Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence serves the community by offering exceptional higher education opportunities and professional training to both local and international adult students in the art and science of culinary education excellence. Our institute is renowned for providing fast-tracked, focused, and customizable training that emphasizes the development of employable skills, ensuring our students are well-prepared for the demands of the workforce. With an unwavering commitment to imparting dedication, knowledge, skills, and techniques, we foster a dynamic and practical learning environment that aligns with industry expectations. Our comprehensive culinary programs are designed to prepare students for successful careers in the industry, both regionally and globally.
At Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence, we are deeply committed to exemplifying and promoting the development of excellence in culinary arts training. Our institute strives to establish the pinnacle of standards for culinary training, setting a benchmark for excellence within the industry. With a clear vision of becoming the foremost provider of culinary education excellence in Canada, we continuously strive to enhance our own skills and techniques, ensuring that our instruction maintains the highest levels of academic and practical expertise. By training highly skilled and educated chefs who embody professionalism, possess advanced technical culinary skills, foster innovation, critical thinking, accountability, and leadership, we aim to make a lasting impact on the culinary industry.
Our students are future leaders (Top Toques) in our industry, business owners, and culinary professionals who are dedicated to the training in culinary arts excellence, food science, hospitality, finances, culinary management, and entrepreneurship in an environment that fosters professionalism, mutual respect, personal integrity, and accountability.
Learn about Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence, a culinary school in Kitchener, Ontario. Top Toques is founded on a simple idea: that great cooking and culinary arts education must be complete, practical, and rewarding, and give its graduates the best possible foundation for a career in the food service industry. We offer a concentrated education based on learning by doing, where technique and practical hands-on application form the backbone of our professional programs.
A diploma from Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence can enhance your opportunities in the hospitality industry and lead to greater career advancement within your chosen discipline.
Contact our Director of Admissions at 519-743-8335 or Admissions@TopToques.ca for more information about Top Toques.
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Local Culinary School Rebrands as Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence
KITCHENER, Ontario: After decades of service, the Kitchener Campus of Liaison College has rebranded to Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence. This rebrand is to reflect the College’s vision and sole focus on education and training for the industry.
Director Chef Elaina Kourie, CCC, CCE, MWMCS, and her team of Chefs have an uncompromising dedication to exceptional culinary arts education and training. To continue the success of the College, Chef Elaina set out to expand her mission. Today as Top Toques, the institution is exclusively committed to continuously providing quality culinary arts education to improve the culinary industry.
Chef Elaina’s vision is, “To exemplify and promote the development of excellence in culinary arts training. We are committed to improving the industry by training highly skilled and educated Chefs with a commitment to professionalism, advanced technical culinary skills, innovation, critical thinking, accountability, and leadership.”
Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence is a Career College registered under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005. We offer programs for individuals who love to cook and want to learn what it takes to succeed in the foodservice industry. Our Diploma Level Programs have been approved as Vocational Programs under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005. The students of Top Toques are the future leaders of the culinary industry. They are dedicated to training in culinary arts excellence, food science, culinary management, entrepreneurship, hospitality, and much more. Applications for the upcoming fall program start date are now open. Programs are offered in an accelerated time frame through full-time and part-time studies with online options available. Reach out to Admissions@TopToques.ca for more information about Top Toques.
About Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence
Top Toques Institute of Culinary Excellence was founded on a simple idea; culinary arts education must be practical, rewarding, and give its graduates the best possible foundation for a career. The institute focuses on career training in the culinary arts, offering 2/3 of the program in the kitchen. Designed by Chefs, the programs provide students with the skills they need in today’s demanding foodservice operations. What is it about Top Toques that sets it apart? It is a concentrated education, based on learning by doing, where techniques and practical hands-on application form the backbone of the professional programs.
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