of the Advisory Board, and the Founder, President & COO is Felicity Curin.

Little Kitchen Academy works with partners including ChopValue, Emeco, Scrub Daddy, BIRKENSTOCK, Chef Works, Click & Grow, Progressive, Crisis Text Line, One Tree Planted, and the Changing Lives from Scratch Fund, and uses How Can I Help jars with donation tokens for charitable partners Crisis Text Line, One Tree Planted, and the Changing Lives from Scratch Fund. Parent testimonials describe children with celiac disease participating in classes, children trying new foods such as egg rolls, a 5-year-old learning to crack eggs, and older children learning skills like making poached eggs and chopping vegetables, with parents reporting that their children enjoyed the staff and instructors and felt proud of what they made.

Last updated June 23, 2026.