About Institute of Culinary Excellence

Come and join the ICE revolution and launch your hospitality career with this Certificate III Hospitality course which offers practical skills and up-to-date training ‘in front of the swing door’, not ‘behind the swing door’, like us chefs!

This qualification provides a pathway to work in organisations such as restaurants, hotels, motels, clubs, pubs, cafés, and coffee shops. This qualification allows for multiskilling and for specialisation in food and beverage service, accommodation services and gaming.

A wonderful course for anyone wishing to progress in their career and become a knowledgeable and respected manager of a busy kitchen, restaurant, cafe, hotel or other hospitality business both in Australia and overseas.

This course is open to qualified chefs and hospitality front of house superstars who are currently employed and wishing to study higher education in the area of Hospitality Management. This could be for career advancement to management and supervisory roles, job promotion to Executive Chef or Executive Sous Chef or in preparation for opening your own food business.

Come join the ICE revolution! If you are currently employed as an apprentice chef or are about to be, then ICE would love to train you! Our apprentices work at the some of the top 10 restaurants in Brisbane and are some of the best talents in the industry.

Our teachers are experienced, enthusiastic and very motivated about teaching and mentoring our students to become the very best chefs they can be. ICE welcomes any apprentice from any walk of life or any restaurant, cafe or food establishment in Brisbane and SE Queensland and we guarantee to teach you everything we know.

This high-level exciting cookery training program is suitable for anyone who would like to continue further education in the area of commercial cookery and to become a highly skilled chef with management qualities.

This course is open to chefs who are currently employed and working in Queensland. Following on from a Certificate III in Commercial Cookery, this program takes chefs on a journey into a more senior supervisory role in the kitchen.

This program is suitable for secondary school students in Years 10, 11 and 12. Running for 30 weeks (one day per week) during term time, the program will provide theory and practical kitchen and culinary skills and knowledge. This program may lead into a possible apprenticeship in Commercial Cookery either as a school based apprentice or after the completion of secondary school. The program is funded by the Queensland Government, no fees are required by the student.

This twelve week part-time course is suitable for people wanting to start their career in hospitality. It is also a great ‘pre-trade’ foundation course for those considering an apprenticeship in commercial cookery.

The course covers basic food preparation and knife skills, food hygiene, workplace health and safety and much more. The practical classes are held within our on-campus state of the art training kitchens. Included in the course is industry placement at one of our partner venues. Many of the students who successfully finish this program are offered employment and apprenticeships at some of Brisbane’s top restaurants and hotels.