Come Hungry. Leave Knowing How to Cook.

A hands-on culinary experience inside a professional teaching kitchen.

Life Plus is a professional culinary academy inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where hands-on cooking classes take place in a dedicated professional teaching kitchen. These aren't demonstrations where you simply watch a chef cook. You'll work with fresh ingredients, cook with your own hands, taste as you go, and learn the techniques behind the food you're making.

No experience is required. Curiosity is.

Choose between Soup for the Soul, an individual cooking experience featuring two soups, or Taco Tuesday, a shared professional cooking class featuring handmade tortillas, chicken, salsas, and fresh accompaniments.

The Perfect Gift for Food Lovers & Curious Minds

Looking for a gift that's more memorable than something wrapped in a box? Give someone an experience they'll actually remember. These hands-on cooking classes make a thoughtful gift for friends, family, couples, coworkers, parents, neighbors, or anyone who loves good food and great experiences.

Choose Your Cooking Experience:

Fresh Pasta Experience:

• Same Ingredients. Different Tables. Work in small teams at your own pasta station, using a stand mixer, pasta roller, and cutter to turn flour and eggs into fresh tagliatelle. Every team starts with the same ingredients—but no two tables finish with the same pasta.
• Fresh Pasta, By Your Own Hands: Mix, knead, rest, roll, flatten, and cut your own pasta while learning why each step matters. Then build your sauce from scratch with a classic soffritto, choosing your own seasoning, heat, cheese, and meat or vegetarian ingredients.
• Cook Your Way: Every team makes its own decisions, tasting and seasoning as they go.
• Spice lovers can cook with spice lovers, and vegetarian teams build a sauce designed to stand on its own. The result is a pasta dish that reflects your team's own palate and choices.
• One Long Table: Bring every team's pasta and salad together family-style for the best part—tasting what everyone else created. Compare the flavors, discover what made each dish different, and enjoy a lighthearted Chef's Pick before finishing with toasted bread and sugar-macerated strawberries.
• Everyone Cooks: This is a truly hands-on experience. Every guest works the dough, runs the pasta machine, builds and seasons the sauce, and helps create the salad. No hiding near the salad bowl—everyone gets in the kitchen.

Soup for the Soul:

• Cook With Purpose: Learn to make delicious, comforting soup—and then share it with someone who could use a little extra love. Bring your finished soup to a loved one, friend, neighbor, or someone experiencing homelessness and turn a cooking class into an act of kindness.
• More Than a Cooking Class: The goal of Soup for the Soul goes beyond learning a recipe. It’s about creating something with your own hands, sharing it with someone in need, and using food to spread love, connection, and compassion.
• Make Soup. Share Love: Cook a nourishing meal, then give it away to someone who matters to you—or someone who simply needs a warm meal and a little kindness. One pot of soup can help touch someone’s soul.
• Cook for Someone Who Needs It: Take what you learn beyond the classroom. Whether you share your soup with a family member, friend, neighbor, or someone experiencing homelessness, Soup for the Soul is about giving as much as it is about cooking.

Taco Tuesday:

• Cook Together, Eat Together: Taco Tuesday is more than a cooking class—it’s a communal experience. Work together to create an entire taco table from scratch, from handmade Sonoran-style flour tortillas cooked on a hot comal to chicken finished in salsa roja and fresh accompaniments made for sharing.
• From the Kitchen to the Table: Learn, cook, and connect as a group while preparing every part of the meal together. Then sit down para la mesa to enjoy the tacos, share the food, and enjoy the experience with your fellow cooks.
• Make Tacos. Make Memories: Get hands-on, work together, and turn simple ingredients into a complete taco feast. Taco Tuesday brings people together around the kitchen and the table.

At Life Plus, recipes matter, but technique travels farther than recipes do. This is hands-on professional culinary instruction. You'll learn why you're doing something, not simply what step comes next.

Why use high heat here and low heat there? Why does an ingredient go in now? Why does a dish need acid? Why did your tortilla puff? These are the skills you can take into your own kitchen long after you've forgotten a recipe's exact measurements.

Watch. Smell. Taste. Ask questions. Cook.

Recipes and complete class guidebooks are delivered digitally through the Life Plus app after class, allowing you to focus on the professional instruction and hands-on experience while you're in the kitchen.

A Professional Teaching Kitchen

Life Plus isn't a pop-up cooking event or a demonstration space. Both experiences take place inside a permanent culinary academy with a dedicated professional teaching kitchen and dining area.

Cooking is hands-on, and sanitation is an important part of the experience. Guests may be asked to wash their hands or wear gloves for certain food-preparation tasks. Designated tasting spoons are used during class, and outside items are kept away from food-preparation surfaces.

These practices are part of learning how a professional cooking environment operates while helping keep the shared kitchen clean and safe for everyone.

Before You Come

• Classes generally run 90–120 minutes.
• No previous cooking experience is required.
• Guests with food allergies or dietary restrictions should disclose them in advance.
• Some accommodations are possible, including a vegetarian version of Soup for the Soul, but not every allergy or dietary restriction can necessarily be accommodated safely in a shared kitchen.
• Recipes and complete class guidebooks are provided digitally through the Life Plus app.

All Groupon reservations and redemptions are handled through the dedicated Life Plus Groupon redemption system.